Month: January 2011

From Paris with Love

“From Paris with Love” is a fast-paced action comedy with John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.  I found this movie by accident, but I quite enjoyed it.  So much in fact, that I watched it twice in the last month or so.  Sure, it has a few weird romantic moments that needed more polish, but all of those are nicely compensated by action, humor, and an explosive, brutal, yet humane character of John Travolta.  It’s John Travolta at his best.  The one I missed for a long time now, since “Pulp Fiction”, “Be Cool”, and “Michael”.

Remember all those James Bond movies with Sean Connery?  And then how all the charm was taken out of Agent 007 by Daniel Craig?  Well, this movie is a variation on a modern James Bond (an American, of course, but still in Europe), with plenty of charm, and yet with enough brutality of Daniel Craig.  Without Daniel Craig.  (Not that I have anything against Daniel Craig outside of James Bond role).

There is not much else that I can say about it.  Not your regular family entertainment, but a bunch of guys could have a blast with it over a pint of beer.  My rating – 4 out of 5.

Blogging milestone : 5,000+ posts

Ladies and gentlemen, I bring to you post number 5,005.  I nearly missed it altogether, so please excuse a not exactly a round number.  And now, before you throw things at me, let me highlight some disclaimer points:

  • I’ve written more than 5,000 blog posts in my life.  But quite a few of them went down, disappeared, or are blocked behind corporate firewalls.  Today’s celebration is only about my personal blog.
  • Not all of these blog posts were written by hand.  Some are aggregates from Twitter, Delicious, or some other third-party service that I used.  But I count them anyway, because they compensate for those lost posts, and because the spirit of sharing even via a third-party is too similar to blogging.  I found something worth sharing, I shared it, and it ended up on my blog in one form or the other.
  • Most of these posts are utter crap that nobody will ever read or use.   But I still celebrate them, because I took the effort to write them, and because they were important to me at some point in time.
  • On top of that, I celebrate all these posts that survived over multiple blog software migrations, hosting changes, restructuring and reorganizations.  While they are a huge mess that many of you would be glad to throw away, they constantly remind me of all those transformations that I went through.  And if nothing else, they provide me with an extra leverage in any data organization argument.  After all, thousands of posts and comments over 10 years of blogging should count for some experience.

Let the celebrations begin!

Day in brief