Year: 2010

Day in brief

  • Mobile Twitter website is really slick in Opera Mini. Enjoying… #
  • Trying out Tweets60 application. Nice! Has everything I need except multiple accounts. But even so, I think I'll stick to it for a while. #
  • RT @stepanov: CakePHP 1.2.7 released http://bit.ly/9NjCCi #
  • Set Firefox to Use Google Results for Default Address Bar Searches [Firefox] http://bit.ly/9ZAi3o #
  • I'll be there! RT @lockstockrock: Hard rock gig tomorrow, 22:30 at Motor Bar, Limassol, Cyprus. Come! Details – http://lock-stock-rock.com #
  • Finished work for this week. Plenty done, much achieved. Now for well deserved rest. #
  • I favorited a YouTube video — Sugarbush Dog Groomers http://youtu.be/kdJcYTh1rP0?a #
  • Came back from Clash of the Titans. Very average. Don't watch it i 3D. #

Day in brief

  • I favorited a YouTube video — 'The Expendables' Trailer HD http://youtu.be/C6RU5y2fU6s?a #
  • Bookmarked: Zenoss – Open Source Network Monitoring and Systems Management http://icio.us/5b0jrg #
  • It's awesome outside. Sun, breeze, people. Waiting for my meeting… #
  • Imagine Twitter dropping their sms number and it going back into circulation. New owner will insane in one hour. #
  • Having my first beer of the week. #

Lock Stock rock band is now online!

I am helping out my friends at Lock Stock rock band to get online.  They are performing hard rock music – Metallica, Sepultura, Nirvana, Limp Bizkit, and many others – all over Cyprus.  If you are a fan of hard rock and you are in Cyprus – chances are you’ve heard them before.

There is too much that we can do, but we have to start somewhere.  So, the first version of their official website is online – see it at Lock-Stock-Rock.com .   There are some band news, contact information, and a Google Calendar- powered schedule of the upcoming events.  Go check it out, subscribe, follow @lockstockrock on Twitter, and leave a comment.  Let us know what you think.  Let us know you were there.  Spread the word. And stay tuned.

We have a lot of plans and a lot of material to cover, so there will be some activity in the nearest future.

Do movie actors exist in the worlds of the movies they star in?

Kottke.org links to an interesting question (and discussion in the comments to the original post) – Do movie actors exist in the worlds of the movies they star in?

You ever think about how in, like, a Tom Hanks movie, everyone lives in a reality in which there’s no such person as Tom Hanks? Because otherwise, people would be mistaking the main character for Tom Hanks all the time? So either Tom Hanks doesn’t exist in the world the movie takes place in, or he does exist but he looks like someone else?

I do think about it sometimes.  And I think that the most elegant solution to this problematic overlap was presented in the “Last Action Hero” movie, where Arnold Schwarzenegger played an movie character who was getting back and forward between the world inside the movie and the real world.  And the solution for the overlap was Sylvester Stallone.  He was a replacement actor.  So, when Arnold was in the movie world, where he wasn’t an actor, all his films – “Terminator”, “Commando”, etc – existed in that movie world, but the main character of those movies wasn’t Arnold, but Sylvester.  Elegant.  Very elegant.