Moon July 8, 2009
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Ok the 17th of July is a big day in the movie world, yes there is some sort of wizard film coming out, think its manny potter or something like that but there is also a limited release film coming out called Moon.
This movie looks like it could be something really special, its the 2nd film Duncan Jones (the son of David Bowie) has directed so he is somewhat of a unknown director but looking at the trailers and the small clip on Apple it looks very good. I do like the fact being David Bowie’s son you don’t see this fact all over everything, he is not trading on his dad.
Ok what its all about:
“Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet’s power problems”
It looks like a true sci-fi which we see less and less off in the cinema of today, the last time I got this excited about a sci-fi would have been sunshine and that lived up to expectations.
Check out Duncan Jones web site and see if the movie is going to be playing in your area.
Im back July 2, 2009
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As the title says im back, I have not been any where just been very busy.
So work, none stop. Just finished installing a new NEC 2500 with a Qube server on one of the biggest 3D digital screens in the uk, it just takes weeks to sort this stuff out and get it all in and then work out how to use it and then train one of the biggest team in the uk on how to use it. For the 3D side of things we are using a XL unit which recycles the light lost going through a polarizer so gaining 12% of light, it looks just fantastic and thats just not the 3D but the 2D. At the moment its running Ice Age 3 in 3D so not really the best test for it and a shame as Public enemy is out and was shot in digital as Michal Mann (one or two n’s?).
So the projector is fantastic, the server is another thing. Not the best but I dont think the worst, all we can do is try it.
So keeping on the movie topic we are now in the summer block buster time, we had Wolverine which didn’t do too well (I thought it was ok), Star Trek which did some really good business (I thought it was very good) this week we have Ice Age and public enemy (which I have yet too see) and in a few weeks we get Harry Potter which im going to go out on a limb here and say it may do ok. BUT why do the mass going public think thats the only film out that week? Well its not, Moon is out and after years working in cinemas I have a sneaky feeling that this film could be something really interesting, a film that no one knows where it came from then BAM it’s something everyone is talking about.
So lets catch up, I have the next 2 weeks off from work. Im not going anywhere, well may do some camping at some point. It more of a relaxing holiday with good food, Manchester festival, time on my bike and a good time to catch up on the movies I have missed for the past few months. I read there is some sort of festival on in Manchester for a few days, I know the main square and the gallery are involved and I also spotted there is an outdoor cinema in spinning fields that I just think I will potter down to, and as my girl friends knows I will be trying to pop my head in to the booth, thats if they even have a booth, im betting its going to be a digital projector but im happy with that.
So biking, its good, its killing me but im thinking in a good way. I seem to have a set route now, head out of Manchester on the cannel intill I get to the far side of Trafford park then back in on the roads. Got a app thing to track the time and distance. It works well, I’m seeing my distance increasing and the time decreasing, that’s got to be good, right??
Right I’m going to watch some tennis, not really my cup of tea, I would be much happier watching Life season 2 but we share the TV, think its a 30/70 split in her favour, but that’s love. x
Who what when where June 2, 2009
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Hello blogging land, hope you are having fun doing whatever you do.
So life, well its very nice having a new bike to play with, bring back some really good memories of my youth, fuck I sound old. Well it is nice being out and about, found some nice routs along the cannel which takes you out of the centre of Manchester, it must be 5 mins on the bike and im out in the open, quite surprising. I have seen some other routs I would like to go on but my lovely girl friend is still waiting on her bike so I think it would be a little mean to go out without her.
We did go to centre parks this weekend which happens to be really nice, I did have some slight reservations on what it was going to be like but it was spot on, this small get away was in aid of her dads 60th so it was a small break with all of my girl friend’s family, a little scary but it went well, I feel I got to know them a little more than just the usual afternoon visits.
Dont know what really to talk about, I seem to be up to the usual things, going to some good gigs, have drinks with friends, now I have my bike so I can look at the keeping fit side of things and then you cram birthdays and such a alike and im busy. i think one thing I need to get better at is the long term planning, you know like getting tickets to go see bands or planning trips with friends in a few months, I think my mind works in a very now, tomorrow, next week sort of way but going away this weekend showed me that with a little planning you may have to wait but it normally turns out good.
Right need to go do some work,
My Bicycle. May 14, 2009
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So many years ago I spent a lot of time cycling, well after a recent conversation with my parents they could not get me off the bloody thing. But when I started working I went on it less and less until years down the line it was something that I just kept meaning to get round to. I really did enjoy it and have recently decided to start back down the road (or should I say bicycle lane?) of the 2 wheeled transport, I think for 2 reason, 1- I loved it and 2 – I may look like im in a fit condition but I am physically unfit.
So here it is….
The Genesis Core 30, and its soo nice. Finding the bike I wanted like most things in my life is going through everything I can find on line, every review, all the reviews of anything to do with any part of the bike. Genesis are not a big company and don’t have their bikes in every shop and I have always like the underdogs so I decided to go for the Core 30. With a RRP of £850 I spent ages trying to find a cheaper deal and did, found some for £699, the problem was is that no one had one in stock, and the main stockist said that was it for the year! After spending all this time finding the right bike and then being told you will have to wait 7 months! ARRRRRRR, I was not too happy, so I spent a few days going to different bike shops in the North West trying to find one with no luck, after popping over to Liverpool to see my lovely girl friend a called a bike shop in the area to be told, once again they didn’t have one in stock, I was 5 mins in to an email I was writing to genesis asking where I could get a bike from when the shop called me back, they had one, don’t think I stood to the speed limit but Birkenhead is not somewhere you want to spend much time stood still im told. So now I have my bike.
