Month: December 2002

I watched “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin” finally on Sunday and it was … ok. It wasn’t bad because the scenery and the filming was great. Nicolas Cage’s fake Italian accent was at first getting on my nerves, but I got used to it after awhile.

There was a speech in the middle of the film that caught my attention though, where the father is talking to the daughter about whether or not she loves the local Greek boy she is engaged to or if she loves Capt. Corelli. I just had to write it down, and here it is:

When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots become so entwined together that it becomes inconceivable that you should ever part. Because, this is what love is.

Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body. No. Don’t blush. I’m telling you some truths. That is just being in love, which any of us can convince ourselves that we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away. It doesn’t sound very exciting, does it? But it is.

As I mentioned yesterday, EJ gave me a ton of helpful information on websites that would work with my cell phone and allow me to download free ringtones and screensavers for it. Here are all of the links I’ve found so far:

:: PCSPix.com allows you to upload files that you can then download to your phone.
:: MyPhoneFiles.com allows you to store your digital photos on their site so you can display them on your phone.
Samsung Electronics is the home page for my cell phone.
:: Ifni Free MIDI Music Files offers a ton of MIDI files to use for your cell phone ringtones. Yes, I surfed Midi files yesterday – I would have never imagined I would be doing that!
:: DS Effects has cool applets, scripts and midlets for your phone.
:: MIDlet Games wireless Java Games and Software.
:: MicroJava has more games and software.
:: Spruce has a Magic 8-ball midlet that can now help me with my decision making!
:: Jams has more Jave applications for your phone.
:: Java Games offers Clix, that super addictive game that I could play for hours on the PC.
:: Other game links for the phone.
:: Midlet is a huge resource of games & applications.
:: REQwireless has a kick ass web browser for your phone! It’s shareware, but it allows you to view all sites – whether they are WAP-enabled or not! It also resizes images on sites on the fly so that you can view them on your phone without having it be cut off. It’s so cool! (Now if I could just figure out how to fill out a form while using it…)

And if all those weren’t cool enough, I just now found this one!
:: Kablog! (Yeah, having “blog” in there caught my attention!) “KABLOG is a tool for mobile phones and PDAs that allows you to post new blog entries to Movable Type. (It may also work with other blog services supporting an XMLRPC interface similar to Movable Type’s, but this has not been tested.)” I can only imagine how long it would take for me to type out an MT post on my phone, but it can be done! (Now I just need to go here to get the files.) Note: Kablog is available for Palm devices too, just in case you have one of those!

Stripped page tutorial coming later today! So far I know that Kristine has one up for me – anyone else? Come on … you know you want to strip!