I'm 25! Technically, I will be as of about threeish tomorrow afternoon.

Kill Bill was as I expected.

It was quite different from other Tarantino movies, having practically no dialogue. The violence was good, I liked it, but then I really like all the old kung fu films and anime. It had all the camera angles etc, but it was empty. It was a bit dull.

I found the dramatic pauses over-long. Instead of sitting on the edge my seat, I looked around at the audience. As Louise said, Japan and katanas aren't "just cool" anymore. They've been used in to many hip hop videos and Kill Bill relied on us just being in awe of everything it showed us. It looked like the Matrix without the sci fi and got away with less because you kind of expect more from Tarantino than the Wachowskis.

The soundtrack was pretty good.

When a user submits a form, sometimes it can take a long time for the result to come through. In this situation the user often clicks the button repeatedly to try and get results. This results in many requests being sent to the system, all of which are valid and are then processed. Hence the double posts on Hype and multiple purchases on ecom sites.

Paypal have a nice hack. Disable the button with Javascript once it's been clicked.

The only worry with this is what happens if the page load genuinely fails? You could set a timeout of say 60 seconds to re-enable the button. Or maybe just repond to successive clicks with an input box, checking that the user isn't just being impatient.

Don't reinvent the wheel!

Here's an online book about music and computers however, presents interesting explanations of much stuff, including various types of synthesis.

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