Monthly Archives: October 2004

How to Promote Band Websites

So you built your beautiful website about your band. You have some MP3s uploaded, you have your show date calendar, and maybe some biographies and photos posted.
Operating under the assumption that you are in local garage band that plays a gig or two every few months, you are going to have a daunting task. Since

Clients That Suck

Lately, I’ve had a little extra time building up between now and my next project, so I have been surfing craiglist heavily looking for projects to fill in the void. While I’ve found some promising stuff, most of the things posted are pure crap.
Henceforth, I felt the need to take a look at the 3

Preventing Comment Spam in Wordpress

Not hours after I launched this and another blog, a whole series of comment spam came flooding in – You know, the usual sort: Casinos, pharmaceuticals, porn, and more.
So in an effort to combat this, I have made it a requirement for anyone who wishes to post to have cookies enabled in their browser.
And if

GTA San Andreas

Released! I’m not big into gaming, but GTA is quite fun. I think I’ll have to go make a small investment today, and take out all that pent up freelancer aggression on characters resembling Easy-E.
And for no apparent reason, I was thinking about the Shanghai Tunnel in Portland.

Dishonest Developers

After getting off the phone with a potential client today, I realized something: There are many dishonest and shady web designers and developers out there that are taking peoples money even when they don’t have the skills necessary to complete the project.
To me, this is unethical, and a horrible way to conduct business. However, if

Need to hack the template

Argh, editing templates, and sifting through numerous files trying to find the function that writes links, so that I can use mod_rewrite to make them appear static. Argh.

Just acting like an asshole

Because I’m evil and hungry for traffic and realized it probably gets a few hundred searches per month, I purchased Shanghai Tunnel.
Additionally, I’m am turning Kyle Ritter into a blog, focusing on geeky internet stuff. Daddy needs to make him some mulag.
And my friends suck. When the hell are you going to come out here