Terminator 3 surprised me somewhat. It played the mix of action and comedy perfectly: a lot of the former, a smidgen of the latter. Without taking itself completely seriously, it still did a good job of updating the skynet world.

My biggest problem with it is the changed premise (something that should be avoided in any series) which is unconvincingly explained later, particularly given the reasons for pulling the “happy” ending from T2 (anyone who has the Ultimate Edition DVD can watch it.) It doesn’t get in the way too much, however.

What I enjoyed most was the action sequences. No clever special effects, no highly stylised martial arts, just robots throwing each other around like the brutes they are. Fantastic.

Worth seeing, especially in anticipation for the inevitable T4.

Yes, time for some more random links, from random places… randomly.

The Copyright Cage is a long article about peculiarites in the copyright system, how arbitary it is, and how copyright law is being shifted away from society. Worth slogging through.

Over on Digital Web, Dave Shea is defending Fehrner Image Replacement. It uses powerful examples, way beyond the scope that I’d thought was possible from the technique. This could be something worth playing with some more.

There is an interesting article on Idle Words about the RSS “conflict”, or lack of.

And finally, trained hawks attack a dog. Fun.

Up until now, I’ve been waiting before adding support for Atom, despite working on the project since the beginning. Well, I’m waiting no more.

Support has been added in the form of my Atom feed. Just need to hope it validates at the feed validator.

It does validate!

I know I’ve changed my permalinks before and really don’t like changing them at all, but today I finally got around to doing the work that allows them to be the way I want them to be.

They no longer have crufty parts, and each permalink goes to a page with that item and that item alone (previously it was a page containing any items from that day). So they’re now in the form: /Archives/YEAR/MONTH/DAY/TITLE. No closing extensions, no ids.

And since I couldn’t have my permalinks breaking, all previous forms of permalink still work and should continue to do so. Real content coming later, perhaps.

A day or two ago, I introduced a very subtle change to this site. Go on, see if you can spot it. Done? For those weak of eye, the XML button I had is now a “Sub” button. What is that and what does it do? Read on.

The Syndication subscription service is a way for sites to help their users subscribe to their RSS feeds, for whatever aggregator they use. By simply clicking on a Sub link, they are taken to a page which lets them pick the aggregator they use and hands off the subscription process to their app; making it easy to subscribe to any feed that uses the process.

So far, so simple. Unfortunately, I offer two RSS feeds (excluding the 3.0 feed). I don’t want two buttons. So, to get round this, I used the OPML support in the subscription service. Now, if you click on my sub button, you’ll be able to pick the RSS flavour of your choice and then your aggregator.

At some point, I might add my blogroll to the OPML file, but that’s for another day.