Month: October 2004

The Perfect Score

Olga and I just watched “The Perfect Score” on DVD (neighbooring with DVD club owns). It is one of those funny and easy going films about students’ life. In this one, students go steal major tests papers to know the answers in advance. Basically, the point is, like everything during college years, is to have lots of fun along the way.

The stoned chinese guy owned the whole film. And parody on “The Matrix” was great too.

This movie fits in what it was supposed to be and offers good entertainment. 6 out of 10. I think I am getting old. If I saw it while in the college that would be a hit. :) If you are in college – watch it, it’s about you.

Secure programmer: Prevent race conditions

IBM developerWorks runs an excellent article about preventing race conditions – “Secure programmer: Prevent race conditions“. It is written in clean and simple language and explains nicely most common problems with races. It talks about lock files, alternatives to lock files, and doing lock files properly. It features good examples and solutions are described for several languages, including Perl.

This is surely a must read for anyone writing software in general and for multiuser or mutlitasking systems in particular.

Beer Haiku

Beer is praised by way too many people. Everyone does it in his or her own way. Beer Haiku is the site, which collects praises of beer in the haiku poem format. Some are good, others average, yet another others don’t even look like haiku. But, hey, I am all of beer praising anyway.

Extreme Ops

Watched “Extreme Ops” on DVD. I wanted to rent this movie on multiple occasions, because of its cheap and catchy title and a nice snowboard guy on the cover, but a low rating at IMDB kind of set me back. This time though, I was in a hurry and wanted to get over with the renting stuff, so I took it without much thinking.

It’s an excellent movie about extreme sports done by people who obviously love extreme sports. Especially skiing and snowboarding. With some skating. And parachuting. And rock climbing. Lots and lots of extreme action. Very nice footage. They even tried to put some story behind. The story sucked, but it wasn’t needed that much anyway. Soundtrack was very appropriate. I wish there were more of it though. I also enjoyed the natural type of acting by most of the cast. Surely this film has its entertaining value. It’s not going to provoke any deep thinking though.

I’ll give it a 7 out of 10. Part of the marks are to compensate for the low rating it has. I really enjoyed the flick.

Picture of the day

I realised today that I have been doing injustice to the office building by just using one side of it. The side I was using does indeed has a sea view and a prerogative of sun rises. But, on the hand, opposite side has a sunset view and a pretty busy road down to the left. I decided to correct the situation, hence the album.