It’s one of those strange questions. I’ve paid my money, so I’m going to stick with this until the end. I can’t seem to recall having ever walked out on a movie. I think good taste has prevented me from going to some awful turkeys that I ended up seeing 10 minutes of on DVD or on Satellite and just flicking it off.
Walked out on; no. Fell asleep during… yes. In no particular order and based on a faulty memory we have Star Wars : The Phantom Menace (midnight showing, a few pints on me), The Third matrix movie (good nap, crap movie) and Spiderman 3.
I went to see Transformers on Saturday and all I have to say is that it is a blown back in your seat action fest from start to finish. Well worth it for a flashback to my childhood.
vmware, vista and losing network traffic
I’m replaying network traffic at 1000 packets per second into a vmware client that’s hosted on a vista machine. It’s losing quite a few packets. the Vista OS does not appear to be losing the packets, they are simple missing on the guest operating system. This is a lot like crap, really.
Train full of Pink fans
There is a significantly higher proportion of Women departing from the train in Killarney tonight. I think it may be something to do with the Pink concert tomorrow. The weather forecast for the day is terrible – we’re talking really, really wet.
No unicode file names in cygwin
Not always a problem. Except when I’ve got international characters in my filenames. Which seems to be quite common with the import albums I’m downloading.
Dang. There is a patcharound, but it’s unsupported. Honestly, this backwards compatibility is a pain in the ass.
The next issue is cygwin/X. It’s hanging on Vista. Seems to be related to dwm and the pretty aero effects and the occasional toggle to non-aero mode caused by some applications (not java 1.6, though).
Groan, back in rainy Ireland
Ah, well, it was a great holiday.
Have just had the full Tokyo experience I think
Teeny tiny earthquake, I think. It wobbled my seat a little.
Are we there yet?
Sitting at the airport waiting to board the flight to France… and onwards
Japan baby
Holidays are nearly here 🙂
From this month’s cryptogram
Psychologist Scott Plous said it well in “The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making”: “In very general terms: (1) The more available an event is, the more frequent or probable it will seem; (2) the more vivid a piece of information is, the more easily recalled and convincing it will be; and (3) the more salient something is, the more likely it will be to appear causal.”
still tired
my i nternet access has improved massively – I purchased a year long subscription to three. €20 per month. It’s cheaper than actually purchasing broadband.