Needless Productions and whats going on now.

August 27, 2007 | 1 Response

Well its been just over two weeks since the day the music died and you may be asking “Whats going to happen here now?” or you may also be asking “Where can I read about Canadian music news now?’

Well there is a new blog coming. The cat is out of the bag. And the bulk of my time has been going into that new blog lately. I don’t want to say any particular time frame for when it will be ready because I will probably not adhere to it anyhow.

As for this blog here, as I mentioned in other posts it will be my portfolio of projects. The main area to keep you eye on for now would have to be the videos section. I will be updating that more frequently.

Not everybody knows this but I study print and broadcast journalism in college. It has allowed me to look at media production in a lot of different ways. The video editing has become somewhat of a hobby of mine. But I was interested in that even before I went to school.

This blog will carry on as regularly as it always has, only you will start to see less and less of the focus going towards music and more and more of it going towards my other interest. Things like web design, technology news and other topics may come up from time  to time. But as it stands right this minute, I am not attempting to rank for any particular term.

Not trying to rank for any search terms? Web development enthusiasts out there can all recover from their seizures, wipe the foam from their mouths and get up off the floor. I know what you’re thinking already. It isn’t a permanent thing, I just really need to focus in a lot of different places right now. When my other blog surfaces it will be well worth the wait, and this site will remain entertaining as ever is more ways than it did before.

New header image (as if you didn’t know)

August 26, 2007 | 0 Responses

This is beyond a poor excuse for posting as it is really quite obvious. I made a new header image. The photo came from SxC, a free image site where you can download high-resolution photos/images for non-commercial use.

The old image, which drew up a lot of question from visitors, was a photo of my 3 year old neice playing with a friend on her Tigger Bike. I cropped it to make it look ‘artsy. Some people though it was really weird to have a photo of two kids with their heads cropped out of the pic. I just thought it looked cool.

I wanted to go with the sunflower image because I think they are a really nice looking flower. Also, my sister has an extensive collection of sunflower knick-knacks in her home, which I think is really cool. Collections are fun.

Hacking attempt on Needless Productions

August 23, 2007 | 2 Responses

So somebody tried to hack Needless Productions today. I had just finished validating all the markup in the theme too. It isn’t quite clear to me just how they got in at this point. But the theme was the only thing they managed to mess with. The database was left completely unharmed.

Yup. They even let a calling card. I don’t see the point of this at all. Fuck you system? I’ve never been referred to as part of the system before. I know attack was proably random and uncalculated, but, in its’ own way, this is kind of flattering.

To be honest I wasn’t all that upset when I first logged on and saw the alerts. Something about the whole things immediately screamed “minor damage”. The whole thing just seems really amateur.  I don’t really know about hacking but it was pretty easy to recover from the attack. No problem really. At least it gave me an excuse to post at 1:30 in the morning.

In case any of you spambots out there can’t read that, the email is resnado@casus-team.org

An Update

August 10, 2007 | 1 Response

I’m not going to write about music on this blog anymore. I have decided to take that to a more serious level. I will be releasing a new site in a few months. (expect to see more details and some news releases on this soon)

Instead of scrapping this one I thought I would just have fun with it as a blog. Nothing more. Just a couple fun reads a month. Hopefully fun for others and not just me.

I will also be expanding the video section to accommodate  embedding on myspace/facebook type sites in the near future. Just one more reason to keep hanging around.

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