We went to the Pirates of the Carribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl movie last night and we all thoroughly enjoyed it. The kids and I can’t wait for the DVD to come out. Johnny Depp was dissapointing to me however, I can’t get myself to relate to his character at all. Sure he’s my wife’s current object de lust along with Orlando Bloom but mine is the delectable Keira Knightley yummmmy! (that riled Amna up no end, she couldn’t get it in her imagination that we “old foggies” can ever find other people attractive!)

No seriously, what brought the movie down for me was the portrayal of Captain Jack Sparrow played by Johnny Depp. I think if he just kept away from the continuous effeminate and uncoordinated movements and be more “butch” as a pirate should be, I think I would have enjoyed it a bit more.

But hey, that Keira Knightley certainly carried her role well!

If I have to choose who the star of the film is however, it goes to Geoffrey Rush who is excellent as usual. I especially liked him in “Quills” as well.

I want one of these babies

The last time I sold a 17-inch display was around 1995 or 6 I think. Because of what I sell, the “normal” display with the system is almost the biggest a manufacturer can make on a desktop, and those normally are either 22-inch Compaq, Mitsubishi or whatever is available from Apple. And it’s almost always 2 monitors. Now this display from Liebermann would most certainly be useful for my customers. With applications as varied as Avid DNLEs, Softimage, Curious Software, SGI and others, they will be very useful indeed.

And of course, one is also sorely needed for my workstation at home!

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I have to share this with you…

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They have all come to Bahrain to take part in a global Muslim Rapprochement and views exchange in order to unite the Muslims and find ways to bring all these sects closer together. What is important to me is for them to end the bigotry, racism and discrimination against sects, especially the Shia in this region of the world.

This conference is long overdue, and I fully believe that without the pressures arising from Sept 11, this would have never happened.

We’ve had the Christianity/Islam Rapprochement conference in Bahrain last year, this year is the various Muslim sects forum so I hope that next year it will be a full interfaith rapprochement conference will happen once again in bahrain bringing Muslims, Christians and Jews together – the “people of the Book” deserve to understand each other better and bring our views closer so we can live in peace.