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UPDATE: This is a _really_ boring podcast. Don’t listen to it. Seriously. Sorry, to those who already did. So sorry.

Going through this 43 Web Design Mistakes posted on Daily Blog Tips (at least 5 of which aren’t related to design in the least), I find I disagree with a rather large number of them. Overall, it’s a decent list, but I wanted to review the list in a podcast.

Good news, too, I finally figured out how to export an MP3 (although it’s a rather complex process). Apple, get your act together and support MP3 out of GarageBand directly!!!

That said, the Podcast is about 36 minutes long. I have no idea how I let it get so long, but there you have it. As a result the file size is rather large, so it might be a rather unfortunate wait for some of you on slower connections. Most browsers can stream MP3s, however, so you shouldn’t have to wait long.

LISTEN TO PODCAST - 35min48sec
MP3 (28.7MB) | M4A (16.9MB)

By the way, this is quite off-topic, but you should go pick up the new Foo Fighters album in iTunes. Now.

Tonight I viewed Charlotte’s Web, a movie adapted from a children’s novel. I must say the movie was very well pulled off…except for one thing.

Get Dakota Fanning OFF the screen.

She can’t act. She never could, but now it’s worse. She gets worse in every single movie she does! She IS NOT AN ACTRESS! How is it that so many people just fall for her? They love her! She has way too many fans, and it’s getting out of hand. Everyone just sees a cute little girl on the screen, and they think, “aww, she’s cute, and she’s young, and she’s a girl, and she’s on the screen! She must be good!” No one seems to stop to think about the fact that during the movie, instead of thinking about the movie, they are thinking about HOW CUTE DAKOTA FANNING IS!

She takes your attention away from where it should be, and that is because she is not real! There are very good actors out there, whose faces are all over the place, who haven’t got a problem with this! Because they can act so well, that even though their face is so familiar to us, we still see them as the character during the movie and not as the actor.

But this isn’t so with Dakota Fanning. She’s a semi-decent actress, I’ll give her that. But she isn’t nearly good enough to overcome the fame that makes her face so recognizable…so NOT the character she is supposed to be.

What other little girls do we have for roles like these? Well, I suggest AnnaSophia Robb, whose stunning performance in Because of Winn-Dixie didn’t get as much attention as it deserved. She isn’t popular enough yet to be tested, but when she is, I think she will pass the test of overcoming the familiarity of her face.

In short, Charlotte’s Web was a great movie, but could have been 87 times better with a good actress in the lead role.

I am very tired and must soon hit the sack, but I shall first hit you up with a new blog, albeit a short one.

Tonight I went to a Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert at the “E”-Center.  It was enjoyable.  The music was excellent, as the Orchestra’s always is.  However, actually being there added an awesome element produced by 63 people who never got noticed in the albums: An awesome light show!  They pulled what seemed to be Pink Floyd-inspired laser moves on the audience.  Admittedly, the years of difference in technology have changed the way things are done significantly.  However, this show was spectacular, indeed.  Should I make any attempt to describe this in words, two things will happen.  One, I will fail miserably and end up giving you a false picture of what it was like.  Two, I will probably fall asleep and bash my head into the keyboard, which may cause strings of characters such as the following to appear on the blog: tguyjgbuyk.

Therefore I will omit it, at least for the time being, and leave it at this: it surpassed my expectations earnestly.