I finally got to see The Matrix Revolutions. My whole division saw it on opening day, but since that was during SAF, our team couldn’t go. So we went en masse on Monday. I guess I’m in the minority, both in blogsphere and on the team, but I really enjoyed it. I also just finished playing Enter The Matrix. Funny coincidence, I reached the point of the game that corresponds to the end of The Matrix Reloaded on Sunday, saw Revolutions Monday, finished the game Tuesday. The game got somewhat decent ratings, but again I liked it. Probably because I was more interested in it as an adjunct to the movies than as a game. One review I read complained about the amount of action that took place during cinematic cut-scenes rather than in the game itself. But since I played the game primarily for the story, I didn’t mind.

My hardware issues remain unresolved. Apparently, HP has decided that my two month old laptop with the cracked display is not covered under warranty. Of course, since I have a wide variety of accessories compatible with this machine, I’m unlikely to scrap it even though they are charging my group a significant portion of the original cost (> 50%) to fix it.

As you can imagine, this is the last HP machine I will ever use. Granted, that doesn’t mean much to HP’s bottom line – I just got this machine when I switched jobs so I’m not due for a refresh for a while. I don’t run the lab, so I don’t have any say over the hardware they run in there. But I am in the market for a Media Center PC – luckily there are a variety of other OEMs who offer MCE (the Viewsonic looks cool).

People like Scoble scour the ‘net to find people who have “fired” Microsoft. We are doing a better listening to them (note, I’m not suggesting we’re done listening or that we’ve fixed all the issues – just that we’re improving). I hope HP has someone looking for people who have fired them.

I’ve finally updated the SharePoint Syndication project to support the RTM version of Windows SharePoint Services. Since I’m in process of updating my blog software, I haven’t updated the project page, though I have updated the GDN workspace with the release bits, source code and readme file. The workspace even has a freshly minted url: http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/spsynd. Enjoy.

My “dog” David White started a blog. And he blames me for “shaming” him into doing it. That’s a first – I’ve never shamed anyone into doing anything. I’m not sure I really shamed David – “pestered” may be a better term.

The last session I went to @ PDC on Wed was on Building Media Center Applications (PPT). You can download the MCE SDK from the MCE Developer Center which isn’t on MSDN (go figure).