Friday, October 22, 2004
Thursday, October 21, 2004
Short little Stacy R. is gone! Hallelujah!
Week after week, she would walk around, with no tangible contribution of any kind, a nasty temper and an even nastier tongue and a lot of dumb luck in the boardroom. She finally got what was a long time coming. Especially after she got Pamela kicked off.
Even better, thanks to the team reshuffling, two of my favorite people, Raj and Jennifer are on the same team and they won!
(Yes I know, I've just sort-of-live-blogged the Apprentice and I need to get a life in a hurry.)
Week after week, she would walk around, with no tangible contribution of any kind, a nasty temper and an even nastier tongue and a lot of dumb luck in the boardroom. She finally got what was a long time coming. Especially after she got Pamela kicked off.
Even better, thanks to the team reshuffling, two of my favorite people, Raj and Jennifer are on the same team and they won!
(Yes I know, I've just sort-of-live-blogged the Apprentice and I need to get a life in a hurry.)
I have to write this before the Apprentice starts so I'll hurry.
This is a rant about three products, and how they interact - Mozilla Firefox, Adobe Acrobat Reader and Microsoft Windows XP. The problem occurs occasionally while viewing a PDF file in a tab. The browser locks up and and decides to take Windows along with it. The only recourse is rebooting.
In a situation like this, it's hard to place blame. Should I curse Mozilla Firefox as this problem never happens when Internet Explorer is working with Acrobat Reader?! Should I blame Adobe Acrobat for creating a plugin that unfortunately takes too long to load up, loading something like 26 (Look in the Acrobat plugins folder) different plugins itself?! Or should I blame Microsoft Windows XP which gets completely crippled when any process locks up and occupies 99% or more processor time, allowing the UI to become so sluggish that it takes more than 35 minutes (I timed this) to simply bring up the Task Manager so I can kill the offending task?!
Frankly I'm frustrated. I don't feel like giving up Firefox because I like tabbed browsing and Sage too much. Adobe Acrobat is a necessary evil. And Microsoft Windows has developed such a reputation of crashing and freezing that it seems futile to even begin to rant about how a user should always be able to easily kill a process.
Perhaps Robert or Ben have any suggestions or soothing words.
I'm halfway into the Apprentice now and Andy just came up with the Polaroid photo idea.
This is a rant about three products, and how they interact - Mozilla Firefox, Adobe Acrobat Reader and Microsoft Windows XP. The problem occurs occasionally while viewing a PDF file in a tab. The browser locks up and and decides to take Windows along with it. The only recourse is rebooting.
In a situation like this, it's hard to place blame. Should I curse Mozilla Firefox as this problem never happens when Internet Explorer is working with Acrobat Reader?! Should I blame Adobe Acrobat for creating a plugin that unfortunately takes too long to load up, loading something like 26 (Look in the Acrobat plugins folder) different plugins itself?! Or should I blame Microsoft Windows XP which gets completely crippled when any process locks up and occupies 99% or more processor time, allowing the UI to become so sluggish that it takes more than 35 minutes (I timed this) to simply bring up the Task Manager so I can kill the offending task?!
Frankly I'm frustrated. I don't feel like giving up Firefox because I like tabbed browsing and Sage too much. Adobe Acrobat is a necessary evil. And Microsoft Windows has developed such a reputation of crashing and freezing that it seems futile to even begin to rant about how a user should always be able to easily kill a process.
Perhaps Robert or Ben have any suggestions or soothing words.
I'm halfway into the Apprentice now and Andy just came up with the Polaroid photo idea.
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Malformed HTML and other booboos
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/378632/2004-10-15/2004-10-21/0
That is a Bugtraq entry by Michal Zalewski pointing to a tool which creates tiny fragments of malformed HTML (Careful with that link, it may crash your browser). These fragments seem to cause crashes and unresponsiveness in all browsers except Internet Explorer. I tried some examples out with Mozilla Firefox 1.0PR and sure enough there were crashes.
People may say, (typically the Open Source apologist, Slashdot crowd) that it's just crashes and it's not a big deal. It is a big deal. If you know input to make a program crash then it's turned into a denial-of-service attack. It would be interesting to see how many bugs are reported in the Mozilla buglist as a result of this tool, and how quickly they get fixed. My guess (and hope) is that the Mozilla developers will work really hard to fix these bugs quickly to maintain the momentum that Firefox has gained.
