This fine Christmas evening, James, Jeni , Gaia and I watched James' brand new DVD of "The Goonies."
Yes. It's the classic/cult film. I don't need to sell you on it. Watch it now. Say the lines along with it. Goonies Never say Die. Do the Truffle Shuffle. Have your time, down there. Or whatever you need to do.

Then, point your browser over at theGoonies.org and watch "The Goonies Vacation." A brillant fan-film wherein the filmmakers tour some of the film's locations and shoot self-insertion peices of some of the best scenes in the movie.

Really, the only reason to be thankful for using Windows is access to the superior blogging client, Windows Live Writer.  I’ve not yet found anything on Linux, OSX or even Haiku that works as well for firing off a quick blog post.

And Great news! Windows Live Writer is Drupal 6 Friendly. Thanks to the folks at TributeMedia and the WLWBlogAPI, you can—almost seamlessly—post to your Drupal 6 Blogs in WLW.

Now, this may not be cool enough for you Drupal Ninjas who prefer to compose in notepad++, but think of how nicely LiveWriter could be used to get non-bloggers in your organization posting to your drupal blog in a friendly way that makes sense to them.

Sometimes, I think, some of us read-write-web folks lose track of the fact that for many “regular” users, the browser is not a client. Windows Live Writer _is_ as client. It fits very well into most people’s sense of how they use their computers. And, it works great. LiveWriter has a Flickr Plug-in, too. Very nice.

Just posted a story about an Okauchee Kid who makes horror movies at Ocono.com.

We watched “The Old Country Inn” and “Blood on the Glass Slipper” today. We don’t recommend you watch them with kids within earshot. But, hey, it’s horror. And if dropping the F-bomb makes a linguistic case for horror, we’re all for it. While the films we typically watch are a little more cerebral, we’re extremely pleased that the home-brew horror makers of today still make films the caliber of those we were making 15 years ago.

Apart from breaking Publisher Pete's semantic markup and web standards compliance, with my posts, this is the thing I love about writing for Ocono.com. I still see all these amazingpeople doing these amazing creative things. The kid's movies are really good, considering the improvisational nature of them, and I actually enjoyed watching them today-- in spite of my natural desire to be cynical of them.