Jools Holland

Well, I went to see Jools Holland in an open air concert at Durham racecourse last night. As usual, he gave an absolutely amazing performance, but it was the single bizarrest experience I’ve had in a long time. For a start, the audience was there with their picnic tables and middle class cars. Bear in mind that Jools Holland played some stuff by the likes of T-Bone Walker which was considered subversive just 30 years ago, it’s now safe (predominately white) middle class music.

Where was the sense of danger? Where was the sense of rebellion?

 Oh - and by the way; if you were in the front row last night. Get a life you complete and utter sad gits - I don’t care if you got there at 4 with your friends Jonquil and Tarquin. You’re sad middle aged people and you’re not bad, mad and dangerous.

Expression Web - Part 1

Well, I’ve just installed Microsoft Expression Web and started to play around with it. I must admit that what I’ve seen so far impresses me. It has a certain reminiscence of Dreamweaver with a hint of CoffeeCub about it. Mind you, the typical Microsoft Gloss is dripping all over it.

Start it up and select New > Web Site then choose a template and you are good to go. The templates are OK, but you are probably going to want to go beyond them quickly. Still, at least they do produce XHTML and CSS code, which is a major improvement on Microsoft’s earlier web efforts FrontPage and Interdev. Now for the good news, there doesn’t seem to be a FrontPage extension anywhere in site.

As I continue to explore the app, I’ll give you an update as to how well it fits into the web development workflow - and whether or not it gets in the way.