Real Steel
A friend pointed out that although I say that I am a huge film buff, I don’t ever write anything about the films I see. So I decided to change that and start writing about some of these. There’s a new category named “Film Reviews” where all of these will be put in.
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So most recently, I’ve seen Real Steel. We were trying to pick between going to see Drive and this and we decided to see this because it seemed like a more “goody-feeling” kind of film and we were in the mood for that. Now before you dismiss it as a “robots boxing action flick”, give me a minute to try and sell it (my girlfriend also liked it… so read on!)
It’s truly nice and it’s really not about robots fighting. The plot is more about the strained relationship between a 11 year old kid and his dad who never wanted him, was never there for him (up until now when he has no choice) and can’t get his own life together to begin with. It’s a bit of an old story, I’ll give you that, but it’s very nicely done and I really connected well with the main characters. Hugh Jackman did well and I loved the kid. It also stars “Freckles” from Lost (she was pretty much the only thing that kept me going through the last two weeks of my attempt to watch that show… until I just couldn’t do it anymore, cute girl or not).
Now on top of what I believe is a nice story and a good plot … you get robots boxing! And that’s just awesome. I would pick this over any of Michael Bay’s transformers any time.
So you get a funny, well-written story with some nice action and CGI. This is what I call a good a match for everyone. If you can get the chance to see it in IMAX, it’s worth it.
Bookshelf
I’ve added a new page on my website – the virtual bookshelf. It’s really just a list of books that I thought were interesting and worth reading, with a few words for each of them. For now, the list is a bit short, but as I remember more of them, I will be surely updating it.
New look
As you surely will notice if you are reading this, I have changed the blog’s theme. I am still ironing some things out so please shout if you notice something wrong or you have any comments about the changes.
I should note that one of the main reasons behind searching for a new theme was making it all easier to read. If you don’t think it is so as a result of the change, pray do tell me.
Using Facebook feeds to advertise your new blog posts
I’ve been wanting to do this for a week or so, but only now got a minute to look it up. It’s actually really simple. Here are two different websites that explain how to do it:
Text&Images:
http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/02/22/how-to-import-your-blog-into-facebook/
Video tutorial:
http://everything.typepad.com/blog/2009/01/how-to-add-your-blog-feed-to-your-facebook-profile.html
It seems to work, the only disadvantage I see so far being that the link to your actual blog doesn’t seem to show up in the notes. I guess you could fix this somehow, but I haven’t looked at it yet.
Projects
After being extremely lazy about this, I finally started writing some stuff for my “Projects” page. I will use that for permanent links and descriptions of some of the more important stuff, but I will continue to regularly post here under the “Stuff I do” category.
If you find all this confusing, do let me know, I’ll think about simplifying it.
Also, I added an awesome tag cloud at the bottom of the page. Cool isn’t it? I’m thinking of updating the layout of my blog to make it more efficient, but I don’t think I’ll have time for that too soon though.
