Laura and I went to a folk festival last night with some friends that invited us along. Ya, you did read that right. It was good. I really enjoyed the opening act of ZoÎ Lewis. She was super high energy and lots of fun. I ended up buying her album Small is Tremendous which is pretty good, if a little short at 11 songs.
The featured act was The Wailin' Jennys. They were very good, sounded great and well polished, but I found them too "folksy". Not really my style of music. Ah well. But what a great sound. My favourite part of their act was the last song where they shut off the mikes, got off stage and just sang together. That was awesome. I'll look around and see if I can find a copy / words for the song. I think that I did on this page under the "Good-Bye, Good Luck, God Bless You" section (but the music file they linked to sounds nothing like what I heard last night). I'll keep looking. ;-)
These are the lyrics to the good-bye song :O)
ReplyDeleteThe Parting Glass(Traditional)
Oh all the money that e'er I spent
I spent it in good company
And all the harm that e'er I've done
Alas, it was to none but me And all the harm that e'er I've done
Alas, it was to none but me
And all I've done for want of wit
To memory now I can't recall
So fill to me the parting glass
Good night and joy be with you all
Oh all the comrades that e'er I've had
Are sorry for my going away
And all the sweethearts that e'er I've had
Would wish me one more day to stay
But since it falls unto my lot
That I should rise and you should not
I'll gently rise and I'll softly call
Good night and joy be with you all
http://www.thewailinjennys.com/
Ahh... when I saw that page the links at the top in the box show up as blue on blue background. I couldn't see it at all in Firefox.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thewailinjennys.com/musicwj.aspx#top
It shows up in IE though. They have a set a background colour for the table of bright blue #0000e0. I'll send them an email to let them know. ;-)
... if I can figure out where to send an email to...
ReplyDeleteThis guy should really run his code through an html validator.
ReplyDeletehttp://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www.thewailinjennys.com/musicwj.aspx%23top
It's not important to most people if their website is "Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional". Hell, I bet over 99% of people don't know what that means (I'm not perfectly clear about it myself!).
ReplyDeleteAs long as it looks good in their browser (IE on Windows), then it's good enough to put up...
It's not as important if you make sure that your site complies to a standard but your site looks like ass to your target audience.
I think it's very important that your site is valid HTML. It's probably a lot of the reason many sites don't look the way they should on browser x. When something isn't compliant, the browser has to guess what you really meant. One browser may guess to display it one way, while another may guess to display it another way. Once you have it compliant, it's much easier to tweak to make it look exactly the way you want it.
ReplyDeleteYour point if moot in a "one browser world" which many people think this is. I'm not saying it's a good idea to write bad html; I'm saying that I understand how / why it happens.
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