406 Not Acceptable

As I stated in the last post, I went to the Cinema tonight to watch Untraceable (technically yesterday.) The film was okay, nothing special. I think the director wasn’t sure whether he wanted to make a horror (effectively a Saw clone) or some kind of thriller; as the film is never really scary (heck it doesn’t even have the typical ‘jump’ moments,) yet neither too ‘thrillery’. If that word exists, which it doesn’t.

Anyway, me and my flatmate decided to grab the über large drink and popcorn for the free refill you get. Yes they may be about £3 ($5/6) each, but with a refill you get your moneys worth (well in relative cinema terms.) This is usually fine, expect this time it didn’t work out quite so well. You see I went during a dull moment in the film (just after someone died) to refill the coke, as my flatmate bought some very salty popcorn and the so called ‘bar’ on the second floor of the cinema was shut. So I went down the escalator, which took an age as another film had just finished, and made my way to the main food area. Guess what, also shut!

The guys behind the till were useless and refused to just refill a drink, seriously it would take 5 seconds! So I was left with a very dry and salty mouth to trundle back up to the second floor. At which I saw this ‘highly affordable’ drinks vending machine:

I was forced to buy this rip off coke, as I would have probably died

Anyway, we decided to collect some of the the other large drinks cups left in the cinema to bring next time, none of them were marked as refills. That will make up for the £1.70 (£3) I paid for a bloody bottle of coke! We’ll just make the bottom soggy with some water and ask for a new cup — you don’t expect me to drink from them do you!

My lovely host Dreamhost (use promotional code 2DOMAINS4LIFE if you’re interested, you’ll get 2 free domains forever!) happily added and turned on the wp-cache plug-in on my Wordpress install. Now, don’t get me wrong, this is rather handy as I notice the site zips along remarkably fast; however, it makes it very annoying to update the layout of the site.

When I try to add something to the site – for example change the rss link to use my feedburner link – the change won’t occur for another 5 or 6 minutes as I have to wait for the cache to expire. This can make updating my site very, very slow…

Anyway, I need to get back to setting up promotional stuff for this site before going to the cinema. I’ll be going to see Untraceable, which looks rather good. So if it turns out to be a load of crud, expect a post in a few hours!