September, 2004
We’re still mostly about music here

In spite of all the talk about web design, smoking, RSS, Unix, and CGI scripts, I’d like to point out that our main focus here at the headquarters of the vast Steve Castellano Internet Empire™ is and shall remain music, except when it’s advertising. Or web design. Most of the action, if you don’t mind [...]

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Posted on 26th September 2004Comments Off
Usability study

Sometimes it’s a good idea to watch over someone’s shoulder while they’re visiting your website. If you find yourself pointing at their screen and saying things like, “the link! click the link!” and “what are you, grayscale-blind?” – as I did yesterday – you might want to consider a redesign. My aversion to the underscore [...]

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Posted on 18th September 2004Comments Off
I quit

…smoking, that is. I read over the previous post and decided that I wasn’t irritable enough, so I put out my last cigarette at 11:30 on Monday night. Actually it was this that kind of pushed me over the edge. And because this is not a blog, I feel obliged to point out that the [...]

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Posted on 17th September 20045 Comments
My First Spam

One month into the new dynamic configuration, I have deleted my first comment spam. I know that this one in particular was submitted by a real live person (as they submitted twice to an entry that was not accepting writebacks, took the time to see if the spam was posted, and then moved on to [...]

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Posted on 7th September 2004Comments Off
Perversion for Profit

Perversion for Profit is a light-hearted public service composition that weaves together the timeless themes of sexual perversion, adolescent mental health, and communism. Archival recording supplied by the Internet Moving Images Archive (at archive.org) in association with Prelinger Archives. Time: 4:12 Size: 4.9 MB Download MP3

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Posted on 1st September 2004Comments Off
Johnny and Jenny

Johnny and Jenny is a musical documentary about a well-publicized crime that occurred not quite ten years ago. The song was written not long after the event, but I only got around to recording it recently. I’ve been busy. Time: 2:25 Size: 3.0 MB Download MP3

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Posted on 1st September 2004Comments Off
Daddy’s Little Girl

Daddy’s Little Girl is the title theme from a documentary that explores a woman’s relationship with her father in the years following her parents’ divorce. The original, recorded in the mid 90s, is on a DAT somewhere, but as I have no DAT machine, and my current studio is superior to the one in which [...]

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Posted on 1st September 2004Comments Off