Earth
5 commentsAs the DVD cover accurately describes, Earth is the most ambitious nature documentary ever made, and it clearly shows, having been filmed over 5 years, with 45 camera people, 2000 days in the field, 204 locations, and 62 countries in all 7 continents with some amazing footage captured at over 1000 frames per second. The word ambitious doesn’t...
keep readingThree Cups of Tea
I fail to recall who, but somebody recommended that I read "Three Cups of Tea", so when I browsed my local library's selection of audio books the title stuck out and I downloaded it. "Three Cups of Tea" is the biography of Greg Mortensen and is the story of how coincidence and a failed attempt to climb K2 lead him to his mission...
keep reading 1 commentInternet Explorer 8 Beta 2: How does it stack up?
With Internet Explorer 8 on the horizon I thought I might take a look at Microsoft’s recently released Beta 2 version of their flagship browser. To give you a quick primer, IE8 is MS’s most standards compliant web browser to date, but that comes at a cost. You see, designers like myself and others who adhere to strict web standards h...
keep reading 8 commentsI watched Australia , the movie.
While watching Australia , I was so glad that I was watching it in 'Gold Class' for two reasons: 1) The cinema is small and the toilet is really close. I drink a lot of fluids when I'm coming up to a tournament and the 3 bottles of water, jumbo frozen coke, 2 long black coffees, chocolate thick shake, cheese platter, grilled fish, nachos and chi...
keep reading 17 commentsCall of Duty: World at War
I thought long and hard about how I was going to approach this review, but in the end I conceded there was no way I could get around the simple fact that I am going to have to compare not only to Call of Duty 4, but also Crysis. Now calm down, I can hear you choking on your cornflakes from here: “But Mikey, Crysis is on a completely dif...
keep reading 4 commentsLogitech Illuminated Keyboard
Anyone who types for a living, be it programming, documentation or even just an obsessive IM compulsion, will no doubt appreciate the importance of a good keyboard. For me, someone who programs and writes, it's actually very surprising how little thought I have put into my keyboards in the past. I was always happy as long as they were minimalist...
keep reading 13 commentsDejavu; a fitting title
Dejavu is in essence a movie we have all seen before, but you should be warned that this rant contains spoilers. I re-watched this movie (forgetting that I had seen it before, but getting that sense of dejavu as it progressed), and wondered why it did not make a bigger impression on me the first or second time. It had a good cast, plot potential, a...
keep reading 5 commentsWar Inc Review
If had to pick an absolute favorite filmmaker it would be John Cusack. Same thing goes for favorite actor. Quite simply the man is brilliant. He always entertains and mixes in his own special brand of dialog and context that makes you think and look at either one thing or the entire world around you in a different way. War Inc is no different. On t...
keep reading 6 commentsMSI GX720. Gaming Series Laptop.
It's been a long time since I have purchased a laptop because, frankly, they're always a huge disappointment. Having had my share of low and mid range mobile computing options, I can say without exception, for someone who needs a fair bit of power, they have all been a complete waste of money. They never have enough grunt to do what I need and I en...
keep reading 15 commentsThe Great Feminist Denial
I was very excited about this book by Monica Dux, a Melbourne writer and Zora Simic, a lecturer at the Australian National University. The first few pages that I browsed at the book store were intriguing and, more importantly, exactly what I have been thinking about for years so I brought the book home with high hopes. Unfortunately, there is somet...
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