The Twilight Report

somewhat disturbing

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:24:00 GMT

I was reading /. today, (can’t remember what the subject was, but it isn’t really important), and a poster was portraying Microsoft as evil and google as honest, true, good and all American. Now, I know Microsoft has been persona non grata on the /. since before time began, but how is it that google isn’t at least equally evil? All they want to do is index our lives and sell it back to us one piece at a time. At least when Microsoft was the main corporate overlord in the computer industry, we had some pretence of privacy.

spring cleaning (bedroom)

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:12:00 GMT

Next up was the bedroom. I have a two bedroom flat, but I use the larger of the two as my computer room/office. Basically my computers need more room than I do.

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greener-on-the-other-side department

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:43:00 GMT

So, speaking of phones, I just watched this ad where Dustin Hoffman is trying to talk to someone on a mobile about not buying a house at any price (the message that goes through is that the person on the other end should buy the house at any price). Dustin is upset over the miscommunication, and someone tells him, “This wouldn’t happen in Australia.”

It’s a Telstra ad, and I don’t think they are any worse than any other large corporation, but it made me laugh because my first thought was, “yeah, everything is better in Australia.”

...even though the example they actually cited wasn’t a very good one.

Movie Review

Sun, 07 Nov 2004 17:56:00 GMT

The Incredibles

When I went to see that horrible movie Team America with my friends Joe, Cicely and Brian, the sound was as terrible as the movie, barely audible in parts. On leaving the theater the establishment gave us a free tickets to our next movie for our trouble. Tonight we used those tickets to see The Incredibles, which I have to say was incredible. It is reassuring to know that the $8 I spent to see Team America actually went toward seeing a much better film. I hope that Pixar one day escapes from the evil vice grip of the Disney Corporation