Neil Fein's Blog

I'm playing a gig -- performing a set and doing sound for the rest of the concert at Labyrinth. I think letting me perform there is the bribe the organizers give me so I'll keep doing their sound, which is cool with me. Corruption and a gig in one package.

Labyrinth is an all-day renaissance/goth/other festival, held here in Edison, on September 29th. I still don't know the time I'll be on (will post that when I get it), but the location, etc is on the calendar page.

I also asked for a slot at an open mic this week on Wednesday, but I haven't heard anything back yet; there may not be any spots left. Or I've somehow pissed off the organizer (naaah).

Also...

Since this is a relatively unknown site, a personal blog of interest to only me and a few friends, I figured there were maybe a handful of people looking. Looking at the traffic logs, there are more of you reading than I thought -- not huge crowds by any definition -- but I am getting visitors, 56 this past week. More than the three or four I expected. Given the few if any comments, I'm pretty surprised by even this much traffic.

Aside from the locations where I can pretty much guess who it is, I'm seeing hits from outside the US: Dublin, Norway, quite a few from England, Paris... pretty cool. Not that I'm expecting any response, but if anyone wants to let me know how they found the blog I'd love to hear it. (If I know you personally, of course I know how you found it.)

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Debbie mentioned to me recently that this site is hard to read, and that got me to thinking. I picked the simplest Blogger template (i.e., the only one without a sidebar, I'm sick of having to squish photos down on the page to fit in the narrow text column).

The advantage is, I start with a quickly-loading page, and I can add changes slowly. Since I'm much quicker in HTML than CSS (i.e., blogger template-speak), I figure that whatever I manage to do here, it'll be easier to duplicate in HTML than if I did it the other way 'round.


Neil B. says, "Cheers for the new look, Neil!" How perceptive!

So expect to see a lot of minor tweaks. When I'm happy with the design, I'll port it to the rest of the site.


As your reward for reading this (or skipping through it, how would I know?), here' s a picture of me painting my bike headlight. And it's not a tiny, squished preview pic! Mmm... yellow.

Labels: admin, bike, blog, tree, yellow

I'm testing embed code, return to your regularly scheduled time-wasting life-sapping intertube.

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Nate and I have finished up a parody song. Warning: It's funny, but pretty tasteless.

It's posted up on Nate's blog. Take a listen, then leave him many comments.

Labels: blog, music, parody

Unless you ride, blog posts about where I rode and clouds of bugs and bike equipment are probably pretty dull. If you don't want to see the blog posts, go to http://www.neilfein.com/labels/notbike.html, and you'll get everything else I post. (You can do this with any of the keywords, actually.)

Labels: admin, bike, blog, notbike