The new romantic comedy, Love Actually, can be described reasonably accurately in terms of the dimensions of the film it came on.

It’s a few millimetres across, far too long, and about as deep as a piece of paper.

That does wrap it up nice and neatly but for anyone who wants a slightly extended review, here goes: there are about 6 plot strands that are vaguely interwoven (i.e. the characters know each other vaguely). The characters in each are poorly acted (with the exception of Alan Rickman – but, you know, he’s Alan Rickman after all), and underdeveloped. You can’t really care that they’re all caught up in love because it’s never built-up or developed on. Everyone is just in love, and you have to both accept and care about it. Nothing is dealt with any further than that. Really.

Don’t see it. Unless you get dragged by a partner, you have no excuses.

It’s about time for another random link post. Because I’ve been tied up with work this week, some of this is old news, but I’ll propagate it anyway.

• Skinning in Seoul – A fascinating look at the things being done with mobiles in the East. I know I want the phone with the built-in TV,
• Regex Blog – A blog about regular expressions. A bit of a dry subject, certainly, but this is the sort of thing that will come in handy for a lot of developers,
• A Life Without Tivo – A child who has never known TV without a PVR thinks any other TV is broken. The marketing people will have a field day,
• Devkit Advance – Programming GameBoy Advances. A bit niche, but interesting,
• Nokia N-Gage cracked – Security on the new N-Gage has been cracked already, allowing games to be run on other mobiles,
• Let Them Sing It For You – Type in some song lyrics, and you’ll get an interpretation back taken from words in other songs. Bizarre,
• Family Guy could be coming back – Excellent news. Due to high DVD sales, Family Guy might be getting revived
• First Galaxy Jedi – In the new MMORPG Star Wars: Galaxies, the first Jedi have appeared. Within hours, a bounty was on their heads. Very appropriate,
• FOAFFinger – Using FOAF to provide a rich fingering repository (no jokes, please),
• Ninja Monkeys – And finally, some pictures of my friends and I pulling ninja poses in the 3rd year computing lab of Glasgow University. Why? Why not.

Some really good stuff today. Enjoy.

Finally finished this week’s assignment, so I’ll be doing a link post later (from home). I couldn’t wait to post this though.

Easy CSS drop shadows provides a way of doing decent drop shadows for images, with no redundant markup. Very nice.

Better though is the hilarious picture of the waving cat. I laughed for a good ten minutes.

It has been brought to my attention that the UGC RSS feeds are broken. Unfortunately, I won’t have any time to fix it until next week at the earliest. Sorry for any inconvenience caused, I’ll get on it as soon as I can.

Up until relatively recently, I didn’t think I had a strong mental block (except whilst sitting in exam rooms). As can be inferred, it turns out I do.

For me, it is absolutely bizarre and foreign. Not being able to think about something (for whatever reason) is just so very odd. You start vaguely thinking about the subject and forming questions, but before they get anywhere it’s all gone. Nothing quite like it.

It irritates and interests me. Thinking about it clearly doesn’t help (and neither does not thinking about it). What can one do?