OK, I saw it last night. I haven't read the books in about 20 years. (There aren't many things I can say that I haven't done in 20 years, but this is one of them.) So I'm a little shaky on what exactly was and wasn't in the book/movie. It was a fantastic film, though. The battle scenes are fantastic, and the Frodo-Sam-Golum stuff is great. I've seen some reviews proclaiming it "best picture" already. I need to let it sink in a little bit... On a side note, one of the people I went to see it with was one of my High School english teachers. She's kept in touch with a friend of mine, and I haven't seen her ...
New site! I've had use of the (sub)domain for quite a while, but never really got around to doing anything substantial with it, other than using it to tool around with PHP & MySQL. I sort of *need* to get a portfolio site up soon, and decided to add a few other things to it as well. The design is still undergoing revisions, and I'm still getting the hang of Movable Type. I'll work on it as I can...