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Zatôichi: The Blind Swordsman

In General on 15 November 2009 with no comments

I’m a long-time fan of the Zatoichi series of movies starring Shintaro Katsu. This 2003 remake was intended to be something of a reboot for the series. I finally got around to watching it last night.
Replacing the late, great Shintaro Katsu is Takeshi Kitano, aka Beat Takeshi. His bio on IMDB claims he learned comedy [...]

Nambu, a follow(up)

In General on 20 April 2009 with no comments

Last Friday, I tried out the free Twitter app Nambu.
I can not recommend this software to anyone in its current state. Yes, they say it is beta software right up front, but there’s “beta” software and then there’s “BETA!!!*” software. This is the latter.
While diagnosing a problem on my system, I took a look through [...]

Battlestar Galactica in Retrospect

In General on 2 April 2009 tagged bsg, cylon, reviews, tv with 2 comments

Like most other scifi nerds I know, I’ve been enthralled with Ron Moore and team’s reimagining of the classic tv show. An amazing cast and some of the best writing on tv and film surpassing typical genre fiction have made this an unforgettable experience. Now that they’ve finally wrapped it up, I have a few [...]

Winding back home

In General on 15 November 2008 with 1 comment

Back in Marseille, France after two weeks of poncing about Provence. It appears Air France has gone on strike and we’re being re-routed through Casablanca(!) on Air Morocco(!!). No telling what this is going to do to our arrival time tomorrow night. Stay-tuned. Meanwhile, enjoy some pictures…

Airport boredom

In General on 1 November 2008 tagged bored, General, storytime, travel with 1 comment

It’s a Saturday, and I’m sitting in the Montreal airport surrounded by the sights and smells of air travellers going about their business. Since we’re sitting next to a resto-bar, those smells are heavily-accented by grilled burgers. It’s making me hungry.
Last night, we stayed at the Aloft hotel near the airport. Nice place with comfy [...]

My top five favorite iPhone/iPod apps

In General on 11 October 2008 tagged iPhone, iPod, reviews, Software, Top Fives with 1 comment

I’ve had my iPhone 3G for awhile now. When I first got it, I wanted to do a review of some of my favorite apps. Months passed. Summer turned to fall. There was still no review. But then, how could there be? I was still learning the territory, and there’s a lot to learn. iTunes [...]

Moving Sucks

In General on 19 March 2008 tagged General with 3 comments

Hello Blog. I’ve neglected you a bit recently. Well, I’ve been busy. Had a lot to do. You know how it is.
I’m going to try something a little different for this post. I don’t normally talk about myself much here, I intentionally keep a low-profile and babble about things like computers and iPods. Today, I’m [...]

Ecto 3 Hello World Post

In General on 20 January 2008 tagged Apple, ecto, General, os-x, Software with no comments

I’ve been following Adriaan Tijse… Adrian Tissel… Ado’s Twitterstream for awhile eagerly looking forward to the latest version of Ecto, my favorite desktop blogging software. Version two’s been relatively unchanged for a couple of years now with an update last year to provide Intel support and some new toolbar icons at some point before that. [...]