Two and half hours of big robots and bigger explosions, seriously who cares about the lack of acting talent or storyline, I watch movies to be entertained, and entertained I was.
June 2009 Archive
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A theory about the Transformers 2 reviews
SidenoteWhen I woke this morning I was greeted by a feed reader full of mostly “bad” reviews for Transformers 2. I’m not seeing it until tonight, but I have doubts that I’ll class it as “bad” once I’ve seen it. Why? I hear you ask. Well because unlike the “professional movie reviewers”, who I suspect go into every movie expecting to see the next ‘Schindler’s List’ only to discover the next ‘Police Academy 7’, I’m not searching for an enthralling storyline, or a thrilling plot. I just want to see big shiny robots blowing shit up. And that’s what Michael Bay is good at. I see no problems. Roll out.
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Hahlo 4 Beta Exactly two years ago today I announced the beta of the original Hahlo and now after a long, long, long wait I’m happy to announce I’ll be opening up the Hahlo4 beta later this week, all you need to do is head over here and plug your username into the super simple signup form, then make sure you are following hahlo on twitter so I can send you your super secret beta password. Easy as that.
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IE8: Don’t get the facts. Get Reality.
ArticleWhen it comes to web browsers Internet Explorer is the one out there leaving bad impressions making everyone else look bad. Well at least they’re good at doing that, because, well, they aren’t much chop at anything else.
Facts are meant to be true aren’t they? Microsoft, or should that be Windows since they are marketing it as “Windows Internet Explorer 8”, seem to have put their own spin on the truth by providing a list of 10 reasons that IE8 is sooo much better than Firefox and Chrome. Yes, just Firefox and Chrome, not Opera and not Safari. I don’t really care for Opera (have never used it), but the absence of Safari is just a little too obvious. Clearly they are aware that Safari probably beats IE8 in these 10 claims of awesomeness (and about 1000 others) and didn’t want to challenge Apple. Either that or they still believe that Safari is a Mac only browser, don’t laugh, I wouldn’t be surprised at all. Is ignorance or denial the first sign that you have a problem?
Let’s take a look at the wonderful claims being made by the peeps at IE8, text referenced from screen shots taken by Chris Messina (factoryjoe ← my favourite flickr stream) on the 19th and 20th of June 2009, (here: 19th and here: 20th).
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Obama kills annoying bug (no not Palin) You’ve got to watch the video, check out the ninja skills as he stops that fly dead in its tracks. To the Americans, your leader swats flys, our leader would probably get swatted by the fly…. or he’d shake a sauce bottle at it.
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Fever. Red Hot. Well Read. Fever is the latest project from Shaun Inman (the man behind Mint), its a new approach to a feed reader, wave a watch of the demo video and I’m sure you too will agree it looks very hot. On top of its looks there are also a couple of other pluses, its a webapp that you host yourself and there’s an iPhone optimised version too so you can easily take your feed with you wherever you go. Very tempting.
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Facebook vanity URLs were overdue. Period.
SidenoteSo, yesterday Facebook finally gave users the ability to choose a vanity url for their profile, no longer do you need to remember facebook.com/profile.php?id=1234567890 instead you get to pick a username and have facebook.com/myusername, just like every single other social networking tool in existence. They give you a set of default alternatives to pick, things like dean.robinson or deanrobinson etc, or you can choose you own, I chose deanjrobinson. They also say once you’ve picked it you can’t change it, which I guess is fair. What is odd though is that facebook.com/deanjrobinson is the same as facebook.com/dean.j.robinson is the same as facebook.com/dea.njrob.inson is the same as facebook.com/d.e.a.n.j.r.o.b.i.n.s.o.n etc etc… So the question is, what’s the point in giving users the option to include a period/full stop in their ‘username’ if it just gets ignored anyway, seems like an unnecessary level of confusion to me.
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Just one reason why Bing is shit.
SidenoteWe all see it, Microsoft think they are awesome, so awesome are they that are upt about their 37th different attempt at a search engine to compete with Google. “Bing”, not only is it a stupid name, it has poorly design logo and feel like live search with a cheap new suit. And, as a test, I searched for “hahlo” expecting hahlo.com to come up first, just as it does on Google, nothing. Hahlo.com doesn’t appear in the first 15 pages of results, I gave up after that. I tried searching for “hahlo.com” and even that didn’t work. Microsoft should stick to making bad operating systems.
