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Hey kids, this is definitely one of the weirdest bugs I have ever clapped eyes on, so to speak.

Not for the first time, I was happily writing CSS and Dreamweaver CS3 crashed.

The crash

Something feels a little too familiar - this is DW after all - but I try to restart anyway: it’s 1am and I don’t need this. Nope, there it is, unequivocal and painfully blunt: Dreamweaver CS3 won’t start on Windows XP.

The following options were available:

• Abuse someone at Adobe
• Reinstall Dreamweaver
• Try to clean out my config files so that Dreamweaver has to create new ones on restart (an old and occasionally successful solution)

After the jump: getting Dreamweaver up and running again

• Director: Paul Haggis
• United States, 2004
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Paul Haggis is one of those people who was obviously born to make movies. Already a decorated screenwriter of note, his mainstream directorial debut landed Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Editing at the Oscars.

Choosing Los Angeles to tell a series of interrelated stories (see also: Magnolia, Short Cuts), Haggis’ defining theme is the cause and effect of racial prejudice.

Some characters and their stories are less effective than others: Chris Bridges’ Anthony is rather too glib, Brendan Fraser’s Rick Cabot is simply there to glue a couple of stories together and his wife (Sandra Bullock) leaves it very late to make a useful contribution to the narrative. On the whole though, Crash is an emotionally powerful ensemble drama and hopefully a precedent for Paul Haggis as a director.

We were the unfortunate victims of poor lane discipline on a roundabout toward the end of last week.

Our car, Scofield, was damaged in the collision. J and I were OK.

For your information, Dear Reader, the picture below shows one part of the damage. For your information, Dear Perpetrator, there are about thirty more pictures…