Ebert’s written a longer essay about Attack of the Clones and George Lucas’s vision of an all-digital movie experience. It sounds like those of you lucky enough to see it in a digitally-equipped theater will have a very different experience from the rest of us.

And speaking of Episode 2… only seven hours to go! Be sure and check back tomorrow morning for my first impressions. 🙂

I upgraded my web browser to the OmniWeb 4.1 Public Beta yesterday. I just used it for my morning blog read and it worked really well. My thoughts:

• Tables do seem to load faster. This was a big beef I had from the old version.
• CSS support is much better. I think I finally saw Beau’s site as intended!
• I love the little drop downs on the forward and back buttons that give you an abbreviated history. Absolutely necessary for the way I surf.
• Okay, this is the one negative. When I hit certain sites (like Chris’s and Max’s), the Download Manager would get tripped and download some bogus “index.html” document to my desktop, and the original page would never appear in my browser. At first I thought it was happening on sites where the default document isn’t “index.html”, but Max’s site disproved that. I have a similar problem using IE 5.1 too, where certain sites (like web-goddess) cause the browser to think it’s downloading a gzipped file. Has anyone else had a problem like this? What the heck is going on?

Anyway, the positives greatly outweigh the negatives. If you use OmniWeb, I suggest upgrading.

Okay, there’s this job that I really, really want, and I’ve made it through the first round. I don’t wanna tell you guys what it is yet for fear I’ll jinx it. But I’ve got to answer some questions for them and I’ve hit a wall. Can you help? I need to know how “my friends would describe me”. You guys are my friends, right? What would you say? Answers quickly, please; I’m sending this off in twelve hours.

It is Christmas? Because I feel like Santa Claus! GoddessBlog is now ready for the general public. I’ve still got a few modules to write, but the basic stuff is all there. Have fun, kids!

Today’s Act of Domestic Goddesshood was the creation of crock pot beef stew. I’d never actually made it before, and to be honest, my favorite kind is good ol’ Dinty Moore. I had real difficulty finding a recipe that looked like it would emulate Dinty’s chunkified, canned goodness. I finally settled on this one, since I had most of the ingredients. It was good, but the tomato soup base was still unsettling to me. I want nummy beef gravy! Anybody have a good stew recipe? Of course, I won’t be able to use it til next winter, seeing as how I made so much of this batch we’ll be eating it for the next ten months…

Incidentally, I had no idea that Dinty Moore beef stew was such an icon for the survivalist set. Check out this Google search. Half the results are for Y2K nutcases discussing supplies for their fallout shelters!

Hee! The sex shop around the corner has a new holiday message on their chalkboard: “BUY MOM SOMETHING SHE REALLY NEEDS!”

I told you about the missing wealthy Melbourne couple, right? Well, they found them dead and buried in a shallow grave, and now it looks like the youngest son did it. This could be a great true crime novel. Watching it unfold in the media has just been fascinating.

Roger Ebert has pre-emptively ruined my entire week. *sulk*

New Poll: I’ve been flipping through this course catalog and I think I’ve narrowed it down to a few different choices. Which class would you take?

Since I seem to have become a housewife overnight (by virtue of the fact that Snookums has a job and I don’t), I decided that I would make the most of circumstance and be the best darn housewife I can. Thus I give you my day:

• Work on my quilt while watching Days of Our Lives
• Head to the gym for forty-five minutes on the stairmaster
• Pick up a course catalog for Sydney Uni’s “Continuing Education” department
• Clean the house from top to bottom (even the toilet!)
• Shower, so as to be fresh and pretty for the breadwinner
• Make peanut-butter-and-oatmeal cookies (his favorite)

Damn, am I a domestic goddess or what? (Bite me, Nigella.) I might as well be Charlotte from Sex and the City. Of course, now that he’s home I’ve gone back to normal, drinkin’ a beer and surfin’ the web. Ahhh, it feels good to be myself again. 🙂