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See the official Lord of the Rings Web site for more details, but we have the regular DVD (and—ugh—VHS) release on August 26, an extended edition on November 18, and, of course, we’re counting down to The Return of the King in theatres on December 17.
Woo-hoo!
For those of you who missed them, here are links to the amusing, and geeky, not-really-for-sale pages from ThinkGeek.com:
Enjoy, and let me know what your favorite item(s) are.
From the Dogbert’s New Ruling Class newsletter:
A co-worker was lamenting the fact that she got a speeding ticket on her way to and from traffic court. She concluded with, “I’ve had such a run of bad luck.”
Kevin Ilsen directed me to www.blockdeath.com. Yes, there are many people with waaaaay too much time on their hands.
I just got back from Kronos’ first-ever Technology Summit. It was a great event, filled with very useful mini-seminars, and mostly free of the “fluff†that seems to plague most corporations’ attempts at such an event.
At any rate, the last seminar I attended was run by a Microsoft consultant, and opened my eyes to just how cool .NET is, and how radically different it is from other Microsoft our-way-or-the-highway approaches to technology.
I’m going to give the ASP .NET Web Matrix Tool (a free product, although the full Visual InterDev .NET is available as trialware) a whirl, if I have time.
Yesterday I went a little out of my way on my way to pick up a package from www.thinkgeek.com at Airborne in Newton, just so I would have the item I ordered to bring into the office today, instead of waiting for it to be shipped to my house today.
This item would have assured my dominance in the hierarchy of Geekdom—although Kevin Miller would probably argue that I need not worry about my position in that respect.
Anyway, the item was indeed as cool as I expected, but guess what I left at home this morning!?
Any takers on guessing what I actually ordered?
It’s going to be a great (and long-awaited) summer for fans of The Matrix. Two parts of a series of animated short sequences have been released (and are available for download or via streaming), with more coming soon. The animation was done by Square, the folks who brought us the luscious Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within film.
See http://forum.mydomain.com/viewtopic.php?t=1537
The mydomain forwarding service is currently experiencing problems and will be taken down temporarily because of a DOS attack. Specifically, the domain, ALJAZEERA.NET, is currently pointed to the mydomain service and causing service problems.
The forwarding pool which usually has an average of 600 connection setups/second this time of the day shot to over 8,000 connection setups per second. As more and more people discovered the new Ip the connections continued to climb. Our A records have 30 minute TTL's and we have propagated a new zone with null values for the problem domain. We will lift our ACL's as soon as we can.