Limited to theatrical films out of Hollywood.

1. Die Hard (1988)
2. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
3. Trading Places (1983)
4. Die Hard 2 (1990)
5. Love, Actually (2003)
6. Home Alone (1990)

Just over a week ago I gave a talk at ETHAtlanta with regards to how endorsers could delegate endorsement to verifiers. Plenty of feedback was received and it will be incorporated into the code that will be open sourced. If you are interested you can download the deck and notes below.

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Regular visitors will notice the lack of a Movie or Media List.  That may return someday.  Things have changed substantially over the last few years and I’ll write an update post on that front soon.

You’ll also notice that the blog history now goes back to Sunday November 26th 2000 or my very first blog post…ever.  You’ll also notice that I haven’t matured much since then or through the years.  Talking about exceeding your goals!

For the third or fourth time in ten years a new platform is running this site.

While I toyed with using WordPress for a while I decided to spin my own (once again) as I have built a new web platform.

Let’s see where I go with this new system as it’s getting more user friendly by the day.

When UK Prime Minister Brown visited US President Obama he received 25 US DVDs. Of course what nobody at the time thought of were two things: region coding and signal format. Well, it turns out that Brown definitely ran into the region coding problem.

Most commercial DVDs released by movie studios are region coded so that DVDs bought in a certain part of the world only play in DVD players bought in that part of the world. It’s a simple way to ensure that if a movie is released on DVD in North America

The opening credits to “Watchmen” is one of the best credits I’ve seen to date.  It’s unlike most other films in that it educates you to the events leading up to the movie.  Most credit sequences are simply that…credit sequences and it’s rare to find sequences where you can’t pay attention to the titles because there’s simply something far too interesting going on.

Jon also pointed out another great opening credit sequence from “The Kingdom”

Have returned from Snowplate 2009 up in Sudbury. It’s an amazing tournament that I suggest all attend next year. Photos coming soon.

Finally after a year or so I bring you an update.

I am working on a little project to update the platform that this blog/blag runs off of. I also expect to spawn several blogs targeting each specific area of my life: code, Ultimate, photography, and life in general. They will all merge back here on this site as I am working on a new form of blog sharing concept. I have to solidify the design for that before I publish it.

My subwoofer causes disc burning to fail.

Yes, I could drive a car even if my hands were flippers.

Here are all the photos I’ve posted on Flickr:

Days 2 and 3 – On the Beach

Day 4 – San Marino

Freestyle Practice

Paganello – Sunday Night Party

Paganello – Ultimate!

Paganello – Welcome Party

Or, the full collection: Italy 2008 Collection

Normally I wouldn’t post a trailer that’s as slow as this one but…the disco music at the end goes way back to my childhood and I’m hooked on that alone…darn movie companies know exactly how to get my money.

Second last day of practice…let’s see what’s starting to happen.

[Watch some day 6 practice.][1]

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Where’s the sun?! It’s started raining now and it’s supposed to do so over the weekend/tournament. Weren’t many willing to practice today so I did a walk around the city. Of course, the lighting was bad so nothing good to report of…but here’s a video taken of the beach and the shells.

[Watch HD video of the beach and the shells.][1]

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There was a lot of shaky camera work today so I’m posting the only good clip that made it. For the rest I’m going to have to edit heavily before I post it. This clip is also in 720p30 so don’t be surprised by the big window.

[San Marino Quick Look around clip (HD)][1]

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I’m posting a short clip now for each of the days. I plan on putting together a longer movie when I return with much more footage. For now though, enjoy an approximately 30 second recap of the last two days.

[Watch it now!][1]

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Things get boring when you’re sitting around. Here’s some poorly shot video. In better news, I found a power source!

[See shaky video of the terminal.][1]

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Well…things are delayed…probably because of that storm out east. Let’s hope it doesn’t affect this flight. Not much exciting to post but hey, you can see video of me sitting in a terminal.

[Watch exciting video of me doing nooooooooooothing!][1]

[1]: javascript: Launch_flash_player( 219, '/data/videos/2008/italy/waiting_at_yyz.flv', 640, 480 );

I get in moods sometimes.  Moods where I'll be able to write interesting things.  Moods where what I write will mean something.  Moods where I don't feel like writing and what I write doesn't mean much and doesn't read read well.

I've made it a goal to write more and post more to my blag.  You'll experience all the moods with some good writing and quite a bit of bad writing.  Like with everything else that I've done so far:  Practice will make me better.

As for various styles; I'll see what

I purchased a Macbook Pro a few days ago as my old laptop was terribly slow.  Don't get me wrong, old laptops have their uses but over the years I've been taking more photos and video and when I travel I need a laptop that can be used for the purposes of managing, storing, and editing content.  My old laptop used to take 2 hours just to copy 4GB of content whereas my new laptop takes around 5 minutes.

As far as I'm concerned there's very little difference between operating systems. Linus Torvalds