Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence - Script

• August 7, 2006
• James Skemp

Description: Transcript of the movie Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004) based upon a viewing of the English DVD release, using the English subtitles.

I do not speak, nor understand, Japanese, so this is an American-version transcript. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence is an extremely philosophical movie, so I have decided to watch and type up a transcript of the movie so that I could expand my own knowledge of the film. In the spirit of the Internet/Web, I provide it here as well to aid others.

See also the Ghost in the Shell - Script for the first movie.

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July '06: Month end stat thoughts

• August 6, 2006
• James Skemp

I've been moving the last couple of weeks, hence no posts.

I just figured out a problem I was having connecting to the Internet yesterday, so today it's been browsing browsing browsing.

I also just grabbed last month's stats (from AWStats) for my site, and hooked up Google Analytics (having grabbed an invite from the Digital Point forums - to quote Gavin, "woot"). Looking at browser stats in particular (from AWStats - Analytics won't be functional until tomorrow), I noticed a couple of things.

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Google Videos - How social networking can work

• July 27, 2006
• James Skemp

I was trying to pass some time, and came upon Adventures in Linux - Episode I, on Google Video. While the top 100 is full of material of little lasting value, it's nice to see the 1-2% of content that actually serves a purpose.

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Dual-installing PHP: Running PHP 5 and 4 on the same local, Windows-based, Apache, server

• July 18, 2006
• James Skemp

In previous guides, we installed PHP 4.4.2 and later moved our installation to a different folder. This time, we'll be installing the current release of PHP 5 (5.1.4) so that we can still switch back to PHP 4.4.2 if we'd like. Downloading PHP 5.x The current version of PHP 5.x is 5.1.4, so we'll begin by downloading that from PHP.net. We’ll want to download the (Windows Binaries) zip file, even though it is significantly larger in size than the installer (the zip file is almost 9 MB, compared to less than 3 MB for the executable), but allows us a deal more flexibility.

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A Scanner Darkly (2006) - best PKD movie ever?

• July 18, 2006
• James Skemp

This last weekend I watched A Scanner Darkly, which had just hit a local Madison theatre on Friday. I'd been looking forward to the film since I'd heard about it, and since it promised to showcase a look like Waking Life.

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Upgrading our installation of ColdFusion MX 7.0.1 on a local Windows-based, Apache, server

• July 12, 2006
• James Skemp

In a previous guide, we installed ColdFusion MX 6.1 and ColdFusion MX 7.0.1. In this guide, we'll be leaving our installation of ColdFusion MX 6.1, and upgrading our installation of ColdFusion MX 7.0.1 to 7.0.2. Downloading the updater ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 can either be downloaded as a full installer, or as a simple updater. Since we've already installed 7.0.1, we can just use the updater. Go to http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/downloads_updates.html and download the current updater, ColdFusion MX 7 Updater 2 (7.

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Installing MySQL Query Browser 1.1.20 on a local Windows-based, Apache, server

• July 8, 2006
• James Skemp

In a previous guide, we installed MySQL and the MySQL Administrator. In this guide, we'll be installing the MySQL Query Browser, version 1.1.20.

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Moving the location of PHP on your hard drive

• July 1, 2006
• James Skemp

In this article, we'll be moving our installation of PHP 4.4.2 from c:\php\ to c:\php4\. We'll be doing this primarily because we may like the ability to run multiple versions of PHP at one time, on our development server. This will pave the way for our future installation of PHP 5.1.4 (or the current version of PHP 5.x). The added benefit is that we'll have an idea of just how many documents are involved in a relatively simple change.

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An Inconvenient Truth

• June 24, 2006
• James Skemp

I just saw An Inconvenient Truth this afternoon.  If you've any desire to see it, see it.  If you're concerned about the environment, see it.  If you care about (extended) family members younger than yourself, see it. What bothers me is that now that I've seen the movie, I want to donate - I want to write, etcetera - but where's the call to action?  Turns out it's at www.

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Build your own Firefox extension

• June 21, 2006
• James Skemp

There's a great little guide over at webmonkey that discusses how to build your own Firefox extension.

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