Month: August 2005

Purchased a DVD player

I’ve got bored with fixing NVidia drivers after every kernel update on my home machine and bought a dedicated device for DVD playback – trevi DVX 3508. I wanted one of those excellent Yakumo devices, but they were out of stock, so I settled down with the first thing that they offered me.

DVD players are extremely cheap this days and there is no excuse no more for not having one. trevi DVX 3508 costed me about 45 CYP. And it can playback everything – DVDs from any region, DivX and VCD, mp3 disks, and even jpeg photo galleries.

I haven’t had the time to test it properly but from the first few looks it looks great. I tried the playback of several DVDs from different regions (1 and 2 mostly) and they all worked. I’ve also tried the jpeg photo gallery on DVD and it also worked nicely with the slide show and all the usual bells and whistles.

Canadian Bacon

Canadian Bacon (1995)After watching Michael Moore’s documentaries (“Bowling for Colombine” and “Farhenheit 9/11”) I got interested in his earlier work. “Canadian Bacon” is the only film so far I managed to get my hands on.

Directed by: Michael Moore
Genres: Comedy, War
Cast: John Candy, Alan Alda, Rhea Perlman, Kevin Pollak, Rip Torn, Kevin J. O’Connor, Bill Nunn, G.D. Spradlin, James Belushi, Steven Wright, Brad Sullivan, Stanley Anderson, Richard Council, Wallace Shawn, Michael Copeman
IMDB raintg: 5.5
My rating: 7.0 [rate 7.0]

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966)Lev must be the only one (except me and Google) who is still checking my list of movies to see. It can’t b e a coincidence that he brought me “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” (aka “Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo”) DVD. Yes, the classic western from 1966 with Clint Eastwood that was on my list for more than a year now.

Directed by: Sergio Leone
Genres: Action, Drama, Western
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach, Aldo Giuffrè, Luigi Pistilli, Rada Rassimov, Enzo Petito, Claudio Scarchilli, John Bartha, Livio Lorenzon, Antonio Casale, Sandro Scarchilli, Benito Stefanelli, Angelo Novi, Antonio Casas
IMDB raintg: 8.8
My rating: 9.0 [rate 9.0]

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Adsense Logger plugin for WordPress

Adsense Logger is an open source PHP script that helps website owners to optimize Google Adsense for their sites. I just found out about it today and realized that I wanted something like this for a long time, but never took the time to find it.

Apparently, there is an excellent plugin for WordPress that automatically installs and configures Adsense Logger to work with WordPress. Simply copy the files from the ZIP archive and assign correct permissions. TADA! You’re done. If you wish to see your Google reports within your WordPress administration area, enter your username and password in the plugin configuration page.

I’ve just installed and tried it and looks really good. Now all I am missing are those ad clicks (hint, hint, hint).

Found via this Bloggin Pro entry.