Dark Country is a film about a newly married couple driving through the desert. It tries to combine the cheap budget of a single setting of Phone Booth and the comic book like photography of Sin City – and fails painfully every step of the way. My main problem with this movie was continuity. It …
There are some sites I have to interface with that are uncompromising. Thankfully, there are RSS feeds to even-out some of the crummiest sites around. Feeds take out the hunting for important content in a jungle of non-sense. While they aren’t anything new, it’s nice to talk about something that isn’t a just a buzz-word. Readers …
The new HTML 5 video feature being used in capable browsers like Google Chrome is purely awesome. It amazes me that a feature this new works so well, although it does have some quirks, it’s still better than Adobe’s Flash player, and it’s improvement isn’t bottlenecked by Adobe or any single entity. I chuckle knowing …
Over the last few years I’ve listened to progressively less music, and the reason was mainly because: Most new music really irritates me. I know there is some good stuff coming through the noise, but I hate subjecting myself to all the horrible crud to find a diamond in the ruff, all while getting spammed with advertisements …
Almost everyone has more than one computer, and you’ve probably got multiple machines you’ll need to synchronize your code onto. To handle this I use Bazaar distributed version control. If you’re experienced with various VCS and are in need of convincing, see Why Switch to Bazaar? Here are the main places I have to synchronize …
Chrome hit the scene about 8 months ago (in July, 2009) and has shown quick adoption and fast usage growth. For the most part, those where windows users. In Google fashion, a beta has been released. What’s the difference between Google Chrome and Chromium? Chromium is what you’ll find in your repositories and for the …
No, this isn’t about the stupid max_waves conflict with Apple’s patent that everyone has been ranting (and working around) for the last few years. From what I hear the future 0.9.0 release won’t be hampered by it, but how does Compiz fair with patents? Who made Compiz, and who’s working on it today? From my …
Having just watched Zombieland, a comedy-horror film, I’m giving a great review. This movie was refreshing because it mixed elements of survival with comedy in an interesting contrast. Without giving any spoilers, the film draws you in and delivers a good laugh at the right moment. It’s narrated in a somewhat Wonder Years fashion and …
There are two bugs that I encounter a lot in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) that irritate me a lot. Both bugs involve mouse clicks not being registered. I’ve got some workarounds and fixes, but first some background on these bugs. Flash Bug (#410407) This bug has been misidentified as a bug in Compiz, when in fact …
I’ve been using the Twitter web interface for a long time, and I prefer to keep my tweeting simple. However, with the stock web interface you can’t be logged into more than one account unless you’re using multiple profiles, incognito mode with Chrome, or some other trickery. I didn’t look around much before I found …