Ratatouille is a wonderful film from the excellent Pixar Animation studios. To confess, the first Pixar film I saw was Cars, an unfortunate choice since it really didn’t showcase Pixar’s real strengths though still better than most films cranked out by Hollywood. The wonderful thing about Ratatouille is that despite targeting the children’s market, although [...]
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File: January 2008
Everything’s been great since I took a break from running and switching to jump rope. Unfortunately, it’s gotten harder to set goals with regard to workout intensity. The main difficulty is that as a beginner I can barely stay jumping for any more than 10 minutes. The intervals get even shorter when I’m having a [...]
I must say that I didn’t quite expect the film No Country for Old Men to be a literary master piece in film form. Like all good pieces that are faithful to the form, there are no happy endings, or no conclusions drawn, just a vague and distant look into the hopeful wasteland that is [...]
I sincerely hope that Sun is no longer the place that promising ideas and projects go to die. To be fair they’ve been innovating and open-sourcing some great stuff like zfs, solaris and java. Of course, having a pony-tailed CEO is not the same as having a coherent strategy. If you consider the potential of [...]
MacBook Air. I have a theory that Apple’s product naming scheme is getting inversely more crappier as the products become more amazing. So, we get an oversized iPod Touch for $1799 with a nice hardware keyboard and a hard disk drive with the capacity of a laptop from the early 1990s. Truly newsworthy. What’s more [...]
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Now that the Macworld Expo is looming, I thought I would put out some wishes for Uncle Steve. I really don’t want anything big or fancy. Here we go. Fix Those Damn Leopard Issues Good I was all chuckling and smug at the little jokes made at Windows users and Vista victims at their expense. [...]
I finally got my windows environment up to par though I still have some ways to go. In a sense I’m not really developing on windows since I log in to a regular UNIX server where I check out code and run vim remotely to write the web app. As long as I’m using putty, [...]
Finally got a chance to see Spiderman 3. I’ve read quite a few reviews about it not being up to par with the other Spiderman movies, particularly the second. The curse of sequels is not always that continuations rarely live up to the original but also that critics endlessly compare them to other installments in [...]