Monthly Archive for May, 2008

Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Published on May 23, 2008 5:26 PM - 0 Comments

Well I was expecting great things from Lucas, Spielberg and Harrison, I’m glad to report that I was not disappointed Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull delivers in every way, providing the excellent mix of action, adventure and comedy, just like the original films.

The action starts from scene one and keeps on rockin’ and rollin’ till the end. I think they did really well keeping the main plot line secret, I enjoyed the film more by not knowing. Some bits were predictable, but not in a bad way. It is set in 1957 so a whole 13 years after the last film. Since that time, Indy has been an ISS agent in Europe as well as keeping his teaching job and partaking on his regular adventures.

The film starts with a bunch of Army types breaking into Area 51, to recover an artifact that Jones had previously examined. I thought oh, it going to be the Ark. But no it is not, having said that it does put in a little cameo. Once you do find out what the item is, the rest of the plot does sort of come evident, but you are still going to enjoy how it plays out. A must see, can’t think why anyone would not like it.

Indy 4

Published on May 22, 2008 11:01 AM - 2 Comments

Well it is has finally arrived, Indy 4 hits the cinemas today. I can’t wait till this evening. Haven’t booked tickets yet, should be okay since most cinemas are showing the film on multiple screens.

Apart from the Star Wars trilogy, the Indiana Jones movies are my favourite films from my childhood. I think any 80s child adores them. People have tried to replicate the mix that the Indy films offer, but failed in some way or other. I still think the original script and idea for the 4th film, Fate of Atlantis. Which was written some 10+ years ago would have been great, I know I loved the computer game which was released back then. So lets see what the ‘Crystall Skull’ is all about. Had hoped there would have been some late night screening last night, but none of the cinemas did that. I guess with the football they didn’t want gamble on people not showing up or showing up drunk.

WordPress : Day 2

Published on May 14, 2008 11:26 PM - 5 Comments Tags: WordPress MT flickr twitter facebook LinkedIn.

Since I sort of hit a minor set back, of not having my UBCD USB key. I postponed XP install on the EEE and decided to tinker with WordPress this evening. I have now tweaked the theme a little to at least get the colours I want. So the next thing on my list was pages. However I quickly discovered putting arbitary PHP, JS and CSS doesn’t work to well. After a bit of googling I quickly discovered that there are plugins to address these problems. So after about 20 minutes of tinkering that was all working. However the styles and block of HTML that WP applies is sort of interfering with my HTML. Take a look at the Music page and you will quickly see what I mean. MT has the mechanism of publishing pages as static files or bind a page to a static file, I haven’t found the equivalent in WP yet.

Other than that with about 3 hours work the site is now fully functional under WP. The next things on the list are the sidebar, I want a flickr feed, facebook, linkedin and twitter profile links, not difficult at all plugins do exist but I will probably have a go at writing my own sidebar plugins. I also need to make it look a little better, the current styling was rushed just to get the theme working like I wanted. Comments are currently off, but once I get the Wordpress API key I will re-enable them.

I will plumb in the AdSense under the first post as well since I can. Also just realised that when I did the upgrade to MT4 I wiped out the Google Analytics JS code resulting in no stats for the last couple of months, no biggie really. Not like I get more than a few people reading the blog anyway, fortunately I do have the server logs so I will try to do something to them so I can register the data into Google Analytics, if such a facility exists that is.

XP on EEE

Published on May 14, 2008 4:33 AM - 0 Comments Tags: EEE, EEEPC, WinXP.

I have decided to give XP a go on the EEE, since I figured I could. Linux is great, but due to not being able to hibernate and other little niggles I thought I would give Windows a go. In terms of pure functionality there is nothing wrong with Windows. I find with Linux I can waste a lot of time dicking around with settings and trying things rather than actually getting work done.

I have made the nLite install and I’m going to try installing to the 4GB SDHC card to start with.

Bye Bye MT, Hello WordPress

Published on May 10, 2008 7:15 PM - 0 Comments Tags: WordPress.

Well I have had enough of trying to workout the new archive system from the old one turned out to be more trouble than it is worth. So I fired up WordPress on my Linux box to try out converting this site, and it all worked without a flaw. So I decided I might as well do it on the live site. So here it is. Now I just need to sort out the styling a little and reduce the header it a little.

Will also go back and publish all the blogs from January to now.