Welshrogue

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This commercial is seriously starting to get on my tits. If a Mac was that amazing, you could play games on it, you would have a wider choice of software, and lets face it, we would have noticed already.

These commercials are so condescending with comments about ooo a PC comes in several boxes while a Mac only comes in one. From a man’s point of view, I would prefer to come in several boxes….. You can also have your processor encased in any design of case you want. Silver, see-through, ultraviolet lights everywhere…. and a Mac, well its beige.

When you open a Mac you can make videos, do this, do that. With a PC, you don’t get much but lets face it, you can log onto a warez site and download several thousand dollars of software without paying anything. You can alter the way the PC looks on the screen, its called themes etc… with a Mac it, well looks like a Mac.

Finally, the PC has a virus, and the Mac boasts that well, there are thousands of viruses for PC’s, but not Macs. Thats because PC’s are on approx. 90 percent of desktop computers. Why waste time writing a virus for Macs if it is only going to affect a small amount of users?

I know its called advertising but lets be serious now, the only people who are going to believe these commercials are those who think that AOL ‘is’ the internet.

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Because the world September starts with a ‘S’. Because Sci Fi is more fun than Hi Fi. Because I am becoming a geek again. I shall attempt to review 30 Science Fiction movies in September. That’s one a day!

I have a list in my head (along with the voices) of what movies I could review, some being classics, others perhaps not so. I am going to try and avoid sequels and prequels, concentrating only on the first movie if there are more than one of them. ie Alien but not Aliens. Something like that anyway.

If you have any suggestions of a movie I should watch and review, please let me know.

Before Miami Vice on friday, there were several trailers (as is the custom these days), One of which was World Trade Center starring Nicholas Cage.

I was here in Canada on that fateful day and was moved deeply when I read about the emergency services people who ran into a building that they knew would fall down at some point. These men and women knew they could be killed but still chose to try and help others. This is more than simple courage, this was something that should never ever be forgotten. But to make a movie of the attack, only a few years later seems wrong.

After the trailer finished there was no sound from the auditorium, usually there is whispers about the trailer just seen, or about food or something. It was dead quiet. I found the trailer upsetting. I don’t need to see this to remember the heroic men and women who chose to risk their lives to save others. Unlike the occupants of the towers who didn’t have a choice, these people had a choice and they did what they had to do.

This is one movie I won’t be watching for a very long time.