Whatever you do, do NOT see Domino. Of course if you actually enjoy having every irritating and gimmicky visual director trick thrown at you almost non-stop for two hours, then by all means, rent it.

Tom Waits shows up near the end, but his character is completely unfathomable and by that time you won’t care. Add to that a completely irrelevent Jerry Springer segway and Christopher Walken yelling “Why did you change the fucking font!?” over and over again and you’ve got yourself a noisy, stupid, confusing mess of a film. Tony Scott shouldn’t be allowed to make movies like this. No one should.

After a couple of great years working with Jeremy, he’s officially moved on. Seems as though a juicy position at a seemingly well-run startup in Boston was enough to lure him away from us. I’m sure he’ll continue to kick ass. I’m just sorry I won’t be there to see it. We’ll miss you. We already do.

All the best, Mr. Durham. All the best.

When it comes to photography, I’m a gearhead. I can’t help it. I spend an inordinate amount of time at photo.net and dpreview.com reading about camera equipment. Here’s a list of a few things I want right now….

• Canon 5D

• Ricoh GR Digital

• Leica M 35mm f2.0 (4th, tabbed version)

• Voightlander 15mm

• Another AlienBees strobe

• A black muslin backdrop

• Hasselblad 500c/m with 80mm Tessar

• And so on…

There are many things standing between me and a good photograph - none of them equipment.

One of the things on my list this weekend was to write some fancy deployment/configuration Switchtower recipes to aid in setting up new sites (which I’ve been doing a lot of lately.) After seeing the RailsMachine video it appears that they’ve given me yet another reason to believe that procrastination is good for you. Apparently, their recipes are to be made available, and they look very similar to what I had planned on trying myself. Goodie for me!

Andreas Pfeiffer writes a piece on Why Features Don’t Matter using Apple’s iPod as a leading

example of the soundness of the 80/20 rule, and why deliberately leaving out the other 20% works.

Simplicity means getting something done in a minimum number of simple steps. Practically

anything could be simpler - but you don’t get there by adding features.

New Yorker columnist and author of Blink and Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell has a blog. You see, he’s a writer with a blog. This means he has interesting things to say and writes them in a coherent and interesting way - on his blog. Exactly the inverse of most of what’s in your RSS reader right now, I’d wager. You should read it.

Bryan has finally gotten some momentum behind his new blog 10secondsofmylife.com. It’s a neat concept. Sort of like a photoblog, but with video. Each post contains a short video clip representing 10 seconds (or so) of his life. Imagine the value of that over time!

I’ve gotta say, as much as I like Apple stuff, today’s showing was a little disappointing. I know, it was a small event, not meant to thrill anyone, but they did say it was about some “fun” products. What we got was a couple of overpriced iPod accessories that should’ve been left to third parties. The Mac Mini is a nice step, but still short of the PVR I really want.

Let’s forget the leather case for a moment (as everyone else will in a week) and take a look at the Hi-Fi.

I’m guessing that the interns at Apple who are normally charged with designing mice badly were given a new project. That thing is pretty ugly. Looks better without the grill, but still. They should also reconsider using the term “audiophile-quality.” As any audiophile will tell you (I’m not one of them), 128k AAC is nowhere near audiophile-quality. And a frequency response of 53Hz to 16kHz will likely make it a no-show for many, even though I seem to recall that response is difficult to compare since the measurements are done differently by each manufacturer. I think it’s best to hold off final judgement until actually hearing the thing. Still ugly though.

A few days ago I read about the quantum computing experiment which basically claimed to have used a “quantum based optical computer” to solve a problem - without even turning it on! Okay, that’s just crazy talk. I read the original article twice. I understood none of it. Today, a 3QD post has culled a number of resources helping to explain the whole thing, including this wonderful explanation. I still don’t get it, but I don’t get it less than before, which I think is good.

Tonight, after several years, I unsubscribed from the PHP General mailing list. That probably means something.