This weekend was mainly time to relax. After working most of the last two weekends I decided this was my weekend. Hopefully the array with the drive that failed will last until next weekend. If not, that's what backups are for. The doing nothing quickly turned into watching movies.

The Crow was movie #1 on Saturday. It had an awesome soundtrack, and it was good technically. The plot was a little odd being was both slow and busy at the same time, but it sets the mood well. It's about death so it already had that feel to it, but then there's the fun element that the main actor was killed while making the movie to top it off.

Movie #2 for Saturday was The 6th Day. I really like how they did the transitions, with a sort of multi-column rotation/overlay. They used a similar effect of the overlay blur during the movie which was cool too (it could be said it was overused, but it fits well with the story). The plot is interesting, although I could see how some people could call is shallow. It does keep bringing up a few ideas, with a very heavy pushing a point of view (anti-cloning). The end is an interesting twist though. It definitely fits under Thriller due to that winding the plot back and forth that seems to show up in all of them. Plus it's action, and hey, I'm a guy.

Sunday morning was church at Salem. Turns out Bjorn is leaving to get ready to go to med school so won't be the worship leader anymore. He was good and the temp people never seemed to have quite the same leading, but hopefully someone good will step in. This is the first I heard of any med school stuff, and it seems odd since he majored in CS and BTS. I hear he's going to a mormon school though, so maybe he's planning on putting that BTS degree to use converting them all. Anyways, hope the best for him.

The first movie for Sunday was PCU. A funny movie, plus it has everyone wanting to kill David Spade. A good one to just laugh at.

After that finally got around to watching Requiem for a Dream. Reminded me a lot of Trainspotting but without the happy ending. He did a good job of having things appear from the point of view of the people in the story. However it is Darren Aronofsky, who seems to have a style of giving as little information as possible at the time, and you figure out how it ties together later. A good film though.

That left a few hours left on Sunday evening, so I figured since the trend seems to be to redesign websites lately, I decided to get in on it. For the most part the biggest change is the the light grey blocks with black text. Unless you're using Netscape 4 for some crazy reason, in which case you're lucky if you got this far. On the backend I converted almost everything to CSS, and eliminated most tables. There's still a few I need to convert, but I figured I'd get the basics done first. I didn't originally intend to make it look different, but it was so easy while I was in there that I did. If you're using a gecko-based browser or one that supports CSS3 (sorry Safari and IE users) you even get rounded borders and stuff. And before you comment about anti-aliasing, they're not images but CSS, so that's your browser doing that. I only tested in Firefox on OS X (and sorta Safari), but it is valid XHTML. Let me know if something looks broken though and if it's something standards compliant to fix it I may consider it.