Say hello to the young, but oh so troubled Samara Morgan from The Ring. Even though the movie was released 2 years ago, it’s already become my second favorite scary movie of all time. Can you get what the first one might be? Look for The Ring 2 to be released sometime next year.

Well it looks like we made it through the night. Good news for sure and just in time for me to head on over to The Apple Store in Pasadena last night. Why? Well to wait in line with all of the other devoted to pick up my copy of Panther of course. I got a whole bunch of images taken with both my camera and phone. As always, just need to find the time to put them up (along with every other gallery I’ve neglected over the past 9 months).

Panther is fast. I don’t know about the faster machines but on my dual 450 G4, it’s noticeable. iCal, Mail, and Address Book are surprisingly quick. If you used these before, you know how much of a slug they were. The new Finder is nice and Expos⁄, well, I don’t know how I ever lived without it. It’s a good upgrade and worth the $130. Go get.

This may very well be my last post ever. In fact, if we don’t make it out this alive, there will be a lot of lasts happening for many people. A huge solar blast that is estimated to hit the Earth right about now and pass over us for the next 12-18 hours. Yeah really, check out the front page CNN.com right now. It is expected to bring nothing “big” but disruption in communication and other electronic systems, but like one quote from the article states, “…like anything in nature, sometimes they don’t act like we expect them to.” Good luck to us all…

A friend just put up her visual account of the memorial in Los Angeles for Elliott Smith.

A friend just showed me this very simple site that creates all of the scripts you need to make links on your own site to the iTunes Music Store. You should go and try out Apple’s iTunes Link Maker. If you talk about a lot of music, I don’t see how it’d be bad to reference your links with it. Decided to do one myself and considering the events of the week I thought it was kinda nice to do it for the brilliant Elliott Smith. Keep in mind that link will only work if you have iTunes installed.

Looks like I’m gonna have to handcuff myself to my chair for the rest of the month because I’m officially out of spending money until November. That or pull a “magic” trick, David Blaine style, and lock myself in a container drinking only water. Why? Car registration came in the mail about a week ago and it had a little surprise I wasn’t expecting on it. Well, 4 little surprises to be exact. Turns out I had 4 unpaid parking tickets from 2002 and they needed to be cleared before I could register my car. They could have only costed me a total of $80 if I would have paid them on time, but it looks like the price rose to just over $300. That on top of the my rent being raised, the extra costs to fix the Acura, a cell phone bill that got a little out of control, and the unforeseen food nourishment expenses (you mean I have to eat?)… well it’s just all bad budgeting on my part. I mean I put a good amount aside with every check and then lay out a certain amount to blow away on whatever. It just so happens that I’ve gone through my month’s supply in the first week somehow. If there was ever a reason I need a girl around, it’d be to watch the money flow (heard they’re good at that). I might need to advance my check next week just so I can get out to Arizona for my friend’s firefighter graduation. Oh well. No big deal I guess. As soon as the new month starts, everything is fine again. Until then, I’m gonna have to head on over to the parent’s place and steal every last bit of their food to survive.

Ok, I know a lot of people would disagree on this one, but it’s going up anyway. Why? Because I do think it’s one of the scariest movies ever made. I’m talking about The Blair Witch Project here and the “stick figure” graces the current background. The key to enjoying this movie is watching it with the right people.

I go and buy my T616 in August 3 days after it’s released to the public. What does Sony Ericsson do today? They announce the update to it. Here’s the new Sony Ericsson T630 and P900. More links here and here. Damnit! I need that T630 now!

BBC News: “Music fans have bought more than a million songs since the service for Windows users was launched on Thursday… Apple has another cause to celebrate. More than a million copies of the Windows version of its iTunes music software have been downloaded in the past three days.”

Look for Cadillac’s new CTS-V to compete in the American Le Mans series. Here are newly released spy shots of the race ready car roarin’ around Germany. Mmm.