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I went to Dark Knight yesterday. It's very solid film-making, but it did not make me happy. There was too much violence, moral relativism, and anti-hero glorification for my taste. But I respect the talent of the people who created it. Delivering 2 hours and 32 minutes of film with this level of texture and depth is an achievement.

It really feels like Drupal is accelerating in the marketplace lately. You can help keep it keep it going by voting for / nominating Drupal in important industry awards. Here are a couple that need action from you today.

Drupal is running as a finalist in five categories for the Sourceforge.net 2008 Community Choice Awards. VOTING ENDS TOMORROW!

While we were on vacation at a family reunion earlier this month, Ben, my 9-year old son, decided to organize his cousins and shoot a short film using the hand-me-down digital video camera he considers his own. The outcome was a little unsettling for me, and a sign of our times.

It definitely seems like the iPhone 2.0 software is slower than the 1.x version. Selecting contacts, switching screens, etc. all seem to suffer noticeable delays. I'm on the 2G version, so maybe that's part of the problem. Has anyone else noticed this?

Acquia has signed up as a platinum sponsor for Drupal Szeged 2008 coming up August 27-30. We're sending a large contingent of Acquians as attendees, presenters, and general community participants. We'll be recruiting and enabling partners, looking for new employees, and sharing the latest Acquia news. We really look forward to seeing everyone there.

I've had a lot of fun today with the iPhone 2.0 software and my new apps. So far I've installed the following applications:

I haven't even tried all of them out yet. Here are my first reactions:

Pandora Radio is awesome - I listened to it in my car on my commute this morning over the AT&T EDGE GPRS network. The quality was amazingly good for the 2G bandwidth and I only had a couple of cutouts due to poor signal quality. XM Radio may be in trouble.

I'm trying out Scribefire today. It's a very promising blog editor that is built as a Firefox extension. From what I can see so far, it appears to have almost all the features of Ecto, which is my normal blog editor.