Added what looks to be an awesome plugin for creating a mobile version of the site. If you’re viewing this through an iphone / ipod touch or android phone you should see the new style (you can turn it on and off at the bottom of the page).
Obviously, I can’t check from Android, if you can, let me know if it works.
This is the plugin home page – WPtouch
Spam comments have changed over the last few months. When I first started the blog the spam comments were essentially heavily laden with links to other spam sites. Either blatant (just lists of links) or thinly disguised (long diatribe of text with links spread throughout). Recently though, there’s been an increase in short comments in which the spam is just a URL link of the submitter. The comments all have the same thing in common – ego-stroking.
They cover the following types,
I guess some people get suckered in by the ego-stroke and are encouraged to approve the posts where they would normally ignore them. Since my ego is already the size of a small mountain I need no further strokage and so am immune. Or maybe it’s because I’m not as easily fooled. Or maybe my self image is so bad I can’t for a moment believe any of the comments are true. Whatever the reason – they still don’t make it past the spam filter on the site.
Soon we’ll be seeing the following class of spam,
I’ll hold out against those as well I think.
Plus, it’s Sweets!
Is Aliens one of the most quotable movies of all time, or is it just my imagination? What makes it so quotable? Is it that I spend a lot of my time moving around in tight spaces armed with a pulse rifle? Is it because I long to join the Space Marines and wake up in my underwear after an extended sleep? Probably not. But the film does have lots of excellent short quotes for nearly every occasion (that involves shooting things).
I played Dead Space on the PS3 today, it’s fun (in a scary OMG what’s that moving over there OMG it’s going to eat my face) kind of way. One of the weapons is a Pulse Rifle. I said today at least three times, short controlled bursts, to remind myself how best to use the weapon.
As if,
It’s funny really. The funniest moment of course was 10 seconds after reminding myself to use short controlled bursts, a necromorph jumped out of an overhead vent and landed on me and I unloaded a full 50 round clip into it in one continuous long uncontrolled burst.
Compelling, intriguing and more than worth the effort, Twelve Monkey’s really defies genre selection and really has to be experienced.
So now I’m seeing reviews which say Salvation is good (4/5), and I’m wondering if the status of the previous reviewer (self confessed fan boy) affects the verdict.
I guess I shall have to watch it and find out.
A sweet and very funny emotionally engaging right of passage movie.
A better than average sci-fi action movie that presents an interesting premise and some impressive gun fights, but make sure you bring heavy amounts of suspension of disbelief, you’ll need them.
It was never going to be easy to turn the Hitchhiker’s Guide into a movie and while it was a decent attempt there are too many changes and not enough laughs to make this a true classic.
Hard to define, impossible to explain, The Blues Brothers is a cult classic that you have to watch to appreciate.