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Shark Tale

Went to see Shark Tale over at the American Theater last night for my wife’s Friday night outing with her classmates and friends.

I really enjoyed the movie. The jokes were corny but funny, and there were the usual name variations for selected commercial entities (Kelpy Kreme, Coral Cola, etc). One of my favourite was Robert DeNiro as the godfather shark. The animators did a really good job of capturing DeNiro’s look and expressions. And as fish go, Angelina Jolie was pretty hot.

I think the best characters were the rasta jellyfish. For me, they definitely stole the show, and I loved every scene they were in. The octopus henchman was pretty funny too, but the jellyfish were the best.

Definitely one I’ll be adding to my collection when it comes out on DVD.

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Cutting edge imaging

Just finished doing the acceptance testing of our new 64 slice CT scanner. This thing will generate a whole bucketload of images without even thinking about it. After two days of playing around, testing and scanning various phantoms, I ended up with a little over 3700 images to send to our PACS. Ended up with some very impressive looking reconstructed images showing a lot more detail in the reformatted coronal and sagittal planes than I expected. It’s a cool machine, but radiologists are going to need new visualization tools to handle all the images these things can spit out.
On another note, the article about blogging I was interviewed for a couple of weeks ago was published today in The State newspaper. It’s a short little fluffy piece with quotes and stuff from a few other webloggers (including me).

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It’s a Hooligan wedding!

Hooray! It’s a wedding! It’s official!

Two of my very good friends and fellow Hooligans are getting hitched in a couple of months. I am no doubt one of the last to receive the invitation, which was postmarked a week ago. For some reason everything takes a week to get to me by mail.

The wedding is only a couple of months away, and there isn’t much time left to make arrangements. Now I’m wishing I hadn’t procrastinated on getting a new passport. I wonder how long it will take to get a new one… And I need to apply for advanced parole from USCIS too. And there are flight arrangements to make also.

Oh dear, this could be a bit of a challenge. So much to get organized.

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If it ain’t broke, upgrade it.

My Fedora box is dead. Well, it’s not really dead. Lobotomized perhaps.
In an attempt to upgrade from FC2 to FC3 Test 2 using yum it broke. All the upgrade packages downloaded and installed fine, but it never booted up. As my wife said, “Surgery went fine, patient died”.
No problem, easy fix. Just download the ISO’s and install from CD. Should be back up and running in no time. So I download and burn the 4 CDs. Pop it into the drive and boot.
Twiddle twiddle twiddle. No CD recognized in the drive. Darned computer won’t boot from the CD. It used to…but not this time. The CDs boot on the other computers I have, so it’s not a problem with the CDs. Tried to boot of a Win2K CD too, but still no dice. Must be the CD drive. So now I’m stuck with waiting for our IT guys to get around to fixing it. No response from their online helpdesk form (if they’re going to have an online form, they should at least monitor it), so I guess I’ll have to call them when I get back to work on Monday.
Darned computers.

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No phishing off the bridge

The folks over at NGS have written a very good whitepaper titled The Phishing Guide: Understanding & Preventing Phishing Attacks. It talks about various types of phishing attacks and how to identify and protect yourself from them. Some of it is pretty technical, but it’s a pretty good read and contains a lot of good information on how to recognize phishers. Definitely something to share with friends and family who might not be quite so savvy to these types of attacks.

Found via Bugtraq

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