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Threshold’s new video from their latest album, Dead Reckoning. Isn’t it nice how a good rock band can make a good video? Only in Europe… Stupid eMpTyV. It’s a really great song – I can’t wait to get the CD.

First up and coinciding with the release of the last novel a few weeks later, we have v5 of Harry Potter - Order of the Phoenix. Definitely the darkest of the series and by far the longest. It looks like David Yates is taking the director helm this time around, who I unfortunately know none of his previous work. I think he had a huge challenge with this one (more so than other the previous directors) because of the information not conveyed in Goblet of Fire and how much ground he has to cover with this one....

What a fantastic movie! Just got around to watching it. In my opinion, much better than ‘Goodfellas,’ which is a feat unto itself. We also saw ‘Stranger Than Fiction’ last weekend. Will Ferrel should do more movies like this. He really is a great actor that could branch out if he wanted to. Anyway, let me conclude this short post with a nice picture from the Cherry Blossom festival.

The bestselling series will finally have its conclusion this July (21st specifically). While the series has its detractors, which are probably louder and more numerous only on account of its popularity, I think you must admit it has been a satisfying series. Rowling has done a great job evolving the story from something simplistic enough for a child to something tacking real serious issues like racism, bigotry, and the evolution from adolescent to adult without painting a rosy picture....

This weekend saw the annual explosion of white and pink around the Tidal Basin and National Mall – blooming of the Cherry Blossoms. We when down on Friday evening, which was a good plan because it avoided most of the tourists that flock to the city for this weekend. I would say it was mostly locals roaming the mall. It actually a pleasant evening, so it was nice to get around without having to be bundled up....

So I took the plunge. Couldn’t help my self. Things look good so far. I’ll keep you posted. I really like the keyword based galleries. I’ll now have to update all the images. The crappy part is that I’ve already categorized all my images in iMatch… I wish I could just export that. Update – Yay! I got things working. Now clicking on the image brings up a lightbox version of the image (looks actually quite nice)....

First off, for anyone who listens to Foo Fighters, I’m hooked on their song ‘Best of You’. How does this relate to the rest of their music? I’ve probably heard their songs on XM, but nothing really stands out. ‘Best of You’ is a great song – I’m curious if I should pick up an album. And ironically, I also really like Nelly Furtado’s ‘Say it Right’… its not a great song but the melody is definitely catchy....

I did a little clean up on the wpg2 plugin so now all the links go to my gallery rather than an embedded page (much better now) as well as clean up a little security issue =) FYI, Gallery 2.2.1 was just released, however I haven’t upgraded yet. Things are settled now (even though there are quite a few features I would like to use now), I think I’ll let the release simmer for a before taking the plunge....

How much data do you generate per year? I am not including things that you download (music, movies, applications, etc). I’m referring to things you produce yourself… This could be pictures, movies, documents – anything that if you lost it, it would be gone forever. Almost a year ago I got an Infrant ReadyNAS NV, and plugged in some drives to create a 800GB Raid 5 network attached storage. Right now I’m up to 9% (around 81 GB)....

I’ve have struggled through driver hell trying to get Beryl to work with my graphics card an ATI Mobility 9600, only to be rebuffed, defeated, and vowing never to buy an ATI product as long as I live. If I had a desktop, I would have been on Newegg ordering a replacement weeks ago, but unfortunately, constrained with laptop hardware (where ATI has the dominant marketshare), I am left cursing ATI’s dismal driver support (and I hear from Jeff it’s even a problem with their Window’s drivers, which is even more unbelievable)....