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The Matrix: Re-wotnot'd

9 April 2003

The Matrix is totally flippin’ ace. The great news is that 2003 is somewhat blessed with Matrix offerings in the shape of two new films and a game. The worlds most boring visual effects supervisor, John Gaeta, talks about the new film at Wired, where he manages not to sound too boring (via Mike).

I should point out that although he’s dull, the man’s a total genius and deserves your attention.

The network I run at work is named after the first Matrix film, and has servers sporting the names Neo, Trinity, Morpheus and Tank. I’m going to have to find a reason to buy some new servers now that I have another set of names to pick from. (I wanted to call the workstations all Exit0xx, but that got vetoed).

- Drew McLellan

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  1. § Nathan Pitman: I saw the trailer for this a few weeks back at the cinema, left me speechless. Can’t wait...
  2. § mike: lol! My first server was called MrAnderson! My favourite line always was ...

    "That Mr Anderson is the sound of inevitability... it is the sound of your death"
  3. § jazzymegster: I can’t see how you find John Gaeta boring. Could be personal bias on both our parts? Ah well, we can’t all be the same or we’d be boring...

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Drew McLellan (@drewm) has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.

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