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BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: Reviews Updated



Saturday, February 18, 2006  

Reviews Updated


In addition to the new reviews I've been posting (and have yet to post) I spent a few hours yesterday and today bringing the reviews section up to date. I'd posted something like 15 movie reviews and 6 book reviews over the past few months, without archiving them in the reviews section or posting links to them in the nav bar, and that laziness-related oversight has now been rectified. A partial list of the new stuff follows, and if you've been reading the blog since Octoberish, you've seen all of these posted in blogs, though the archived versions here linked to have, in most cases, been expanded on and reorganized.

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--Tim Burton's Corpse Bride -- 4.5
--Fight Club -- 7
--Harry Potter 4 -- 7
--King Kong -- 6
--Munich -- 7
--Serenity -- 7.5
--Team America -- 6
--Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Wererabbit -- 7
--The Castle of Cagliostro -- 6.5
--Bruce's Fists of Vengeance -- 6
--Blood of the Dragon -- 6.5

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--Harry Potter #6 -- 7
--Eragon -- 6.5
--Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger -- 5.5
--The Twelfth Card -- 6
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  • High and Low Stakes in Fiction

    There are lots of other new review pages up too, but most of them are place holders for reviews to come. I've got a ton of stuff on the Bloodrayne page, for instance, but no actual review since while I've blogged about it with great glee, I have not and hope never to see that film. I'd put in links to all of those pages as well but hell, it's not like there's any shortage of words by me to read around here. If any of you actually want to see the archived blog entries on films I have yet to review, just go to the main reviews page and click the ones with an "NA" for a score. Kthx.

    Lots more reviews to come, of course. Perhaps later this weekend, even. Perhaps right now, since I just remembered that I added a 4th chop socky review directly to the reviews section, without ever posting it in a blog entry. And dog forbid you miss the chance to read another long post about costumed men pretending to hit each other.

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    The links to Bruce's Fists of Vengeance and the first four book reviews are broken.


     

    Not anymore...

    Funny how just a single a missing / in a hyperlink pretty well bollocks it.


     

    Yeah, it's long annoyed me that browsers aren't smarter.

    For example, if you type in ww.something.com and it comes up with a DNS error saying that page doesn't exist, why doesn't the browser automatically try www.something.com in the background, and if it gets a valid reply, display that page instead?

    Similarly if you type htp:// or http// or htpp:// or any other obvious permutation, the browser should just automatically correct it for us once it knows that what we typed in verbatim is wrong.


     

    It's long annoyed me that programming languages require you to put every single damn little thing just right, or they don't work at all. which is why I'll never be a programmer.

    In pasting the URLs, I somehow missed the / between the domain name and the sub folder, so the broken ones had "blackchampagne.comreviews" in the middle of them. I don't know how one would program a browser to realize there should be a slash after the .com part and before the next bit, and how that option wouldn't break the viewing of sites that have odd URLs due to their CSS or PHP or whatever, but it's exactly the sort of thing that makes me glad I never spent any time memorizing the completely arbitrary requirements of any programming language.

    Even though it would be really useful info to have, at times.


     

    They aren't completely arbitrary.


     

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