Birth

Birth (2004)

A controversial movie, starring Nicole Kidman, who plays a woman convinced that a 10 year old boy is the reincarnation of her dead husband.

Rach and I managed to see only half of this movie, for one reason or another - but it certainly looked like an interesting one.  Next time it comes up on the movie channel, it's on the list! :)

Madagascar

Madagascar (2005)

This is a really enjoyable film - another animated film which is watchable for adults as well as kids.

This is Jude's current favourite movie, as judged by the fact that every night when I come home, he walks over to me and says 'watch madagascar', and the other fact that he's already watched it twice while I've been at work.

Chemo

Jude is just about finished the most hardcore phase of his treatment. We are really hopeful that it will all finish successfully, and then he can just go to monthly blood tests and lumbar punctures.

He lost all his hair about 3 weeks ago, Rach put him in the shower, and literally washed his hair off!

He had a huge day of chemo today, along with a lumbar puncture - and Rach has to give him some injections for the next 4-5 days. They gave us the chemo to take home in a little polystyrene box - just like a mini esky - although the nurses didn't recommend we use it for our food on the way home. ;)

Suse 10

Ok - I had to return my laptop to work the other day, after my company got audited by Microsoft. After uninstalling a bunch of Office software, the machine was returned to me - with a clean image of Windows XP.

I decided to try and dual-boot it, with Suse 10. Unfortunately Grub couldn't handle the configuration of the partitions - which made life a little interesting. Looks like I've lost my XP now. Well, it didn't, until I formatted the bastard a couple of hours ago and decided to just go the hog and just live with Suse. :)

So far so good, it's going nicely, thanks very much. Had some interesting fun with the ethernet configs, but as soon as I set my own one up - no problemo.

The 40 Year Old Virgin

I really think Steve Carrell could be a serial killer. Just kidding. He is spectacularly funny, and he does a great job as the title character of this film.

I laughed, a lot - ok, which isn't really that high a bar, but some of the jokes were just too much.

See it - 8/10.

Enron: The smartest guys in the room

This is an interesting movie. It chronicles the last 3 years of Enron.


There was quite a bit of it that I didn't know, and some of the things were just amazing. The amount of rorting that went on was just unbelievable. And the accountants (Arthur Andersen) who went and shredded 1 tonne of paper when Enron went pear shaped.

I really enjoyed this film, it's not so much a cinematic experience, as a documentary chronicling the demise of a once amazing company. Worth a watch.

7/10

Very Big Kev...

I'm excited.

I just got my hands on a copy of the new Keane album, Under the Iron Sea. For those of you who care, I will be downloading it from the iTunes music store when it is released here in Australia.

I've already heard two songs off the album, and feel comfortable enough to give them some feedback. I will listen to the rest of the album over the next week or so and continue to update as I go along. I've found that most of their work needs about 5 or so listens before it really makes me think about a week later 'Now, what was that Keane song I was listening to the other day.'

I'm not helped that this frigging keyboard space bar is working intermittently. ARGH!

Backlog.

I've had not a lot of time on the train recently, with Jude going to hospital every day for the past 2 weeks, but when I stayed at the hospital on Wednesday and Thursday night, I managed to get a bunch of listening done. 

I'm still waiting for quiet un-interrupted time for the more challenging ones (Ockhams Razor and The Science Show), and I managed to get through the Nova 969 ones on Friday night.

Hold that thought, got to put Jude to bed.

Happy Birthday Little Man

Dear Jack,
It is your first birthday today, and you have brought both Rachael and I much joy.

You have had a big year, and we all have as a family.

With much love, we wish that this is the first of many great years ahead for you, little mandingo.

Mum, Dad and Jude.