Month: June 2004

RSS, Atom, feed readers, news readers, syndication, XML, and a few other terms aside, what’s it all about?

Prompted by Lyle finally adding an Atom feed, and this post by the venerable Mr.Sippey, I’ve been delving into this whole thing again.

And once again the ‘simplest’ way for me would be to export my blogrolls to OPML and then import those OPML files into a feed reader (FeedDemon, SharpReader or FeedReader for example). But no, you can’t as the blogroll OPML files aren’t ‘standard’ and appear to hold no information. Arse.

Anyway I’m going to continue with this I think, as I’m getting hacked off missing posts and news stories because I am searching them out, let them come to me!

Ohh and with that in mind, I’ve been checking out FeedBurner which looks to make the whole thing a lot simpler for everyone.

Time for a little more research methinks, but for now you can subscribe to my (Feedburner) feed.

Saturday on the King Tuts Stage

Now we are getting to some of the better known artists, on the stage sponsored by one of Glasgow’s best venues (where Oasis were discovered if I remember rightly).

• Ocean Colour Scene + Ash – Odd one this. Ash, yes, OCS, maybe… but what does the “+” signify?
• Katie Melua – Live? REALLY? Yawn. Don’t think so…
• Michael Franti + Spearhead – I SHOULD know who he is… can’t place the name at the moment
• Speedway – One of those “heard good things about them” bands
• The Ordinary Boys – the next big thing, if I get the chance I’ll swing by and catch them
• The Glitterati – may have heard of them
• Jerry fish – no idea
• Mohair – On stage knitting?
• Roderigo Y Gabriela – spanish guitars, right? Could be a good start to the day..

Comments please!

Sunday at the X-Tent

So here is Sunday’s list of bands for the X-Tent, once again, if you have any suggestions let me know. At some point next week I’ll write up who I’ll be trying to catch, your vote can make a difference!

• The Stands – Heard some of their stuff, not overly moved.
• Hope of the States – never heard of them.
• 22-20s – hmmm they had a single in the charts recently, or in an advert?
• Sons and Daughters – who? Aussie soap I thought?
• Buck 65 – Yeah heard some of their stuff, not bad, already on my ‘maybe’ list.
• Thirteen Senses – Interesting name…
• The Dead 60’s – no idea.
• The Open – ditto.
• Nine Black Alps – ditto.
• The Golden Virgins – ditto.
• Polly Paulusma – ditto.

Tomorrow we move to the King Tut’s Stage.

Saturday at the X-Tent

Right, here we go. The X-Tent is the smallest stage, and I’ll probably only be there for the earlier bands. I’ve heard of a few of them, and I’ll list the rest in case there is anyone I MUST go see. No doubt a lot of these will suffer as they are on at the same time as better known bands, but such is life, and I’d rather have too many suggestions than too few:

• The Bees – read the press hype, but are they REALLY any good?
• Delays – er… who?
• Ian McNabb – wasn’t an Icicle Works fan, but has Crazy Horse as backing band. Intriguing.
• Ben Kweller – another I’ve read reviews of, worth a listen?
• Kasabian – heard the rumours.
• Ricky Warwick – NOT the rump shakin’ latin lover, but the former NMA and Almighty member (neither of which I was a fan of)
• Thea Gilmore – heard of, haven’t heard.
• Jess Malin – no idea
• Republic of Loose – ditto
• The Crimea – ditto
• The Departure – ditto
• Drug of the Nation – ditto

On thing I’ve already realised is how out of touch with the ‘real’ music scene I’ve become, I’ve at least heard of all the names performing on the larger stages.

Anyhoo, have at it people!

So, watching highlights of Glastonbury, some good stuff, some mediocre. All of it whetting my appetite for T in the Park in a couple of weeks.

Ohh did I mention that the best mate a man could have in the whole wide world ever managed to score some tickets? Top stuff!

So, with that in mind I’ll be needing your collective opinions over the coming weeks. There are 5 stages, over two days, so this week I’ll be discussing the bottom half of the running order (the smaller stages), and next week I tackle the bigger stages and more established artists/legends (well I can hardly class Bowie as an “established artist” now, can I!?!).

You can jump ahead of me if you want, or just wait and let the excitement build. Mind you, this is the first time I’ve ever planned a series of posts so I’ll apologise in advance if I miss a day or generally forget that I’m doing this.

Anyway, Paul McCartney did Helter Skelter, wonder how David Bowie will top that?

OK, last word about last night’s game. Portugal had a shot that was cleared off (or behind?) the line last night. Funnily enough I don’t see any mention of it, and we didn’t see it on reply after the game. Just saying…

Headers – no not the physical type. I mean the web type… the bit above here.

I spent sometime yesterday doing a little research as I’m looking to change mine for my ‘coming soon’ redesign, but I can’t figure out which way to go. There is the plain, sans-serif font look. The script/hand written font look, or the big graphical banner, logo and site title look.

I really like the first two, simple and effective, but I do feel the header I currently have could do with sprucing up a little, and everytime I try I end up wanting to add a graphic to it. Still not sure which way to go.

Anyway, it’ll be quiet here this weekend. Not only have I had to postpone any gardening whatsoever over the last three days (thank you Scottish summer!) but we’ve not been through to Dumbarton for ages, and my brother-in-law has finally had his kitchen fitted (only took 8 months, if you are considering buying from MFI make sure they actually HAVE all the pieces of your kitchen in stock before agreeing dates and ripping your old kitchen out!). So I guess a wee trip through is warranted.

Note to self: remember to pick up a stake. Corkscrew willow fell over in the gales.

Hopefully, next time you visit it look a bit different here. Ciao!