http://everburning.com the taste of nonsense and chaos Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:21:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en No, not the album by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the TV show with David Duchovny. I picked this one up while in Seattle as my hotel room actually has a DVD player. (I also got Rescue Me and MI-5 as they had a buy two get one free deal.) I've ... http://everburning.com/news/californication/ As you may or may not know, I'm back in Seattle again for a couple weeks for work. I think this is actually my first Seattle trip where it isn't grey and wet. The weather today is sunny and clear and reported to be more of the same tomorrow (although ... http://everburning.com/news/the-weary-traveler/ You know, I liked this book. If you had asked me when I initially started reading you probably would have gotten a different answer. The one main issue I had through the book was the short sentence writing style. Everything is short sentences. That's the one thing that drove me ... http://everburning.com/news/book-review-the-mirrored-heavens/ So, Stacy is participating in the Clarion West Write-A-Thon this year. If you'd like to sponsor her you can head over to her post and see how you can pay pal it up. Clarion was a great experience for her last year (at least it seems that way to me) and ... http://everburning.com/news/for-the-wordsmiths/ I bought Stacy a book on ideas for free writing exercises a while ago. She did a couple then it got back-burnered. Well, I finally convinced her to pick it up again, and post the results on her blog. The first one is available now. I really liked this story. And ... http://everburning.com/news/i-think-i-can-fly/ I convinced Stacy to see another superhero flick on the weekend. I think the fact that Edward Norton is the star helped with that a bit. Anyway, while her opinion will differ, and I think it's biased by her views going in, this movie was really well done. The animation is ... http://everburning.com/news/the-incredible-hulk/ Well, 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons has been released. I've been waiting for this for a while now and had the box set on order from Amazon since February. There are a lot of changes in this edition. We'll have to give a play to determine which are good and ... http://everburning.com/news/d-and-d-the-4th/ Filling in the last half of my flight to Seattle was The Bucket List. I'd never heard of this film before which is kind of surprising as Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman star. It's also surprising as it's really fucking good. I picked it on a lark but I was really, ... http://everburning.com/news/the-bucket-list/ Not sure how I feel about this one. I watched it on the plane on the way to Seattle and I don't think I would have watched it otherwise. The idea of the film is interesting, you sort of learn little bits of new information as you see each 'vantage ... http://everburning.com/news/vantage-point/ Stacy and I went to see Kung Fu Panda on Friday night. I really liked this movie. The animation was well done, the story was good and there are a lot of high profile voice actors who do a really good job. If you've been hesitant to see a new movie ... http://everburning.com/news/kung-fu-panda/ Thank bog. This book was excellent. Totally washed away the funk left by Spook Country. Go, read Little Brother. Go. I'm talking to you, go. Fine, you don't want to pay for it, go read it for free (legally even). Just go read it. This was one of those books that at ... http://everburning.com/news/book-review-little-brother/ The video from LayerOne has been posted to YouTube. For the one person that's maybe, kinda, interested, you can see my Exploit-Me: Firefox Plug-ins for Application Penetration Testing. The slides in the video are a bit hard to read but you can grab a PDF copy off the LayerOne archive ... http://everburning.com/news/im-on-the-intertubes/ So, I was reading Slashdot today and came across a story in the Vancouver Sun about the ACTA: Copyright deal could toughen rules governing info on iPods, computers. This kinda pissed me off so I decided to, you know, actually exercise some of those rights I have and wrote an ... http://everburning.com/news/my-angry-letter-to-the-government/ I do a lot of programming in my spare time. I enjoy programming so that kind of makes sense. During University we had to take courses in algorithm design. At the time I wasn't really into it but after spending a few years in the field, as it were, I've ... http://everburning.com/news/tech-books-the-algorithm-design-manual/ I've had Spook Country on my shelf for a while now. I've read a bunch of William Gibson books but my interest has been waining. I was pretty put off after reading Pattern Recognition but I thought, hey, this is the author of Neuromancer, how can I go wrong? Well, wrong ... http://everburning.com/news/book-review-spook-country/