Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Today Olga and I went to see “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban“. This is a third sequel to a very well known Harry Potter story.

This time the director was different. Instead of Chris Columbus, who did both “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” and “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone“, it is Alfonso Cuar�n. And it shows. Generally it’s the same kind of story with the same people in the same places, but few bits lose the touch. Somehow it feels unfinished. In few places it is very noticable, in others – not.

Overall it is a nice movie to go and see, especially I think if you read the book (I didn’t) or if you enjoy computer graphics a great deal. But in comparison if the previous two films I found this one a bit lacking satisfaction. I will surely go see the next two parts (in 2005 and 2007), which will be done by yet two other different directors. :)

Migrating from mbox to Maildir

Today I had some free time on my hands, so I tried something that I was planning to do for a long time – properly move away from mbox to Maildir for email storage.

It took me a bit more time than I thought it will, but I have done everything properly with migration of all messages and archives (about 50K emails) and local IMAP server. I have done it on my office workstation, where I am the only user, but the procedure is very scalable and will work fine on any number of users. I am planning to repeat it on the home server which is used by a number of people.

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