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(image found on the tubes by the inimitable ShetBoy – good work, fella!)

I went to see Star Trek (2009) (i.e. Star Trek 11) in the cinema tonight, and no joke – you should go check it out too. Without any reservation I can say it’s the best film I’ve seen this year.

Simon Pegg (Spaced, Hot Fuzz) was very, very good as Scotty, Chris Pine was excellent as Kirk, Zachary Quinto did a wonderful job as spock… Even Karl Urban did well as Bones…

I’m still processing it all.

Being a prequel, the character introduction was laid on a little thick, and the balance of accessibility to obviousness might have favoured the new-comer, but all in all, it was just fantastic. And watching it in Gold Class on big, reclining seats with beer and nachos didn’t hurt the experience one bit… It was action packed, dramatic, well acted, and made me laugh out loud at least half a dozen times – even the sound effects were retro-modern enough so that a phaser sounded like a modern film, but with a retro “galaga” tinge, and moving to warp sounded like I guess it always should have; like the dull thump of a thousand ton bullet in a vacuum – out of sight on the ‘G’ of ‘Go’…

The trailer for it shows you what to expect, but The Onion sums it up nicely…

Really, really good film. Be sure to catch it on the big screen if you get the opportunity – it’ll make your night, just like it’s made mine.

Open Office 3.1 is out with much new goodness, and I don’t want to have to wait for it to make its way to the standard repositories or add any 3rd party repos to my sources.list plus the repo keys, so I’m just gonna go with the debs. Here’s how:

1.) Remove/Purge the current version of Open Office from your system however you see fit. Synaptic Package Manager would do it.

2.) Get yourself an appropriate Open Office 3.1 package in .deb format (i.e. for 64 Bit Linux I’ve grabbed the OOo_3.1.0_LinuxX86-64_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz file from here)

2.) Extract the downloaded package somewhere and navigate to it in a bash terminal/console

3.) In the terminal, go into the DEBS sub-folder in wherever you extracted Open Office and run:

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

4.) Once that’s installed, go into the desktop-integration folder and run sudo dpkg -i *.deb again there to install the menu shortcuts.

Tap-tap. Job done.

I happen to find all the current “swine flu” hysteria a fuss over nothing, but this still made me grin…