Microsoft .NET Code Fest 2003

I went to Microsoft .NET Code Fest 2003 today. I’m still not entirely convinced that .Net is a good thing. I’m starting to see stuff that I like, but I’m still suspicious. I wanted to start playing around with ASP.NET at home tonight, but I quickly realized that Microsoft doesn’t want you to run IIS under XP Home. Oh well. I think I can hack it in tomorrow. There’s a way to make it work…

If only Clipper was still a viable development option!

Stimulating the economy

I bought a bunch of stuff this weekend:

  • The new Badly Drawn Boy album.
  • “Retro,” the New Order 4 CD box set.
  • A couple of Spider-Man TPB’s, reprinting all the JMS issues that I didn’t already have.
  • A Hulk TPB, reprinting the first Bruce Jones issues.
  • The Powers “Who Killed Retro Girl?” TPB.
  • ASP.NET in a Nutshell. Not as fun as the other stuff, but necessary.

So, I’ve got a lot of listening and reading to do. Too bad I still don’t seem to have enough spare time for all this. Oh well!

(The motivation for buying all the comics, by the way, was a gift certificate that I got for Christmas. I’m not on some mad buying spree. Really.)

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!

  • I got a chance to see Adaptation and Nicholas Nickleby this weekend. Both were definitely worth seeing.

  • So what’s going on at Macworld right now? Boy it’d be nice to be in San Francisco right now.

  • I give up on the Giants. Hey, the NFL admitted that there was an officiating screw-up on the last play, though. Can we just play the game over next week? Can we? Huh?

Daredevil

Read about a year’s worth of Daredevil today. Brian Michael Bendis is doing a heck of a job on the title, although the pacing of the story is pretty slow. If I’d actually read this stuff over the course of a year, I’d probably have gotten pretty impatient with him. I stopped reading with the last issue before the trial started; I’ll go through that run in a few months, maybe.

I found a good Daredevil site, too: ManWithoutFear.com. Lots of links to reviews, wallpaper, and other stuff.

LoTR

Two Towers stuff:

Gollum vs. Dobby and a few other questions.

Q: So, who would win a fight between Gollum and Dobby?

Elijah Wood (aka Frodo): Definitely Gollum, because he’s bigger. He is wretched. He is heartless. He’ll do anything to win.

Jackson: Gollum would take Dobby out, no problem at all. Dobby would be flat on his back in three seconds. He’s not as conflicted as Gollum.

Andy Serkis (the voice of Gollum): Gollum. From what I’ve heard Dobby is the comic relief. Dobby is like Jar Jar Binks — a celebration of technical wizardry rather than a real character.

A review I almost completely agree with — particularly the comment on Faramir.

Two Towers

My old MP3 player sold already! That was quick. Now I need to get rid of my old camera, my old monitor, etc, etc… Maybe someday I’ll have enough room to more around in here again!

Took the day off today and went to see Two Towers. Just as good as Fellowship. Some beautiful panoramas, decent acting, and it sticks close enough to the book not to piss me off (too much). I do think some of the dialog diminishes the characters a bit. I won’t start a big essay with all the details, but suffice it to say that some of the characters don’t show as much, um, character as they do it the books. I understand they’re trying to create some dramatic tension, and that probably makes sense. And they have to simplify centain events and relationships.