Watched this on the way back from Miami. Not optimal due to the usual small screen, made worse
by the person in front leaning back.
This is a darker (in both senses) Batman film. It explores how Bruce Wayne came to be a crime
fighter. This involves some mystical training in China and a supply of gadgets from his
company's labs. Christian Bale is a cool customer and backed up by some major actors (Michael Caine,
Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman and Liam Neeson). The baddies are really bad and not as comic as
in the other films. The action is spectacular in what I could make out in the mostly night scenes.
Some of the city scenes were shot in the enormous
Cardington hangers
a few miles from where I live.
Details on IMDB and DVD at
Amazon.
I've been using
Ubuntu Linux for a few months now. Generally it
just does what I need after a few little tweaks. This month the latest release (5.10 aka Breezy Badger)
was released and I decided to try an upgrade. This is supposed to be a matter of running a couple of
commands, but all did not go smoothly.
After letting it download a few hundred megabytes and install everything I re-booted and ended up
with a command line rather than the usual graphical log-in screen. It proved impossible to get either
KDE or Gnome to run.
Luckily I could use another PC (running Windows 98) to access the web and search for solutions. Eventually
I managed to fix it with a combination of apt-get -f install (to fix dependencies) and installing
xfonts-base. So now I had my GUI back, but still had a few issues with size of fonts and complaints from
the update process about a few packages. Running apt-get -f install again fixed the latter.
So after the upgrade what has changed? Actually not a whole lot. I'm still using KDE, so maybe Gnome
has changed more. At least I can get straight to the address book in Kmail. It took a further update to
get GPG working on mail.
My next areas to explore are video editing (still not done any) and audio recording. I want to record myself
playing the guitar for my own amusement. Audacity looks like
a possible tool for this.
