Sep
27
2005

Your Famous Now And There's No Doubt...

(Add / View Comments) (0)Tuesday, September 27, 2005 - 10:47:13 pm
(Posted Under: Music Music, Tempe Music Scene Tempe Music Scene, Web Development)
Over the past few days I've made some updates to Lost Horizons, particular in light of some early photos of the Gin Blossoms that Mike Reilly has sent through. Updating the site, firstly illistrated how large the site has become. I remember when we first put it together, and it seeming like there wasn't neccesarily enough information to fully flesh out a website. Making updates this week made me realise how it's really grown into such a large website. Which of course got me thinking that it's really of the size where it needs some sort of content management, and more intelligent handling of dynamic content, making updates of news and articles much more simplier.

What I've written to run my personal website is what I think it needs, however a rewrite of the codebase is something I want to do, rather than trying to make the code that runs my website run Lost Horizons. With the code I've written both currently that Lost Horizons runs on, and code that my personal website runs on, I'm aware of shortcomings, and constraints to take into design consideration this time if I start again from the ground up. Of course, it's going to take time. Well, another project to add to the list.

However, that's getting away from my original point. Today I Googled 'Doug Hopkins' (mostly as people on the Blossoms mailing list can't seem to find the website *shrug*) and came across the Wikipedia entry, which made me think how 'famous' the website has become. It's funny, doing the website 5 years ago, thinking of it just being something that would be appreciated by small circles of the internet, and looking back five years later and seeing how big that small little project has become. From mentions in the Phoenix New Times, to it featuring as a link on the Gin Blossoms website and talked up by their manager, to having a link from something like Wikipedia. Definately an interesting thing having you little project really take on a life of it's own.

Speaking of funny things and Lost Horizons, it's interesting the reaction you have when someone talks about you with incorrect facts. This week someone (turning out to be the brother of Ed Reilly, owner of the record label that Doug's first single was released on in 1981, and thanked in every Blossoms album) joined the Blossoms mailing list, mentioning the site Lost Horizons "which is a labour of love by this German guy" - it's really funny thing to read something about yourself with a fundermentally incorrect statement about you. Like "hey, he means me. But I'm not German!". I can't really describe it that well, but it's bizarre. Try it out sometime and you'll see what I mean. [wink]

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