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A long-awaited double DVD of Pink Floyd's stunning 1994 concert at London's Earls Court, recorded in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, is finally here. Marvelous! Tracklisting:

Disc One:                               Disc Two:
 1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond I-V       1. Speak To Me
 2. Learning To Fly                      2. Breathe
 3. High Hopes                           3. On The Run
 4. Take It Back                         4. Time
 5. Coming Back To Life                  5. The Great Gig In The Sky
 6. Sorrow                               6. Money
 7. Keep Talking                         7. Us And Them
 8. Another Brick In The Wall (part 2)   8. Any Colour You Like
 9. One of These Days                    9. Brain Damage
                                        10. Eclipse

                                        Encores:

                                        11. Wish You Were Here
                                        12. Comfortably Numb
                                        13. Run Like Hell

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Current distractions

Richard Wright's solo album Broken China is full of Pink Floyd's atmosphere and style, in some ways similar to The Division Bell or Meddle. It even includes some nice guitar solos. So I like it very much. The album cover was designed by Storm Thorgerson (btw, check out his wonderful web page). Tracklisting:

 1. Breaking Water
 2. Night Of A Thousand Furry Toys
 3. Hidden Fear
 4. Runaway
 5. Unfair Ground
 6. Satellite
 7. Woman Of Custom
 8. Interlude
 9. Black Cloud
10. Far From The Harbour Wall
11. Drowning
12. Reaching For The Rail
13. Blue Room In Venice
14. Sweet July
15. Along The Shoreline
16. Breakthrough
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Next, the Red Hot Chili Peppers's double album Stadium Arcadium with 28 new songs! I listened to it only four times and I already very enjoy it. John Frusciante rocks. Tracklisting:

Jupiter:                          Mars:
 1. Dani California                1. Desecration Smile
 2. Snow (Hey Oh)                  2. Tell Me Baby
 3. Charlie                        3. Hard to Concentrate
 4. Stadium Arcadium               4. 21st Century
 5. Hump de Bump                   5. She Looks to Me
 6. She's Only 18                  6. Readymade
 7. Slow Cheetah                   7. If
 8. Torture Me                     8. Make You Feel Better
 9. Strip My Mind                  9. Animal Bar
10. Especially in Michigan        10. So Much I
11. Warlocks                      11. Storm in a Teacup
12. C'mon Girl                    12. We Believe
13. Wet Sand                      13. Turn It Again
14. Hey                           14. Death of a Martian
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Part VI

Richard Chu's China - The Middle Kingdom Photo Gallery, Marcos Garcia's Guanxi Photo Gallery, Marcos Garcia's Shanghai Photo Gallery, clr70's Hong Kong Photo Gallery, Alan Clements's Hong Kong Photo Gallery, Kevin Chan's Fantasia Photo Gallery, Marcin Krakowiak's Hangzhou Photo Gallery, Gilbert Ching's Hong Kong Photo Gallery, Jongky Kurniawan's Hong Kong Photo Gallery, Jongky Kurniawan's China Photo Gallery, Echo's Shanghai Photo Gallery, Amazing Grace Photo Gallery.

Two new album releases in only one week! Today Placebo released their fifth album entitled Meds. I luckily bought it last Friday and I can say it's really good -- well, at the same level as the previous ones. Tracklisting:

 1. Meds
 2. Infra-red
 3. Drag
 4. Space Monkey
 5. Follow The Cops Back Home
 6. Post Blue
 7. Because I Want You
 8. Blind
 9. Pierrot The Clown
10. Broken Promise
11. One Of A Kind
12. In The Cold Light Of Morning
13. Song To Say Goodbye
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Will Google Calendar hit April 1st? Probably yes or close to it. But today's news is that Writely has been acquired by Google. This is interesting, because Sergey Brin recently at the Web 2.0 conference said:

I don't really think that the thing is to take a previous generation of technology and port them directly, and say can we do the minicomuter on the Web on AJAX makes sense. I'm not saying that's what [Microsoft] Office is, I'm just saying that I think the Web and Web 2.0, if that's what you want to call it, gives you the opportunity to do new and better things than the Office package and more. We don't have any plans [to do an office suite].

What will be the next Microsoft move?

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David Gilmour's new album On an Island... just beautiful! I love it. Tracklisting:

 1. Castellorizon
 2. On An Island
 3. The Blue
 4. Take a Breath
 5. Red Sky at Night
 6. This Heaven
 7. Then I Close My Eyes
 8. Smile
 9. A Pocketful of Stones
10. Where We Start

Today it is also David's 60th birthday and I wish him all the best.

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I recently bought another great DVD, Deep Purple Live in Concert 72/73, also known as Scandinavian Nights (Live in Denmark) or Machine Head Live 1972. The picture is monochrome, but the sound has a good 5.1 quality. It is also very important to mention that this is the first and only film of the famous Mk II line-up. Tracklisting:

Copenhagen, March 1972 (90 minutes)
1. Highway Star
2. Strange Kind Of Woman
3. Child In Time
4. The Mule
5. Lazy
6. Space Truckin'
7. Fireball
8. Lucille
9. Black Night
      
New York, May 1973 (color) (27 minutes)
1. Strange Kind Of Woman
2. Smoke On The Water
3. Space Truckin'

Gmail's chat is cool. I mean nothing big. It's clean and simple (despite adding complex ~200kB of JS code) and the biggest advantage of it is that it allows to chat with friends from places without instant messaging software -- one only needs a modern web browser.

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Opera 9.0 Technology Preview 2 was released today, 3 months after P1, adding some useless stuff and not fixing many things more important from a web developer's point of view. For example, they claim having XSLT 1.0 support, but they're lacking of XSLTProcessor.setParameter() implementation (its call always throws NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR), being important for many complex web apps. Sigh, I really don't like this browser...

At least, these guys rock as always: Chat + Email = Crazy Delicious.