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Golden Globe award winnersPosted by Paul on January 17th, 2006

For those of you who don’t know and want to know if Charlize won her award (nope, she didn’t), here is the list of Golden Globe winners:

Complete list of winners at Monday’s 63rd annual Golden Globes presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association:

MOTION PICTURES

Picture, Drama: “Brokeback Mountain”

Actress, Drama: Felicity Huffman, “Transamerica”

Actor, Drama: Philip Seymour Hoffman, “Capote”

Picture, Musical or Comedy: “Walk the Line”

Actress, Musical or Comedy: Reese Witherspoon, “Walk the Line”

Actor, Musical or Comedy: Joaquin Phoenix, “Walk the Line”

Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz, “The Constant Gardener”

Supporting Actor: George Clooney, “Syriana”

Director: Ang Lee, “Brokeback Mountain”

Screenplay: Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, “Brokeback Mountain”

Foreign Language: “Paradise Now,” Palestine

Original Score: John Williams, “Memoirs of a Geisha”

Original Song: “A Love That Will Never Grow Old” from “Brokeback Mountain”

TELEVISION

Series, Drama: “Lost,” ABC

Actress, Drama: Geena Davis, “Commander in Chief,” ABC

Actor, Drama: Hugh Laurie, “House,” Fox

Series, Musical or Comedy: “Desperate Housewives,” ABC

Actress, Musical or Comedy: Mary-Louise Parker, “Weeds,” Showtime

Actor, Musical or Comedy: Steve Carell, “The Office,” NBC

Miniseries or movie: “Empire Falls,” HBO

Actress, Miniseries or Movie: S. Epatha Merkerson, “Lackawanna Blues,” HBO

Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, “Elvis,” CBS

Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Sandra Oh, “Grey’s Anatomy,” ABC

Supporting Actor, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Paul Newman, “Empire Falls,” HBO

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Golden Globe winner previously announced this year:

Cecil B. DeMille Award: Anthony Hopkins

For more news and views on the Golden Globes (which I think is showing on M-Net in South Africa tonight), go here.

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Superman is too big for this blog!Posted by Paul on January 16th, 2006

It turns out the domain “supermanreturns.wordpress.com” was available so I have set up a blog dedicated to the movie I am most excited about this year!  So add that one to your list of blogs to check out from time to time why don’t you?

By the way, the feed is here.

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Now Microsoft stops development on Windows Media Player for Mac OS XPosted by Paul on January 13th, 2006

It wasn’t too long ago that I mentioned that Microsoft stopped development on Internet Explorer for the Mac.  Now they have announced they will no longer develop Windows Media Player for the Mac either:

Microsoft says it is no longer developing a Mac version of its Windows Media Player for Mac, following the announcement of a separate five-year agreement with Apple to develop Office for the Mac and Messenger: “We have no plans to provide future updates or product support for Windows Media Player for Mac,” Adam Anderson, Microsoft public relations manager, told CNET News.com. Microsoft said that it had a made a “business decision” to halt development and product support because it was re-examining its business priorities: “Our focus really is in delivering the best experience to Windows customers.” Ironically, the announced followed its public “commitment” agreement to the Mac, but follows an agreement to distribute Telestream’s Windows Media Components for QuickTime.

This irks me and at the same time says a few things about how Microsoft perceives Apple.  Is Apple becoming more of a threat to Microsoft with the announcement of some hot new Intel based Macs?

I saw the Internet Explorer icon in my Applications folder and I started to wonder why I even have it taking up space on my PowerBook.  Anyway, you can download a product by Flip4Mac that will enable you to play unprotected Windows Media content in Quicktime.  If that works properly, who needs Windows Media Player for Mac anyway?

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I have one! I have one!Posted by Paul on January 13th, 2006

Yesterday was a big day for me.  I bought myself a brand spanking new video iPod and a black one to boot!  Just had to share.  And here is the obligatory picture that shows just how cool it is (borrowed from Infosync World):

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Drunken editorial disclaimersPosted by Paul on January 11th, 2006

This one is brilliant.  According to the Clarion Ledger (publishing a Washington Post article):

‘Modern Drunkard, the magazine with the slogan, “Standing up for your right to get falling down drunk since 1996,” published the best editorial disclaimer of the year: 

“Views expressed in this magazine do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Modern Drunkard staff or publisher. In fact, I would like to take this opportunity to deny everything. Your honor, I was never even near the place and what’s more, those are not my trousers and those are most assuredly not my friends. They are merely a drunken and surly gang of hitchhikers I made the terrible, terrible mistake of giving a lift. I promise to be good. Really. I swear.”‘

(via Everything and Nothing - a blog not unlike my own, actually)

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Google Earth for MacPosted by Paul on January 11th, 2006

You can get Google Earth for Mac now!  Excellent!

(Thanks Rich..!)

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Steve Jobs really pisses me off!Posted by Paul on January 11th, 2006

Ok, so it is Macworld, probably one of the biggest events for Mac users all over and true to form, Jobs has unveiled a ton of unbelievably sexy stuff just months after I bought myself this lovable 12inch PowerBook.  I am starting to think I have been singled out for this special kind of torture.  I’m not going to reproduce any of the reports in any real detail (I’m feeling a little nauseous and don’t think I can cope with the rehash of all the news) so take a look at Yahoo! News’ coverage.  In the meantime, here are the highlights:

• First, there are the new Intel based iMacs that run at up to twice the speed of their G5 equivalents;
• Next we have the newly named MacBook Pros that run at up to four times the speed of the benchmark 15 inch PowerBook (yikes!);
• iLife has been upgraded to a ‘06 version (where, of course, everything runs faster and better) and includes iWeb, a blogging and web-services app (I have been hoping for upgrade news for my iLife ‘05 but nothing yet);
• iWork now has an ‘06 version although there is still no equivalent of Excel (Microsoft is apparently on track to deliver versions of Office for Mac and Messenger that will work on the new Intel machines as well as PowerPC machines);
• OS X Tiger has a further (and apparently final) incremental upgrade to 10.4.4 (supposed to be released today); and
• the “iPod Radio Remote is a convenient way for music lovers to skip tracks and adjust the volume of their iPod even when it’s in a pocket or backpack, and listen to FM radio stations while displaying station and song information on their iPod screen”.

New software will now feature a snazzy icon to indicate that it is based on universal binaries (not sure if that is the correct terminology but it means the stuff works on old machines and new hotties).  There is so much more and I wonder how much more will still emerge from the show which runs till the 13th.

There was talk of a possible iMac mini duly altered to run as an Apple media centre in the home.  I am hoping for something like that one day.  Let’s see what happens in the next few days.  Then again, something like that may come in a few months time.  For now, isn’t this a lot of awesome stuff?

I am still a bit pissed off.  Real gadget envy kind of pissed off!

Update:

MacWorld (the magazine website) has published some more info on the new MacBook Pro and the new iMac Core Duo that is worth reading.

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