Koda

Today was spent mostly tweaking more fun CSS details, and around the house. I went to see Good Night, and Good Luck today - very interesting film. The quality of the acting and production was very good, and the message relevant and interesting. All about the importance (and the dissolution of) our media. A lot to think about.

Unfortunately a lot of the intricacies probably flew over my head, likely due to the CSS-induced lack of sleep from last night’s efforts. Definitely something I’d see again, to be able to catch those important details. The film was done all in black and white and really immersive - pretty arty. At first the lack of color started to annoy me, but I could see so much texture in the grayscale that I liked it after a while (and I knew it would stay that way).

Quick update on Compiz: after a few days of normal desktop use (art, internet, email), I have to say that I am still very satisfied with Compiz’s performance. Only a few minor crashes: every now and then gnome-window-manager dies, and window borders disappear - opening up gnome-terminal and starting it up again solves the problem. I haven’t seen Compiz on a whole do much mischeif. Idle performance is very good; the fans stay on the lowest speed on my desktop-replacement laptop/brick. It doesn’t seem to be eating a lot of memory, either. No surprises, other than the total bling of it all.

Good night, and good luck!