Have you seen SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE? Well the first week saw an amazing pop and lock dancer Robert Muraine. Not only was he an awesome pop and locker, but his music of choice was real crazy!
I bet you are wondering who the artist is, well the artist name is Swizz Beatz and the song is called “It’s Me B*#@hes”.
Get the song:
View the video:
Sorry, the old video was taken offline…Here is a new.
I think if you are not busy on the cool Friday night, you should head on over the the Viper Room in West Hollywood. Bullets and Octane are performing tonight, and they are known to put on one hell of a show! If you aren’t familiar with the band then I think you should head over to Last.FM to listen to them. You can also check them out and download there songs from iTunes, if you don’t have iTunes, head on over to Amazon.
And if any of the above don’t apply to you, well, something must be wrong with you… Then head over to the Viper Room!
See you there!
Update 5/31/08 - Photo’s from last nights show
Well I thought I would let everyone know what programs I use. I do it all with the Master Collection from Adobe, thats also known as version CS3. If you head over to the Adobe website, you might be thinking “WOW! Thats one pricey application!” and yes it is. But, this collection can do it all. I’m talking about web development, graphic design and video production. So my friend, save your money, sell your soul or a lung and get a copy today!
I haven’t read it yet, but Website Magazine is available for free on Magazines.com! if you have a website.
We finished working down south early this morning and got a jump on the Friday traffic. On the way home we took highway 8, and past by the highest point on the highway before reaching sea level in San Diego. Crestwood Summit stands at 4181 feet. When you reach the top you can see these massive wind power plants!
I am down in El Centro as I said before, and I made the short 1 hour drive to Yuma Arizona to take a look at a crushing plant. Well I was only in Arizona for a short hour, and managed to see at least twenty Border Patrol trucks!
I was also tickled and amused by a sign on the back towards California that said “Mexico, next exit”.
During the short 50 mile trip from Yuma to El Centro there are two patrol check points. Not only are there two, which I am totally cool with, but they are within 10 miles of each other. I guess that is in a “high traffic” area.
I left early yesterday morning, 6 am to be exact. I was headed down south, towards San Diego. But It was not my final destination, driving down the 405 we veered off at the 55 toll road to shave some time. The toll road was $5 but definitely saved us 30 minutes. We jumped on the 805 freeway to highway 8 in San Diego and stopped in Ocatillo, CA at a crushing pit.
We were only at the sand pit for an hour, but I already felt the desert air heating up. We saw our items and left for El Centro, were we were appraising a construction company’s line up for two more days.
I am now showing comment love from a WordPress plugin. Yeah, you guessed it, called Comment Luv. So if you have a blog set up and you comment on any of my post’s you will see “your last” post at the bottom of your comment!
So now that I show you comment luv, and I disabled the “no Follow” in the comments. There should be no reason not to comment..
But please keep your comments clean and spam free!
I can’t seem to get Three Days Graces’ song “Riot” out of my head… They keep playing it on XM satellite radio.
It’s not stuck in your head? Well, head over to Last.fm to listen.
I was prompted on my Dell XPS m1530; which is running Windows Vista Ultimate, to update to the new “Service Pack 1“. Well let me tell you, as soon as it was down installing and my computer shut down, it went wrong!
I stepped away from the computer for a quick bite, and when I came back there was a black screen and a service code 0xc0190036 6009/72495 (msadds.dll) flashing on my screen. “Thats not right”, I said to my self. And when the computer stopped and restarted it came upon the blue screen of death! I shrieked and scrambled to fix it.
After an hour or more of powering my laptop on and off, and multiple blue screens. I got the built in system restore to fall back on a system update just three days old… I do like Vista a lot, but it seems I have a problem every time I update the system with mandatory security fix.
Ahh..
Check out the band Flyleaf if you are into hardcore rock/metal, with a female vocalist. Want to hear them? Head on over to Last.fm and listen to “I’m so sick”. You can also listen to a preview on iTunes, and listen to what they say is the most popular song “All around me”.
So I just wanted to write a little about how easy it is to install WordPress on your own!
Okay, so first of all I am going to assume you have a hosting package, if not, I suggest 1and1. I have about 15 web sites registered with 1and1 and their prices are pretty awesome!
Now, there are two(2) ways to set up your WordPress blog…
Number One: Easiest
Lets say you get a hosting plan from 1and1. You opt for the $3.99 a month plan (1&1 Beginner).
Once your set up and your domain of choice is approved. You can log into your ADMIN panel http://admin.1and1.com.
