Went to go see Superman Returns tonight. It was well worth the price of admission. I enjoyed it much more than X-men 3 (a movie that I liked). Kevin Spacey did a great job as Lex Luthor. However Kate Bosworth didn’t fit the part for Lois Lane. She wasn’t a bad actor, but I felt like Lois Lane needed to be more aggressive, assertive. Brandon Routh did a much better job being Superman than I was expecting. I liked the twist about Superman having a kid. The biggest flaw in the movie was in the editing. I love long movies… if being longer helps develop the movie (ala LOTR). But if it is long because of bad editing then it takes away from the movie (ala King Kong or A.I.). The end of Superman could have been chopped by 20 minutes, with the hospital scene dragging on longer than necessary. Still in spite of this, the movie shined, and pleased the comic book collector inside of me.
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As expected Italy trounced Ukraine 3-0. I doubt I’ll bother watching this later. I hate watching unevenly matched games. I feel bad for the team that gets slaughtered and its just not fun to watch. Unlike the US commentators who drool for more goals, I really get excited about low scoring games. The lower the score the better the game (usually). 0-0,1-0, 1-1 scores usually represent well matched games. Scores that get much higher than that mean that someone on the defense wasn’t doing their job. The recent exception to that was Ghana vs. Brazil. The score says Ghana got beat badly, but in reality Ghana played better soccer but were really, really unlucky.
Sphere: Related ContentSo I finally figured out what was breaking Typo. I was using the latest trunk from Typo because the stable released version is so far behind the current dev version. I was also using a theme that was designed for stable release. As a result the theme broke Typo. So I took the out of the box layout from the default theme and the stylesheet from the theme I wanted. Amazingly enough, it is almost identical to the old theme and with a couple of minor changes to the layout, it is close enough.
Looks like it isn’t Dreamhost’s fault after all. Still the desire for mongrel support is there. If I find a competitive hosting package that has mongrel support I’ll probably make the switch.
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From the sounds of it, it was a very exciting game. Since Ireland isn’t in the Cup, and the US got booted in group play, I just want to see great soccer. That and somebody other than Brazil in the final. :-P
Like many US soccer fans, since I don’t live in a country where soccer is the most popular sport, I am stuck at work while the World Cup goes on. Thankfully a co-worker brought in her XM Radio for me to borrow so I can listen to the games at my desk. XM Radio is a cool idea. I don’t think I could pay for radio, but it is still a cool idea.
Thank God for Tivo, I’ll be able to watch this game later, hopefully sometime over the weekend.
Sphere: Related ContentWednesday Rails 1.1.3 was released, but apparently it broke a lot of apps, 1.1.4 was released today to fix this. One of the comments I found on Ryan’s Scraps and another on Riding Rails noted that there is a lack of a changelog for releases. This seems to be a problem of the agile way, namely that documentation is not really seen as neccessary.
Is documentation neccessary? As a developer I hate having to document code, especially when I’m “in the zone.” However when I have to read other peoples code, or when I have to come back to code I have previously written I am ever grateful for proper documentation. When it isn’t there, it can be a real nightmare to figure out what is going on.
Documentation is also neccessary when you are dealing with someone elses code that is being developed independently of your own. You need to know what to expect if any changes have been made or there are new features that you can take advantage of.
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