Category Archives: Stupid, Stupid, Stupid & Steve

Gig listings by podcast

This is very interesting, and a great use for some of these technologies that are currently being dubbed “Web 2.0″ (Lord, I hate that phrase,even though yesterday I found myself using the phrases ‘old web’ and ‘new web’).  Podbop is one of these increasingly-popular web “mashups” (an award-winning one, no less). Powered by listings site Eventful (itself

Stupid Blog

After various false starts, I’ve decided what I’m doing with stupidstupidstupidandsteve.com. I’m making it another blog. Turns out that you can run 2 WordPress blogs from one database just by assigning a different $table_prefix in the wp_config.php file. There was one stumbling block – if you open the install.php in a browser using the file://

Crap Practice / Good Gig?

Or that’s the clich anyway. Hopefully the reverse isn’t true, because last night’s run-through for our gig in Coventry on Thursday was pretty much the best we’ve ever played that set. We’re experimenting with a new set-opener, ‘Haircut’, another new one from W Jonathan Harmless’s seemingly endless supply of songs and we’ve finally titled ‘Not

Practice makes perfect

I look forward to Monday nights all week. After a typically hectic weekend, it’s usually a struggle to get back into the swing of the 9-5 and Mondays are usually long, dragging days where the workload tend to be picking up the pieces from whatever disaster has befallen the duty techie staff the previous weekends.