Here’s some more stats that bode well for Fellowship in the Oscar race.

I really have a good feeling about this!

Predicts Fellowship will win Best Picture.

Sir Ian McKellen is backing The Fellowship Of The Ring to win this

year’s Oscar for Best Picture.

He thinks it will win because Tolkien’s world is so popular amongst

Hollywood filmmakers.

The first Lord Of The Rings film has been nominated for 13 Oscars.

McKellen, who plays Gandalf in the movie trilogy, told Richard and

Judy: [[ ]]I’ll stick my neck out and say it’s going to win Best Picture.”

The NY Post picks Fellowship for Best Picture honors

THE math-genius hero of “A

Beautiful Mind” could calculate this year’s Oscar

race in milliseconds – 13 nominations for “The Lord

of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” equals a

likely win for Best Picture.

I hope so!!!

I’m sick of ATT, so I’m moving my website somewhere else.

Stay tuned for details.

For the time being anyway

Musings: [[ATT Is Screwing Me!]]

The changeover to their new setup is going to screw me and a lot of other people.

##Why are they doing this?

I signed up for mediaone way back in its infancy. I was actually a beta tester for them when I used to live in California. The speed was wonderful, and having a computer on the net at all times was incredible.

I started running a web server on my old Macintosh for some static content, and have been running my own web server ever since.

But not anymore. They’ve decided that I shouldn’t be able to use my computer however I want to.

When I first signed up, the internet name of my computer was mikecarney.ne.mediaone.net. Then, they decided that they weren’t going to support *vanity* names anymore, but would use the mac address of the computer for the name, so it changed to h000a27d8bede.ne.mediaone.net. Well, that’s OK I guess. It’s kinda ugly, but it still works.

Now, as of March 15th, 2002, that name is going away never to be replaced. I’ll have no way of seeing my computer from the internet, so my website will no longer be accessible.

**THIS JUST SUCKS!**

When did ATT stop worrying about customer service? When did they start thinking it was OK to screw people at will?

Ain’t it cool news chimes in with thoughts on the fellowship bonzanza.

Now that the nominations are in, who do you think will win?

I hate to brag, but…

[[pjoscars]]

###The Oscar Nominations have been announced, LOTR:FOTR has 13!!!

1. Best Film
2. [[Peter Jackson]] – Best Director
3. Best Adapted Screenplay
4. [[Ian McKellen]] – Best Supporting Actor
5. Best Art Direction
6. Best Score
7. Best Song
8. Best Cinematography
9. Best Visual Effects
10. Best Costume Design
11. Best Makeup
12. Best Sound
13. Best Film Editing

[[My Predictions for Fellowship]]. Stay tuned for predictions on how I think it will actually do. I’ll give you a hint… I think it actually *will* win Best Film (and it’s not just because [[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]] :-). I’ll explain how and why later.

The judges should be ashamed of themselves!

##Were they on crack?

Everyone, and I mean **EVERYONE**, who was watching the pairs skating competition knows that the Canadians won.

Only the Polish and Chinese judges thought that the Russians were better. The Russians had 4 errors in their program, while the Canadians skated a clean program.

This reminds me of the Olympics, years ago, when Paul Wylie got robbed of the Gold. He was the only competitor of the medal winners that skated a clean program, and he endeed up with a bronze.

The judging system of figure skating needs to be completely rethought.

Judges… you should be ashamed of yourselves.