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The Informant!

Posted by John in Blog, Reviews on September 28, 2009

The Informant! is like a much less funny, and much more sad version of Burn After Reading.  Matt Damon gives a great performance in his portrayal of Mark Whitacre as he trips his way through several years of FBI investigation as an informant against the company he works for. Read the rest of this entry »

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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (3D)

Posted by John in Blog, Reviews on September 27, 2009

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (3D) is an incredibly fun movie for everyone to enjoy.  The film follows Flint Lockwood, a hopeful inventor, whose ideas for trivial yet helpful inventions always seem to end in some kind of failure.  His latest invention, a hilariously silly named device that turns water into food, surprisingly works to his and everyone in the town’s astonishment.  However, things quickly get out of control as giant portions of food begin to rain down from the sky, causing disasters of delicious proportions. Read the rest of this entry »

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9

Posted by John in Blog, Reviews on September 24, 2009

I’m surprised at how disappointed I was with 9. Usually with films that I’m excited to see, even if they’re bad, I’ll still find myself leaning towards liking them, rather than not.  They end up becoming those films that you hate to love.  But I just couldn’t do that with 9.  The only thing that 9 really has going for it, are the visuals, which manage to fall flat and lifeless after the first few twinges of facial expression. Read the rest of this entry »

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All Aesthetic

Posted by John in Blog on September 15, 2009

New look, new theme, same old stuff.  I wanted to try out a  new theme to see how I, and others, like it.  So let me know what you think about the change.  Hopefully this theme will make things a little more streamlined and easier to read/see.  Plus, this theme has some built in widgets for things like Twitter, which may encourage me to ‘tweet’ more about the boring stuff I’m doing with my life.  Most of you know that I’m not a big fan of Twitter, but I do sort of like the idea of keeping my internet presence connected together into more of a cohesive unit instead of having multiple little footprints strewn about the web.  We’ll see how that works out.

So that’s it for now.  Let me know what you think.

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Starred Review

Posted by John in Blog on September 11, 2009

This is a guide to manually modify the source code for the Starred Review plugin in order to resolve the recent “permissions” error that has shown up since upgrading to WordPress 2.8.1 and later.

You can modify the source code using the WordPress plugin editor on the left hand side of the dashboard or you can view/download the entire modified source code here and simply copy and paste into the editor if you wish.  The file you’ll want to modify is starred-review.php. As far as editing code goes, it’s a relatively simple change, but before you edit anything, I recommend copying the original source code and having a backup, just in case something goes awry. Read the rest of this entry »

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