活死人凶間 - 喪屍片另類趣味
Saturday, April 24, 2004
很湊巧地，最近有兩齣的喪屍片上映了，分別是“喪屍危機” (The House of the Dead)和“活死人凶間” (Dawn of the Dead)，有點令人搞亂了。“喪屍危機“改編自同名電子遊戲The House of the Dead，而“活死人凶間“則是重拍 1978 年的 Dawn of the Dead，因為前者劣評如潮的關係，所以我選了後者來看。
影片的故事很簡單，其實也就是一般喪屍片的穚段：全球受到一種病毒的侵襲，令死人復活，但卻失去意識，會周圍襲擊人類，倖存者如何想辦法逃離喪屍群的襲擊。這一次，病毒如何走出並沒有解釋，只知道那些喪屍會吃人，而且靠咬就可以傳染。一般的喪屍片裏的喪屍都是動作緩慢的，但這一次的喪屍群都是快跑好手，一見到獵物就會拔足狂奔，情形就像早前的一套 “廿八日後” (28 days later)一樣，而且喪屍群的數目也相當可觀，所以一舉而出的場面也是蠻壯觀的。 (Continued)
PNG Demo
Saturday, April 24, 2004
Just found a PNG demo on the web which is quite impressive…..making use of the alpha channel and layers. Try to drag the sun and bird!
If you click on the link and found that there is a gray background on the three layers (The sun, the bird and the shadow), it is because you are using IE! IE has terrible support on PNG, which should be a replacement for GIF. But as IE doesn’t support it, it is not popular…….what a waste……. And this also shows the problem of a market which is leaded by a particular company….not the web standard.
Try Opera, FireFox…..these are far more close to the web standard… While the new IE talks about preventing Popup, they’ve already implemented long long years ago…..
More info on PNG if you’re interested.
life is like a dream 推出了
Friday, April 23, 2004
期待已久的學友新專輯推出了，“life is like a dream“，人生如夢，夢亦人生……
這一次專輯的特色，當然就是全碟的歌曲都是學友自己親自作曲，作為唱作新人，學友唱方面當然是不容置疑了，至於作曲方面，雖然未至於有很大的驚喜，但成績還算不錯，跟以往的大碟有點兒分別，煞食情歌依舊有，但商業味道不重，有一股清新的感覺。有些歌曲則有在編曲上點懷舊的味道，有點兒老舊情懷。 (Continued)
