Geoff Holden

Performance by an actor in a leading role:

Leonardo DiCaprio in “Blood Diamond”
Ryan Gosling in “Half Nelson”
Peter O’Toole in “Venus”
Will Smith in “The Pursuit of Happyness”
Forest Whitaker in “The Last King of Scotland”

Performance by an actor in a supporting role:

Alan Arkin in “Little Miss Sunshine”
Jackie Earle Haley in “Little Children”
Djimon Hounsou in “Blood Diamond”
Eddie Murphy in “Dreamgirls”
Mark Wahlberg in “The Departed”

Performance by an actress in a leading role:

Penélope Cruz in “Volver”
Judi Dench in “Notes on a Scandal”
Helen Mirren in “The Queen”
Meryl […]

So, last night was Oscar night, and as an avid movie-goer, I have to watch them. (But it’s a lot easier in this timezone, as they were over around 8:30pm)

I, for one, think Jon Stewart did a good job hosting. He may not have been at the top of his game for the entire night, but the few high points make up for that. The cheap Cheney joke was good, and I thought the bit about making Russell Crowe look […]

It has come to my attention that I may, in fact, have terrible taste in movies. I thought that I may have decent taste, but I do know that I set the bar for ‘acceptable’ pretty low.

This came up when I attempted to share the news with a number of people that the trailer for Underworld: Evolution is now online. I thoroughly enjoyed the first one (vampires, werewolves, guns, some story, […]

I just got back from watching Sin City. I thought it was good. Once again I had heard mixed reviews, but I think it’s the kind of movie that you’ll either really like, or really dislike, with not many in-betweens. It comes right from Frank Miller’s graphic novel of the same name, and it’s not like any other movie you’ve ever seen. It oozes style, done almost entirely in black & white, with […]

The holiday weekend was a pretty quiet one for me. Besides working on XFN Graph, it was pretty much a weekend of TV and movies. The TV watching was improved greatly thanks to XFN Graph, it was pretty much a weekend of TV and movies. The TV watching was improved greatly thanks to XFN Graph, it was pretty much a weekend of TV and movies. The TV watching was improved greatly thanks to MythTV (see previous post). The movie watching was very entertaining. I managed to watch two classics that I’ve meant to for quite […]

I finally saw Constantine this week. Although it looks like it could be a terrible movie, it’s actually pretty good. I had heard mixed reviews of it, but I’m glad I gave it the benefit of the doubt.

Also, I finished putting together the first version of XFN Graph, a graphing tool for XFN links.

I finally got all the pieces I needed to complete my homebrew PVR, so I finished the construction/configuration this weekend, and the project page is up.
I think it’s going to totally change how I watch television, and will seriously reduce the amount of shows I end up missing and then downloading from TV Torrents.

I also saw Being John Malkovich for the first time last night. I had thought that Adaptation was a […]

I gave my talk on Backups Thursday night, and I just posted my presentation on here. As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, it’s kind of funky looking in IE, and it dosen’t work properly in Konqueror. Oh well.
In other news (who am I kidding, it’s not news) I saw “Hitch” Wednesday night. It’s a pretty good movie, I’ll give it my full reccomendation.

Wow, it’s been almost a month again with no post. (This was brought to my attention over the weekend when I was told that upon checking my site, they get a picture of a Christmas tree) Maybe I should’ve made a New Year’s resolution to update my site more often… Oh well, too late… Maybe next year.
Well, I’ve been pretty busy. I’ve been playing poker 2 nights a week (it’s not a gambling problem until […]

It’s been a while since I posted, so here we go.

Christmas was OK, I enjoyed some much needed time off, but it’s still not the same as way back when. I think it’s because there are no children left in the family–I know it’s not supposed to be about gifts and stuff, but I think it would just be different with a few kids around.

As for my own gifts, received a few things relating to my golf and poker interests, […]