Once logged in, click on the appropriate package…
You will end up at your administration panel, where you should see a screen like the following…
So scroll down if necessary, and click on the 1and1 Blog button, located under the Website Applications panel…
When you click on the the 1and1 Blog icon, you should be taken to two simple pages…
And once past these, and accept the terms, choose the drop down for your domain, and name your blog (you can change this latter).
Hit next, and all have left is enter your email of choice and and set up your password.
Your done! Thats it, did that seem like a lot, or did I put too many pictures.. Well anyway, thats the easy way, you don’t have to set up a MySQL database, it will do it for you.
I think I will save ‘Number two: Medium’ of this tutorial for another day…
One thing is for sure, I am very glad I did not go to Lake Havasu this weekend. Not only is it cold and rainy here in Santa Monica, but Lake Havasu, AZ which this time last year was 110° on the river, is also in the mid to high 60’s and thunder storming.
So I think I will stay inside for the most part and get some work done…
I hope by Monday the weather warms a bit so I can at least hit the beach or be poolside! The weather calls for warmth by then, but then again, it didn’t call for Memorial weekend rain either…
The band 3 Doors Down has a new self title album that came out on the 20th of this month. I just happened to hear a few songs of theirs playing on Sirius Satellite Radio on my DirecTV. 3 Doors Down self titled album, which you could get on iTunes, is close sounding to there last few albums. So if you enjoyed them in the past, I think the new album would be a good collection to your probably ever growing mp3/CD collection!
Since it is Memorial Day weekend, the station had the band on live talking about the new album and other influences into making the album.
Continue reading ‘3 Doors Down’
Tonight, the band 3against1 performs one of their last three shows, or one of two shows left in the Los Angeles area. They perform tonight at 10pm at the Key Clubs downstairs bar, also called Plush Lounge.
I don’t know the reason behind the bands break up, but I do know they are good guys and put on hell of a good performance. You can check out the band website http://www.3against1.com or visit there Myspace page. You can check out some of there live performances, and if you are around, check them out for there last shows. If you like what you hear, you can download their album on iTunes if you have it installed on your computer. If not you can get iTunes here.
You can check out the dates for their final show on either of there site’s. I do believe that they are playing down in San Diego at the 710 Beach Club with Warner Drive on June 27th.
And speaking of Warner Drive, make sure you check them out and purchase one of there albums! You can find it their album on Amazon.com! or if you have iTunes on your computer you can click this link and download the album right now!
PHOTO UPDATE: Plush Lounge - 5/23/08
The service TinyURL is a pretty widely used service. It has the redirection power for those long and nasty url's. Lets say for example I had a post or page that I wanted to refer someone I didn’t know, or even a friend to “The Coolest Post Ever!” Which in this case doesn’t exist, so I will give it a fake but long url. example: http://thefrosty.com/wordpress/how-to-get-traffic/ the-coolest-post-ever/?page=2. Yeah… I don’t think my friend Bob is going to remember that to type in his web browser.
What do I suggest, well I spent some time looking for a redirect service, and I wasn’t a fan of using an outside source. I don’t want to send people to another site just to shorten my links. So TinyURL was out of the question.
I did however come across a PHP source code that worked off a .htaccess file and MySQL called Shorty. How ever that service was old, outdated and didn’t work well with Wordpress installed. Once removed I went looking and came across a Wordpress Plugin which I am now using!
GoCodes seems to have exactly what I was looking for. All of those long URLs have been shortened to something like this: http://thefrosty.com/go/AnyText. Installation was simple and the admin interface is easy to use! So if you would like a more personal URL redirector, check out this Plugin!
I am sure you all know about the rel="nofollow" code that most all blogging software automatically puts into external links in the comment area. This makes your comment url links a dead end so that search engines will not follow the link as they are crawling the internet.
This was originally designed to help stop comment spam, but it only stops people from commenting on many sites. So what I did was turn off my nofollow code and I am now allowing external links! I am going to rely on the trusty Akismet to stop my spam from getting through, and manually watch url links as well.
Want to turn your site into a comments haven of love, then check out this site: Semiologic’s DoFollow Plugin for Wordpress Blogs. Also you can get DoFollow 4.0 Plugin for Wordpress as well.
I have the first plug-in installed on my system, but it the DoFollow 4.0 is upgraded to a newer version it might be stronger with an integrated options page for edited settings.
Now that I have the DoFallow activated on my site, please comment and enjoy. You can also check out these "dofollow" sites where I have been approved by: “Do Follow” Blog Directory and have been added to CommentHunt.com.
