The Blog From Hell

The entire face of what is art changed. Of course, it wouldn't be art if it was not evolving as constantly as the human condition, so that is hardly surprizing, but if there is one thing that has become blatantly obvious it's that the individual human has a very hard time keeping up with the human condition she forms part off, let alone the the art that expresses, critisizes and promotes the various aspects thereoff.To me one of the most striking moments ever in cinema (and as a former film student my collection is rather huge so that is saying something) is in Good Will Hunting. For just about the entire movie it simply yet another sausage factory film. But it is one of the few films that actually deal with the discrepency between intelectualism and intelectual snobism, and perhaps more importantly with that line between reaching one's full potential and clinging to ones roots. Will's greatest struggle isn't caused by the fact that he is smart, but by the fact that he is poor and smart, and this creates a rift between him and the bluecollar workers who are his most trusted friends- a rift which scares him more than anything else – but it is exactly that fact, a bluecollar mentally in a person destined for a white-collar life that gives the film it's only actual cutting edge.And smack in the middle is one of the greatest lines in cinema history, a line that captures the essence of celebrity, of fame an infamy with incredible rancour and eloquence. Who is Ted Sherman ? Unabomber I could not help but be reminded of this line when I read this interview (http://thechiz.co.za/archive/2006/06/26/84.aspx) with Aryan Kaganof (http://kaganof.com/) . .

Over the past year or so I have cut down my caffeine intake from ludicrous to merely excessive and in fact for most weeks to downright healthy . But nevertheless there is a certain treat I allow myself about once every 3 months or so when enough late-night hacking (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hack.html) runs (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacking-run.html) start to pay their toll. You can get this at Seattle Coffee Co. (In South Africa) or since Starbucks owns them I imagine non South Africans can do the same there. Walk up to the counter and repeat the following in a loud clear voice. You are likely to shock the poor waittress right back to junior grade so be prepared to repeat it a few times:A quad, grande, wild mocha freeze. What you get for that is well an extra-large cafe-mocha put through a blender with cubes of ice, mixed with four shots of espresso and covered in whipped cream. Drink as fast as you can.

When tikiwiki recently corrupted all the images in my galery, I decided once and for all that I simply did not have the time or patience to keep fixing it's flakyness.So I switched silentcoder.co.za over to joomla, which I know quite well by now. It is stable and powerful enough for just about everything I need.Of course you do not migrate a site with over 5 years worth of content on it in a day, so a lot of the stuff is still on the old site, but appropriately linked in. I deliberately kept the old version active so outside links will keep working until they are updated as well. This then is the first blog entry on the new site. Expect to see a lot of gradual evolution of the look and feel over time – for today I was mostly concerned with getting the structure sorted out, I'll worry more about the look later.