Archive for December 27th, 2007

Guitar Quartet #1

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

I’ve had a few riffs floating around in my head for a few years now and decided now would be a good time to actually lay them down in some semblance of a song. I was pretty pleased with the sketch that resulted. I haven’t yet attempted words and vocals, so for now all it is is a numbered, instrumental for four guitars (and baby fussing in it’s sleep).

 
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404

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

I’ve been a little behind on my rss reading so I’ve been trying to catch up this week. This morning I read this one at Simplebits on unique or outstanding 404 pages. It was fun looking at all the creative/useful ways people found to customize their 404 pages, but it was about when I got to this one that I thought, why make 404 pages with lots of helpful search info? I mean, most sites do nothing but show 404’s when the URL doesn’t resolve. So that means most users are pretty used to seeing them. At least for me, when I see a custom 404 page with “helpful” info it takes me a few seconds to realize that this isn’t a content page that I searched for. If it looked at least something like a typical un-custom 404 page then I know exactly what to do. But that one or two seconds of “wait just a minute, this is a 404 page!” is far too costly for my liking. So as for me and my site, all you get is this, or if you’re really lucky, this.

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