I come to work today and receive an IM from Matt telling me that the Rising Star Detroit site is done! FUCK YES. Huge weight off of my back. There are still a few modifications that need to be made but for the most part, its functional.

I am slowly making my way out of that stress pile. My only problem now is dealing with a completely incompetent hosting company. This company hosts my Wreckless Media Radio website and forum, my tech blog, this site, and a few others. The name of this horrible company is PowWeb Hosting, or as I like to call them PooWeb Hosting. All of my sites have about a 50% uptime. It’s a flip of a coin every time someone visits my site if it will be up or not. I have used a lot of hosting companies in the past, both good and bad, and nothing compares to the terrible service or PowWeb. They have taken on so many customers with their seemingly great deal on hosting, and cannot handle the amount of traffic that their customers pull in. The mysql server goes down about every 20 minutes. Read the rest of this entry »

I have been doing the whole talk radio thing for almost 2 years now and as of late I feel the show has been losing steam. Not that the shows have been bad by any means, but that I think the co-hosts are losing the dynamic that they used to have with me. Now that they are more comfortable with being on the show they are slowly trying to steal the spot-light. And don’t think I am being pampas and I want to be the star, its not like that at all. I am the host, I make the show run, I spend all of my free time working on the show, I bought all of the equipment, and I have been doing it a lot longer than they have.

Recently I am constantly being talked over and my jokes stepped on because everyone just wants to hear themselves talk. And it’s taking a wear on myself, the show, and the fans. Last week a concerned listener started a thread on our forum talking about this very issue and to my surprise a lot of listeners agreed. Read the rest of this entry »

Like most people in the world, I HATE MY JOB.  I am under paid, under appreciated, and stepped on because of my age.  My salary would be doubled, doing the same work, if I was ten years older than I am now. So now I have to give up my window seat cubicle to someone else.  This is bullshit.  I’m pissed.

What I really want to do is start doing freelance.  I would make more, be my own boss, and not have to deal with idiots all day.  Or somehow develop Wreckless Media Radio to the point where I can live off of that.

Anyways, something HAS GOT to change, or I am gonna go crazy.

After hours and hours of tedious, strenuous work I was able to get my desktop back up and running. The WMR fans will be pleased since they haven’t gotten a show for the past 2 weeks.  But we will no longer have audio lagging issues or bad video quality. Matter of fact the show will look and sound better than ever.

After going to Chicago last weekend to visit Mike D. from Red Bar Radio and seeing his studio, it has inspired me to get my studio together. Our studio is great, don’t get me wrong. We have very professional equipment, a quite working space, with a cool overall ambiance with our logo’s colors as the studio’s color scheme. But… Its too fuckin’ small and it is a complete mess. Beer bottles, plastic wrap, cans, and dust litter the room. I really need to get in there and tighty up the place. Read the rest of this entry »

I am coining the term Stress Pile. What is a stress pile? A stress pile is when you suddenly find yourself buried up to your head with deadlines, responsibilities, and bad luck. Also Stress Pile is the best way to describe how I am feeling right now.

This stress pile snuck up on me. About a week ago I all of a sudden got this surge of anxiety while driving home from work. At first I didn’t know why. I started thinking about what could be causing this. Then the floodgates opened. I realized that I have a lot to be anxious about. As soon as I got home I pulled up a text document and made a list of things that I needed to get done. As soon as I was finished making the list the nervous feeling in my stomach subsided a bit because now I had a list of things I needed to do. Apparently I have been putting off a lot of things and deadlines were coming up. Here are a few things from my list that are causing me most of my anxiety: Read the rest of this entry »

It seems like the only time I ever update my blog here at brianberris.com is when I am redesigning the site. Anyways, a few weeks ago I got some inspiration and I decided to revamp the site. I must say I am loving the design of it so far. I made it very web 2.0 looking. I also added a feature called BriSpy which is just my twitter account. This way you can keep tabs on me and what I am doing.

I am still trying to figure out a good way to handle photos. I may just use a flickr account and somehow integrate that into the site. For the time being I am using this nifty little flash image gallery. Unfortunately there is no easy way to keep track of photos, categories, and comments on them.

I haven’t had a personal blog in a long long time and I made a promise to myself that I would start one up again. So that is what this site’s blog will be. People keep telling me that I shouldn’t because if I say the wrong thing on it and a potential employer happens to see it, they might not hire me. Read the rest of this entry »

I was born in Detroit on March 26, 1985.  I do web design/development, photography, graphic design, video, audio engineering and production, podcasting, vidcasting, and more…  If you need any of those services I am for hire for freelance, contract, part time or full time! 

I host a weekly internet comedy talk radio show called Wreckless Media Radio.  It has received much success and is growing in listener numbers weekly.  If you would be interested in advertising on our show or website please email us at wrecklessmedia(a)gmail.com for pricing.

My hobbies include rollerblading, photography, video games, video production, and more.

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Brian’s Tech Blog

I started making websites when in 1998 when I was only 13. I pay close attention to web design styles and how they change with the times. I have seen the internet go from a static, ill designed, information source to a dynamic, aesthetically pleasing piece art.

Brian’s Skills:

• Web Design
  • HTML
  • XHTML
  • CSS
  • DREAMWEAVER

• Web Development
  • Install Open Source Applications
  • Implement Custom or Pre-Made Templates to Open Source Apps.
  • Modify Open Source Apps.
    • Wordpress

• Graphic Design
  • PHOTOSHOP

• Audio
  • Audio Production
  • Podcasting
  • Studio Engineering
  • Audio Clean Up

• Video
  • Shooting
  • Editing
  • Encoding
  • DVD production
  • Vidcasting
  • Online Video

• Basic Knowledge of:
  • Networking
  • Hardware
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • PHP
  • MySql
  • Saxotech CMS