Just a quick note to let you all know that I and my Wife are now in Lavonia Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, attending the MidWest Diocesan assembly.

Greetings from Ohio Linuxfest 2004, Bacchus, Skippy and a host of others have decended upon Columbus Ohio on this dreary Fall day to geek out on all things Linux.

In a long time.

I am now listed on Amazon.com for some reason.

I just thought I would take a moment to direct your attention to the donate link that now resides in my navigation menu at the top.

This Sunday is International Talk like a Pirate Day, and in honor of this glorious holiday, this post, plus all the comments that are added to it will be automagically converted to Pirate via Dougal's snazzy Text Filter Suite.

This is a hack for WP 1.3+ only

Note to self, when writing a hack that deletes comments, do not use your live server to test against, because you might wipe out all your comments.

For bringing Hero to american theatres.

Last week Heather and I were fortunate enough to catch a viewing of Hero the latest offering from Director Zhang Yimou.

As always this movie was visually stunning, I relished the use of colour throughout and the slow, almost baleful shots that helped to infuse the viewer with a sense of the honor and sadness that shaped the life of each character and drove them to the extraordinary lengths seen throughout the story.  Jet Li once again shines in the role of Nameless the Hero whose sacrifice alowed the Chinese nation to be galvanized producing the first Dynasty.

Unfortunately as with most imports the film was put through the ringer and what came out the otherside was not exactly Yimou's vision.  Many important scenes were cut, and the fight scenes themselves were edited to squeak by with a PG13 rating.  The film weighs in at a light 1 hour 38 minutes because of this.

I have added a new album and some new photos to the photoblog.