The last week has been one of the craziest weeks of the year, culminating with a weekend of far more work than sleep. I've been doing a fair amount of freelance work of late so most of my actual down-time has been spent staring off into space, in the shower or asleep. I am really looking forward to a break over the next couple of weeks and having time off.

One of my more unproductive time slots recently was spent watching Chuck. If you haven't seen this show it's great – check it out. Anyway, this last episode was their holiday episode, and one of the first things they do is bring in the police, which is led by Sgt. Al Powell! You know, they guy from Die Hard to was lucky enough to have a German terrorist nosedive through the windshield of his patrol car. This was great, I thought for sure they were going have more Die Hard references throughout – but alas, no. This was the only one.

While the episode was still a good one, I was a little dissappointed it didn't turn out to be a little more spoofish. It was cool that they did that though, especially since Die Hard is one of my all-time favorite movies.

I finally say the new Bond flick yesterday, Quantum of Solice, and it was an entertaining ride around the globe following Bond and (naturally) a couple of hotties as he saves the world. I would definitely say that you should go see it and enjoy it.

From a purely geeky standpoint, one of the highlights of the movie was the use of a huge multi-touch display, like Microsoft Surface within the Mi6 headquarters. the use of it was as far as I have seen, the first multi-touch display used in detail within a movie, and they did it very well. The action around the display fits well within how the devices work, both in the wild and in demo. It was very cool to see this in the movie, and I can only hope that it will help to stir more interest in this type of technology.

From what I have read though, the display was manufactured and is another instance of the Hollywood machine in action, and just another Green Screen illusion. Which is understandable, but also a little bit disappointing. The Bond movies have a habit of advancing technology that they have used within the movies, so it's possible that we will begin to see this technology become more accessible and available to the general public.

Obviously, if one really wanted to get anal about it, there are inherent problems with the usability of the layout as seen in the movie, but I'm not really going into that since it was…. a movie? Ever heard of suspension of disbelief? Well, I have and I have no inclination to pick a part something from a movie (well, at least with this movie). It was cool to see, the graphics and animations were well executed, interesting – and I'm glad to finally see this type of technology making its way into the movies. Especially since I am quite frankly tired of the psuedo 3D holograms that were in Iron Man, and the Minority Report. That technology does not exist, so it's hard to get excited about seeing yet another fantastical device with no real grounding in current technological realities.

I made my very own custom Matrix wallpaper too. A little late I know, but I am adding a wallpaper section to my Blog, so I figured I would pop it here first, then add the section!

In the infamous (or maybe not so infamous) words of Queensryche – “There’s a Revolution calling”!

Mere moments ago, nay maybe longer, regardless… mere moments ago in Darryll-time, the new Full-Length, Squidy Kickin’, pixel arranging, green type havin’ Trailer was posted for Matrix – Revolutions!

Go here!

Matrix Revolutions Trailer (downloadable using this link)

Go here now! Did you not hear me?! Do it now move! Thou shalt not regret thine actions!