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Month: January 2005
BlogLines extension for Mozilla / Firefox
If you are using BlogLines, you might find this extension for Mozilla / Firefox useful. It can provide all sorts of useful functionality including, but not limited to, context menus and subscriptions management.
Private parking
Today I took a short walk to the bakery. My neighborhood turned out to be very photogenic. Strangely, I was never noticing it. The best time to go around is at about 4:00pm. The sun is not that bright anymore, but provides suffecient light. There are plenty of old houses, creepy places, traffic signs, and cats. There are also some dumped cars which look interesting in black and white. By now you probably think that I live in the middle of nowhere and the only missing bit is some huge factory which is no longer operational… Well, I assure you tht I live practically in the center of the city and it is a very nice and quiet place. And no factories or anything like that.
Album location: /photos/2005/2005-01-13_POTD
The Siege
Watched “The Siege” on DVD. It is an excellent action film about terrorism vandalizing USA in general and New York in particular. It is interesting how the perspective changed since 1998 when the movie was released. Today we no more about terrorism. Today the WTC towers are gone. Today terrorism is still a hot subject. And people are still afraid.
Apart from an interesting subject, this film has an interesting cast – Denzel Washington, Bruce Willis, Tony Shalhoub, Annette Bening and few others. Also, what I liked, is that this film does not leave a good and cosy feeling. It has a kind of happy ending where one does not expect anything bad to happen, but so much of it has already happenned that sadness and insecurity are the two greatest feelings left.
8 out of 10.
Chill Factor
Being in a mood for some action, I watched “Chill Factor” on DVD. This is one excellent action with chemichal weapons, evil miliatry general, scientists, and millions of civilins. Well, actually there a bit less of them, but if that tunnel wouldn’t be sealed, few millions of them would be in the movie.
There was plenty of car chases, shooting, some helicopters, a lot of suspense, and some good humor. The scene with a boat sliding down the hill was totally unbelievable. Excellent stunt. There were other great ones as well some nice special effects. On top of that there was some really good acting on the part of both Cuba Gooding Jr. and Skeet Ulrich.
7.4 out of 10.