Want a good review of Horton hears a Who? … then you are at the wrong place.
What can I say. I like it, kids will love it. This is the sort of movie that little kids love and parents will learn to hate because they will hear it over and over.
Horton, our hero
Mayor of the Who
Today I purchased my new bike. It’s a 2008 Giant CRX City Pro. What’s special about it is that it does not use a derailleur , it instead uses an 8 speed internal hub (Shimano Nexus)
My impressions based on one short ride home?
– The steering is twitchy! why? short wheelbase make turning easier, but high speed stability is lessen by this.
– Had some problems changing gears. Not totally unexpected, new bike, new problems – the gear still has to run in. But there are some funny sounds when using 3rd gear
– When you are pedalling it sounds like you are coasting on a derailleur normal bike
– Not sure if I like the handlebars, but I need more time to tell
– The tyres are are 700c (good) and inflate up to 120psi (my poor bum!, you really feel the bumps).. So not so good for going over curves.
It will be interesting one the bike runs in and I get used to riding it. It should be a fast bike
In early March I finally got my rear suspension fork fixed. It worked beautifully (note past tense)
In fact it still works beautifully, but now (March 12, 2008) the rear suspension has broken completely!
The new problems is different to the old, but it will entail even more expenses I expect.
I have already spent over $300 on a minor service and fixing the rear suspension.
Here is a before photo:
Close up:
NOW
Very frustrating!
This comes on top of my road bike having a cracked frame and being dangerous to ride because of the risk of a catastrophic failure at any time.
Set during the Second Sino-Japanese War it’s another one of those historical dramas where an idealistic white man ventures into China to his ultimate demise, but on the way manages to do a lot of good.
It’s a beautiful film to watch with good actors, good script and the cinematography really highlights how beautiful China can be.
It is an Australian/Chinese production. The post production was done in Melbourne, the oldest boy in the film is a 16 year old Sydney school boy and the opening scene was filmed in Melbourne (The ballroom scene?)
Nanking Massacre
Michelle Yeoh is in the film, but unfortunately just a cameo. But that won’t stop me (or the chinese press) highlighting her role with a nice movie poster.
Korean schoolgirls … think of your own caption.
Watched yet another chinese historical drama, this one is called “Empress and the Warriors”
Its stars Kelly Chen and Leon Lai, both mainstays of the Cantonese movie and pop scenes. But like the recent movie of a similar ilk with Jackie Chan this one didn’t really do anything for me.
No real connection with the characters, and not enough violence or special effects to make it a good spectacle.
I not saying it’s bad, just ho-hum. 
Last week I upgraded my video card from an Nvidea 6600 to an ASUS EN8800GT. I was going to get the 9600GT for AUD $219, but the old (last December, less then 5 months!) 8800GT was only AUD$ 279
According to the reviews the 9600 is a good purchased b/c it almost equals the 8800GT in most aspects, but it lacks the extra “oomph”.
So after 2 years of playing Battlefield 2 in 800 x 600 with minimal settings, now it is 1600×1200 with everything on MAX …. aahh bliss! Now I can see what shot me, still can’t shoot it 🙁
But Battlefield was getting a bit boring so I purchased my first computer game for over a year. It’s name is Crysis.
The reviews said it pushed your system to the max. They weren’t joking.
I have a P4 3ghz, 2 GB RAM, 8800GT and it is running on the lowest settings! 640×380, low settings
So how is the game?
Fracking great!
Does this picture remind you of a certain famous painting?
But who is Judas? And who is Jesus?
For an excellent and concise version of this please read http://dev.fprimex.com/learning-python/installing-python-on-mac
It also includes extremely easy instructions on installing the excellent SPE Python editor.
With Python when you want to install a package on the Internet you can either manually install it or use the Python Package Index.
The Python Package Index is a repository of software for the Python programming language. There are currently are nearly 4,000 packages as of April 2008.
This post is based on my experience on following the installation instructions for the Easy Install
To install it on OX X 10.5 Leopard you must do the following
1. Create a folder for you python files to be run from, e.g. ~/bin
2. Update ~/.profile to include ~/bin in the search path.
3. Make a new text file called .pydistutils.cfg in the ~/ folder
With a user named frodo, we would have:
/Users/frodo/.pydistutils.cfg
[install]
install_lib = /Library/Python/$py_version_short/site-packages
install_scripts = /Users/frodo/bin
The default install library location for Leopard is
/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages because $py_version is replaced with 2.5, which is the version of Python which comes with Leopard.
This folder is where all your installed libraries are kept once they are downloaded and installed.
4. Download ez_setup.py, to ~/bin (in this case /Users/frodo/bin) and run it. You should get output similar to this:
[frodo@theshire.local] Tue Apr 08 ~/bin
[14] 00:33:30–> python ez_setup.py
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.5/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg
Processing setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg
Copying setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg to /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages
Adding setuptools 0.6c8 to easy-install.pth file
Installing easy_install script to /Users/frodo/bin
Installing easy_install-2.5 script to /Users/frodo/bin
Installed /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg
Processing dependencies for setuptools==0.6c8
Finished processing dependencies for setuptools==0.6c8
Congratulations, it is now installed. You should see some eggs 🙂 .egg and .pth files in your site-packages folder now:
[frodo@theshire.local] Tue Apr 08 /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages
[14] 01:28:18–> ls -la
total 664
drwxrwxr-x 6 root admin 204 8 Apr 00:34 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 root admin 102 9 Oct 12:33 ..
-rw-rw-r– 1 root admin 119 6 Oct 2007 README
-rw-r–r– 1 frodo admin 214 8 Apr 00:34 easy-install.pth
-rw-r–r– 1 frodo admin 324858 8 Apr 00:34 setuptools-0.6c8-py2.5.egg
-rw-r–r– 1 frodo admin 29 8 Apr 00:34 setuptools.pth
5. Now what? Have at look at the tutorial for the Python Package Index
see what you like, e.g. ipython, then:
[frodo@theshire.local] Wed Apr 09 ~/bin
[21] 01:21:12–> easy_install ipython
Searching for ipython
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/ipython/
Reading http://ipython.scipy.org
Reading http://ipython.scipy.org/dist
Best match: ipython 0.8.2
Downloading http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/ipython-0.8.2-py2.5.egg
Processing ipython-0.8.2-py2.5.eggcreating /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/ipython-0.8.2-py2.5.egg
Extracting ipython-0.8.2-py2.5.egg to /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages
Adding ipython 0.8.2 to easy-install.pth file
Installing ipython script to /Users/frodo/bin
Installing pycolor script to /Users/frodo/bin Installed /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/ipython-0.8.2-py2.5.egg
Processing dependencies for ipython Finished processing dependencies for ipython
Just finished the annual MAD ride today.
I wimped out (wise choice) by doing the 60 km option.
Basically it is a 60km ride near Hanging Rock. There is also a 110km option as well as a 60km mountain bike ride.
There were literally hundreds of people on the ride. It was quite enjoyable.
You will have to excuse the lack of elloquence as I went to bed at 2:30 am, got up at 5:30am and it is now 12:35 am the next day!
time for ….zzzzz
