Let’s see if I can find something to post about…

Nick finally released v7 (or v 0.7, I can’t tell). It only took 6-7 months.

Ice mentioned something about a possible LAN party this Friday. We have Monday off, too. We have Monday off, too.

Uhhh…errr…yeah. Not much is happening. I want to make some more minor updates to the site this weekend, including fixing the blog for IE. Which reminds me, the phorums might be down for a bit Saturday, Sunday, or even Monday. It all depends when/if I get unlazy.

You know, everybody should go spam– I mean post here. They need more traffic.

There’s a cool new video up on Old Skool Phreak.

According to the Mandrake Store, all 9.2 pre-orders will be shipped by the fourth week of October. This just happens to be the fourth week so it should be out soon.

I’ve just updated from b2/cafelog to the brand new, and very shiny, wordpress! From the website:

WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog, as b2 development has stopped. We hope by focusing on web standards and user experience we can create a tool different from anything else out there.

It only took me about 5 minutes to get it running (transferring everything over from b2 was extremely simple) but there’s still a bunch of little tweaks I want to make. And, of course, I need to update the template.

If you are considering updating from b2 to WordPress, the only piece of advice I can give is to change $table_prefix in wp-config.php to b2. It eases the pain while WordPress tries to upgrade your database.

The Reloaded DVD is $14 ($16.32 with tax) at Best Buy. It’s two discs: the first disc is the movie and the second is Preload (the making of Reloaded), That Matrix Unfolds (covers both movies and the game), The Freeway Chase (a making of just for that), Get Me an Exit (commercialism at it’s best), Enter the Matrix (making of the game), and The MTV Movie Awards Reloaded (some Reloaded skit with the Bullet Proof Monkey and that Nsync guy). You actually get about two or three hours of special features on the second disk, which is pretty cool. One thing I have to comment on is the Get Me an Exit feature, which was actually a making of the commercials (Heinekin, Samsung Phone and TV, and Power-Aid). Was this really necessary? I mean, the commercials are crap (as are all commercials). Do I really need to see how they’re made? If I didn’t buy the product back in May when the world was in a Matrix-frenzy, why should I buy it now?
Other than that, it’s great. The movie is the same. If you didn’t like it in the theatre, you probably won’t like it on the DVD. Although, I must recommend at least renting it so you can replay the end and try to figure out just what exactly the Architect says. I picked up on a few very minute details which, coupled with the latest Revolutions trailer (did I mention that I saw the trailer on the big screen when I went to see Kill Bill?), gives you a pretty good idea of the story line for the third film.

Kill Bill: Volume 1 is awesome. It may be a tad on the bloody side for some but that just adds to the whole comic book effect. It’s great how they stole Bruce Lee’s jumpsuit from Game of Death.
My only criticism is that Uma should be a little bit more cautious when playing with swords. She chops off body parts left and right. Can’t she just stab them a few times and not take off their limbs and/or scalp?

In other news, we’ve had about two weeks of clouds and rain now. Take that, evil ball of fire in the sky! It finally feels like Seattle again.

3jane is down because I’m installing Slackware 9.1 (torrents). I’m still in the middle of installing all the packages so I’ll post about how I like it later.

Underworld: Don’t see it.
The Rundown: Irish people aren’t Scottish!

Underworld really did suck the big one. The only thing that made it bearable was Kate Beckinsale. Oh, and they totally stole the ending (Victor’s head getting chopped in half) from Equilibrium. That was just cheap.
The previews, on the other hand, were great. First there was Kill Bill which not only has a great theme song but also has an old ninja man kicking Uma Thurman’s ass. And then there was the Alien Director’s Cut. Only in theatres this Halloween. That’ll be sweet.

I’m moving the pig-monkey.com domain over to a different shell account. This shouldn’t mean anything to you, the reader, but the site (especially the blog) might be down for a short time while the files transfer over.

I’ve also re-released the site under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0.

Quicksilver comes out tomorrow. I’ll be heading over to Barnes & Noble right after school to pick it up (and if they don’t have any copies, I’ll be forced to put the hurting on someone). While I’m over there, I might as well go to Best Buy and annoy Brandon.