There is not much I can say about the movie without spoiling the experience of seeing it, another words GO SEE IT! If anything the continuation (Kill Bill was originally a single movie that Quentin broke into to parts to avoid the Titaniasque style movie that just never seems to end) is better then the original. Through out the movie you can see a variety of influences ranging from anime, westerns and of course martial arts of all sorts, there is even a short appearance by a lone zombie!!! While the movie is great, if you had not seen the first one you should probably watch it first before seeing the volume 2.

If Porsche can have an SUV, I can have a blog! While this is not technically the very post, it is the first official online rant by your's truly. Well, that's not entirely true either, since I rant on a regular basis on [url=http://news.php.net/group.php?group=php.internals]internals mailing list[/url] about wide variety of topics. But let's ignore the facts for a moment, they only tend to get in the way of things. Anyhow, on with the introduction. I finally decided to get of my lazy ass and design a site for myself. Rather amusing, given that I've been directly and indirectly involved in the design of hundreds of websites in the past. For the moment only the blog is online, however I will add other tidbits in the near future. The biggest difficulty was lack of a good (short) domain. Despite having a fairly rare name, that I tend to spell differently that some of my namesakes (Ilia vs Ilya) this had proven to be quite a challenge. All common domain extensions were taken with the expiry date no where in si...