This makes for an interesting observation. Apparently IE's HTML rendering engine is much more robust than that of its competitors. Why is IE so maligned for security concerns then? It's because of IE's solid integration with Windows and a poor UI for installing and uninstalling ActiveX controls. Any vulnerability in IE can quickly become a vulnerability in Windows (and most vulnerabilities for IE do try to compromise the users local machine). And most users blindly install ActiveX controls without checking where they come from.
To Microsoft's credit, the ActiveX control UI problem is mostly fixed with WindowsXP Service Pack 2. And Service Pack 2 has also got a built in popup-blocker. All Microsoft needs to do now is to implement a good and highly customizable UI for tabbed browsing and I'll be (maybe) willing to leave Firefox. Keep in mind also however that popup-blocking and ActiveX UI improvements in IE are only available for WindowsXP. If you use Windows 2000 then you are probably better off with Mozilla Firefox 1.0PR.
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/378632/2004-10-15/2004-10-21/0
That is a Bugtraq entry by Michal Zalewski pointing to a tool which creates tiny fragments of malformed HTML (Careful with that link, it may crash your browser). These fragments seem to cause crashes and unresponsiveness in all browsers except Internet Explorer. I tried some examples out with Mozilla Firefox 1.0PR and sure enough there were crashes.
People may say, (typically the Open Source apologist, Slashdot crowd) that it's just crashes and it's not a big deal. It is a big deal. If you know input to make a program crash then it's turned into a denial-of-service attack. It would be interesting to see how many bugs are reported in the Mozilla buglist as a result of this tool, and how quickly they get fixed. My guess (and hope) is that the Mozilla developers will work really hard to fix these bugs quickly to maintain the momentum that Firefox has gained.
This makes for an interesting observation. Apparently IE's HTML rendering engine is much more robust than that of its competitors. Why is IE so maligned for security concerns then? It's because of IE's solid integration with Windows and a poor UI for installing and uninstalling ActiveX controls. Any vulnerability in IE can quickly become a vulnerability in Windows (and most vulnerabilities for IE do try to compromise the users local machine). And most users blindly install ActiveX controls without checking where they come from.
To Microsoft's credit, the ActiveX control UI problem is mostly fixed with WindowsXP Service Pack 2. And Service Pack 2 has also got a built in popup-blocker. All Microsoft needs to do now is to implement a good and highly customizable UI for tabbed browsing and I'll be (maybe) willing to leave Firefox. Keep in mind also however that popup-blocking and ActiveX UI improvements in IE are only available for WindowsXP. If you use Windows 2000 then you are probably better off with Mozilla Firefox 1.0PR.
Saturday, October 16, 2004
Hob Gadling's Handy Bollywood Guide
What is Bollywood?
Bollywood is the Bombay film industry. It's the word you get when you mash-up Bombay and Hollywood.
What does "dishoom" mean?
"Dishoom" is sound you hear when a punch lands in a Hindi movie. Kind of like "Pow" or "Biff" but with a little more "Dishoom"!
Who is Amitabh Bachchan?
Amitabh Bachchan is Bollywood's most famous actor. He was the first Bollywood hero to break the sappy romantic loverboy mold that all actor's before him had fallen into. He was the angry young man. Better biographies can be found here and here.
Sholay?
Sholay, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Sanjeev Kumar, Jaya Bhaduri and Amjad Khan as Gabbar Singh, opened in India in 1975, and went on to become one of the biggest hits in the Indian film industry, running for five consecutive years at Bombay's Minerva theatre. A pastiche combining comboy Westerns, buddy flicks, revenge dramas, love stories and sheer Indian song-and-dance, it seeped into the collective psyche of India. Every kid in India can glibly quote from it and it's been parodied, copied and analyzed to death by every comic, hack and intellectual worth his salt. You should watch it. But it will lose some flavor in translation.
What is Bollywood?
Bollywood is the Bombay film industry. It's the word you get when you mash-up Bombay and Hollywood.
What does "dishoom" mean?
"Dishoom" is sound you hear when a punch lands in a Hindi movie. Kind of like "Pow" or "Biff" but with a little more "Dishoom"!
Who is Amitabh Bachchan?
