I think it's great that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is being split into two movies.
There are some scenes and details that aren't necessary to further the plot but I think are important enough or interesting enough to warrant inclusion in the films. Most of the …

Shark Week on the Discovery Channel (it's really more like Shark Attack Week) is almost at an end. But that doesn't mean we should just forget about sharks until this time next year.
Please sign the Ocean Conservancy's petition to end shark finning.
I love sharks. It's …

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the enthralling account of Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts. It's full of tension, pain, and horror... at least, the novel is. The film deviates a lot from the well-laid story it's based on.
If you're wondering whether or …

Love at First Sight:
John Dillinger’s Charm
Michael Mann’s Public Enemies is a beautifully made film that follows John Dillinger’s short but exciting career. Johnny Depp brings Dillinger to life as the sometimes cocky, sometimes romantic, but never cold-blooded …

I decided to stop waiting for the site’s programmer to finish converting the site over to Smarty. I learned PHP and MySQL and finished the conversion myself. I had trouble here and there (the original programmer didn’t comment his code), but I managed to get it …

See “Flying Tiger” at Threadless.com
I have submitted my first T-shirt design to Threadless. It’s a cute little tiger flying a tiger kite. Check it out. Show my tiger some love and give it your vote. Comments welcome.
I am already working on my next T-shirt …

So HP finally sent my laptop back to me. It’s been a whole big mess. Their customer service is very disorganized. I got two different (mutually exclusive) explanations on what caused the delay and I still don’t know which one was correct. Now I’ve been going …

I created this illustration in Photoshop. No tablet, just a mouse. I wanted to do something simple and fun. It’s nice to take a break and do something quick while working on other, long-term projects.
I’ll add this to my Gallery in a section called “Quickies” …

Good mascots aren’t easily forgotten. Some that I remember from childhood are: Toys “R” Us’s Geoffrey the Giraffe; the Domino’s Pizza Noid; 7 Up’s Cool Spot. Geoffrey’s still around, but the other two disappeared. So how do you create the right …