Year: 2004

Salt and pepper

Salt and pepper (color)

Today’s ‘Picture of the day’ came out pretty fast and easy. I just shot salt and pepper a couple of times. (It turns out, a white t-shirt on the chair makes for an excellent, alsmot studio-like, background). Originally, I intended to make the picture in black and white. But after postprocessing, I couldn’t decide which one is better, so I left both of them.

Salt and pepper (bw)

Album location: /photos/2004/2004-11-16_POTD

Cellular

Olga and I went to see “Cellular” in the movies today.

The movie turned out to be a disappointment. I was waiting for it because it had a potential, I thought after viewing a trailer and reading some more about it. The disappointment came from the movie getting almost everything right. The only BIG thing which was messed up was casting. Both Kim Basinger and Chris Evans were demonstrating absolute lack of talant, will, and grasp with reality and common sense. They tried everything they could to make audience hate this film. And we (audience) almost did. If it wasn’t for the efforts of William Macy and Jason Statham. Especially Jason. He was playing a bad guy, a dirty cop. And he wasn’t a crook like he was in “Snatch.“. This time he was really bad. And he even got me scared a couple of times through the course of the movie.

In short: the story was good, soundtrack was appropriate but not outstanding, casting failed miserably with two main characters and that spoiled the movie beyond the unbelievable. You might be interested in getting it on DVD, but don’t spend your hard earned cash at the cinema.
5 out of 10.

P.S.: Oh, and the lawyer guy was outstanding! His face does not seem familiar, but he will probably be discovered big time via a couple of episodes from this film.

BLOG:CMS 3.5 Final is out

By means of Freshmeat.net I’ve learned that BLOC:CMS (NucleusCMS on steroids) version 3.5 Final came out. It has an amazing set of new features and bug fixes. Here is a quote from Freshmeat announcement:

This release adds support for MySQL 4.0 (mysql), MySQL 4.1 (mysqli), and SQLite (PHP5). An integrated Dokuwiki engine was added. Singapore Photo Gallery, PunBB Forum, Atom and RSS readers and aggregators, an “About me/Contact” section, two WYSIWYG editors, and new support for sub-categories were added.

I will hold my urge to upgrade, since it has barely been half a year since I’ve installed the whole thing. I don’t want to lose a week or two now playing with new features, configuring and reconfiguring stuff, etc. I doubt though that I will be able to skip two versions in a row…