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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – Super Bowl Spot

admin — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:50:40 +0000

Those who read my last blog (which all got wiped when I moved to the new server) would know I am a huge fan of the Transformers, I’m mostly G1 guy (though Beast Wars and Animated come in tied for a close second) and at the moment my preferred continuity is the IDW universe. In this mornings wandering around the internet I happened across the super bowl spot for the next transformers movie and all I can say is GLEE it looks awesome and I’m told that Soundwave and Ravage will appear (I’m pretty sure that Ravage is in the spot). Anyway I thought I would share the video with you all on the odd chance you don’t happen across it yourself.

Holiday

admin — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:02:56 +0000

Today is my last day of work for this year, I have three weeks of holidays to look forward to. I’m going to see family for Christmas and it is looking increasing likely that I am going to end up at some random lake to catch up with a few friends for new years. The downside to this is thanks to my current living arrangement it means I’m going to all but drop off the internet for those three weeks, this isn’t a necessarily a bad thing though as it is going to give me a lot of time to work on gIDE.

I was hoping to have the first release of gIDE done before Christmas which is looking increasingly less likely, so much so that I’m not going to bother with it any more. There isn’t a lot that I have to get done before I’m happy to make a release, these will also be the first things on my list of things I am going to work on during my time off. In no particular order the features are:

Find/Replace
Project Properties
Generic Build System
Document split view

I’m also considering implementing a limited subset of vim commands, though I think I will wait until after this release in the hopes of getting some user feedback on what they think would be the most useful commands to include.

In other news I recently saw The Day the Earth Stood Still. To be honest I was not that impressed, the movie seemed to trying to get a message across but not succeeding, at times I even felt that the movie wasn’t overly sure what that message should be. The casting for the movie however was spot on, especially with Keanu Reeves. Also a couple of days ago I recommended that you go read Pictures of You by Gibson Twist, from there I got linked to another webcomic of his which I enjoyed. So if you enjoyed Pictures of You you might also want to check out Our Time in Eden.

Watchmen Trailer

admin — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:35:18 +0000

Late last week the Watchmen trailer was put up on the web, I meant to blog about this earlier but I kept forgetting. This is a movie I am very much looking forward to as I am a fan of the book and needless to say I really enjoyed the trailer. After watching the trailer again I can see how people who have not read the book could be confused, due to the trailer giving next to nothing away about the plot which is not necessairly a bad thing. Below is the trailer which you could also get off of daves trailer page in various resolutions, enjoy.

Ironman

admin — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:50:29 +0000

So on Monday night me and a few friends went to go see Ironman. Well let me tell you it was damn awesome, if you get the chance go and see it. It did what I thought transformers should have done had a few token human characters and then got the hell out of the way while the robots (well men in robotic suits) fought. It also had it’s fair share of funny moments which served as a nice counter balance to the action.

Also if going to see it wait until the end of the credits for a bonus scene. It doesn’t add anything to the storyline of the movie but it is several degrees of awesome.