I saw the new War of the Worlds last night. I had been looking forward to this movie for months, ever since the teaser trailer came out in the spring showing a crazy lightning storm blowing up houses. The movie started off really well. In fact, right up until the end, the movie was very exciting and intriguing. This movie creates a level of tension in the audience that is unreal.

The server hosting this website has moved. It used to be hosted at ServerBeach and I was paying about $120 a month for a dedicated server there. I got kind of tired of that and so I set up a dedicated server in the basement of my house. The server running this site is now more powerful than the old one but the upload speed of my home network connection is only around 384 K so the site might seem slower to you.

It’s been at least 3 or 4 months since I got a new release of the Narrative CMS out there. I’m in the progress of updating it now and am still working out a few glitches. This version solves two major issues that previous versions have had. One is related to comment spam. This website gets a lot of comment spam. You don’t see it because I clean it up but I’ve gotten at least 10,000 spam comments from spam bots out there.

I recently became a Flickr Pro member and am now using their excellent photo gallery service for my photo blogs RandomSnapshot.com and FearlessPhotos.com. The DNS entries are updating now. If the links don’t work, you can also go here. I may eventually move all of my image galleries to Flickr as it is really a great way to store and show photos online. The main features I like are the ability to give each photo a title and description, as well as the ability for others to leave comments about the photos.

Just got this from Netflix…

Just started reading this.

I’ve been waiting for this movie for a very long time.

Saw this one over the past weekend and it was pretty fun. Not good, mind you, but relatively fun. Pitt and Jolie have real chemistry on-screen and its enjoyable to see them dodge and parry with each other during the more heated moments of the film. 81⁄100

Well, after the Winter Quarter ended at DePaul, my focus has been almost entirely on getting in shape for the summer season of track cycling. What is track cycling, you ask? It’s bicycle racing around a banked track called a velodrome. Track cycling is not a very popular sport in the United States. There are only 18 velodromes in the United States compared with over 70 velodromes in Japan, for example.

Ah, Slashdot… Someone posted images from the new Star Wars movie last week. There were about 80 images leaked in total covering every major scene in the movie: The Revenge of the Sith. The images were as revealing as could be. Every event of significance in the movie was covered by at least one scene. Even the finale which contains a lightsaber duel between Anakin and Obi-Wan is available for review.