Amitabh Bachchan is Bollywood's most famous actor. He was the first Bollywood hero to break the sappy romantic loverboy mold that all actor's before him had fallen into. He was the angry young man. Better biographies can be found here and here.
Sholay?
Sholay, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Sanjeev Kumar, Jaya Bhaduri and Amjad Khan as Gabbar Singh, opened in India in 1975, and went on to become one of the biggest hits in the Indian film industry, running for five consecutive years at Bombay's Minerva theatre. A pastiche combining comboy Westerns, buddy flicks, revenge dramas, love stories and sheer Indian song-and-dance, it seeped into the collective psyche of India. Every kid in India can glibly quote from it and it's been parodied, copied and analyzed to death by every comic, hack and intellectual worth his salt. You should watch it. But it will lose some flavor in translation.
Friday, October 15, 2004
Got boingboing'ed about the hilarious Bollywood US Presidential election satire! Thanks to RT sending me the Dishoom link via email.
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
—Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood, William Wordsworth.
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;
Relevant poetry in the oddest places.
Sunday, October 03, 2004
So what does a single guy with a TV do on a cold cold weekend? He watches so much TV that by the time it's Sunday evening his eyes hurt.
And then, when he's sick of the television, he moves to his computer and blogs.
Some thoughts about friends. Some are boring. Some suck. Some are nice and some care. Some you won't hear from for ages, but when you do it's like they never left. Some you won't hear from. Some stop being friends anymore. Some you forget. Some you'd like to forget.
Those pithy messages were brought to you by bored-single-guy productions. To avoid getting assailed by other such messages in the future, please suggest convenient methods to occupy an idle mind.
And then, when he's sick of the television, he moves to his computer and blogs.
Some thoughts about friends. Some are boring. Some suck. Some are nice and some care. Some you won't hear from for ages, but when you do it's like they never left. Some you won't hear from. Some stop being friends anymore. Some you forget. Some you'd like to forget.
Those pithy messages were brought to you by bored-single-guy productions. To avoid getting assailed by other such messages in the future, please suggest convenient methods to occupy an idle mind.
Saturday, October 02, 2004
September has barely ended and we already have temperatures below freezing. Suddenly the idea of spending a life over here seems slightly tedious. California, how I long for thee.
In other news, the car hunt still progresses at a steady pace.
In other news, a shipment of 4 CD's from BMG music seem to have disappeared in the mail. I am extremely depressed by this. I do hope that I get them somehow.
In other news, 3 CD's arrive from Amazon, but among them is a Enhanced CD version of Mirror Conspiracy by Thievery Corporation. It is returned. I would rather have a plain vanilla CD which works on all my CD players and computers rather than some crappy version of copy protection which damages audio quality.
In other news, I have stopped liking serious and critically acclaimed movies. I could not go past 30 minutes with Quiz Show but watched Spawn and Kiss of the Dragon without a break.
In other news, tomorrow is laundry day and take-out-trash day.
In other news, Portabella mushrooms taste great when cubed and sauteed with onions, garlic, tomatoes and chilly powder. Don't forget the salt.
In other news, I should probably really go for a Badgers game, instead of simply having the brats down the street.
In other news, calling cards suck. I wish there was a way to call long distance with a guaranteed quality of service.
In other news, yes, I am a Apprentice junkie. Also, a Conan junkie, but I guess you already knew that.
In other news, the task of making a copy of all the CD's I own is taking too much time. It will be done though. No point in playing the originals. They are better preserved in their cases. Plus, I can apply Wavegain to the copies and not worry about fiddling with the volume knob.
In other news, Ron Garney's art on the JLA is a breath of much needed fresh air. Here's hoping he stays on for a while.
In other news, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely strike again with WE3. 1 know 0.
In other news, Supreme Power seems to be delayed, and quite frankly it's frustrating me to no end. This is the only comic on the market that I can remember the story to without having to re-read. Yes, it's that good. And frankly it's a pity that someone like J. M. Straczynski is wasted on something as confining as Spiderman.
In other news, I first-posted on Slashdot.
In other news, it's still too cold. Blogging does not generate too much heat.
Good night.
In other news, the car hunt still progresses at a steady pace.
In other news, a shipment of 4 CD's from BMG music seem to have disappeared in the mail. I am extremely depressed by this. I do hope that I get them somehow.
