To Change or not to change
I’m currently thinking about a theme change. I like this one, modded it a fair bit to suit. But I’ve recently come across a theme called Hemingway, but I find it hard to get hold of it as the creater has pulled the download. It seems similar but a little more open to breathe. If I can get hold of Hemingway and put my images into the theme I think it would be a great start to getting more blogging happening on here.
Maybe my theme is to dark?
What’s in a name?
Where does the name “the sky was pink” come from? Listen to the Icelandic remix, it’s my fav 
Nathan Fake – The Sky Was Pink (James Holden Mix)
Nathan Fake – The Sky Was Pink (Icelandic Remix)
Windows 7 Beta
The beta release comes feature complete, of which I’ve been told they had to be tested and stable before they were included in the beta. The operating system itself is stable also, in comparison to Windows Vista it feels faster, has less use of memory, more practical and easier to navigate than Vista.
I found it great that it’s so stable and only in a beta testing environment, also that it was fast and I was running this on a virtual machine over Windows XP. I have however installed Windows 7 on my personal laptop and it runs just as well on my laptop which is average for it’s specs (1.7ghz Celeron, 80gb HDD, shared graphics and 1.5gb DDR Ram).
On the virtual machine set up, I’ve successfully had it install Office 2007, the new Windows Live Messenger client, connect to our Windows network and let me login without any issues. Starting up Outlook 2007 grabbed the details from the Exchange server for me to send and receive email. There seems to be no major issues with it at all and will stay my current OS on the laptop until the Beta period expires in August 2007.
It does leave me with a problem, in the next few months I’m looking to upgrade my desktop PC. While XP is a solid operating system, Windows 7 has been rumoured to be out in the next few months as a release candidate and ready to hit the shelves later this year, but also rumoured to be on sale in the start of 2010. It leaves me with a dilemma of what to do. I think however that as I’m buying a new PC I’ll take advantage and buy an OEM copy of Windows Vista and look at Windows 7 after it’s had its first service pack release. I’ve spent enough time in Vista on my laptop before to know how to tweak it to run faster, and if I get a 64bit version I can max out my ram past 4gb and have it addressed properly.
Here are a few screenshots to look at:
Windows 7 Beta Desktop
Windows 7 with Live Messenger
Windows 7 with Internet Explorer 8 Beta
Windows 7 Explorer - Simplified folders
Windows 7 Menu with minimal toolbar
Lazy is a lazy does
Recently I remembered I still have to finish Blackwood High Schools website. I’m finding it hard to motivate myself to do it, mainly because it’s been so long since I looked at it that I’m not sure where I’m up to. I think a good start would be to at least find the USB drive with the logos on it and photoshop up the new banners. But given the state of order of my things at the moment I have no idea where they are.
Work has been pretty hectic also the last few weeks while it gets a total overhaul from Novell to Microsoft, it’s been a lot of work and a learning experience along the way. It’s gone reasonably smoothly too so hopefully we’ll be done in the next 2 weeks and some more smooth sailing is ahead.
The Day The Earth Stood Still
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970416/
Plot:
A flying saucer orbits Earth, and lands in Washington, DC, Klaatu steps out and is shot by a jumpy soldier. Gort, an indestructible robot steps out of the spacecraft and proceeds to disable all the weapons, including tanks. Later, the Earth comes to realize that Gort has used very little of his power to make this happen.
While lying on the ground, Klaatu orders Gort to stop, and is then taken by the military to a hospital from which he later escapes in order to learn more about this planet called Earth and its human inhabitants. He meets Helen Benson and her son Jacob; takes Klaatu on a tour of Washington, DC; and finally stops in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Klaatu reads the words uttered by Lincoln many years ago and realizes that there might be hope for Earth.
When they begin to suspect the alien man, he reveals himself, along with the news that Gort is a member of a race of super-robot enforcers invented to keep the peace of the galaxy and will destroy the Earth if provoked. Klaatu is pursued and shot and killed by the military. Before Klaatu dies, he tells Helen to go to Gort, and say the words “Klaatu barada nikto.” If she does not, Klaatu tells her Gort will destroy the Earth. Helen makes her way to the ship and finds Gort. As the robot moves towards her, she repeats the phrase over and over. The robot picks her up and takes her into the ship. It then retrieves Klaatu’s body and, through their alien science, resurrects Klaatu.
Review:
If you looked at the trailer to this movie and thought “wow, that looks awesome”. You’d be right, the trailer was awesome. If you wanted to see the good bits, then just watch the trailer a few times. You’re sucked into the start of this movie with an explosive start, but quickly dies off and flatlines in the movie rather than keeping you interested. The movie had great potential to be a block buster, but maybe the producers were trying not to do something that would look like Independence Day to much because that’s where it was headed.
Rating:
2.5/5
Movies for 2009
Here are some movies I’m looking forward to seeing this year.
- Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
- Valkyrie
- Defiance
- Watchmen
- Star Trek
- Angels and Demons
- Terminator Salvation
- Transformers : Revenge of the Fallen
So… I’ve tried my hardest to avoid Twitter. It seems like a complete waste of time to me, maybe that’s why people are flocking to it?
To me, it seems like someone took the “status” update from Facebook and made a website so you can tell people what you’re doing at any given time of the day, and if you get addicted. You can even update it by sms.
So if you read this stupid blog of mine add me on Twitter http://twitter.com/romanxau
I’ll have a new movie review coming soon, it’s just a bit hard to resize pictures on a laptop!
