and I also had a column from JMS about his run on The Spiderman Comic --- and I think he's coming to the title at the right time, in that he can raise the profile of the comic as the movie comes around, something I think Marvel failed to do with the X-Men last year. (It'll rock this year, I'm sure.)

Very cool picture of Spiderman (from the movie) on Coming Attractions

Fifteen Years ago today, I first got involved in some facet of Science Fiction fandom, and so I wrote something up about it it for the MISFITS site as a tribute, of sorts.

More information about the latest X-Men creative teams shows up (on comicbookresources)

I'm afraid I'm going to have to check out all of the titles -- for the first time in probably over ten years!

I just picked up my ticket to see Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon this weekend -- it looks fantastic based on the trailers, and it looks like it'll carry over to foreign audiences fairly well. I've wanted to see this since I saw a trailer for it a month or so ago.

Henry Potts : Home Page has some reviews of interest, including some prog-rock ones and Doctor Who ones.

Salon.com Technology | Java: Slow, ugly and irrelevant

While I do my work in Java now, I'm not particularly partisan about computer issues anymore; and while I like some elements of Java, it's not a perfect language. (Neither are any of the other languages I've worked with over the years, from BASIC in all of its forms or C, or C++, or the statistical languages I worked on in college. So I think looking at its strengths and weaknesses are interesting.

(And I haven't written a lot of heavy-duty UI intensive applications in Java, most of my work has been primarily UI free or servlet based. )

This is (at the moment) my favorite King Crimson song -- it should be obvious what my reasoning is once you see what the title is...

I haven't been able to get to sleep tonight, nor was I able to on Thursday night (or Friday Morning)

Toonville! Comics looks like it's carrying a completly up to date issue of The Norm, one of my favorite comic strips.

I had a very strange Brazil-like dream last night, where people all went to some gigantic school to take tests. It was a beuracratic nightmare; somehow I was late for it and missed the orientation. But the tests were administered in some massive indoor stadium-like structure, sectioned off into testing farms; this wasn't quite college or high school exams, but something darker and more sinister.