Weblog and Playground of Gord Fynes

SEEING AS IT’S THE END OF THE MONTH and I’ve been wanting to have a proper archives pages for some time, I finally sat down and went nose to nose with the CMS that keeps this site in order.

WARNING: GEEKY SHOP-TALK AHEAD

After sifting through some posts from the fine folks over at the Textpattern forum, setting up some messy URLs, page templates, forms and a couple of cans of iced tea later, there’s now a proper archives page for you to dig through. I may even go back to Day One of this website and bring all non-Textpattern posts aboard, seeing as they’re currently not available to you (I know, the nerve). A hat-tip to the Daring Fireball for the general layout idea. Screw trying to organize posts by month – my brain and bladder can only hold so much.

With this new-found know-how, I couldn’t just stop there. I had to re-do all the now former HTML pages with in-house templates, forms, messy URLs etc., just to keep things nice and manageable.

Don’t get me started on the photos page.

On a lighter, though still somewhat geeky note: in between trips to the fridge for beverages, I noticed that the boy is watching re-re-re-runs of the old Spiderman cartoons that I used to watch at his age on Saturday mornings. I’ll probably just wait for him to pick up the newly released DVD of that series.

IT ARRIVED in the mail yesterday.

You may have missed out on landing a nifty Daring Fireball t-shirt, but don’t let that stop you from showing your support.

UPDATE: Apostrophes in post titles have now been corrected so as not to look like foot markings.

I know, like you really cared.

I TEND TO CHECK MY REFERRER STATS quite regularly and have noticed a bit of traffic based on a first name search. At the moment, my site has entered the top ten results for the word “gord” on Google. My friend Val once said that she thought “Gord” was the most Canadian of names. In the top ten is another Canadian Gord who, well, you can go see for yourself.

I’M BACK FROM LA BELLE PROVINCE as of yesterday. Thanks to Marc, Adam, Matt, the organizers, crew and good people of Wendake. The show was great fun, despite the rain. Photos to follow in the days ahead. Thanks also to the lovely staff at Nyk’s in Montreal and to Stella Artois. No thanks to the olfactory assaults from various group members’ flatulent offerings in various hotels and stages of travel. You staubling bastards!

I’d posted about seeing Jaga Jazzist a few weeks back. They’ve made mention of our meeting on their current news page. Cool. I’ve also got some photos happening from their show pasted up.

I’m off to Quebec City shortly, at an ungodly hour when only shift workers and rust are awake. We’re off to perform at Wendake as the headliners for the first night of the festival. I haven’t done a road trip with a bunch of guys in quite a while, so I’m sure there’s much silliness and hilarity ahead. For this trip, I’ve been asked to bring along my minidisc recorder to keep an audio journal, which may or may not turn up as part of a future Nadjiwan radio piece. There’ll also be plenty of photos from our trip. I’ve decided not to bring the digital camera and give the Lomo LC-A a good workout. Marc and I have already started brushing up on our grade ten conversational French. Mais oui!