A full write-up of my weekend at T In The Park would be huge in length and largely tedious. So I’m going to do this in the shortest style possible:

The Good:

• The weather – Sunny and bright throughout the weekend,
• Some of the bands – including Hell Is For Heroes, Idlewild, Biffy Clyro, The Mars Volta, The Darkness (entertaining, if musically poor), and Funeral For A Friend,
• The blood red moon on the closing night – worrying, yet cool,
• The good people at Lipton Ice Tea – giving a way a shedload of free ice cold liquid on a boiling hot day marks them as true heroes among men,
• The copy of “Chandelier” I managed to buy after looking for it for a year or two.

The Bad:

• The weather – Far too warm for most of the day, the queues for water got to be over half an hour long,
• Some of the bands – including REM, Turbonegro, The Flaming Lips (sorry, but the lead singer was just boring), The Streets, and The Polyphonic Spree.
• The finale by Caledon – embarassing and poorly done,
• The price of food – this was always going to be high, but it was ridiculous.

There’s bound to be more that I’ve missed, so I might update this entry as I remember.

The Echo Project finally has a name: Atom. While not my favourite, it’s not as bad as it could’ve been. Some of the names on the Project Name Proposals are truly awful.

Anyway, at least that chapter is over. We can concentrate on defining the format fully.

I’m back from a good weekend at T In The Park (but the inevitable write up of that will come later – tomorrow or the next day, maybe). Doesn’t seem like I’ve missed a lot.

There’s some fighting going on over Mark Pilgrim’s Winer Watcher. I can’t be bothered going into the politics of this thing since I’m still tired, but it’s a long running mess that just keeps getting worse.

Elsewhere, Tom Gilder outlines the ::outline pseudo selector. Since CSS3 is still at the working draft stage, I’d never heard of it before. If it works as advertised, we’ll all be able to get rid of a lot redundant markup and create better looking sites. That’s a very good thing.

That’s about it. I’m off for a needed rest.

Once again, I’m leaving for a few days. This time I’ll be spending my weekend at T In The Park. Yeah the line-up is the weakest in years, but it should still be good.

Anyway, I’ll be back on monday.

In Charlies Angels 2 the action is weak, the plot laughable, the acting below par, the costumes skimpy (not necessarily a complaint), the plot devices clumsy and obvious, the comic relief inappropriate, the serious parts funny, the funny parts serious, the direction distracting, the music editing outright aggrevating (and I liked a fair few of the songs), the dialogue as weak as it comes… I could go on but I think you get the idea.

Money was thrown at this film. Marketing everywhere, and it still sucks. Thus proving that money means nothing in the world of cinema. Except that a million people will still go and see it because they’ve been told to. Shame.