Fun With Dick and Jane: not actually all that much fun as is promised. Hilarious in some bits, but Jim Carey is just so Jim Carey at times and you want him to sit down. 3 stars. Memoirs of a Geisha looks suitably fantastic. Never having read the book despite all promises to myself to, I wouldn’t know how close it is to the original, but it promises drama and high tension. Need someone and somewhere arty to go see it to get the atmosphere right. ...
We’d just developed an ettiqute for the direct connected phone (as opposed to operator connected) when along came a very useful little device most of us carry around called the Mobile Phone, or Cell(ular) phone. These devices are evolving as quick as computer technology - in many ways they are computer technology - but I’m still waiting for a set of gentleman’s (gentlepeople’s) rules to be established regarding their use. ...
2005 was a helluva year. Without having consulted my uni diary or the dke project archives, I can barely remember what happened in October let alone what happened in January, so I did the only thing one can do, and looked up those two sources. 2005, thus, in summary for myself from the top goes a little something like this: Set and broke my first ever New Year’s resolution - took almost 2 months doing so however, so I feel a little bit of pride at that at least. Worked some freelance, which was cool. Tax not cool. Did a short course in Car Maintenence. I now actually have an idea about what I’m talking about when in discussion about cars, and could service car myself. Jumped at the chance to go travelling - turned into the Big Trip 2005: USA & Japan and that rocked some major socks. This really has been a travelling year for me, and I’ve loved it. Applied for graduate work… and got it o.O So that’s wrapping me up for next year in Sydney. Fell in love with Lost. Great writing, brilliant suspense, and just awesome all over. Loved New York. Liked LA, kinda (that much sun and surf, how could I not). Found a friend on the other side of the world =) Oh and met relatives who I’d never met or even seen before and turned out to be were awesomely cool. Found Japan to live up to some expectations, and not so much others. Mixed feelings about Japan, but overall highly positive and would love to be back there. Got the iPod “serviced” twice, but still love it to iddy lil’ bits. Went to my first AFL match! Got my first car! Turned 20 :( Sounds old. Went to Sydney for a friend’s wedding. First time I could say “Friend’s Wedding”. Supported the Swans to victory! Talk about picking the right time to get behind them. Went to a bunch of 21sts. Didn’t drink once. Something is not right about that. October went by largely unnoticed. November too, what with exams done. The Socceroos got through to the World Cup, and that was cool (I wasn’t bandwagoning or anything) “Won” NaNoWriMo for the first time with Dark Rising (working title). More on this at a later date. :tease: Fell in love with Firefly. Moved to Pushing the Sky, and my stuff to Sydney in preperation for 2006 =) Thus endth the year 2005 for me. (Exciting summary? I know. I’m not going to do a big ol’ rambling peice on the year because there’s simply been too much, so there’s too much to say which would be of interest beyond a personal diary style.) ...
Hey everyone, hope you had a brilliant Christmas, however you chose to celebrate. I have my temporary access thing still going up here, but strangely am missing the computer far less than I do at home when it’s right there and connected. One of the factors that I’ve found has been underestimated is the simple fact of the weather - I forgot how warm it gets up here, but also how perfect the evenings are. I really don’t know how to express it, and sorry for any offence I may cause, but the brilliance of the weather here means the attitudes to life are a whole lot different: brighter, freerer, more… outside. The weather is the core of it. I’ve talked more to neighbours in the last two days than I have in Melbourne in the last year. Kinda saddening. ...
Nick Carr - the Amorality of Web 2.0 This article address some of the especially overhyped points of Web 2.0 – that essentially it is “the saviour” of computing. While I’ve only come across a little of this kinda hype, certainly some of the words that are quoted there are quite scarily… intense. I would say that Carr’s mention of the “cult of amateur” is spot on, but there is something of a contradiction, a little hypocritical in saying so on a blog. ...