I’m sorry about that, but I’ve had a hard time finding time to sit at computer, and when I have I’ve concentrated mainly on getting the new skin for my blog ready
I’m almost there, need a bit more testing first, and some minor tweaks. But I’ll give you a small sneak peak…
Haven’t posted much lately
Posted December 27th 2008 by AnnaCommercial radio - Do they lack of music?
Posted December 16th 2008 by AnnaOnce again I was struck by the fact that in the 8 hrs I spend at work they play a few songs over and over again. And then I don’t even spend the full 8 hrs in the same area as the radio is.
There’s a few songs that does come back more often the others, but do they really need to play the same music even twice?
In my car going home I gave it a thought, and with as little as 120 songs they could play 8 hrs straight without needing to play anyone twice. 120 songs, that ain’t all that much, I got well over that myself so why can’t they manage to play different songs?
The number 120 was calculated using 4 minutes as an average for a song. 8 hours equals 480 minutes. 480 minutes divided by 4 minutes is 120 songs.
In reality they’d need even less songs, as there’s a few commercials during a one hour period, as well as a newsflash. And of course the radio hosts would use up a few minutes announcing the next song and talking as well. I’d guess that to be able to make 8 hours of radio with all unique songs you’d need somewhere between 80 and 100 songs, depending on length and how much time talking and commercials take up. So why is it that a few songs seem to come up at least once every other hour? Sometimes it seems as there was only a few songs since I last heard it…
Of course if they take requests the risk that they’d be asked to play a song that was played by the hosts previously on air, and in that case I can see a reason as to why, but when they do non-request shows, maybe they could plan it so the same music don’t come back all the time.
The music that come back is always the latest hits… But they do play the songs so often I get bored of them, and hence less inclined to actually go buy it, which I assume is the reason they are played often…
Trying to create my own wordpress theme
Posted December 3rd 2008 by AnnaAs the title says, I’m gonna try to create my own theme for WordPress
And I almost broke it the first thing… Oh well hopefully I won’t break it anymore then.
I’m not messing with a live blog, I’m experimenting locally, on a test installation of the latest version: 2.7 RC1.
If the theme comes out decent, I might share it with anyone interested.
I do this mainly for two reasons:
- I want a new look on this blog but just couldn’t find a theme I like better then the one I have now. There’s a lot very nice themes out there, all just seemed to have something to them that didn’t really appeal to me when I was looking around the other day. Often it was just a very small part of the theme. I could of course have used one of them and just tweaked it, but chose not to.
- I figured it would be nice to learn how WordPress is built up. And for sure one way of doing it is messing with it in some way. Themes seem to be a good and rather safe place to start.
The only problem with this is that I kind of suck at creating graphics… But I guess I’ll learn that as well, if that is possible

