NumericalChameleon is the first application I know that comes bundled with Squareness Look And Feel. NumericalChameleon explicitly allows you to change the look and feel it uses. Here Squareness Look And Feel is one of the options to choose from.

That's a great success for Squareness and a chance for its fame to grow.

NumericalChameleon is a unit converter, but unlike other unit converters that suffice themselves by converting a handful of units, NumericalChameleon can convert more than 3200 units.

I watched "Van Helsing" last Saturday. The movie itself is quite boring. It's rather childish and the actors aren't convincing. There are some disgusting scenes that motivate you to vomit your lunch or whatever you have eaten before going to the movie, but there is nothing special. And it's not really shocking. Comparing "Van Helsing" to great films of the same genre like "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and "Dance of the Vampires" I can only say that "Van Helsing" is just a piece of crap

But the movie has some nice if not revolutionary effects. Especially the creatures - mostly werewolfs - got my attention. At some point in the movie I began to think "Damn, they move like the creatures in Black & White". "Black & White" is a nice game developed by Lionhead some years ago - the current company of Peter Moyneux, one of the founders of the famous Bullfrog company, which developed Populous some decades ago. In "Black & White" you are a god - Yes, you played a god back in Populous, too. So the perspective hasn't changed that much - who more or less indirectly steers a creature of one's one choice. The creature is partly somehow like a Tamagotchie to you. You have to give it something to eat, you have to praise it and to punish it depending on whether it is doing good or not. Besides that you have to master various tasks, which in the end target towards having many and happy worshipers.

But I'm getting sidetracked here. The point is, that the movement of the creatures somehow reminded me of the movement of the creatures in "Black & White&. There is something specific in it that I cannot describe. Maybe it's because it looks somehow cool but also somehow unrealistic at the same time.

So the conclusion after watching "Van Helsing" is "I have to find time to play Black & White again."

Finally the new version of my blogging system is published. MovableType 3.0D brings a new feature I was longing for for some time now - Comment registration. You now have to register at TypeKey to be able to post comments to my blog.

Well, I know, I don't like registering anywhere, either, but the blog spam became a great nuisance. So I have no choice. After all, you don't need to tell all that much to get registered and my blog doesn't tell TypeKey to give me your email-address. Though it is easy to get registered at Type Key, that should make an end to the stream of spam that has been hitting my site for some time now.

hmm, this site will become a bit lonely without all those spam bots. At least they posted every few days. The comments weren't very creative and they really didn't comment on the entries they were made on, but there was some noise. ;)