Archive for March, 2009

March 23, 2009

Battlestar Galactica Final Episode

by Josh at 8:20 pm

Consider this fair warning… There will be spoilers below.  So, if you haven’t seen the episode and care about such things, stop reading now.
First, let me say that I mostly enjoyed the final episode.  The first half of it was great, after that it went progressively downhill.  I think that the episode was undone by [...]

March 14, 2009

Weekly Links (weekly)

by Josh at 7:35 pm

Setting up Plone 3.2 and Repoze, hackyish
The title pretty much says it all. I was actually trying to do this last week.
tags: repoze, plone, software, web

Home - Apatar – Open Source Data Integration & ETL
An open source tool for data mashups. Kind of like an open source yahoo pipes. Has plugins available for salesforce, [...]

March 9, 2009

Watchmen… ok.

by Josh at 7:54 pm

[Spoilers below.]
After I had finished watching Watchmen at the drive-in, a friend with no knowledge of the book asked, “How did the rest of them get their superpowers?”  (Note: This is a paraphrase for those who were there.)  It was at that point that I realized that the movie Watchmen had fundamentally missed the point [...]

March 7, 2009

Merlot Lettuce

by Josh at 3:51 pm

This is the first addition to the garden for the year.  I bought the plants today from the community garden.  It’s called Merlot Lettuce and you can probably tell why from the picture.  They should be ready to eat in about a month and a half.

March 5, 2009

Am I Watching the Watchmen?

by Josh at 7:35 pm

The answer is: probably, yes.  Do I expect it to be good?  Unfortunately, no.  I’m pretty much expecting the worst case scenario.  There’s such a thing as being too faithful to source material and I think that will be a problem with Watchmen.  I know that many would disagree with me, but I think that [...]