This doesn't look good, particularly if they guessed the buyer correctly. I believe that IA64's an interesting addition to the 64 bit marketplace, but it is not a replacement for the Alpha. Intel will think differently, of course...
Time
Spending most of my time on university stuff lately, so
there's not much going on development-wise. With some luck,
a university project might turn out to become another
addition to the Free Software world, though. OK, to be
honest, it's the other way 'round- I'm trying to get a piece
of code I'm working on to be accepted as a replacement for a
much more boring project I'm supposed to be working on.
C++
GCC 3.0's out, and I'm supposed to be happy. Unfortunately,
Compaq's (soon Intel's?) cxx is faster by an order of
magnitude. I haven't compared the code quality yet- neither
compiler manages to build Mozilla or the kdelibs on my box,
and I'm not really in the mood to do benchmarking.
Movies
Since the last update, I went to the theaters exactly four
times:
Twice to see Mononoke Hime, which I highly recommend-
the German synchronized version is surprisingly good-, once
for Perfect Blue, which wasn't bad either, and once
again for The
Mummy 2 (Or whatever the official title is), which I
didn't enjoy quite as much as most of the others I talked
to. It had a few nice ideas, but it was just too cheesy
("Hollywood-ish") in places.
Anyway, I think I'm going to skip Perl Harbour-
according to two reviews and one oral report, it's
apparently not worth watching. Not quite on par with
Saving Private
Ryan, Das Boot or Hotaru no Haka('Grave
of the Fireflies').