Stardust
Being a fan of Neil Gaiman I signed up to his RSS about this time last year and keep track of hte various projects that he is enaged in. Sadly after my recent computer drive failure I failed to re-add the feed, an error on my part, so I have missed out on how the progress on this film had been going.
The film features a rather nameful cast including: Claire Danes, Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Ian McKellen to name a few.
The film is based on the Neil's novel and the screen play writen by Jane Goldman AKA Mrs. Jonathan Ross and Matthew Vaughn (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels/ Snatch/ L4yer Cake) who is also the director on the project. Filming was shot in
How to describe stardust …
A fairy-tale for adults would be a good start, it's about a guy named Tristran Thorn, who untakes a quest to retrieve a fallen star for the girl he loves. Venturing into the forbidden lands that lay beyond the walls of his village is just the start of his journey as he is not the only one seeking the star.
An in his own words about the film …
[quote=Mr Gaiman]
I've been trying to think of what to compare it to, but it's leaving me a bit blank — it exists half-way between The Princess Bride and Pirates of the Caribbean, and there's nothing I've seen quite like it out there in the world before.
[/quote]
Film website : http://www.stardustmovie.com/ hopefully to host a trailer soon.
ADSL Choice
I’m thinking of moving ISP
I’ve been with F2S since broadband recah our ares back in September of 2004, which is quite a long time in all honesty. Since they are taken over by Pipex the internet usage hasn’t been totally wonderful espically from a gamers point of view.
I’ve been looking it options of other providers (transfering has been made much easier since the Ofcom rules kicked in last month), as an avid gamer most my time is spent broswing forums or shooting stuff up. I want a host that isn’t going to throttle my bandwidth at peak times of the day because other users on the IPS are downloading the last episode of Lost they missed.
The problem with alot of ISPs is that their Fair usage Policy fails to detail the fact that bandwidth throttling can effect your connection.
I’m thinking about this as my new ISP.
Multiplaydsl – If you haven’t heard of multiplay, they run gaming servers as well as organising one of the biggest UK based LAN competitions bi-yearly. There Broadband packages are designed for gamers, with bandwidth throttling being designed around not impacting gamers.
Pros
Ideal for gaming espically at peak times
Cons
Small Company
No idea how the support is
Price : £29.99 per month
Contract : 1 Month
Tag Cloud
Of the growing number of 2.0 related stuff that is appear now-a-days, the tag clouds is an interesting one in that takes a standard list and tranforms it into other visual depictions.
I decide to have go at generating a simple cloud tag, I all ready had a list of news categories and the number of post in each one so I thought it wouldn’t be a step too far.
After quick Google to determine the best methods of displying the information, I decide that i would use a simple font size alteration based on the count of the category.
First tasks to decide on the number of levels I want to have in my cloud. I decided on 3 as this would allow enough differences for the total number I was dealing with.
So now we needed to split out the levels so when needed the highest possible count for 1 category and to divide by the number of levels we are using, this will give us the range of each level.
Now using the same information that we see in a standard list:
Topic1 = 3
Topic2 = 15
Topic3 = 8
Using a simple section of code to determine the level that each category falls into.
This example shows how it works
(highest_category_total/number_of_levels = range)
Range = 15 / 3
Level1 = 1-5 ( highest_category_total – Range *3)
Level2 = 6-10 ( highest_category_total – Range*2)
Level3 = 11-15 ( highest_category_total – Range)
therefore :
topic1 fails into level1
topic2 fails into level3
topic3 fails into level2
