The Core (2003)

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Directed by Jon Amiel
I wasn't sure I wanted to see this in the theatres. There was something fishy about the trailers -- there were two distinct trailers: one which played on the whole "journey to the core of the earth" fiasco; and one which was much more interesting, touting the whole "government weapon conspiracy which wrecked the world" angle. I was more partial to the second one, and there wasn't really much of this in the film. It was mostly about putting together enough duct tape logic to get a machine that could travel inside the Earth. Unfortunately, the film played a little rough and tumble with the science, using it only when it suited them, and sweeping it under the carpet in other circumstances, hoping no one would notice.

U.S. fingerprinting everybody now

Washington has reversed course and will require millions of travellers from 27 countries to be fingerprinted and photographed before entering the United States.
The change affects citizens from 27 previously-exempt countries, including close U.S. allies like Great Britain, Japan and Australia. Up to now, visitors from those and other countries had been allowed to travel within the U.S. for 90 days without a visa.

Google Reads Your Email

Privacy advocates are up in arms over Google's new free email service, Gmail. Their concern? Google plans to "read" each email and add relevant AdSense advertising.
Google claims that they'll only read incoming mail, though if Gmail users send email to other Gmail users they will effectively read the outgoing mail as well.

April…

Cold, wet, rainy April. Nice day to be doing nothing at all.