The thing about Cradle 2 the Grave that is most gauling is not that it has a number in place of a letter in an effort to be “street”. Or that it has the worst tagline of the year (“Born 2 the Life. True 2 the code. Bad 2 the bone”). Or that the direction is, at best, piss poor. Or even that the plot is flimsier than OJ Simpson’s defence (everyone is allowed one OJ joke per year) and gets progressively worse as time goes on.

No, the worst point is that, after lots of expectation, the final fight between Jet Li and Mark Dacascos is so boring. You have two of the best living martial artist actors fighting each other and still you get they audience yawning. Something is very wrong with that.

As of today, this site no longer uses expat-style parsing of the XML files that make up the back-end of the site. Instead, it now uses a convoluted (but much faster) tree-come-element-value-pair-type parser.

What does this mean for you, my fine readers? Not a lot. Other than that the layout of entries can be changed much faster than before. Everything is now separated from everything else: Content, Mark-up, meta-data, style, templates. They all exist separately.

Actually, if you look closely, you’ll notice that the date for each entry is part of the heading for that entry, rather than being next to it.

Tim Bray has an interesting piece on his site simply entitled Truth. I especially like the last paragraph.

Too many people, these days, take truth and integrity lightly. To me, a promise is something that you do not break. Ever. For any reason.

Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind is an odd film. Beginning as the tale of real game show creator, Chuck Barris , it starts to deviate from reality. Or does it?

Although nothing has been (or will be) confirmed in reality, it’s unlikely that Mr Barris was really a CIA trained assassin. But because the question can’t be answered, it reminds me somewhat of Adaptation.

Both films begin to blur the reality that we are faced with in the cinema. “Is what we are seeing real or is it fiction?” is no longer the question. It’s what pieces really happened and which didn’t. With more than a hint of truth in every lie, it’s hard to tell the exact concentration of reality we’re seeing.

In the dying hour of the day, it seemed appropriate to post this link to the 100 best April Fools Day hoaxes ever.

Via Simon Willison (The boy does content good).