Things have just been really hectic at work again. Have hardly had the time to do much else. Have hardly had any time to do any playing around with things in my own time either. I need a holiday, however can’t really see any lengthy periods of time right now.
Monthly Archive for May, 2005
Well I’m glad I’m not disappointed with Episode 3. The final part of the saga is very good. It is great to see all of the threads being tied before ‘A New Hope’. The special effects and battle scenes are probably the best in the series. The most important scene is the construction of Darth Vader, actually there are not enough of Vader in the suit, but I guess there is not much else they could show. Episode 3 really is the tradegy of Anakin Skywalker, the performances by Ewan Mcregor and Hayden Christian were good in most places. However when Hayden Christian and Natalie Portman are doing their loved up scenes, things just go wrong.
General Grevous looked terrible in places, however provided an important showdown scene with Obi-wan. Sam Jackson as Mace did a good job, the whole Emperor battle scene was great, butthen Hayden Christian steps in and under emphasises the importance of the scene. The Yodaisms did start to get on my nerves, however Yoda knows Chewy which is a revelation in my mind, since it never sort of comes up in the original trilogy. Another problem which is seems to happen alot when you make prequels is that the technology in the past seems better then in the current timeline.
Having airing my gripes is has to be said the Episode 3 does deliver, I really did enjoy it, and I will probably going to the cinema a few more times to see it again.
Just been watching th Channel 4 documentary ‘Stalking Peter Doherty’, which is about Max Carlish attempt to make a documentary about the Libertines front man. However it seems to me that he comes over as a lunatic of some sort, some of the things he says are just startling, I’m not surprised he got the shit kicked out of him.
It is clear that the relationship between the two people didn’t really exist, however some of the things said by Max, make it obvious that in his mind it figured alot more. Hope both Max and Pete get some help soon.
By now everyone has probably heard the terrible news about Kylie. If you haven’t then click this link. Not much to say except that I hope Kylie’s treatment goes well and that she makes a speedy recovery.
Well I know I’m quite busy these days, but one thing in recent months had totally passed me by is GreaseMonkey so much so that when I started tinkering away with it, immediately I’m thinking how cool an idea it is. Another thing that caught my eye today was Dive Into GreaseMonkey a online book put together by Mark Pilgram.
Going to need to tinker more, however it looks like there a few issues with Mozilla build I’m using on Mac OS X, so I’m going to have to fix that first.
Rich (who should really sort out his website.) has had his talk proposal accepted for EuroPython 2005, which is pretty good. I wanted to go to the con this year so now I have an excuse.
Start the countdown, only 1 week left till Episode 3. The early reviews are saying good things, I’m still 50/50 Lucas has already caused too much pain with the first 2 films so I’m trying not to get my hopes to high.
Saw a piece about the cost to the Episode 3 in productivity terms to the tech industry, perhaps I should just take next thursday off, hell with that how about the whole week.
I really like what Apple have done with Safari in Tiger. The RSS browser mode is great. The render does seem speedier, but this could just be Tiger since the Quartz improvements do make the whole interface seem more snappier. The recent Mozilla build have been crashing, however I don’t think I have a reason to go back to Mozilla on Mac OS anyway.
iSync now works with my V3 properly, however on the phone side multiple entries for people show up as seperate items which is annoying the hell out of me.
All of the applications I use on Mac OS have been updated to utilise features in Tiger, and they are all doing a great job. Desktop Manager is having a couple of issues, a bug which manifests itself by hiding the preview windows seems to take effect if you activate more than 2 desktops. Hopefully this will be fixed soon.
Well i’m reliefed that the new film adaptation of the The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is not bad at all. I was really worried that they could mess this up, fortunately they have done a pretty good job. Sam Rockwell is great as Zaphod. Thanks to CGI the two heads thing is so much better implemented, than just a fake head on the shoulders. The star in my mind was Marvin, voiced by Alan Rickman.
I can still see extreme fans being a little disappointed because the storyline does get compressed a little, however the pace works really well. I think people who have not read the books, heard the radio show or seen the TV Series will love this. For many of these people this will be their first encounter with HHG2TG, and hopefully will make an impression.
Should probably note that now we are in May we can look forward to all of the big films for summer. Only 20 days to Episode 3.
