Watching the list of film it was up against, I had second thoughts.

Shame on me! I knew walking out of the theatre that it was the best film of the year, and the [[AFI]] agrees.

Go Peter! Frodo Lives!

Take a look at the current state of the poll.

The Poll covers who variety thinks should be recognized by the Academy when the Oscars roll around at the end of March. Can you guess who’s at the top of the list??

Tiger isn’t doing too well!

Will he be able to make up ground on the third day???

“IGN’s FilmForce has an interesting article about the much anticipated Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (LOTR:FOTR) DVD coming in the fall of 2002, and the next two movies. According to Jackson The Two Towers is fairly complete in rough cut and Return of the King is coming along nicely. “Both films will be between two-and-a-half and three hours in length with 500 to 600 effects shots, much like the first movie.” But, the best part, is that he DVD will have around 30 to 40 minutes of extra footage! ”

I Agree!!

There is room for both Open & Closed Software.

My personal choice is to pick open software first,
if I cannot find any open software that fits my needs I try to determine how long it would take to write it my self?

If I cannot find any open software or write it myself then I will
look at purchasing Closed software?

I agree Software devlopers need to be able to make a living too?
But I do not make a living developing software!!

In a year when there’s a dearth of worthy movies, “The Lord of the Rings; The Fellowship of the Ring” has emerged as a real contender for the Oscar. Hopefully this will be how things pan out!

Dave Winer has an interesting take on this issue.

According to him, you should give away software when you want competition, and keep it when you want to compete. I can understand where he’s coming from. Don’t get me wrong, I love the idea of open source software (I’ve written a bit myself, including the software that runs this website…. it’ll be open soon :-). But at the same time, I’m a software developer that gets paid to do what I do, and I’d be rather upset if I couldn’t make a living doing it.

Well, the golf season is just about to begin. I wonder if Tiger can keep up his blistering pace?

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The Calendar, visible on each page, can now be customized per section.

The Calendar behaves differently in most sections of the website now. On he homepage and in the news section, it’s integrated with the news log. In the document section, the calendar shows days in which documents were created. And in the Genealogy section, the calendar shows interesting individual genealogical events (birth, death, etc).

Each section can now provide a handler function, whose job it is to fill up an array of information for the calendar to display. This architecture makes things both simpler and more powerful.