http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_atomic/28weekslater/

The original (28 Days Later) was good, having just watched the trailer for this, I'm excited this will be as good or better. (The trailer has a Muse song, must be good)
If you've not seen the original, go watch, it is a brilliant film

Car is still off the road, brake pipes are on but leaking, I think some of the flares didn't work right. But I've got to wait for monies and time to become available next week.

Uni is nearly over! 2 reports and a presentation to do for/on friday then 4 weeks off, 2 weeks revision, 2 weeks exams then summer holidays, with a part time-job (pending finding one over the easter hols).

Lapwing-Linux is coming along nicely, I've a few more packages to compile (OpenOffice, scanner front end, possibly some video editing software) then it's the installer and some settings to do. Then, >drum roll< a release.

I have trippy 3D effects.
I have a multimedia player, Winamp clone, Firefox, Seamonkey, Asunder CD ripper, geany text editor, GSlapt package management ...
It feels sweet having all this stuff, and, more importantly, that I compiled it and fixed the errors and that it all works.
I'm far far far far away from finishing. I've the GIMP, OpenOffice, Inkscape, xfburn, installer, Thunderbird and a video creation client to get and compile yet.
But, I think I'm over half way there.
Tomorrow then, I'm gonna take a break from Lapwing-Linux and get the pipes done on for my car (this was the activity for today, but wobbly windows got the better of me) so I can get back and get my stuff from my house.
Yeah, I now know my mom's moving out at the end of the month. So, easter hols is time to tell all the lovely peoples that my mailing address has changed. Bye bye lichfield!
Now, back to playing with the 3D desktop that is beryl.

I've just looked up out my window and seen a snow storm.
WTF? What happened to the nice sunny weather we had?

Anyways, Lapwing-Linux is coming along nicely (I am just about to watch a movie after finishing up with some system stuff), I'm confident of getting a proper release this year mid-end of April. Very confident
Uni work deadlines are now beginning to loom, although they seem to keep pushing the deadlines back ... not that I'm complaining of course.

Back to working on Lapwing, and by working I mean testing the DVD player ...

A worrying thought hit me yesterday (or over the weekend, most of it was a blur); technology is so far outpacing society's demand for it that we might hit a technological dark age.

Technology is updating more rapidly, getting smaller in physical size, more powerful, faster. At some point, the technology will update more frequently than the consumer is willing to renew their equipment.
This results in a commercial vacuum; the manufacturer is pouring money into R&D, releasing new products and getting less in sales because consumers are holding off and not updating every time there is a new product.
The manufacturer eases off the R&D, releases fewer products less often; the consumer is still gonna be expecting "the next big thing" any moment now, and holds off; the manufacturer gets less revenue and releases less ... etc. We hit a comparative technological dark age.

An example; removable data/media storage (Dates are fairly rough and I'm gonna look at mass market here, not niche-ish stuff like tapes, ZIP drives etc).
First, way back in the 80's there was the trusty floppy disk. Hasn't changed for over 25 years, and is only just being dropped from OEM computers.
Mid 1990's, most stuff is on CDs. Late 90's, CDR and CDRW make an appearance.
Early 2000, DVD's are all the rage.
2002/2003 USB flash is of a size and price thats useful and quickly starts to take over from CDRW's and floppies as the primary data storage method.
2004/2005, DVDRW and USB hard drives are cheap enough for average joe user to buy and use.
2007 and HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are barely out the starting blocks when Toshiba announces a 51GB 3-layered disc.

Notice a trend? OK, it could be exaggerated by my really bad memory and Wikipedia editing, but the release cycle of better technology is getting shorter.
How many people actually have an HD-DVD/Blu-Ray player, with discs? I don't, I don't know anyone who has.
I won't be "upgrading" until my DVD drives give out and I can't get hold of any replacements, by which point USB flash drives and the Internet will probably be the default methods of distribution.

You know technology is doomed when you get geeks stating they aren't interested in the latest bleeding edge offerings

I've spent the weekend being really geeky and compiling software.
To what end? So Lapwing-Linux has a pretty graphical clock.
No, I've not flipped. I need that pretty clock (more accurately, all the base level stuff to display a clock) to work on the next parts of Lapwing, such as Firefox, Exaile, GIMP, GAIM and all the other lovely GUI stuff.
I'm still at it removing dependancy errors in the package manager ... all's fixed now though.
I hope, else I'll not get to bed till gone 3 again. Ah, tis a hard life being a geek