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2003

BBC – Dr. Who & Coupling

So the good news: The Daily Telegraph is reporting that the BBC is bringing back Dr. Who. That’s great news. It will be interesting to see if they use any CGI in it now – and let the debate begin on who the next Doctor will be.

And the bad news: Tried to watch Coupling last night. I lasted 5 minutes. It’s hard enough to get past the look of the actors being different from the BBC Coupling. The lines are the same – but they are delivered in such a different way.

I was impressed with the look of the set, very true to the original series. But the guy playing Jeff – one of the best things about the original Coupling is Jeff, not only the way he looks, but his quirkiness just seemed to be zapped out of him by the NBC version.

Ah well. Just can’t adapt to the change, I guess.

Star Wars on DVD – 2004!

The Digital Bits, one of the better DVD news sites on the web, is reporting in their Rumor Mill that the Star Wars Trilogy (Episodes IV – VI) will hit DVD for Christmas next year.

They report that Lucasfilm is so happy with the upcoming Indy box set, they want to do something quite similar (3 movies plus one extras disc).

According to the Digital Bits: “We’ve heard from a number of industry sources we trust (and who have proven their reliability in the past) in the last few weeks.”

And these are the re-released Special Edition forms of the movie — according to Lucasfilm, the originals don’t even exist anymore. Which, if true, is a shame, but I do understand Lucas’ wish for a definitive vision of his movies. (Even if Greedo shoots first now). It’s too bad they haven’t been preserved for history’s sake.

Berke's Back!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45450-2003Sep8.html

All hail the return of Opus!

Berkely Breathed, creator of Bloom County and Outland, is returning to Sunday comic’s with a new Sunday weekly this coming November.

2 years ago I started collecting all of the Bloom County books. Out of print, Berke never licensed them to keep printing (unlike Bill Waterson with Calvin & Hobbes). He had his reasons, and I respect them, but it was amazing re-reading them and seeing how many topics are still relevant – especially with the current administration.

The Washington Post has the story, as originally seen on Slashdot.

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Work in Progress

I’m updating silwenae.net, I’ve come to a compromise with myself.

I’m going to keep the blog software, but not as the homepage.

The homepage is in the process of getting updated with IcculusNews. Which has no documentation. It’s a series of PHP pages that calls a Perl daemon. It’s fun hacking at it even if I don’t know what I’m doing.

Thank god Kelly had Perl last semester. :D

I’m going to install IcculusFinger as well, and when I’ve got this all working, if anyone wants webspace / blog / finger ability, I’ll be more than happy to share.

Oops, I did it again

Did anyone besides me watch the NFL preseason show tonight on ABC?

Britney Spears had to do the worst lip-syncing I’ve ever seen. At one point, she is trying to put the mic on a mic stand while putting a glove on her hand. Her voice / inflection never changed as her head moved back and forth from the mic.

She really looked like she wasn’t even trying. And at the end when she thanked the crowd, there was an almost noticeable pop from turning the mic on.

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Better

The new beta of the blog software works better as they’ve de-emphasized the multi-blog feature and made it easier to tweak.

Upgrade I did last night looks pretty good, I’ll keep it for now.

I did d/l IcculusNews and IcculusFinger. Icculus wasn’t kidding when he said it was lacking in documentation. :DIt’s all Perl, couple daemons that run. I’m going to look into it as I’m still intrigued by it, but we’ll see in the long run.

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Grrr

I’m kind of frustrated with b2evolution (the software package running this blog).

In the .8 release, they added the functionality to do multiple blogs on one site. This broke my site fairly badly, and the documentation is lacking – but I don’t have a problem with that. This is beta software on top of a base package someone else created.

I did post a help post on their forums and got zero responses, even after searching before I posted.

.83 beta was just released, so I’ll try that. But if it doesn’t work, I’m seriously considering a very basic site running IcculusNews and IcculusFinger from Icculus.org.

Just don’t know if port 263 is open… otherwise I meet all the requirements, and having a web page that looks and feels like the old web appeals to me…

Bye Frankie

The Packers cut Frank Winters today. With the team since 1992, Frank was the starting center until 2 years ago when Mike Flanagan supplanted him.

Frank was also known as Brett’s best friend.

Ah well, the changing of the guard continues.

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Phoenix

Just got back from a business trip in Phoenix.

Holy crap is it hot.

Hit the road at 6:30 a.m. and it’s already 90 degrees.

Heard on the news that the old record of 6 days in the year where it didn’t drop below 90 was shattered this year – 15 days total.

I need to go back in Dec / Jan when it’s cold here and warm there.

But the resort we stayed at was extremely nice – off-peak in season it was quite cheap.