You Gotta See "Hoodwinked"

Trust me on this one. The critics didn't like this and I wasn't too excited to see it, but I took my kids to see it anyway. We ended up laughing through the whole movie. Definite future DVD purchase for the family.

My New Position Announced (sort of)

Okay, so I got this new position at the church - I've been promoted! See the company newsletter? Yay, Me. - Oh, wait - just a minute. Dang. It says MAX Maxwell - not Matt. I knew that I couldn't trust that Max guy!

New Redesigned Intel Logo

Hmm. Sort of a boring new Intel logo. At least the old logo had something memorable about it. The new version joins the ranks of the kajillions of other logos that are surrounded by an orbit swoop. Kinda sad. -But what do I know? I guess they had their reasons.

Maybe they hired these guys to do their logo (note that there are THREE long web pages of swoop logos). Here are more swoosh links: Link 1, Link 2.

And finally, a funny site that pokes fun at swoosh-wielding designers. Note the links on the last page in the sequence on this site.

Finally Got OS X Tiger

I bought Apple OS X for my Powerbook and for the most part it's worth the money. The Widgets were cool at first and I downloaded a million of them, but one by one I realized that most of them were unnecessary and I ended up with just a few. They seemed to be hogging my processor. What is really nice is Spotlight. Basically it is a search tool for your local files that works great. As you type the search terms, the list dynamically changes and the thing I am looking for ALWAYS ends up at the top of the list - it's almost spooky.

EyeTV EZ

My Mac is now also my TV - and my video game console - and a DVR. This new product from elgato.com costs only $150 and lets you connect a tv antenna, svideo, or RCA media jacks to your Mac. It also functions as a DVR - sort of. You can't pause live tv, but you can schedule recordings and your Mac will automatically turn on and record them.