Well, after taking a weekend sabatical, I’m back at it. There’s a major shoot happening this Sunday, then perhaps one or two the following Monday. Those three operations should conclude the major shoots.
Then we’re down to the in-house interviews, a sequence with our main character while he’s in a dreamworld, and a few other small sequences.
As a thank you to all the volunteers that have spent their time on this project, I’m throwing a “thank you kegger.” That’s happening two Fridays from now. Free beer and pizza for all those who helped me out; $10 for everyone else. Hey, who said I was without business sense.
And on that note: I’m launching my own, original, Internet startup. It’ll target an important demographic, so I fancy that *if* it gets big that it’ll be a good source of advertising revenue. Or perhaps it won’t get big at all, and I’m just pulling a Nortel circa 1999. Either way, I think it’s a sound idea, and I’ll let you know more about it as soon as it’s fully ready.
In other news, the Opera browser rocks. You see, my main machine is not a powerhouse computer – it’s a ten year old 300MHz laptop, with a 6GB hard drive and 128MB RAM. But I love it to bits. It runs WindowsXP Pro (tweaked to operate damn smoothly), and it’s here where I do all my writing, surfing, etc. In fact, I’m writing you this from the said laptop.
But with websites getting all fancy, web surfing performance for this poor laptop was beginning to suffer. Especially with Firefox. Well, I’ve since switched to Opera… and all I can say is: wow.
First off, performance is incomparable. However, it’s more than just that. Opera does a number of things which I like… such as tab preview (Vista-style), automatic image resampling, a useful ‘blank’ page when opening new tabs, mouse gesture navigation (ie. using the mouse as a wand, with motions dictating certain commands [back, reload, etc.]) It also has it’s own built-in flash player. Sure, Firefox offers all of this with plugins… but why wait? Esp. since the default download for Opera is smaller than Firefox.
/me waits for hate mail from the Firefox camp.