every programmer should start his or her career at microsoft.  this is because once you leave microsoft you can join the microsoft alumni network (assuming you leave on good terms) and get microsoft software from the company store for cheap for the rest of your life.  speaking of which visual studio 2005 is pretty sweet.  it’s a shame all the refactoring stuff doesn’t work in c++ though.

this past weekend i watched the movie red eye. 
i adore horror movies and really love movies with scenes on airplanes
so i really really wanted to see this one but missed it when it was
theatres.  it was okay.  it’s probably my favorite of wes
craven‘s movies now (most of them are terrible so didn’t take
much).  one interesting aspect of the movie is that the bad guy
never really hurts anybody. 

anyhow if you want to see a really good horror movie, there are two i came across last year.  one is the dark hours and the other is the descent. 
for maximum effect, don’t read anything about either of them ahead of time — and that includes clicking
those links!

everytime 3dsmax crashes i’m reminded of autodesk’s purchase of alias.  my prediction after the acquisition was that autodesk would kill or sell 3dsmax in two years or so.  it’s got some nice features, but everyone who’s used it (and especially those who’ve written plugins) knows that max is a mess. 

autodesk doesn’t need two competing 3d modelling applications anymore than microsoft needs competing office products.  max is gunna die.  i just hope they move maxscript over to maya.