Year: 2005

What You’ll Wish You’d Known

Paul Graham has written yet another essey – “What You’ll Wish You’d Known“. This one was originally a speech he prepared for a high school. For some reason, that speech was cancelled, so he just put it up online. I found it very interesting although I am somewhat older than average high school student. Read it, maybe you’ll interest you too.

Nucleus CMS upgraded

Originally I wanted to upgrade my mix of CMS setups to the newest version of BLOG:CMS. Unfortunately, after digging into it a bit, I realized that I don’t want to do that just yet. There is no good upgrade path, because I would have to make a new installation, reconfigure it, and than import and export everything from the existing one. That seems like a hell a lot of work without giving me a lot of benefits.

Instead, I have upgrade my installation to Nucleus CMS version 3.15. I have also freshened it up a bit with a few new plugins. Everything looks like working now, but I will be doing small changes here and there, so if something brakes, just let me know and I’ll fix it.

More upgrades are coming. Downtimes.

Ok everyone, it has been a while since the blog was down. I have to do something about it. There are 2 items on my TODO list:

Originally, I was thinking to do them in these order. But I after realizing that I don’t have the CDs with images of Fedora Core 3 handy and that I’ll have to download and burn them, I decided to switch the order. So, I will start slowly with the upgrade of blog software and when ISOs will arrive I will proceed with the operating system upgrade.

Both of these will cause downtimes. Hopefully, blog software upgrade will result in a couple of short downtimes and some minor look and feel fixing with all the new styles, skins and plugins that they have.

Operating system upgrade will result in at least one major downtime of an hour or two. From what I have seen so far, there shouldn’t be any problems with software and configuration, but noone knows for sure.

Wish me luck and don’t remove the site from your bookmarks just yet. There will plenty of goodies to come back to.

Suicide Kings

Just watched “Suicide Kings” on DVD.

It is a nice film which mixes in crime, drama, and comedy. The story looks fresh and original, although it rings some bells, meaning that I have seen something similar somewhere somewhen. The storytelling and character development is nice. The only thing one has to do to fully enjoy the film is to realize that the movie is not trying to be realistic. It is just a perspective on some abstract situation, which might have arised from something that happened or could have happened in real life. But surely it couldn’t have happened exactly like it is shown in the film.

I didn’t like how the film was changing pace. There wasn’t a good reason for doing that and it looked like unfinished pieces.

The casting was good. Christopher Walken was as good as always. The young guys from the gang of rich kids were very good too.

Overall, a 7 out of 10 experience.

RSS feed for Limassol cinemas

Michael Stepanoff maintains the properly done page for Limassol cinemas. Instead of just reaping off content from a number of other sites, none of which have it complete, he generates his own. Yes, that includes the weekly effort of calling or passing by all the cinemas and registering all films, screens, and most importantly times.

Today he made all of them even better by creating and providing the RSS feed. Kudos to you man! Great work!