The Windup Girl – revisited author Paolo Bacigalupi One book I´d like to revisit is Paolo Bacigalupi´s book, “The Windup Girl”. This is an addendum to my Jan2014 post of “The Windup Girl”. I´ve read some of the blogs and seen some of the critics express their opinions on what was wrong with the book….
Cast Away released 2000 ”Cast Away” is an American adventure, drama, survivor-style film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis. It was also produced by Tom Hanks, Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey and Robert Zemeckis. It stars Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt and Nick Searcy, Jennifer Lewis, Chris Noth, Vince Martin, Goeffrey Blake and Lari White. Tom Hanks…
Babadook released 2014 ”Babadook” is an Australian psychological horror film written and directed by Jennifer Kent and produced by Kristina Ceyton and Kristina Moliere. It stars Essie Davis, Daniel Henshall, Noah Wiseman, Tim Purcell, Hayley McElhinney, Barbara West, Ben Winspear, Carmel Johnson, Peta Shannon, Craig Behenna and Cathy Adamek. It was based on the short…
The Martian Written by Andy Weir “The Martian” is a science fiction novel written by Andy Weir. It was originally self-published and the rights were later purchased by Crown Publishing Group. Chatter on the internet says that Ridley Scott plans to direct a film from it starring Matt Damon in late 2015. It also exists…
Net Neutrality I2Q April 2015 editorial – (PART 2) Proposed ISP Solutions: ISPs have come up with several solutions to solve the problems of increasing data packet traffic and raising costs outside their nodes. Firstly, is the idea of getting rid of net-neutrality. They would do this by having a faster data packet lane for…