In the last week, I've had many unknown people try to follow me on twitter.

Yes, my twitter feed is protected, so I don't know why people are trying to follow me. It's not like I've had a lot of people @admiralak me, and my club-admiralty analytics (the only other twitter link that comes to mind) doesn't show a ton of activity happening.

I wish twitter would allow people to put a description in the follow box - sort of how one adds a friend on facebook. This way I know how you found me. Most people's blogs don't tell me anything about why they are trying to follow me.

Tags: technology, microblogging, twitter, weird

This is a screenshot from my google reader.
It just goes to show that our priorities are a bit messed up....

Tags: weird, technology, google, zeitgeist

Windows Status report... The thing decided that I am a valid, non-pirated-version, user.

Thank you Microsoft!

Tags: windows, vista, weird, microsoft

So this is a spoiler type of post, if you haven't seen the movie, don't read this post. OK now that you've been warned, I can go on.

I went to see the movie yesterday. The movie was quite entertaining, it had that popcorn factor. Beyond that, I really needed to suspend my disbelief and try to ignore the bad integration of CG. I was listening to this Friday's 1UP Yours podcast before seeing the movie, where they had a 30 minute segment on the movie, where they spoke about Indiana's death defying stunts, impossible escapes, and bad CG. Incidentally, the theme of Retronauts this week was also Indiana jones, and they did mention some of these things as well.

I don't know if I was influenced by the podcasts, or if they just made some of the absurdities obvious. The film was enjoyable, as I have already mentioned, but the crystal skull was that of an interdimentional alien being. Seriously? An interdimentional alien being? How does this fit in with the pre-existing Indiana Jones mythology? I suppose it's no more absurd than being vaporized by the arc of the covenant, but still! It just does not fit in. The other thing about this movie is that it is a bit derivative. If you've watched Stargate SG-1, you probably know that the team found a crystal skull, in south america, that summoned interdimentional beings.

Oh well. In the end it was a good movie, even though it did not live up to my expectations.

Tags: entertainment, movies, jones, weird

Okie Dokie!
About three days ago my computer refused to wake up from sleep.
OK...so I just shut it down as it had been on for a number of days without 'rest'.
I turn it back on, but no finder! WTF? OK...don't panic, I thought to myself - just zap the PRAM! Done! but...problem not fixed.
I ran diskwarrior...fixed a few things. Fixed a few permission errors with the disk utility. I thought all was OK.
Well...apparently not! What to do? I booted in safe mode. All was OK. My computer was running a bit slow, there was no WiFi available, and not many multimedia functions...but at least all my files were OK. I ran the apple hardware check, to see if there was some other part of my laptop that was not functioning properly, but all came back normal!
Next up? The format and reinstall! I did a backup...although it appears my photos were not backed up , formatted and reinstalled the OS.
STILL...the darned thing only works when booted in safe boot mode....oy! WTF is going on?

At least Rapidweaver is working in Safe Mode!

Tags: headache, annoying, macintosh, FUBAR, weird, malfunction, WTF