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Stardust is a new movie based on the Neil Gaiman story of the same name. The plot is a typical fantasy/adventure romp and the movie successfully pulls off an enjoyable story that should be suitable for the whole family.

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Well, here it is, the final part of my report on Manifest 2007. As you might be able to tell this is for the third and final day of the event.

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My second day at Manifest started out far more smoothly since I already had a pass and didn’t need to queue up to get one. Surprisingly, there was still a huge queue to pick up passes! With a day full of events there was plenty to do and I feel that Saturday is the real start of the festival.

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Today was the opening day of Manifest for 2007. There’s usually not much to do on the Friday apart from picking up tickets and watching some anime screenings and this year was no exception. What the first day is really good for is whetting your appetite for the next two days!

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I’ve recently been looking into new Linux desktop torrent programs to possibly use as a replacement for Azureus. Deluge is the first one that I looked at and, overall, I’ve found it to be satisfactory and is well worth considering if you’re after a native Linux client.

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Despite what I wrote my previous post on tracker, it turns out that there is a desktop search utility that connects to tracker. I stumbled upon it by accident today when I was looking for something else in my menu. It’s found in Applications -> Accessories -> Tracker Search Tool.

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