It is still taking a little getting used to, and at the moment im only going to and from work, I have not had a day off as of yet and I hate to say it but I am unfit so the fast few mins to work and back are working.
Sony Vaio Cr21z Hackintosh May 9, 2009
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So i thought i would give hacintosh a go on my laptop and pass this info along as there was not much out there for my laptop when i came to do it.
Well it went ok, after the main install everything worked well, don’t forget when installing, just before you click install it go through the drivers and pick the correct GPU. So after the install 3 things didn’t work,
- The wifi card, being an intel i don’t think it will every work, you can pull the intel out and replace with something that will work with mac os but it was more hard work that it would have been worth.
- Sleep, shutdown didn’t work well, sleep didn’t work and when sent to shut down it would re start every time.
- The GPU drivers worked but only in displaying anything, i could not change anything through the OS.
I did get the Ethernet connection working but only after messing round for about 30 mins.
I think after some messing everything could work well, the wifi card would have to be changes or a USB plugged in would work
Free windows 7 for a year! May 2, 2009
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You can download a copy of windows 7 from Microsoft from Tuesday 5th for free and it will last for a year. hummmm
Vista: hard work doing the right thing. May 2, 2009
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I have been and still are a windows user, I can see the attraction to the mac but I have yet to take the leap in to the mac world as of yet, I know windows and dot yet see the need to move OS’s.
I am running Vista on both my desktop and laptop, I can see why people have problems with it but I think when you know what you are doing you can get rid of the thing you don’t want or need and make it a more reliable and faster system. My laptop have vista pre installed but my desktop I decided to buy, I’ll be honest I got a OEM addition as I build my own computers and at the time there was a large price difference between the 2, last week I got a windows message after boot saying my version of vista needs to be authenticated, I have had this before so didn’t really make me worry, why I would get this is the first place as I use windows update and the desktop is always connected to the internet I don’t know but I did.
After going through the ways windows wanted me to connect to get this done it turned out that non would work, not a problems as I bought a really copy of vista so why would there be a problem in getting this fixed? Well after spending what felt like 5 hours trying to get through to a real person I did and they could not help. It had got to a point where I the work I would have to put in to get my system back up and running was going to take more time than I was going to put in.
Without going to the too much detail why is it easier to download, install and run and a version of windows latest OS without any problems than it is to buy, install and run a windows vista? Its almost like the things put in place to make sure you have a really OS are the things that make people get a questionable version.
I want to pay, I don’t want to pay over the odds, if Apple can make an OS for around £50 why cant windows? Lets hope windows 7 will be something different.
GOGOGO March 19, 2009
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Have not got long, it seems I don’t have must time to do anything at the moment but I have 5 mins for my blog.
Ok when to see Dr Tid and the Tripple 8’s last week at the Green room, very very good and well worth going to one there events, there web site is up dated and you can even get some of their tracks from there. They have a few events coming up so give them ago.
Like with the iphone keeps going, it seems to have changed the way I run my life, it makes everything so easy and with the new 3.0 update it look as if things are just going to get more easier.
Thinking of going on a small break, seeing I have a little extra money in a few weeks and I’m not the type of person to put it in the bank I think Berlin may be in order, just need a chap flight now and we are off.
Got to watch the Boat that Rocked a few days ago, had some cast there. The film is really good and what we have come to expect from this director, it is just a really nice film with a fantastic sound track which keeps your foot tapping all the way through.
And that’s you 5 mins.
Dr Tid & The Triple Eights March 5, 2009
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Well worth a watch, Saturday night.
Iphone, Mobile me, Google calendar, Outlook all working together! March 5, 2009
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So having a iphone has started to make slight changes in the way I plan for, well life. The calendar in the iphone is just fantastic and if you know me you know remembering things would not be a strong point, I have found it very easy to jot down a reminder and hey I don’t need to remember. Another good thing my self and my lovely girl friend don’t real work set hours so getting days off together can be a challenge sometimes, Google calendar has a wonderful way of letting you set up people who you can share your calendar with, so she can put her hours down and I know when she is working.
Now Mobile me is a online service offered by Apple which keeps all of your computers sync with each other when it comes to calendars, contacts, web pages ect, it is £50 for the year but you can get 30 days free which I’m giving a go. One thing which is nice to see from the battling giants is that Outlook can sync with mobile me and it works well so contacts and calendars are sync with no problems. the good things about mobile me is if you make a change to a contact on let’s say your iphone this is sent to all if your computers set up, same with calendars.
Now the iphone can sync with the Google calendar but it’s a very ‘around the house’ way of doing things and all it takes it Google or apple to change something and it no longer works but outlook has no problems syncing with Google.
So my iphone calendar syncs with mobile me, mobile me then to outlook, outlook to Google calendar. And it works no matter when you add the information so something gets added to outlook and mobile me, iphone and Google get updated.
I’m sure there will be something that pops up as I have only, in the last few hours got everything working together, I think on things that needs looking in to is the multiple calendars (ie different events) as I’m unsure if everything will sync.
