Movies

There are a whole lot of movies in my collection that I have yet to see. The current list includes ‘Casablanca’, ‘Dishonorable Lady’ with Heddy Lamar, ‘What Women Want’, ‘Lantana’, ‘The Italian Job’ as well as numerous years worth of Tropfest. ‘The Italian Job II’ is on it’s way – one more thing to watch.

One DVD that I have seen is ‘Tron’. The movie has dated terribly, and the plot could have been improved. But for the time it really was groundbreaking. My copy is autographed by a friend of mine – Bill Kovacs. [I found out a couple of months back that the friend from New Zealand whos farm I stayed on in December also worked on the movie. I will have to get him to sign it too]. Bill gained an acadamy award a few years back for his work with computer graphics. A photo of Bill appears below, taken in 2002 in Hollywood.

Election

According to the AEC WWW Site, right now about 38% if the vote has been counted. Labour has 55% right now, and the next closest is an independant with 8.5% of the vote. Since the liberal party did not stand, this is not surprising. OK. It is now a bit later and with about 76% counted, with results in from all the booths, the percentage for labour is the same.

Programming

Today I have been doing a small amount of programming. Mostly it has been testing some code, but there have needed to be some small changes made to allow some improved functionality. I guess that does not mean much but there are some commercial factors I would rather not mention in case a competitor finds this page and starts reading. From what I can work out, very few people actually visit this blog so I don’t think I have too much to wory about, but it is better to be safe than sorry.

Last night I sent off some work to be outsourced. There are times that I would prefer to write a quick specification and get someone else to write the code under a fixed price quote than write it myself. This is either because I dont have the time or I would get a better job getting someone else to do the work. When I get someone else to do the work, the debugging is mostly done so that reduces my stress levels significantly. I save more money than it costs normally.

Easter

Apart from the normal easter church things, I am planning to do a big cleanup. I will be taking a few loads of junk to the local tip. This is a nice house, but it does let you accumulate rubbish. There is too much plain junk here. Stuff that I dont need that can be thrown out. Bricks, wood, steel, cardboard. The list just goes on. Chemicals, car batteries, paints. Some of this can be recycled, and other stuff just needs to be thrown out.

Depending on how energetic I feel I might even get rid of the compost heap and put the compost onto the grass on the front. The lawn is not too bad out there but it could do with some help in places.