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Ok. So now I’ve seen the Watchmen movie. It’s about as good as I could imagine the movie being, and I followed Scott Knaster’s advice: I enjoyed it for what it is.

Yes, the movie had faults, but it’s hard to imagine how those faults could have been corrected without major departures from the source material, which would have been devastating in its own way. Rock, meet hard place.

Now, for my take. I’ll try not to cover ground that has been beaten to death elsewhere. (mild spoilers ahead)

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I’m going to see Watchmen this afternoon, and I’m nervous. The issue isn’t whether the movie will suck, or whether it will be faithful to the comic, or whether something will be lost in translation to movie format.

The issue for me is that the Watchmen was a moment in time, and that moment can’t ever be recaptured.

For me, reading the Watchmen was an intensely social experience, much like watching the first season of Twin Peaks or the first season of Lost. As each issue came out, friends would gather and pore over every frame, trying to find clues to what was “really going on.” As the pace of the issues slowed down toward the end, the wait was agonizing.

My memory of Watchmen has much more to do with how I felt as each issue came out and much less to do with the actual story.

For those youngsters (or late adopters) who read the Watchmen as a single graphic novel, the experience must have been very different. I’m sure that the latecomers can still appreciate it, but there is just no way that the experience of reading the whole thing from end to end is in any way similar to the experience of waiting a month between each issue. And the experience of watching the movie will be even less like my memory of the experience of reading the comic.

So that’s it in a nutshell. In fact, I’m so afraid of seeing this movie that I even considered not seeing it. We’ll see if I made the right choice.

We’ve implemented CSV import/export on Notespark, but we need to test it with Palm Desktop on Mac. If there are any Mac Palm Desktop users out there, we need your help!

In other news, we are putting the finishing touches on Notespark 1.1, and we’re also working on other stuff. Woo!

I’ve finally decided to give twitter a try. I actually signed up a while ago just to check out their UI (no intention of using it) but every few months weeks, someone starts following my twitter feed even though there are no tweets whatsoever!

*sigh* So I’m going to give it a shot. My handle is skuwamoto. I plan on using it, but I don’t plan on saying anything interesting.

FYI – We did a small — and very valuable — beta program around our Note*spark iPhone app. We had never done a “roll your own” beta program before, and I posted some of what we learned along the way at the metaspark blog.