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Will I apply for SDJ’s position?

I’ve received a few emails asking if I was going to apply for SDJ’s old position. At this time, I do not intend to apply for the position for many reasons (as much as I would love to work for the P&YR show).

The requirements (listed here) I do not meet them. Even though I do know how to use FrontPage (well, now it’s Web Expressions) and DreamWeaver, I prefer not to use them (nothing beats notepad for web programming) and my knowledge of PHP is extremely limited (this site is just a Wordpress blog with a fancy template) plus the call for PHP usually turns into a call for MySQL also, which I am limited to (but I am learning phpMyAdmin).

Also, I am content in my current IT position which I think would pay more than what they would pay a web programmer (not 100% but pretty sure) and running this site would definately be a conflict of interest with the show (and I have to admit, this is probably my most entertaining web project). Nothing like a project that you have to listen to a radio show, one that you enjoy listening to, to keep current.

But, for the show people, to add an image to a site:

< img src="(location of the image)" >

(take out the spaces before and after the brackets and remove the parenthesis)
Is the basic of it, you can also add in width=”n” and height=”n” tags to force a size and alt=”text” to add in a descrption that appears when someone hovers over the image with their mouse pointer.

The forums are back up!

After some new host glitches, they’ve been fixed and the forums are back up!

Enjoy!

Local bands can now promte themselves in the forums

Growing up in New Hampshire, in between Boston, Mass, the University of New Hampshire, and Portsmouth, NH I had exposure to some great local talent. this ranged from some guy with a guitar at my college playing for tips to serving Bradly Delp (original lead singer for the band, Boston) in the seafood department I ran (don’t believe the story about him being a vegan his entire life).

While listening to my iPod tonight it jumped on an album I purchased years ago called “Localpalooza” where a local rock station, WHEB, had a concert series (like Lollapalooza) where they promoted local bands. Say Zusu, Heavens to Murgatriod, and the local favorite, Thanks to Gravity, and it came to me. Without the right promotions, these bands might never had made it. Imagine if no one helped Boston get off their feet and signed them up for their first gig. Would Brad have continued on building refrigerator coils while singing Beatles songs at night clubs?

With this, I decided to add in a section in the forums where local bands can promote themselves. I know it won’t be much now but it is free advertising for them and maybe some of us would be able to catch some of their shows. If you are in a local band (and “local” doesn’t have to be south Florida, I have 3 sections - “south Florida”, “Florida”, and anywhere else) feel free to pop in and post about your band (please read the rules first, though).

I just got off the phone with SDJ,

He said it was going to be at the very earliest Monday before the new season starts up which (in my opinion) is rather fast. They’ll just need to come up with new questions and get new sponsors.

Take your time guys, even though we all look forward to this game, we don’t want it to end too quickly.

Good luck with the new season. I’ll find something to fill up the time, maybe make some posts about the show, too bad I missed most of Jenner’s visit / comeback yesterday, it was nice to hear him again.

What to do now?

Now that this season is over (Jeff got question #6 correct), I can assume that activity on this site will drop. Traffic has picked up on this site, frim 30-40 hits a day to over 100 hits a day over the past week.

I do plan to be here when the next season starts up. I wil archive the old pages (I may just have the correct answers) and get set up for the new set of questions but Paul didn’t mention when the new season may start up.

Again, congratulations to Jeff for winning the game show, as they said it was the shortest You Can’t Win yet (93 days). This site was started the day question #3 was answered.

I will still listen to the show at work daily (except when I have to work ) and will post some blogs about the Paul & Young Ron show itself in the meantime and send the show the occasional email. Swing by the forums and say hi, maybe we can discuss what the next set of questions might be and / or what they might involve.

Monday, July 14th…

I will miss most of the show this day due to the fact that I have to rebuild a server at work.

If you hear the answer, feel free to comment to this post with the answer (right or wrong) or post it on the forums. Thank you in advance!

Welcome to the NEW You Can’t Win (dot) net site!

Welcome to the new and improved You Can’t Win (dot) net site! All of the information from the old site is posted on here, navigation is to the right. Feel free to check out the questions, hints, and prizes!

I may be playing with the layout as I find one that works, I’ve found many and so far this is the most appropriate theme I’ve been able to find, but I am still looking!

I hope you enjoy the new site, please feel free to swing by the forums and let us know what you think!