As of today, I won't be making any new posts on this blog. I now (finally) have my own site, located at www.berbs.net. The new site gives me much more technical freedom and is powered by the very well designed Movable Type publishing system. So, please stop on over to see what's happening in my life!

*Minor Matrix Revolution Spoiler*

It's been a week since I saw The Matrix Revolutions, so I suppose I need to give my movie update. Overall, I was pleased. Due to my impatience, I already knew the basic plot of the movie from reading some of the spoilers on the net. Seeing the action play out, however, is quite the sight. Revolutions is the "epic" of the trilogy, and there were a lot of huge battle scenes during the course of the Zion invasion. There weren't nearly enough kung-fu fights for my tastes though.

The final movie doesn't really bring the series to a nice, happy close. A few questions were answered (not many), a few new ones offered, several from previous films brushed aside, but many were left up in the air. I have no doubt this was done intentionally by the W. brothers (the writers/directors), as the devoted Matrix fan base on the Internet will no doubt continue to offer up theory after theory about the series.

Conclusion: The Matrix Revolutions is definitely worth watching. If you go in not expecting the best movie ever and the answers of the universe to be revealed, I think you'll come out pretty happy.

I'll be going to the 9:50 showing of the Matrix Revolutions tonight. Reviews haven't been that great for it, but I believe that's mainly due to extremely high expectations. I've read many reviews saying it is comparable to Reloaded, only to go on to say how bad it is (having given Reloaded 4-5 stars and then Revolutions 1-2 stars). I have sufficiently lowered my expectations, which will hopefully make it more enjoyable for me. I'll let you know how it is...

I'm working on my presentation for the NDATL Fall Face-2-Face conference on November 12th. I was asked to do a session on Macromedia Flash - that appears to be the only guideline. I'm trying to dig into Flash MX 2004 Professional, the top of the line in Flash development tools. It's got some nice features above and beyond the regular Flash MX 2004 product. There are a lot of really cool application development tools in Pro, but I don't see many schools taking the time to create a Flash-based rich media application. I might try to highlight how a teacher can use Flash to teach basic game programming if I can find some good background info on that topic.

Now, I'm off to get my hair helmet removed...