On Sunday I watched XXX, which I thought was a good movie.  Vin Diesel's presence, the Xtreme action and the Xtraordinary stunts made the whole thing worthwile.  But I would say the movie falls short of being Xcellent because of the thin plot and the stereotyped villains.  It is good fun though.

HBO is also showing The Matrix many times these days.  In fact they were showing it yesterday night and I watched half of it before I went to sleep.  Today on STAR Movies at 9 PM a very good movie is on, it's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, which is one of my favourite movies.

I would have updated about all this earlier, but a strange thing happened.  From Sunday evening, I was not able to access my site at all!  And since I update my site using phpMyAdmin (fantastic software), I have to access my site to do that!  That's why there were no updates for the past two days.  Strangely, I could connect to the FTP, and I was also able to see other sites, but mine wouldn't work.  So I sent a mail to the Tech Support people and got a prompt reply - there was nothing wrong from their side.  Ultimately I realised this was caused by my ISP, I don't know how the problem came or how it fixed itself, but things are all right now.

Yesterday was the last day of college before exams start (practicals on 26th and 30th, theory exams on 5 November).  I finished all the formalities yesterday (getting signatures on record books, submitting the exam application form, etc.) and came home early.  I played Chris Hansen's most excellent Retro Episode in the afternoon.

Recently I downloaded phpBB, which will allow me to run a full-fledged forums system on my site.  But just because I can do it doesn't mean I should do it, because I don't know how many people will actually use forums if they are there on the site.  I would definitely like to know what you think of this, please email me and let me know.

Recent entries in my Guestbook came from Rajeev, Sampath, R. Srinivas, Srikanth, and Pablo Dictter, thanks all!