HybridLogic

If you were to read the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes you would get the impression that 10,000 B.C. is one of the worst films to appear this year. With an average score of 10% from the Critics it is well and truly in the rotten department. The Community score is higher at 35% but still undeserving in my own opinion.

I Am Legend left me feeling unsure of how I felt about it. On the one hand it's another basic action film from Hollywood with heavy use of CGI, big name actor and a basic plot. But unlike the vast majority of the other drivel out right now, it feels like a deeper movie, as if it actually has some backbone for once.

Paranoia is one of those unusual mods that seems to just spring up out of nowhere. While some mod teams for Half Life 2 delight in posting render after render, the old-faithful HL1 developers take decidedly longer but potentially release something worthy of even Valve itself. Paranoia, developed by a group in Russia, takes the Half Life GoldSrc engine and gives it a full makeover. The results are impressive.

To be honest, I should have finished this review a long time ago. I played this Half Life 1 mod back in October now and the only thing that's jogged my memory recently is the screenshots I put up on Flickr. And it isn't fair, because this is actually a pretty damn good mod with a lot going for it.

This post is just going to be one long list, detailing all the things I love and hate about both Windows XP and Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon in an effort to help me decide which one to use as my primary OS. You can draw your own conclusions and feel free to criticise my choices, anything to help me find the better fit. So, on with the list.

I'll be brutally honest; I've used Windows computers for most of my life, I use them at work and at home. I've dabbled in other OSs, using knoppix to partition drives, playing around on Macs and running many a live cd over the years. And yet none have ever really struck me as a viable alternative to Windows. Has the latest and great distro of Linux, Ubuntu, managed to shake that feeling?

For thirty days every winter the small town of Barrow in northern Alaska sees no sunlight, only perpetual darkness remains. It's the perfect winter retreat for a bunch of vampires looking for some good old fashioned fun. With the residents cut off from all outside help it seems like easy pickings, but then the prey puts up a fight. 30 Days of Night is one of those films with a fresh idea but that could have been executed so much better.

It's been a long time since I've read the original Bourne trilogy, started by Ludlum almost thirty years ago now. Here was a book with a plot so complex and characters so detailed you could be forgiven for thinking Ludlum had some inside knowledge of CIA operations. So when the films started rolling out I watched them with trepidation, hoping Hollywood hadn't butchered a masterpiece for some quick cash. I was not disappointed.

I've written before about my troubles with comment spam and gave a few metrics as to how my system had been performing before but it's now been working for almost two months and I thought it high time to show just how well it's been holding up. Firstly some performance tables.