Late Night. Bad, bad day. Null day, actually. At least in terms of translation. Good thing I had a 20 string buffer from yesterday so not all is lost. I'll have to catch up tomorrow.

Happened to visit the shopping mall tonight and somehow it turned out quite interesting. Bought Dan Brown's prequel to The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, Robert Langdon's first adventure before breaking the now-famous code, and a Two Disc DVD edition of Fight Club (something I had been craving for a long time), one of my favourite films. Also, there was some second-hand book fair going on and so I also got myself a copy of O'Reilly's Running Weblogs with Slash for a €2.50 bargain. Finally, bought September's issue of Linux Journal aswell, mostly feauting wireless and radio stuff. I've always been kind of interested in amateur radio but never got to know much about it nor did I ever have any hardware to play with. Perhaps this LJ issue will enlighten me a little bit more.

Saw Rabbit-Proof Fence earlier today. It's a movie about australian aborigenes and the atrocities perpetrated by the Australian government in the first half of the past century to these people which still echo in the present day. The film tells us about the escape of three aboriginal girls after being forcibly taken from their homes and family to be trained and taught for domestic duties. After escaping, the girls take on a nine week journey of more than 2,000 kilometres across the Outback to rejoin their loved ones. Phillip Noyce (The Bone Collector) directs this movie in which tree real aboriginal girls star. It's a good movie, with a moving story, which tells of harsh and truthful facts and that makes you wonder how is it possible for human beings to do such cruelty unto others. The DVD version also includes a good 43-minute documentary about the making of the film, entitled Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence, which is a nice companion to the film and helps understand a bit more about the aboriginal culture. It is also a lovely insight into the character of three young girls starring in this movie whom had never made any film before (nor after for that matter, not yet anyway).

A hard working day expects me tomorrow...