WARNING: "The Fountain" Movie

We just got back from seeing The Fountain at the movie theater...

I have to say, I haven't seen a movie in a while that has left me feeling like I have just been robbed of hours of my life. At least with the Weather Man, I felt like I had just seen the worst movie ever made and could at least enjoy telling friends and family about how bad the movie was.

The Fountain wasn't bad, and the acting was good, but the movie was just empty. The trailer is better then the movie. I felt like I waited through the entire movie hoping that it was going to start at some point. It never did.

Recommendation: Don't bother seeing this movie... ever.
My Rating: Null out of 5 stars.

Tri-boot WinXP / Windows Vista / Ubuntu Linux

I now have WinXP, Windows Vista RC1, and Ubuntu/Kubuntu Linux tri-booting on my laptop. A key to success if you are going to attempt this is the order of installation:

1. Windows XP
2. Windows Vista
3. Linux

If you install Windows Vista first, Windows XP's boot loader won't find Vista, and if you try to do a repair on Vista, WinXP won't be found. There may be a way to fix this, but it's easier just to install in the order listed above.

When Linux installs grub, at least with Ubuntu, it automatically finds the Vista boot loader. When you select the Vista option from grub, the Vista boot loader should have two options "Run previous version of windows" (i.e. WinXP) or "Run Vista".

I hope this saves you some time.