RSS is taking over the world slowly. I came across yet another application of RSS today. track2rss is a set of scripts that allow one to track packages travelling via UPS with RSS feeds. Get updates as soon as they are available, integrate several packages information to a single page and yada yada yada.
Year: 2005
The funniest Slashdot discussion ever
The funniest Slashdot discussion ever is titled “Bill Gates in 1983 Teen Beat Magazine“. You don’t even have to check the pictures. I did though. They are indeed something. ;)
High speed FTP with Linux distributions
There was a need to download DVD image of Suse Linux 9.2. Novell’s FTP server was too slow (about 12 KBytes/s) as was the torrent download (5 KBytes/s, not enough people). The high speed mirror (450+ KBytes/s) was found at ftp.caliu.info. Thanks guys!
Diary of a City Priest
Watched “Diary of a City Priest” on DVD. It is a good drama about a priest in the poor neighborhood’s chuch. He has been there for more than 20 years, serving and helping people and he got tired and started to have difficulties for his inspirations. Basically, he looks a lot like a man with a middle age crisis.
Film is slightly dramatic and slowly paced with some phylosophy to it. There is no intense or suspense. There is nothing you haven’t seen before. There is, simply, nothing special. David Morse did an excellent job with the priest. Photography couldn’t have been enjoyed fully, due to 4:3 ratio, but it looked like there are some really great shots in there. Music was very atmospherical and spiritual – nicely done.
I think I am a bit too young for this film. 6 out of 10.
Gen-X Cops
Watched “Gen-X Cops” on DVD. It is one of those cheap Hong Kong action films that make an average Chinese martial arts movie seem like a multimillion budget blockbuster.
Terrible story, terrible stunts, no martial arts, no acting what-so-ever, and missing sense of humour drop this film really hard down in my rating table. I am really surprised that it carries the name of Jackie Chan as executive producer.
This film really sucked. 2 out of 10.