Just a quick thanks to Grete, who proof reads my posts and keeps me on the spelling straight and narrow 🙂 Thank you 🙂 You may notice spelling mistakes that go away a few hours after I post when Grete reads the articles!
She has a user account and can post entries as well, although she’s not felt the need to do so, so far, but if you see anything from her, don’t be surprised.
Random bunch of film updates,
I’m getting pretty good at estimating my blood sugar levels based on how thick my blood is. If I prick my finger and blood pools immediately in a large drop then my blood sugar is lower than it is if I have to squeeze to get the blood out.
If I prick my finger and blood sprays across the ceiling in an arterial spray then my sugar is way too low. If I have to slice my finger open from tip to end and rub it over a tampon until I get a spot of blood from it, then my blood sugar is way too high.
Yes, it’s totally narcissistic. Yes yes, it is Bill and Ted and Wayne’s World. Yes, it’s a movie about movie characters made by people who play movie characters in their own movies. Yes it’s a chance for a bunch of Hollywood buddies to get together and make a movie about Hollywood buddies.
But it’s in a long line of films which did that, and it evoked memories of Blazing Saddles, Animal House and a bunch of stuff I really enjoyed.
And so I enjoyed it. And it made me laugh.
We’ve finished watching our Kevin Smith DVD’s, this evening was Dogma and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Dogma is clearly an intelligent movie, the material is interesting and I really enjoyed the last 20 to 30 minutes.
But the start of this two hour movie was really slow, and it took me a long time to arrive at my enjoyment of the end. I’m not sure if it was the mood I was in (post dental cost distress) or the fact that I was feeling physically weird. Whatever it was, I found the start slow and the story a little more contrived than it needed to be.
However, I found the end compelling and cute. I should think some folk might find it overly twee, but that’s not how it struck me. Anyway, Dogma is a story of faith and religion and the differences between the two. It’s a story of fear and hope and joy and sadness and how belief is the sauce that makes the world float.
Really.
The least enjoyable of the Kevin Smith films I’ve watched so far, but still better than an awful lot of shit I own.
So if you transmit data through the air, such that anyone can read it without any physical security, it’s not a question of if the encryption used it broken, but when.
From ITWorld,
Security researchers say they’ve developed a way to partially crack the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standard used to protect data on many wireless networks.
The attack, described as the first practical attack on WPA, will be discussed at the PacSec conference in Tokyo next week. There, researcher Erik Tews will show how he was able to crack WPA encryption, in order to read data being sent from a router to a laptop computer. The attack could also be used to send bogus information to a client connected to the router.
Clearly you have to assess what you use your wireless for and how likely it is for someone to be listening in, but it’s growing more and more clear that any broadcast technology is going to be broken eventually.
Update 7th November 2008.
It’s not as bad as it first sounded, but it’s still an issue. Read more here.
Wow, wired. Feeling physically very odd, like hyper-tense. Usually I feel like this when my blood sugar is too high, but at the moment it’s 4.6 which is perfectly fine, although it got down to that 90 minutes after I ate lunch which is also odd.
Certainly don’t feel very comfortable.
Dentist was … as expected. Lower molar (tooth #7) is too damaged and needs to come out, there are small cavities in at least 4 teeth, two on the same side as the molar. Dentist recommends taking the tooth out and filling the two teeth on that side and then seeing how I feel. Total price for all that and today’s consultation is £260. Go back in two weeks for the tooth work. Joy.
It’s never as bad as you fear it to be, total consultation was about 20 minutes, no pain, and he seemed ok. He’s obviously professionally ‘unhappy’ at my 5 year absence but he didn’t nag me too much. Grete managed to build the courage to arrange an examination as well. I guess we’ll just have to suck the cost up – some things you just have to pay for.
I don’t think dental insurance would have helped, if we’d been covered for five years it would have cost around £18 a month so around £1000, as long as the total treatment for us both stays below that, we come out ahead.
Generally I’m pretty lucky with my teeth, I don’t take the best care of them and I’ve only got small cavities. It’s the impacting wisdom teeth which are causing the most damage.
Just wish I knew why I felt so spaced out.
if i don’t go to bed
then i won’t go to sleep
and if i don’t go to sleep
i don’t have to wake up
and if i don’t have to wake up
the morning will never arrive
and if the morning never arrives
i won’t have to go to the dentists
Kevin Smith delivers a hilarious homage to the John Hughes / John Landis late 70’s and early 80’s era of film making and adds his own generous touch of quality.
An intelligent and emotional love story which delivers an incisive and revealing look at relationships, gender choice and our sexual history without pandering to the usual stereotypes or insulting the viewer.