Recent Reviews

• Iron Man: A Brief Review

  My daughter and I saw “Iron Man” last night.  Starring three of my favorite actors (Robert Downey, Jr., Jeff Bridges, and Gwyneth Paltrow) and featuring a rating of 93% on rottentomatoes.com, I was actually looking forward to see the movie.  Yes, my initial reaction to hearing about yet another comic book being turned into [...]

  May 9th, 2008

• My Updated List of the Top Ten Movies of 2007

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  As a person with a real life, I was not able to see as many movies in 2007 as I would have liked. Nevertheless, here is my Top Ten list of movies I have seen that were released in 2007. The links provided are for the movie website rottentomatoes.com. And [...]

  March 1st, 2008

• FeedDemon and NetNewsWire are now FREE

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  Looking for the perfect desktop feedreader?  Look no further.  FeedDemon and NetNewsWire are now free.  I have sung the praises of FeedDemon before, and even bought the program a little over a year ago for $15.00 on sale because none of the other free desktop feedreaders were up to snuff as far as [...]

  January 9th, 2008

• Hot Fuzz and 28 Weeks Later: Movie Reviews

  On Tuesday I was able to watch two movies I have been looking forward to seeing:  Hot Fuzz (from the creators of the hilarious Shaun of the Dead, which poked fun of zombie movies) and 28 Weeks Later (which is the sequel to the zombie-redefining movie 28 Days Later). 
  Hot Fuzz was a funny film that [...]

  May 17th, 2007

• A Blog Worth Reading

  Wife in the North is one of the best new blogs I have ever read.  The catch line reads “Just how grim can it get up north? Very. One woman’s lonely journey into the Northern heartlands,” In her description of herself, Country Wife writes:
  Moving to Northumberland from London was not my idea. My husband was [...]

  January 21st, 2007

• Free Desktop RSS Readers - Updates and A Caveat

  Update: Since the publication of this post on December 11, there have been a couple of changes which warrant this update. First of all, Jetbrains, the folks behind Omea (reviewed below) and Omea Pro, have decided to take these projects in the world of Open Source Software. This is welcome news. Even more welcome, however, [...]

  January 1st, 2007

• Hooked on Heroes

  Every fall the television networks begin their programming years, and most of the new shows meet with a collective “so what” from the viewing public.  This response is to be expected when much of what is programmed is little more than crap (to use the more polite term).  It has been no different this year, with [...]

  November 15th, 2006

• Little Miss Sunshine - A Review

  To be blunt, Little Miss Sunshine is one of the most disappointing films that I have seen in a couple of years. And perhaps that is my mistake since I went to the cinema with high expectations given what I had read and seen about the movie in reviews and conversations. If some films can [...]

  October 11th, 2006

• Heroes Series Premiere - A Review

  I don’t know how anyone can review this new TV series without also referring to M. Night Shyamalan’s film Unbreakable, in which Bruce Willis’ character slowly discovers that he is, in fact, a superhero of comic book proportions. I loved the movie (especially Samuel L. Jackson), and I really liked tonight’s premiere of Heroes on [...]

  September 26th, 2006

• Desktop RSS Readers for Windows - Comparisons and Reviews

  This post about Desktop RSS Readers. I know that many of you primarily use on-line readers such as Bloglines, Newsgator Online, Netvibes and Google Reader. So t if you like using an online service and don’t want or need to download your feeds to your computer, then this post is not for you. I, on [...]

  September 25th, 2006