Online Fame | A 'blog written by Chris Rhee

I’ve been running multiple websites for about six or seven years (You would think I’d be sick of it by now) and every new year, I have to change the footer of each website to correct the copyright year.

This wouldn’t be such a hassle if I only ran one website, but I’m responsible for updating the footer of many websites every year. And I’m lazy. So here’s my solution:

<?php
print date( "Y" );
?>

That basically spits out the year, according to your web server’s clock/calendar (which should be set to the right date and time, anyway). So the full code of my footer text for this website is:

Copyright © 2002 - <?php print date( "Y" ); ?> Chris Rhee, All rights reserved.

You can do this with other coding languages as well. I just happen to use PHP files for this website. There you go, website maintainers. Stay lazy.

Knowing is half the battle…

Unless you’re a hip hop fan (who follows underground music) who also happens to make websites, you won’t understand the pun of this headline. But there’s a mixtape that was pretty recently put out by the rapper, Copywrite, and it’s called Cruise Control Volume 1. Now you’re in the know.

Yeah, in an earlier post, I told you that I would be posting the MP3s for the singles off of tonedeff’s upcoming album by the 24th of January. I was waiting on tonedeff to upload those MP3s and he’s busy with a lot of stuff and I didn’t want to release it before he announced it to his other fans.

No more delays, here are the links to the singles off of tonedeff’s upcoming album, Archetype:

• Politics (Street/Dirty version, Clean version)
• Disappointed (Street/Dirty version, Clean version)

If you want to buy the 12″ record (it has the street/dirty version, clean version, and instrumental of both songs– and some cool cover art: Politics, Disappointed), check out this page for a list of online and offline stores to order from. If you can’t play records, the CD-R will be available from tonedeff’s website when it relaunches.

Get ready for his album, Archetype. It’s coming out sometime in 2005.

Yodel!