Thanks to the Herald Sun, Chickz0r, myself, and Ryan attended an advance screening of Meet the Robinsons at the Jam Factory on Wednesday.
I didn't have high hopes for this film. For a start, we were only going because I won tickets through a Herald Sun competition. However, things picked up once we got the tickets. They were giant and novelty sized - they only just fitted into Chickz0rs handbag. Good for a giggle if nothing else.
Then after reading over them a bit more carefully, we realised it was in 3D. Good ole stereograph. Cool, we get novelty glasses to match our novelty passes.
The movie unfortunately, was a kids movie. No way to get around that. That being said, for a kids movie - a very Disney Kids movie - it was very enjoyable. There was a 'twist', a bad guy, a few 'lovable' characters - and a few very 'hate-able' characters for how damn 'cutesy' they were supposed to be…
The three of us really enjoyed ourselves, but can easily say if it wasn't for the movie being in 'Real D' (as the glasses suggest), we wouldn't have gone/enjoyed ourselves half as much.
Meet the Robinsons came out yesterday (29th March), and can still be seen in 3D at select cinema's
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I can see how MVC would be neat in 'fat clients', but I honestly feel like its bloat for web languages.
Nearly every PHP Framework focuses on being MVC…and I'm yet to see any advantage of that…
This means I'll have to write my own frameworky thing. Woo.
Thats all I have to say about that for now.
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Wordpress users out there, try this.
Create a nice floating div (for say, an image float like in my previous post) in the Code view, then save it.
When you're redirected, it automagically goes to the 'Visual' tab. Now click Code view again, and watch it transform your lovely DIV into a non-terminating P tag.
Oh, and any line breaks you had? (BR) Gone.
I'll have to disable the 'Visual' editor, which is annoying, since at times its rather handy, just complete bastardisation of my code isn't so handy.
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Example of Googles seasonal logos
Google has long been known as the most minimalistic, yet still incredibly functional, site around.
While its not unusual for Google's logo for certain occasions to be 'pretty', the rest of the page - and even most of their services have used a very familiar white-blue-grey theme. In a sense, for a huge player in the 'Web 2.0' evolution, they've stuck to a more common 'Web 1.0' look (apart from services they've bought).
Today, however, Google's personalised pages have had themes added.
As a user of a lot of Google services (there isn't a viable free/open-source alternative in a lot of cases. Look at Gmail for example; while RoundCube provides a lot of the functionality, its buggy and slow. Oh, sure, there is Horde IMP/SquirrelMail, but I'm talking about AJAX goodness) I'm welcoming these changes - I've already updated my personalised Google homepage to the 'japanese tea set'. I just wish all the other Google branded services took on the theme as well! ;)
[Via SMH]
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As I mentioned earlier, AU Uni Students can buy Office 2007 Ultimate for just $75.
Long Zheng's noticed it too, and thinks it is 'a bomb waiting to explode'.
While I agree some retailers/partners are going to be a little annoyed at first, and heck, even some customers are going to be a little mad, yes…but from Microsoft's point of view, this is a win-win situation.
Case #1: It does explode.
The media goes into a frenzy as somebody kicks up a fuss about buying Home and Student 07 beforehand.
Point is, the media goes nuts about it, and Office 2007 gets a lot of exposure.
Worst case scenario, they refund everybody who bought H&S07 who qualifies for this offer.
Case #2: Partners get angry.
Then Microsoft reminds them that by giving Uni students Office for dirt cheap, they're encouraging them to stay in the Microsoft environment.
Partners realise that the more people that use Microsoft products, the more Microsoft products they can see (such as Vista), or better yet, the more hardware and more third-party software they can sell.
Microsoft creates an environment for third parties to enjoy, so the real money will be with keeping users away from the evil Mac/Linux worlds.
Case #3: Students enjoy this offer for what it is.
Users buy their product (even at a greatly reduced cost), and then…they continue to use Office, rather than Office/Microsoft alternatives, when they enter the workforce.
It also puts yet another positive spin on Microsoft, rather than them being the 'evil corperation' that they've been known to be in the last decade or three.
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A long long time ago (September), in a galaxy far far away (Nunawading), I should have known my laptop would have been a problem, if bought from Centrecom.
First I was met by a terrible salesman. They couldn't pick when I knew more than they did (or if they did, they continued to lie to me).
When it arrived, however, I was happy. Although, anything was better than going from an X2 3800+/2gb/7800GT to a XP 2600+/512mb/9600Pro, so thats not too suprising.
Google was against me, but that didn't stop the fact that they were less than helpful.
Then they pissed off my mother by offering me the A8JP for what Myer was selling it, plus attempting to hit me with a 10% restocking fee.
In the end, after I said no, they said 'oh, Asus will allow that, we can give you the full refund - no restocking fee' .
That was all good, and I expected my refund to come in smoothly. I was wrong, it took three weeks (finally got it uh, yesterday?) to arrive, not because of bank screw ups, and not on my behalf - I called them four times about it - but because they just hadn't done it.
I wont' be buying from Centrecom again, and I will recommend against them. That being said, Ivan, the RMA guy, seemed nice, although incorrect and powerless.
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