In other news, 3 CD's arrive from Amazon, but among them is a Enhanced CD version of Mirror Conspiracy by Thievery Corporation. It is returned. I would rather have a plain vanilla CD which works on all my CD players and computers rather than some crappy version of copy protection which damages audio quality.
In other news, I have stopped liking serious and critically acclaimed movies. I could not go past 30 minutes with Quiz Show but watched Spawn and Kiss of the Dragon without a break.
In other news, tomorrow is laundry day and take-out-trash day.
In other news, Portabella mushrooms taste great when cubed and sauteed with onions, garlic, tomatoes and chilly powder. Don't forget the salt.
In other news, I should probably really go for a Badgers game, instead of simply having the brats down the street.
In other news, calling cards suck. I wish there was a way to call long distance with a guaranteed quality of service.
In other news, yes, I am a Apprentice junkie. Also, a Conan junkie, but I guess you already knew that.
In other news, the task of making a copy of all the CD's I own is taking too much time. It will be done though. No point in playing the originals. They are better preserved in their cases. Plus, I can apply Wavegain to the copies and not worry about fiddling with the volume knob.
In other news, Ron Garney's art on the JLA is a breath of much needed fresh air. Here's hoping he stays on for a while.
In other news, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely strike again with WE3. 1 know 0.
In other news, Supreme Power seems to be delayed, and quite frankly it's frustrating me to no end. This is the only comic on the market that I can remember the story to without having to re-read. Yes, it's that good. And frankly it's a pity that someone like J. M. Straczynski is wasted on something as confining as Spiderman.
In other news, I first-posted on Slashdot.
In other news, it's still too cold. Blogging does not generate too much heat.
Good night.
Thursday, September 16, 2004
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
So, Winamp now supports aacPlus. The aacPlus format (also known as HE-AAC for High Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding) makes music compressed at 48kbps sound like an MP3 compressed at 128kbps. The upside of all this is that people with low-bandwidth Internet connections can (finally!) listen to really good quality music online.
Here's what you do:
1. Download and install Winamp 5.05
2. Scoot over to Tuner2
3. Listen! (Click on the shiny "listen now" buttons :))
Highly recommended are SomaFM Groove Salad and Tag's Trance Trip.
(People with high-bandwidth connections do not despair. aacPlus also makes possible 5.1 Surround Sound streaming audio at 160kbps! (Tuner2 has some streams.) All you need is a 5.1 Surround enabled soundcard and speakers and voila! Your gloating rights are back again!)
Here's what you do:
1. Download and install Winamp 5.05
2. Scoot over to Tuner2
3. Listen! (Click on the shiny "listen now" buttons :))
Highly recommended are SomaFM Groove Salad and Tag's Trance Trip.
(People with high-bandwidth connections do not despair. aacPlus also makes possible 5.1 Surround Sound streaming audio at 160kbps! (Tuner2 has some streams.) All you need is a 5.1 Surround enabled soundcard and speakers and voila! Your gloating rights are back again!)
Firefox 1.0PR was released yesterday. A better web browser than Internet Explorer, it features built-in popup blocking (no annoying popup windows to close), no ActiveX (no spyware hijacking your PC) and tabbed browsing (multiple pages in one window so less clutter).
Now would be a good time to mention that the majority of visitors on this site (67%) use Firefox. It's just a 4.5Mb download, so time for you people to upgrade!
Now would be a good time to mention that the majority of visitors on this site (67%) use Firefox. It's just a 4.5Mb download, so time for you people to upgrade!
Sunday, September 12, 2004
Recommended Music
I own all the albums listed below. I own many others too but these I still listen to.
The Beatles
The idea is, that you buy all their albums. Begin with this one:
Pink Floyd
Make sure that you listen to the whole album in one go. No picking and choosing songs. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
U2
Consistently strong lyrics, Bono's great vocals and Edge's unique guitars on everything except their last album, All That You Can't Leave Behind, which was below par.
Nirvana
This is one spooky live album. Again, you have to listen to the whole album as one.
Air
Air picked up where Pink Floyd left us. Music to make love by. Moon Safari's an instant masterpiece, Talkie Walkie is a only average.
Zero 7
The perfect complement to Moon Safari.
