Mar
25
2011

Toad The Wet Sprocket @ The Marquee

(Add / View Comments) (0)Friday, March 25, 2011 - 11:12:40 pm
(Posted Under: Music Music)
Toad The Wet Sprocket at the Marquee tonight. Which was also my first show at the Marquee. We parked at Tempe Beach Park, and walked over. Walking over the Mill Ave. bridge at night was pretty nice. Funnily enough, on the north side of Tempe Town lake we could still hear the music from the Sail Inn. God, people that live by there must hate that place!

The Marquee turned out to be a cool venue, aside from the heat. Summer shows there must suck! Ran into Lance there, who mentioned the good sound and inclined floor which is great for "us short guys". Absolutely agreed on both accounts. The sound was great. And the best thing was the floor, which meant we were able to hang towards the bqck of the crowd and I still had a great view.

The Reign Kings opened, which was pretty cool for opener. An acoustic set, of which I knew pretty much all the songs. When it was billed as acoustic, I assumed it was going to be two of the guys, but it was indeed the full band. Closed out with the Counting Crows Rain king, which is apparently where they got their name.

Toad were awesome. I'd been looking forward to the show since we brought tickets, but was kinda tired tonight and somewhat going through the motions. All that changed when they took the stage. The set was kicked off with Something's Always Wrong, which is a hell of a way to start a set! And the hits just kept rolling. it was am awesome setlist. I don't exactly remember what they played when we saw them in Kansas City in 2009, but tonight's setlist seemed to be even better than that. There were 2 new songs which sounded really good. And the pick from Glen's solo project was Finally Fading, which was a sweet choice. There was a lot of banter about how long it'd been since they'd played in Arizona, and they were really well received.

After the show it was a forced march back to Tempe Beach Park to head over to Martini Ranch. Fucking Scottsdale! We got there at around 11:20, which was a bit later than we would have liked, but still okay - not accounting for parking in downtown Scottsdale! We drove around for pretty much the next 40 minutes trying to find a park, and doing drive by's Martini Ranch with the windows down to make sure they were still playing. That place is such a cluster fuck on a Friday and Saturday night. Ironically we got a park in the Martini Ranch parking lot right on midnight, pulling in just in just in time to see the band breaking down their gear through the window. Fail. Did notice Serafini in there, so I guess he and Lance successfully pulled of the Maquee to Martini Ranch plan, unlike ourselves.

So despite the brillant parking spot, we piled back into the car and went down to catch Tramps & Thieves at the Pink Pony. Which was our plan to do after the Black Moods anyway. A few blocks away parking wasn't an issue, and catching an hour an a half of Tramps & Thieves saved the night, and the trip to Scottsdale. We chatted to Scotty in between sets, and funnily enough we weren't the only people who had done the Toad The Wet Sprocket / Tramps & Thieves evening.
Mar
25
2011

Firefox 4

Firefox Sync Looks Cool, But...

(Add / View Comments) (0)Friday, March 25, 2011 - 03:45:25 pm
(Posted Under: Mozilla Firefox)
Firefox 4 is out this week. Of most interest to me is Firefox Sync, for synchronizing bookmarks (and what not) naively across multiple installations of Firefox - of which I have many.

From the outset I'm not overly impressed. Primarily, the setting up of a local server for syncing is not all that straight forward, and certainly not well documented. Aside from all the requirements, including a PHP and MYSQL installed (not that I don't have that), plus a bunch of specific PHP modules enabled, it far from works out of the box. That, and the fact that client seems fairly brain dead at the moment, it really puts the simplicity of Foxmarks/Xmarks - which is simply just a webdav enabled web server - into perspective.

Hopefully this will become better throughout the life cycle of Firefox 4. But for now I'm happier to stick with my issue free Xmarks setup. Which also isn't a sparkling recommendation for me to rush to upgrade to Firefox 4. I'll probably migrate faster than I did to Firefox 3 [wink], but it ain't gonna happen this week.

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