otrops: jeff van campen's personal blog

Joanne and I went to go see the new Pirates of the Carribean on Sunday. And you, lucky readers, are in for a treat. Not only am I going to tell you what I thought of the film, but I’ll throw in a couple of random observations as well. I [...]

Despite having a MySpace profile for around a year now, I really haven’t gotten much use out of it. I’ve used the comments to exchange witty photos of world leaders with Matt. I have a few musician friends who seem to find it useful to keep in touch with their fanbase. My [...]

Last Friday, Joanne and I went to see The Lives of Others. We left the cinema utterly amazed. It is an extraordinary film. The film literally took my breath away. I was so overwhelmed, I couldn’t speak for a few minutes after the film. Early in the film, there is [...]

Mike has posted a list of his own. There’s a lot of good stuff in there. I’d recommend checking it out.
Thanks, Mike! There’s a couple on your list I haven’t read yet, though I’ll be doing my best to fix that soon.

It was tempting to title this post “A Long Time Coming,” but that’s far too similar to the title of the first post in this blog.
At the time that New Media was coming to an abrupt end, Wendy asked for a list of my top ten books. I actually did start putting a list [...]