something geeky this way comes
Thursday, May 5th, 2011Oh boy, oh boy… my iPad 2 is almost here. I’ve been watching the FedEx updates on my phone and laptop for the past two weeks. She started off in Shenzen, China, made a quick stop in Lantau Island, Hong Kong, brief stop in Anchorage, Alaska, then quickly into Memphis, TN, arrived this morning in Philadelphia, PA and now she is just minutes away in Mt. Laurel, NJ. How did I happen to get an iPad 2? One of excellent customers purchased it for me, the iPad 2 will be awesome with the upcoming HTML5 projects I’ll be working on. ***NEWS FLASH – IT’S ON THE TRUCK!
Yesterday for that very same customer, I was stuck with a conundrum. We have a large media summit planned for this month. My task is to make all the web technologies work for the folks that can not attend the conference live. Ergo, I’m building the webpages and stuff – one tricky item is that since this is a faith based organization, a live chat during the presentations would have to be moderated. Now finding PHP/Flash/jQuery chats are easy, you can barely throw a rock in a schoolyard without hitting one. But moderated… now that’s a little tricky. I did find one script, plunked down the $7 for the script, but it was using SQLite and after spinning wheels with the script long enough – I cut my loses and wrote my own jQuery/PHP/MySQL moderated chat script from scratch. I’m hoping to actually use it on this fine website soon (among other places). Very excited about this project altogether too. I get to work with a dynamic group of REALLY smart folks. I’m learning lots.
Oh and that chat script? It’s going to be called vvvChat, after me and my kids’ first names… not the first time I’ve used that…
Movie Review…
The Fighter
– great film, really solid performances by Bale, Adams, and Wahlberg. BUT… HOW THE HELL DO YOU MAKE A FILM ABOUT MICKEY WARD AND NOT INCLUDE THE GATTI FIGHTS?!?! Are you insane? I just can not imagine anyone thinking this was a wise choice. The film did fantastic at the box office and won Academy Awards, but two of those three fights were voted the fight of the year by Ring Magazine. The film is great, but that small part of me that is still a boxing fan was insulted.
Small Business/Tech Links…
Funny/Interesting Links…
- President Bush Reacts to Osama Bin Laden’s Death with Will Ferrell
- There are plenty of Osama-Obama mistakes in the news reporting lately, but this one might be the best.
- Finger Nose
- Project Neon
– Catherine Deneuve is unbelievably great in this 60s film detailing a decent into crazy. In a lot of ways, this stark honesty of this film is a million times more creepy and uncomfortable than any of the gorefest low-brow horror movies made more recently. Thanks to Adam for the recommendation.
– Duval and Bill Murray are great and this film is decent, but I am not folks would have been talking about this if it wasn’t for the wonderful acting. The story is fairly interesting and the bluegrass soundtrack keeps the pace sort of moving along.
– it’s formulaic, it’s pretty predictable – but honestly, this is the best film M. Night Shyamalan has made since Unbreakable (yes, I thought Signs and everything else he made other than Sixth Sense sucked). The acting is good, the directing is decent, the script is so-so… wait, it turns out Shyamalan did not direct this film, he only provided the script… well, so-so is an improvement over The Lady in the Water. As popular as it is to pile on the bad reviews on Shyamalan, I would like to see him improve and I’ll take this mediocre film as a step in the right direction.
