Radiohead Webcasts tonight; and about those LED lights
By Dominik
Radiohead is live Webcasting their last U.S. show on this tour tonight, from Santa Barbara (thanks, Talltim). I've got a friend at that show, so I might have to catch this. That, and maybe twist m'lady's arm into sampling what she missed.
Meanwhile, for anyone fascinated by the shows on this tour (that seems to include everyone who attended one) their tour production blog is pretty enlightening. The production handlers talk about all sorts of things like travel, working with LiveNation and lightening their carbon load with the best technology available. A great post explains the LED lights they're using, which actually draw less -- yet more stable -- power consumption.
As you may have noticed, the site has changed. Sampa, the free-site host, did a version 2 of some sort.
Despite an FAQ that made it sound like allowing one's site to go through v.2 surgery would be okay, there were several flexibilities that surprisingly disappeared with the click of a button. (e.g. I cannot believe sidebars like this one are even narrower than before.)
And I'm told -- miraculously! -- that the conversion cannot be undone. Truth be told, I'm actually quite pissed. But free is free. Sampa has otherwise been good to me.
So I need to sort through site "features" to see how I can make do. Except that I don't have the time at the moment, in the middle of graduate classes and Lighthousehockey.com. (btw, I've removed that Lighthouse RSS feed so that you're not clogged with random Islanders hockey gibberish).
But I promise to touch up the accessories when I get a chance, and return to irregularly scheduled blogging.