October 24, 2000
Okay, I admit, I've been neglecting the webpage a bit lately. Work
and family have been keeping me way too busy. But I
do have a few things to report today.
First of all, congratulations to Marius Suiker for organizing what sounds like an amazing fan meeting in Hardenberg, Holland a couple of weeks ago. About 150 fans showed up, and were treated to a private 40 minute acoustic set by Venice of the following rarely played songs: People Laugh, Jenny, Nobody's Girl, Hideway Hill, Helplessly Hoping, Crazy Love, Washington and Lincoln, and The Only Love I Had. (For those who weren't paying attention, info on this meeting was posted here on September 6th. Next year, don't let it pass you by!)
Marius has also sent in a recent article from the Dutch newspaper "De Telegraff." Interestingly enough, the article details the Egroup members' plans to plant a tree in Enschede, it just doesn't mention Egroups, or credit the fans. But that's okay, because the reward is the gesture itself, and not the recognition. Right? Anyway, you can read all about it here.
Okay, I know exactly what
you're saying right now... "There's only way you
could ever get me to look at an article like that! First,
I'd have to listen to the guy who sent it in singing Venice songs
with two other guys on acoustic guitars. Then I might
consider it." Well, I've cleverly anticipated
that, and have already thwarted your adversarial efforts. You
can hear five Venice songs covered by Marius and his band "Just
Us," right
over here. Go
now! Run!!! And then you can go back and read
the article with clear conscience.
October 13, 2000
Sorry for the lack of updates lately. VVTG wiped me
out and I needed a break, and then I've just spent the last couple
of weeks moving all the multimedia files from Simplenet.com over
here to Venicecentral.com. (Thanks to the generosity
of YourMusicSites.com, I no longer have to pay a monthly
fee for storage space. Yay!!!) This turned out
to be a more daunting task than I'd anticipated, because we're
talking almost 200 megs worth of stuff. (For the technically
uninclined, that amount of data is over three full computer CDs
worth.) Then each batch file had to be individually
redirected to reflect each file's new location, and then those
had to be uploaded too. Finally, every single link
to every single batch and MP3 file had to be changed. (For
the curious, the exact number of Venice Central's multimedia files
to date, ranging in length from a couple of seconds to a couple
of hours: 1367. Plus an equal number of batch files
((minus the MP3s that don't need batch files)). That
number includes VVTG.) And the irony of it all is that
when I finally got everything done, the end result is that the
content of the webpage is exactly the same as it was before.
That's the idea, anyway. Unfortunately, because everything was done by hand, the possibility exists for human error. And that's really the only reason I'm telling you guys about this. If you try to watch or download a file now and it doesn't work, it's probably due to a typo and is easily fixable. But I don't have the time to go through and test each one individually. So if you run across a problem as you surf, please e-mail me at matt@venicecentral.com and tell me about it. Thanks!
And the good news is that I found a ton of bad links as I went, and those have been updated too. So files that may not have worked for you a couple of weeks ago, probably will now.
Okay, time to rest again. Bye!
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