Archive for July, 2008
Nickelback – “If Everyone Cared”
Thursday, July 31st, 2008Apple iTunes 7.7.1 Released
Thursday, July 31st, 2008Apple has pushed out a new version of iTunes. According to the changelog, version 7.7.1 offers fixes to improve stability and performance.
Stargate: Continuum
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008Stargate: The Ark of Truth felt like a glorified episode. While it was nice to wrap up the story, see a few old faces, and of course see the SG-1 team in action, it really didn’t do much for me. I just dismissed it thinking “they’re trying to wrap it up, the next one will be better.”
Nope. At 97 minites long, we’ve basically been given another glorified episode. Or at least an episode and a half. (more…)
Dharma Wants You
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008A few days ago the next Lost ARG officially opened it’s doors to user registration. Those who had previously filled out a request for information should have recieved a message pointing them to DharmaWantsYou.com. Right now it is strictly a user registration. No telling when the “game” will officially start, or even what the game will be this time.
I had fun playing through the Find 815 ARG that ran leading up to last season. I really wish I had been around (and a fan of lost) when the 1st game, The Lost Experiance, started after season two. – I didn’t start watching lost until season three when the wife and I watched season one in an entire weekend, and then watched season two a few weekends later. Yes, it was like crack.
Be sure to check out DocArzt’s Lost Blog for hints, news, and other information concerning the Lost ARG.
My Thoughts On Batman: The Dark Knight
Monday, July 28th, 2008The Dark Knight has been out for a couple of weeks now and has already grossed over $300,000,000. It’s pulled in more money in 10 days than any other film. It stand a good chance at becoming one of the top grossing domestic blockbusters of all time. There’s no denying that it’s doing good. In fact, yesterday when the wife and I saw it at the IMAX, the showing we were at was sold out. There were several people there that were seeing the film for the 2nd or 3rd or 4th time. Some people and blogs have called The Dark Knight as “the best film ever made”. Is it really that good?
I didn’t think so. (more…)
Changes To d3bruts1d.com
Monday, July 28th, 2008Yesterday I rolled out an updated theme (created by me) to the site. Overall, I’m pretty happy with the theme, though it took me a bit longer than I had hoped to finish. Strike that, because technically it’s not finished, there are still a couple minor things that I need to clean up…. like adding some kind of “logo”.
There has been far more customization in this theme than the previous d3theme. Before I had based my theme loosely on others in the Wordpress community, but this time I redid everything from scratch. Because this theme is intended solely for me, I’ve hard coded some things into the theme which should mean less database queries, which in turn should mean things run faster. We’ll see how it goes for a few days, I may need to tweak some things later.
I am still relying on a number of plug ins to do some stuff. Let’s face it, plug ins make life easier. 
Among the plug ins I use are… (more…)
Sold Out
Sunday, July 27th, 2008Yeah baby.
Batman: The Dark Knight (IMAX)
Sunday, July 27th, 2008It’s 2:00 pm. In an hour and fourty minuites, the wife and I will be sitting in the theater watching The Dark Knight on an IMAX screen. Well, technically it’s not a “real” IMAX, more of a mini-IMAX. Regardless, this is something I’ve been looking forward to for a long, long time.
We would have seen it last weekend, but Sunday is the only day I don’t work, and everything but the last showing was sold out. Boo! I’ll not let that happen this time! I’ve Fandango’d my tickets to assure me a seat.
I’ll let you know what I thought about the film when I get back.
Dexter: Season 3
Saturday, July 26th, 2008Well, it looks like it is about time for me to call up Comcast and re-subscribe to Showtime.