Thievery Corporation
More wholesome electronic jazz.
Lemon Jelly
Daft Punk
Soundtracks / Various artists
I own all the albums listed below. I own many others too but these I still listen to.
The Beatles
The idea is, that you buy all their albums. Begin with this one:
Rubber Soul
Pink Floyd
Make sure that you listen to the whole album in one go. No picking and choosing songs. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Dark Side of The Moon
Wish You Were Here
U2
Consistently strong lyrics, Bono's great vocals and Edge's unique guitars on everything except their last album, All That You Can't Leave Behind, which was below par.
Joshua Tree
Rattle And Hum
Achtung Baby
Nirvana
This is one spooky live album. Again, you have to listen to the whole album as one.
MTV Unplugged in New York
Air
Air picked up where Pink Floyd left us. Music to make love by. Moon Safari's an instant masterpiece, Talkie Walkie is a only average.
Moon Safari
Talkie Walkie
Zero 7
The perfect complement to Moon Safari.
Simple Things
Thievery Corporation
More wholesome electronic jazz.
Mirror Conspiracy
Lemon Jelly
lemonjelly.ky
Lost Horizons
Daft Punk
Discovery
Soundtracks / Various artists
Trainspotting
Ah! The perfect slobfest weekend, when you do nothing much but sleep in late, watch crappy (and occasionally nice) movies at home. When lunch consists of French toast and sausages at Mickey's and dinner is takeout from Taco Johns. When you discover good music which you had missed so far (more on that later.) When the guy at the comic shop hasn't one but two JLA issues waiting for you.
When the weather is so nice that you should be out running and jumping and having a barbecue, but you prefer to lounge in your balcony. When an old friend calls you long distance, and then your call is interrupted by another old friend who hasn't been in touch. When you group chat with your buddies at 2:00AM on MSN and all complain about how life has lost its edge. When you have a million chores to do but you don't do any (except laundry 'cause you need fresh underwear!) When you suddenly discover that the touch pad on you laptop has a convenient switch off button, so you don't mistype. When you finally get time to update your damn blog!
Anyway about that music thing. So the band I just discovered is the Velvet Underground (specifically I listened to and immediately ordered The Velvet Underground and Nico.) Anyway, here's a thought, rather that flooding my sidebar with recommendations, I'll just make two separate posts and link to them from the sidebar! My genius has no limits!
When the weather is so nice that you should be out running and jumping and having a barbecue, but you prefer to lounge in your balcony. When an old friend calls you long distance, and then your call is interrupted by another old friend who hasn't been in touch. When you group chat with your buddies at 2:00AM on MSN and all complain about how life has lost its edge. When you have a million chores to do but you don't do any (except laundry 'cause you need fresh underwear!) When you suddenly discover that the touch pad on you laptop has a convenient switch off button, so you don't mistype. When you finally get time to update your damn blog!
Anyway about that music thing. So the band I just discovered is the Velvet Underground (specifically I listened to and immediately ordered The Velvet Underground and Nico.) Anyway, here's a thought, rather that flooding my sidebar with recommendations, I'll just make two separate posts and link to them from the sidebar! My genius has no limits!
I am tired, I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me
Different colors made of tears
- Venus in Furs, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground and Nico.
Monday, August 30, 2004
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Ah Blogger-toplevel-random-blog-bar, how I love thee!
You have given me a whole new way of wasting precious minutes of my tiny life, reading about other people's tiny lives.
Seriously though, I plan to experiment a bit and see what percent of blogs are political propaganda, what percent are contain the words "ponderings", "musings", "thoughts", "ramblings", "pondermusings" etc. in the description, what percent are Spanish, what percentage suck, what percentage rock, what percentage have so messed up a template that the blog-bar does not show up, what percentage are dead, what percentage are spam blogs and so on until I'm bored and decide to do something else.
Like watch Conan O'Brien on my new TV!
Ah brand-new-24-inch-flat-screen-Toshiba-TV, how I love thee!
You have given me a whole new way of wasting precious minutes of my tiny life, watching other people's tiny lives.
Seriously though, I plan to experiment a bit and see ... Oh. Wait.
You have given me a whole new way of wasting precious minutes of my tiny life, reading about other people's tiny lives.
