I’ve noticed a trend: every time I accidentally pull the power cable out of my monitor, I say a brief “A!” and exactly one swear word. The swear word wires based upon what I was doing, how long it was since the last ‘Save’ operation, what time of day it is and how tired I am.
Month: January 2005
Vestnik Kipra RSS feed
I have wrote a script to generate an RSS feed for Vestnik Kipra aka Cyprus Advertiser. It will be regenerated every hour. In case you want any changes to the look and feel of the feed, here is the script source (Perl file).
Windtalkers
Finally I watched “Windtalkers” on DVD. Once I have missed it in the cinema due to a poor and boring theatrical trailer, I wanted to rent in on DVD, but never had the nerve to take it, preferring other films.
This movie turned out to be different from what I expected. It was good in those areas which I was expecting to suck, and bad in those that I was expecting to shine.
There were plenty of war scenes and they were almost properly done. Lots of gun fire, explosions, and battle action and of these were at a loss without any strategy. It gets boring to watch a bunch of guys firing a bunch of guns and running all over the place. There was no clear distinction between allies and enemies. There was no clear distinction of a plan. Targets weren’t clearly marked for the audience. All the attention was given to soldiers, their ammunition and the scenery of the battle field. Airplanes and ships were mentioned briefly, each with their own impressive shots. But again, no attention to what and where they were doing in connection to the battle field.
There was some good acting, but not by Nicolas Cage. In fact, everyone else did better than him. His character appeared very shallow and faceless. One of Cage’s worst roles that I have seen.
Plenty of good photography and sound effects. I haven’t noticed any music except for that played by the characters, so I if it was there it must have been very good and natural. Plenty of good photography. Oh, I’ve mentioned it already, but it was really good.
Overall, I’ll give this movie a firm 6 out of 10.
Lemmings
A game of lemmings done with DHTML is here. Really cool and pretty addictive. I had to stop after the level 7, otherwise I would have spent the next 3 days playing it.
New category: Syndication
I have created a new category – Syndication. It will host all posts about web syndication, RSS and Atom feeds, feed aggregation and things like that. Most of these appeared in Blogging category previously, but that is not right. I have also moved a bunch of posts in there, so that you don’t feel lonely if you decide to flip it through.