Rothbury 2009 (And Not Much Else) July 1, 2009
Have had zero time for this site lately, super busy with work. Six months ago, I found myself going home from work almost every night of the week. Lately though, it seems I’ve had something going on every night. Not necessarily a bad thing, but I feel like I’m constantly running around. Anyway, I’m taking a break from working on laying out newsletters and thought I’d post that I am heading to Rothbury after work today. I could probably make an entire post just bitching about creating newsletters… Different email clients all render certain HTML elements differently, some ignore certain tags altogether, and you have to use HTML tables because CSS positioning is largely ignored… I feel like I’m creating websites circa 1995, and in that regard it definitely blows. Did you know that Outlook 2007 uses MS Word (not even Internet Explorer, which in this case would actually be great) to render HTML? What kind of sense does that make!?!
Anyway, This is the 2nd year of the festival, and it’s also the 2nd year I’m going… And I can’t wait. Come on clock! In the meantime, the life of a nail is pretty damn cool. I’ll try to make some time to post about the festival when I get back. Have an awesome July 4th weekend, I’m pretty sure I will.
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RandyC Jul 1, 2009
I know how you feel Jon… I’ve been in the same boat for the past year. Everynight I feel like I got something going on. No more going home after work. It’s slowing down just recently. Thank God.
And yes, I did know about Outlook 2007 (2003 does also) using winword for rendering HTML. Many many crashes in Outlook start as a result of winword.exe process hanging after viewing HTML mail. They also have been known to call it “WordMail”, referring to using Word as the HTML renderer.
Jays Jul 8, 2009
take lots of pictures and record bootleg audio from all of the best of the festival!
pmaster Jul 20, 2009
While John prepares his post on Rothbury I thought I’d share my experience at this years Mayhem Fest (briefly..).
Top 3 Performances (no order):
Black Dahlia Murder
Slayer
Trivium
Top 3 Bands I’m just getting tired of:
Killswitch Engage (who remembers the original singer?)
Bullet for My Valentine (John’s favorite)
Cannibal Corpse (for whatever reason the band was not as enthusiastic as smaller band performances, such as God Forbid.)
I didn’t stay for Marylin Manson, nor did a good portion of the crowd. Slayer should have headlined, but by the time Manson was up it was 2 AM and I had a drive to make, so eh….
Jiglet Jul 22, 2009
Black Dahlia is awesome live… Still haven’t seen Slayer.
I loved KSE with Jesse, Howard is good too but the new album definitely leaves something to be desired… What do you think about it?
I don’t think I would have stuck around for Manson either.
pmaster Jul 22, 2009
Seeing Slayer was like fullfilling a high school wish I must have made a dozen times.
Agreed, their new album was bland, and so was their performance. I had seen them long ago with Jesse (I believe Kittie headlined, with Poison the Well, KSE, and another band…its been too long..) and Howard doesn’t have the stage presence Jesse did. Or maybe their music direction is taking a different approach.
Anyway, hope to see a post!
ra Jul 25, 2009
http://www.humancloning.org/allthe.php
talk about cloning.