The Butterfly Effect

We just came back from the movies where we went to see “The Butterfly Effect“. Short story: I would rate it 9 out of 10.

Long story: it’s an interesting and original drama which keeps you glued to the screen from start to finish. The story itself is interesting and dynamic as well as all the details around it. There is plenty of good acting by familiar people. Most noteably Ashton Kutcher (“Dude, Where’s My Car?“), who finally gets his serious role, performs excellenty together with Amy Smart (“Road Trip“). Few other people add to the mix.

Special effects, soundtrack, make-up, decorations – everything is matching everything in this film.

Defenetely a must see. Also, it can be seen several times, so adding it to one’s DVD collection isn’t a bad idea at all. :)

Virtual Tourist

It is useful to click Google ads sometimes even on your own site. :) One of the interesting suggested links was VirtualTourist.com.

Apart from being a place for booking hotels and air tickets, it is a huge collection of information maintained and updated by a lot of people. There are pictures, tips, suggestions, reviews and recommendations for virtually any place in the world the tourist can get to. Cyprus is present of course (in the Middle East area) and has few bits in that I didn’t know while living here.

Web design and graphics design resources

I came across few interesting resources on the topic of web design and graphic design for the web. While I am not a designer, sometimes memory refreshment on basic things are good.

Graphic Design for the Web is a collection of articles and links to articles explaining basic concepts and techniques of graphic design. Desktop Publishing is a mega resource with everything from fonts and free graphics to collections of links to other useful places. Web Developer’s Journal is yet another place with articles and links.

Fedora Linux Core 2 released

Fedora Linux Coree 2 has been released today by Fedora Project. It features all sorts of tasty things – Linux kernel 2.6, KDE 3.2.2 (GNOME 2.6 for those who prefer it), Xorg 6.7.0, Security Enhanced Linux integration and much more.

I am currently downloading it via BitTorrent at 400+ KB/s. This version of Fedora Linux comes has 4 CDs images with binaries, which one can also download as a single DVD image. Here is a link to Slashdot announcement which might be useful for additional information.

Hooray for a fortnight of CD writing! :)

Troy

I’ve went to the movies today to see “Troy” finally. Despite of all the critiques and comments I haven’t been disappointed. Not at all. It’s a very good movie and deserves to be seen. Maybe even more then once.

“Troy” is for sure a cinema film. It was done for a big screen and good sound. It’s historic, atmospheric, romantic, and … everything else. The story, while not completely following the history and legends (so Hollywoodish) is still interesting and dramatic. No happy end. Although they tried to make one. :) Battles are spectacular and it seems they try to match the scale of those we’ve seen in Lord Of The Ring trilogy. “Troy” battles are not that overwhelming, but pretty good never-the-less.

There is a lot of good acting. Brad Pitt is excellent as usual, but all the others do match him. This happens, but it is rare.

I like pretty much everything else about the film too – soundtrack, costumes and scenery, martial arts. The duel of Achilles and Hector leaves the feeling of satisfaction similar to Neo and Morphius fights in Matrix. Very good.

Maybe I will go see it once more, though 3 hours are tiring even with 2 breaks. We’ll see. :)