Lately, I've been held up designing and programming a new website localized around Philadelphia, and yet I've been surprising myself again and again at how initial impressions are usually incorrect. At first, I started working on the GUI features - what looks pretty here, what is functional there, and generally the things that one should not be worried about when beginning such a large scale project.

It turns out that realizing the scope of such a site is the first thing that needs to be done.

If it is ever decided to open up a local city-based website to more than one city, more time, money, and effort will be thrown down to "re-work" the website, than if it had been written to incorporate more than one city initially.

Wanna go global? Then you need a language package - one that will hopefully work at the base, at the core of the site, before it ever goes into beta.

Want a lot of users? That's the advertising bit. How do websites generate lots of user signups? I don't think going door-to-door works, anymore. I think that word of mouth isn't going to do it either. It has to be a product that advertises itself. A product so revolutionary that no one can resist joining.

I wish I had just such a project.

Well, Bonnaroo was legendary. Battles rocked. Ben Folds rocked. Les Claypool rocked. Kanye West sucked. The heat sucked. The rain was glorious.

I had a good time, and got back just in time to start work on a new website directed toward the Philadelphia region. When that is up, I'll be posting a link here and telling all of my friends to sign up.

Other than that, I've been sitting and stewing and trying to come up with the energy to make a new rated PG website so that job recruiters don't think I'm some dumb young rich kid.

By the way: What's with all these comment spammers? My site uses moderated comments, and unless I know who you are, you aren't getting on. So stop trying.

I'll talk to you all again in a month. Cyeah! Peace.

I think I just squeed a little bit. We're leaving my house in an hour. For DC. Then, to our hotel in Virginia. Then to a 4 day music festival.

Be back the 17th, PEACE

please people, unite
for together we must fight
we won't be polite

Tennessee, here I come.