Tada! Told you I'd make one!

Let's see... I read Jurassic Park yesterday. All day. Finished it in less than 12 hours. Was it good? You bet it was good. It has it's (un)healthy portion of Evolution propaganda, but it was very, very good, as all Michael Crichton novels are. It was so incredibly different than the movie. Of course there were some similarities (well, like the name!), but, on the whole, it wasn't anything like the movie. The cerodactyl cage from Jurassic Park 3? That's in the first book... An opening scene from Lost World movie where the girl is munched on by Compys? That's in the first book. Dinosaurs on a cargo ship? That's in the first book. Lex is an annoying little brat in the book, Tim is the older computery kid. Hammond turned out to be an evil powermonger who only cares about money, in the end. Alan Grant is big, bearded, and likes kids. Ellie Sattler is young and is Grant's student, and they are NOT romantically involved. Nedry actually has a motive in which I could understand why he betrayed InGen. The lawyer was actually a rather likeable guy (to me, at least) compared to the sniveling moron in the movie who gets eaten off the toilet. The final fate of the park was NOT completely the fault of Nedry's betrayal... and there were many other shocking moments that I won't mention here. You should go read it! Now. If you don't mind reading violence, heh.

You may have noticed that I haven't posted for a while. Welp, that's because TW's server was broken!! At first, I thought it was some RSS feeds in the administration pages of WordPress, and it turns out they were the symptom, not the problem. It seems that in TW's setting up a DNS for himself, the server inadvertantly saved some parameters that weren't supposed to be saved. The webpage server took that information to heart, so when the DNS problem was corrected, Apache was still affected. After a couple days of troubleshooting (at least on MY part... not sure what TW was doing, the slacker (okay, he's sick... so I'll let him off the hook)), we found a webpage that discussed a similar problem, and told us to stop and start Apache. Not restart. Stop and start. ...and it worked! So now it doesn't take a whole 60 seconds for my pages to appear, and I can make posts again! Yey!

Guess what!! I bought Stargate. All of them. I already have SG-1 Season 8, so I bought Seasons 1 through 7 and then Atlantis Season 1... along with MacGyver Season 5. Set me back a nice amount, but I figured that I should legalize my all-time favorite television series and erase the videos I downloaded. That way, I can free up about 60 gigs of space and not have to buy a new harddrive! Also, Stargate has started to air new episodes! Atlantis rocks, as always... and SG-1 is still stuck in that horrid "oh noez, more false gods" rut with a twist of pseudo-Christianity. Wolfie is not impressed. Not impressed at all. However, I still watch it to keep up with the storyline in case something cool DOES happen, which I doubt.

Also, I'll be gone every weekend for the remainder of this month. This weekend I'm going to grandparents' house while Mom hosts a college reunion here are home. I'll be without broadband and internet access on this computer... so hopefully I'll survive. The next weekend, I think I'm going to my friend's house in Kentucky. I believe that's the opening weekend for Lady in the Water, so we're planning on seeing that while we're down there.

Well, my paws hurt from typing so much... I'm'a gonna take a break and go do somethin' else. See ya!

I've got more Sony news! Surprise-surprise! I promise I'll make an honest lifey post after this!

First off, reported by Kotaku, it seems not even Sony, as a whole, knows exactly what the PS3 is supposed to be! (Digg) Apparently, someone is blaming Kutaragi (creator of the Playstation, and usually seen as very arrogant) of being very obsessed with the latest technology, and doesn't care about the market. Seems he wants the biggest, baddest piece of electronics and he doesn't make it to make customers happy! Anyway, Sony doesn't know what to think of it's own device. Is it a gaming platform? Is it a media platform? Parts of Sony are worrying that the Playstation is blurring the lines between the two, and people want one OR the other... not both.

About.com is reporting on what I, and many others, have been saying all along. High Definition television is too new (Digg), too expensive, and there isn't much incentive to buy into it, yet. They say that by forcing people to buy into HiDef, Sony might very well kill themselves. Nintendo has the uncanny knack for being behind the times in the public's eyes. With the Gamecube, they didn't offer internet multiplayer capability like everyone else did, and everyone was scolding them. (Well, they did add it later, but it wasn't enough to talk about.) With the Wii, they're not offering High Definition video, and everyone was scolding them. But now it seems people are slowly starting to wake up to the fact that... not everyone wants HiDef, yet. Sony forcing Blu-Ray with the PS3 is a very risky, ultimately stupid thing to do, and the fact that they're having nothing but trouble with building it is sealing the deal.

Now for a real "Sony Says"! Joystiq interviewed Phil Harrison (Digg) real quick at a developers conference. They asked him very to the point questions for which they're being chided about, but it's still interesting. Harrison of course claims that he doesn't think Sony is arrogant, but the interesting thing to me was how he said quotes could be taken out of context. He was referring to when Kaz Hirai said Microsoft was copying Sony. Remember that? It was very apparent that Hirai said Microsoft was copying them! How could it possibly have been taken out of context? He said, and I quote:

"Every time we go down a path, we look behind and they're [Microsoft] right there - we just can't shake these guys. I wish that they would come up with some strategies of their own..."

How can that possibly mean anything but "Microsoft copies us... I wish they'd go do their own stuff." It seems that, as of late, there are different parts of Sony saying very different things, and other parts then say something else that contradicts what someone else said. It doesn't at all seem like they're on the same page.