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Category Archives: personal
Speechless.
I appreciate that you've stopped by. I unfortunately have nothing to say about anything. I feel like I should be giving some sort of summation on the last 7 years in a band, but I don't have anywhere near the perspective to do so yet. I also don't feel like just blathering about technology (again) yet, as I don't feel like I have the guns to be espousing my viewpoints on that either.
This blog might be a little static for a little while.
What I'm doing in the meantime is rewriting JohnnyGrubb.com as a Rails app. This will be my first Rails app from scratch. The Posts model (system) is pretty much done, and I, and only I, can blog away all I want. The trick is the comments model. I've got a commenting system in place, but what it needs is the simple little email verification and website linking tricks that all blogs have. I've got the database set up to receive the info, and display the info, but verifying that email addresses are in the correct format and setting the commenter's name to link to their website, if they put that in, is a bit more of a trick. when I get it figured out, you'll know.
Posted in personal 8 Comments
link_to ‘Seven years gone’
Maybe ten years is too long a period of time to plan for. So how about seven? Seven years from now, what will you have to show for what you're doing right now? If your answer is, "not much," perhaps you should consider a new plan, one that might generate a different answer, or, at the very least, be a more fun way to waste seven years.via => Seth Godin.
Could I ask a favor?
I'm testing out this new comment notification system that will supposedly email me when people leave comments, with the aim of making this website (that's getting a tiny bit of action now) a little more conversationally interesting. Would you mind leaving a comment down there? And if there's already one there, would you engage that person in some banter? Supposedly they'll get email, too, unless they untick the "notify me" box.
I appreciate it. By the way, I don't think it's working and I've been debugging it all day. But maybe it just needs a new post to work. I dunno. Drupal's tricky.
Edit: It's working now. Thanks.
Posted in personal 15 Comments
More on quitting a band.
I just realized this weekend that I missed something in Friday's post.
So, if you haven't already, take a look at the dates, and allow me to prepare a meditation on why November seems to be such a drag for touring bands...
Also posted in Music 13 Comments
Dear Wood Brothers,
We met last October at the taping of the "Woodsongs Radio Hour" in Louisville, Kentucky. It was the one where Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile were there, also. They did the show after ours? Anyway, I just wanted to tell you something...
Also posted in Music biz. 1 Comment
On quitting a band.
Some personal and some purely speculative content ->
Posted in personal 5 Comments
Launch fast and iterate.
Well, this blog has hit version 3.0, with today's torturous migration from WordPress to Drupal. Why put myself through such an ordeal? Because if I'm going to paint my masterpiece, I'm going to have to start butchering some canvasses, and Drupal seems to beg for me to hack away at it. That and there is a world of flexibility in this platform that doesn't really exist in WP.
It'll be a process of getting up to speed and making this look and feel and act as nicely as the old iBD, but once I get going, expect some actual development here.
Thanks, friends. Oh, and in case you were wondering what happening to all of RRE's web properties today, I don't know anything about it...
Also posted in Technology/Internet Leave a comment
Revision.
I'd said earlier that I'd use this blog as a tool to try and explain the process that I'm going through so as to hopefully help some of you understand what has led me to this decision (to quit my awesome band).
I'm changing my mind.
Most of what I'm feeling and doing and going through at this point is way too personal and, the existence of this blog notwithstanding, I'm kind of a private person.
Geek Club.
I had so much fun last night that I'm writing about it before I've even had a cup of coffee.
The first rule of Geek Club is:
Don't talk about Geek Club. Actually this first rule is my own, and I'm breaking it immediately, except that I shall not refer to Geek Club by it's true name. It took me many months of searching to find it, and I don't want to spoil the sense of victory for you, should you be inclined to sniff out your own local chapter.
The second rule of Geek Club is:
Be prepared to practice your pitch. That's what pretty much everybody is here for, and some of them may even try to poke holes in your idea. Sooo much fun...
The third rule of Geek Club is:
Also posted in Technology/Internet 3 Comments
I have only one regret…