Burt Wonderstone is an upcoming film featuring Jim Carrey, Steve Buscemi and Steve Carell about the two longtime stage partners breakup and the arrival of a new “hip” street magician.
Sneak peaks look fantastic.
via imdb
Netflix for UK
Out of nowhere, Netflix just landed in the UK, rivalling longtime assholes Lovefilm. I’ve just signed up for their 30 day trial, and at £6/month for all you want TV/Movies (from their not-so-amazing but okaaaay library) it beats Lovefilm’s shitty £10/month disc rental method with limited shitty streaming that buffers all the time. It’ll be great competition rivalry though.
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Thailand, AU & NZ
Just shelled out a lot clams for my trip with Rouzie to Thailand, Australia and New Zealand. It’s cool though. Will be well worth it. Haven’t been back home in ages, and plus i’ve a good friend getting married in Auckland so that’s all good.
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2012
It’s been a while since the last post. Many things have changed too.
- it’s now a new year
- I moved into a new flat
- I now own crystal (thanks parents)
- built a hdmpc from scratch for under £170
Korn + Dubstep
Korn released a new album a couple weeks ago, not their greatest work. However, as an instrumental it sounds pretty good. They released all of their new tracks as ‘stems’ or multitrack. I downloaded them and cut out the vocals.
New flat, no internet
At the end of October I moved from Tulse Hill into East Dulwich.
Living with other people has had it’s time, living in Tulse Hill (Knifers Paradise) was way too much stress for a little kiwi. So i’ve moved to a calm area by myself, albeit with way too many prams. East Dulwich has a nice chilled-out vibe, good selection of pubs, great restaurants, and down-to-earth people.
Virgin Media were supposed to provide me with cable internet at the start of December, but couldn’t follow through as they had to dig up the road, which proved to be ‘too expensive’.
So, I’ve gone back to my original ADSL ISP (internet guys) which still wont be ready until February. However, I will have internet and be back online. They reckon it’ll be a 6mbit connection though.
Until then. Sorry for no updates.
OS X notifications
On the cusp of the iOS release, due today or any day now, iOS notifications is a great visual notification system on iPhone/iPad. However, OS X doesn’t have a native notification system. Growl is the closest thing we have as a notification system, however it is a 3rd party addon, and is now commercially sold in the AppStore for $1.99
Hopefully, the iOS notification system will come over to OS X, in Lion later in future updates. But realistically it will be released in the next paid-for update.
I’m surprised Apple haven’t bought Growl.
Amazon to buy webOS?
Remember that fantastic day when HP announced it was scrapping their newly developed tablet, and selling them off for a mere £80?
Well when that happened I thought, Amazon should buy the OS and run it as an iOS & Android competitor. Google has Android, Apple has iOS and Amazon, now with their tablet announced – it sure could use it’s own OS.
Looks like this _may_ be happening (it’s still a rumor – but still)…
via Lifehacker
Mac Bluray Ripper Pro (for Mac)
I paid about £20 for this great software about a year ago to backup my Bluray discs to HDD so I can watch them anytime without having to take them out of their jackets and fast forward the ads.
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Portugal (in 30 minutes)
I made the decision last minute to join my mate Joel over in Portugal on Wednesday evening after a couple of jars. I ummed and arghed about it for ages, but finally decided that I should go. It’s the end of the summer, i haven’t had a lot of chances to surf, weather had been quite poor in London, I’ve always intended on going to Portugal, girlfriend was working late nights on a film set and I had the time already booked off. It all seemed to make sense.
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