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The Prestige

I missed it in theaters, so I only just watched The Prestige on DVD. Wow, it did have me guessing most of the way through. I definitely need to see it again to pick up all the cues I missed. Maybe not quite on par with The Usual Suspects, but damn close. Nice twists, a convincing performance by Jackman, Caine, and most others. I have to say I thought Bale's performance felt a bit forced early on. It was good to see the cameo by Ricky Jay too.

Network Neutrality

There's a really great video here that explains network neutrality in a fun and enlightening way. This is something that hits close to home for me. The websites I care most about are the voices of my friends, and other small groups of geeks sharing wonderful things with each other. This is exactly the kind of access that AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, and others would relegate to the "slow" lane, or even the "no" lane. I'm not sure the product I'm working on at the moment would even be possible in that kind of environment. I finally got off my butt and wrote a letter to my senator, and other congress-critters about it. The internet is one big thing in this world that we got mostly right. Can we please not mess it up?