Now this is utterly mad. Artificial islands?

I received the email from the University yesterday about starting my dissertation advice. Possibly a strange thing for some but I have no idea about it. What's involved, expected and such. Mostly, though, what subject to use.

The aim is to go through some of the ideas to create a proposal which in the end has to be about 8 pages. This would then be considered.

I also saw Fantastic Four another of the superhero comic to film transitions. While the abilities of the other three are mostly seamless, Mr Fantastic's (why is he Mister and the rest just have names?) seemed to rely mostly on trickery rather than being believably possible.

Stealth

Today I saw Stealth. It's a slightly lacklustre film with perhaps a weak story. Though, as is common lately, the digital imagery is quite compelling - the film makers obviously spent a lot of effort making the aircraft believable.

There are two main technological items of unknown - the aircraft are hypersonic single seaters with one being flown by an artificial intelligence, this aircraft having adaptive air surfaces and the AI itself, a quantum computer.

Though from this comes mainly a story of love and survival with typical martyrdom of certain characters, namely one of the 'flyboys' and the AI. It seems film makers AIs are not prone to survival. Mix into that some betrayal and earning trust and that's mainly it, apart from the flying.

The dogfight sequences, though, are a little ludicrous. A box-standard fighter-bomber up against a hypersonic futuristic plane and it wasn't over in seconds?

If you don't like flying or naval intrigue don't bother with it. Though the usual 'black-box' approach towards computing has been taken along with the 'it better be tested.... oh look it's gone haywire' cliche.

Well one thing I've been looking for is a Blog tool - I'm currently trying Journler, which is a Journal as well as a Blogger but I don't know yet if it's what I'm after, though I could just write what I want which would be a good start at programming in something other than Java, unless of course I did it in Java, which would be kind of mad but logical I think.

I've not written in a while. I've bought myself an iBook and I've been moving things like email and documents from my PC to my iBook.

I prefer this thing but it's not the only computer, though I'm still learning about it.

My new job is going very well - I'm just about to pass my 3 month probation period, with other things, though it feels like I've been there much longer.