Looks like the TARDIS will be operational again. That CNN article says the writer behind this rebirth of Dr. Who is Russell T. Davies, who was the original creatore of Queer As Folk, which gives me high hopes for the quality.
The wife cracked “maybe this means the Doctor can have a hot male companion this time. hahahah”. Always with the jokes, she is.
Happy Banned Book Week!
Carl Sagan would be proud. We “nonbelievers” have a new way of describing ourselves: I’m a Bright.
This one’s for US citizens only, but if you are, please go sign this petition protesting the RIAA’s strongarm tactics such as suing 12 year old girls and 71 year old grandmothers.
Or so it seems. According to this article a side-effect of the Canadian levy on recordable media is that it makes file sharing legal here because the recording industry is accepting payment to make up for it.
It’s no secret that I loathe the RIAA and what they do to both musicians (rip them off with promises of “making it big” when in fact you’re better off winning a lottery than actually making a lot of money from your music) and fans (sue them, charge more money for a 20-cent manufacturing cost product than they did back when it cost them $5) and I’ll admit that the levy ticked me off at first, but I’m loving that I can now flip the RIAA the bird.
Not that I keep Kazaa Lite ++ Edition on all the time sharing files — I’ve found that it overwhelms my cable connection to the point that I get packetloss when playing online games and THAT WILL NOT DO. 
Got a friend her own blog on my secondary site (the URL is a sort of in-joke, btw, not a porn site) and she’s already got three entries up there, which made me realize I’ve been slacking off here, especially in posting anything personal.
My workload has increased lately, what with the Alderac server being moved which then screwed up the online store so that credit card purchases are causing a Fatal Error (gotta love that term) as well as not one but two other site codings I’ve had to do in the last week!
Unfortunately I’m under an NDA for both of those and can’t talk about them at the moment, but they’re both very cool and both have really allowed me to play with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Layout techniques.
What is CSS Layout, you ask? Well, imagine if all your HTML did was mark off sections of text and give each one a title or type, and then you had a separate document that told you how each section or type of section was laid out, how the text was formatted and what images it might have as a background. That’s what CSS Layout is, in a I’m-probably-not-explaining-this-right sort of way.
For an excellent example of just how cool CSS is, check out CSSZenGarden.com and click through some of the multiple designs for that project. The HTML code, the “guts” of the page if you will, is identical, but the CSS that tells your browser how it gets laid out, what fonts to use, and where things are positioned makes for an amazing array of layout choices. It’s very powerful, and very cool.
It’s also quite complicated, and can be annoying to get working properly on the three major browsers (IE, Mozilla and Opera) but this past week has led me to a few breakthroughs so that I’m confident with using it.
And now I really want to redesign this blog. Moveabletype already uses CSS Layout, but to a pretty simple degree. I learned enough several months back to come up with what you see here, but now that I’m more confident I want to do something really cool.
Whenever I get time…
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The SciFi Wire is reporting that the current head of BBC1 programming is interested in bringing back Dr. Who.
They say there are some rights issues with certain writers, but what’s the point of having those rights if you don’t let them get used to make some money?
Let’s do this thing!
The official site still says “Coming Soon”, but I’m tired of waiting for the theatrical release to talk about this movie.
This review sums it up beautifully:
“Imagine, if you will, a soccer team comprising of Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Sonny Chiba and Jet Li. Now imagine their games were broadcast by The Wachowski Brothers. If you wouldn’t pay $6 to watch that team play, there’s no helping you.”
It’s so damned fun that there’s simply no reason not to see this movie. If you’re a big Hong Kong action flick fan and can’t wait, just hit up Ebay for an import DVD for about $6. The subtitle’s translation is pretty awful (”Why you kick the soccer?”) but you get the idea and that’s enough to have a great time.
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