Seriously though, I plan to experiment a bit and see what percent of blogs are political propaganda, what percent are contain the words "ponderings", "musings", "thoughts", "ramblings", "pondermusings" etc. in the description, what percent are Spanish, what percentage suck, what percentage rock, what percentage have so messed up a template that the blog-bar does not show up, what percentage are dead, what percentage are spam blogs and so on until I'm bored and decide to do something else.
Like watch Conan O'Brien on my new TV!
Ah brand-new-24-inch-flat-screen-Toshiba-TV, how I love thee!
You have given me a whole new way of wasting precious minutes of my tiny life, watching other people's tiny lives.
Seriously though, I plan to experiment a bit and see ... Oh. Wait.
Friday, August 13, 2004
A warm summer is all you look forward to here in nowhere-land. And then we have this, record low temperatures for summer.
Can somebody up there please send us a few scorchers?
"I think it's terrible," said Tropics server Nadia Sarkarat, 19, of Waukesha. "This is August. People should be going to the Wisconsin Dells, not walking around in winter coats."
Sarkarat was bundled up in four layers, including a long-sleeved T-shirt and hooded sweat shirt, but she still wished she had brought gloves to fend off the biting winds.
Can somebody up there please send us a few scorchers?
Friday, August 06, 2004
Slick web-app department
Microsoft strikes again with MSN Web Messenger Beta. A full-fledged (almost) version of MSN Messenger using only a browser. No Java and no ActiveX! Yes, you read that right no Java and no ActiveX! It works using Firefox so it's obvious they are using standard W3C technologies. Highly recommended.
Microsoft strikes again with MSN Web Messenger Beta. A full-fledged (almost) version of MSN Messenger using only a browser. No Java and no ActiveX! Yes, you read that right no Java and no ActiveX! It works using Firefox so it's obvious they are using standard W3C technologies. Highly recommended.
Wednesday, August 04, 2004
<gasps for breath and claws his way towards the land of books>
Finally got new things to read, and began by reading Alias: Book 1 by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos. This is immediately added to my list of must read books. Jessica Jones is an ex-super heroine who has given up super stuff to become a private investigator. Best quote (at least, best quote from what I have read so far):
And while on the topic, I must mention Jeff Smith's Bone. Bone immediately pushed Sandman (by Neil Gaiman and various artists) down to number 2 in my list. (Sorry Neil.) The best way to describe Bone would be Calvin and Hobbes meets The Lord of The Rings but that doesn't really do it enough justice. So, I'll just stick to the word 'magical' and leave the rest to your imagination.
I almost finished reading Bone two weeks ago. 'Almost', because I still haven't read the last graphic novel in the series. However, I hadn't noticed the humongous 1300 page, One Volume Edition on Amazon before. Guess where I'm going to be spending my next paycheck!
Among other things I have with me but haven't read are Cerebus: Volume 1 by Dave Sim and Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Reviews will follow soon.
Finally got new things to read, and began by reading Alias: Book 1 by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos. This is immediately added to my list of must read books. Jessica Jones is an ex-super heroine who has given up super stuff to become a private investigator. Best quote (at least, best quote from what I have read so far):
Lucas will feel guilty about this. He's a decent guy and a buddy and he'll feel bad about this. But that feeling will pass. Because he'll also look back and remember this was the one night that I let him do anything he wanted. And even though he'll know it's wrong he'll smile to himself. He just won't be able to help it.
Then he'll feel bad again. But I can't say that I care, really. I don't care what he feels like. I just want to feel something. It doesn't matter what. Pain. Humility. Anger.
I just want to feel something different.
And while on the topic, I must mention Jeff Smith's Bone. Bone immediately pushed Sandman (by Neil Gaiman and various artists) down to number 2 in my list. (Sorry Neil.) The best way to describe Bone would be Calvin and Hobbes meets The Lord of The Rings but that doesn't really do it enough justice. So, I'll just stick to the word 'magical' and leave the rest to your imagination.
I almost finished reading Bone two weeks ago. 'Almost', because I still haven't read the last graphic novel in the series. However, I hadn't noticed the humongous 1300 page, One Volume Edition on Amazon before. Guess where I'm going to be spending my next paycheck!
Among other things I have with me but haven't read are Cerebus: Volume 1 by Dave Sim and Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Reviews will follow soon.
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