The biggest benefit of completely ignoring anything to do with The Matrix Reloaded before I went to see it was that I really enjoyed it.

If you haven’t already seen it, be aware that there is a trailer for the third film, Revolutions, after all the credits have finished rolling :)

Best Character: Link

Worst Character: Nayomi – wasted opportunity

Best Bit: The implications about Zion.

Worst Bit: Not seeing more of Trinity naked :(

Overall: Good film, but could have done with more plot.

For a better discussion see Dave Hyatt’s weblog, though I am sure there are many others!

Watching The Matrix Reloaded tonight :)

I don’t rant much, but this story really gets to me. What are these teachers thinking? Don’t they realise that they world is a competitive place?! Hiding a child from it won’t make them better at coping with it later in life either.

As for failure… Everyone fails at something and most of us fail at something regularly. School sports day is a good place to learn to accept defeat gracefully and understand that competing and doing your best is important. How can we instill the drive to win if we don’t accept that to win, someone else has to lose?

Grrr…

Mark:

“My ring feels very strange. I?ve been twiddling with it all day and now it?s chafing. Also, it?s difficult to type, because it keeps catching my eye. Luckily we?re off to the honeymoon in 12 hours, where there will be no computers, no blogging, no typing of any kind. Presumably by the time we get back, it?ll feel normal.

Back in June.”

I know what he means. It took me a while to get used to my wedding ring and now it’s part of me.

Last night Georgina and I went out for a drink with me expecting to see a few local friends down t’pub. When we get there it turns out that Georgina has invited the whole world! Fortunately only 20 or so out of 4ish billion turned up. I had a great time chatting and not having to buy a round :)

The cake Georgina had got was also great – shaped like a computer funnily enough!

Thanks to Ross too for doing all the legwork :)

Yesterday afternoon I assembled a chest of drawers for Jon’s room. Today I’m doing a bookcase for him. The new colour is beech and matches his bed. Looks good.

Also, I managed to break the dimmer switch controlling the lounge lights, so a quick trip to Homebase later, we have a new switch. We inherited the dimmer with the house, so this time we have a normal switch – much better :)

Read all about it here.

The laptop has been getting slower and slower, so it’s time for a reinstall. The only question is what will I forget to back up?

Today I said goodbye to my youth… I can no longer pretend that I am closer to my teens than to middle age.

The wake will be held at The Stag’s Head this lunchtime.

The time has come when I finally have to learn Macromedia’s Flash and it’s scripting language (ActionScript). How hard can it be?

All I want to do is dynamically change the speed of a dot that’s moving along a line and as noone else in the company seems to know how to do it, I’ll do it myself!