Well times change and so do I. In the last few years, I've transitioned further from going out to live music all the time to seeing mostly movies and only a handful of shows a month. So I decided to further pare down the number of events I list on the site.<\/p>\n
My standing rule is that this site should be as easy for me as possible. I had toyed with a user-generated site and all kinds of fancy databases (which may still come) but that is most certainly not easy. And then there's the whole fragile way I generate the site each week — pretty much unchanged since 2001 — using FileMaker Pro 5 databases on a Macintosh Classic, exporting the data, and using some Unix scripts to make a HTML file. The workflow is quick (i.e. easy) although it's fairly convoluted.<\/p>\n
So I decided the new site would be a weekly blog post with highlights of things-to-do — things I will very likely do<\/em> (rather than \"have a passing interest in doing\" as it stands now). If you're only interested in the events lists, you can link straight to the events category<\/a> and skip all my regular blog posts. The JayceLand home page<\/a> will now redirect to the normal blog. To keep my sanity, I'm going to stop numbering them — the last numbered update was #705 on July 12, 2012<\/a>. (And even then: 705 weeks of posting events … enough is enough!)<\/p>\n In addition, I'm dropping most of the internal links. You can Google a band just as well as I can. And I don't think I need to remind everyone the address of the Bug Jar (along with a link to Google Maps.) So it'll all look a lot more vanilla. And be much easier for me which, well, is the whole point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well times change and so do I. In the last few years, I've transitioned further from going out to live music all the time to seeing mostly movies and only a handful of shows a month. So I decided to … Continue reading