Year: 2004

The Medallion


Just watched “The Medallion” on DVD. Before I watched it, I was a bit disappointed that I missed it in the movies. Now that I did see it, I am kind of glad that it came out three times cheeper on me.

Being a fan of Jackie Chan it’s kind of difficult for me to add another movie that sucked to the list of one item (“The Tuxedo“). “The Medallion” sucked. Big time. It’s a slow movie which as obvious as other Jackie’s movies, but has no action at all compared to his other masterpieces. I’ve seen him on TV explaining that he tried to merge the best of Asian culture and American culture, but this didn’t work very well in the “Medallion”. I hope he would get back to his butt-kicking Asian movies that rock my world. :)

First of April – Ze Prank Day! :)

It’s been a long time since I was doing anything except sleeping on the First of April. Today, I woke up early and found out that noone was expecting anything tricky from me. Hehe. I’ve sent an SMS to my mother congratulating her, and saying that she is will become a grandmother soon, since my brother got his girlfriend pregnant and that he is planning to marry her. Immidiately after that I’ve sent an SMS to my brother saying that mother is coming to visit us coming Sunday and that she will stay with him for two weeks. :) Heh, I wish I could hear their discussion on the phone! :)

I was in the mood for some more fun, but had to go to work, where there is no time for this stuff. Lev is kinda lucky, because I was planning to make him go outside for as long as it would take to realize the date. Next time, maybe. :)

Here is a link to College Humor website that updates daily with stories, pictures, movies and links to other fun stuff. Smile! :)

Scary Movie 3


Just came back from watching Scary Movie 3. It was much funnier then I thought it would be. Actually it was pretty laughy. The only minus is that the number of jokes per minute was going down from the start. They should have reversed that. But the first 15 minutes I was laughing a lot.

Here is a list of movies that I’ve recognized and remembered until now. “Signs” and “The Ring” were a kind of the base for the plot. “The Sixth Sense” played a part. Matrix Trilogy came in with Architect, Oracle and Morpheous. Eminem from the “8 Mile“. Breifly, “The Lord of the Rings” with Gollum’s “precioius”. There were few other parts that I couldn’t be sure, like all the President stuff could have been easily based on “Mars Attacks!“.

PHP, Zope/Python, and Perl

There is an article at kuro5hin.net called “Switching from PHP to Zope/Python“. This should provide for an interesting read for all those poor PHP souls.

As for me – I use Perl and I am not planning to change any time soon. There are two major bonuses in Perl for my programming tasks:

  1. CPAN – Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. This is a huge collection of modules that help me to avoid as much programming as possible. And that’s pretty much.
  2. Perl’s scalability to all sorts of tasks. I am using Perl for one-line long utility scripts, log analyzing, mail searching, graph building, database maintenance, web programming and anything else that pops up. The broadness of tasks makes PHP way underpowered and Java way too complex. There are tools that might come handy (like Python), but why change if Perl works for me?

Said that, I am familiar with other languages, since it’s not rare at all that I need to patch someone else’s code. PHP being a widely used language for web development comes to my hands pretty often. My Python familiarity is more on the system level and GUI programming.