Author Archives: joachim

Movie Update

Posted on March 25, 2004 by joachim

Lately, I saw Something’s Gotta Give, Along Came Polly and Monster. Monster was clearly the best of all, although I didn’t like it much either. Next movie in the pipeline: Gothika.

Posted in Cinema | Comments Off on Movie Update

Tais-Toi

Posted on February 27, 2004 by joachim

Une bonne comédie à la française 🙂 C’était vraiment marrant, le meilleur film sur les quatre que j’ai vu ces derniers jours.

Posted in Cinema | Comments Off on Tais-Toi

The Last Samurai

Posted on February 27, 2004 by joachim

Why couldn’t the character played by Tom Cruise die like everybody else in this movie?

Posted in Cinema | Comments Off on The Last Samurai

21 Grams

Posted on February 27, 2004 by joachim

Brilliant actors, sad story. It’s definitely not the kind of movie you want to see after a long exam session 🙂

Posted in Cinema | 1 Comment

Underworld

Posted on February 27, 2004 by joachim

It’s the story about vampires and lycans (werewolves). You could think the vampires had killed all the lycans some time ago – but – it’s not the case! So the fight starts over one more time, yeah! It’s the kind … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema | Comments Off on Underworld

Full Speed Ahead

Posted on February 25, 2004 by joachim

Finally, Bluewin (it’s really Swisscom actually) has doubled the speed for all private ADSL offerings and I can download files at 1.5 MBit/s (192 kB/s) virtually. It’s too bad the PPPoE overhead takes some of the bandwidth away, so I … Continue reading →

Posted in Hardware | 1 Comment

Safari Regression

Posted on February 10, 2004 by joachim

I was pleased to see Apple release a new version of Safari, but was a bit disappointed when I discovered a regression (I assume) in the DOM area. I have a little test document where I can move table rows … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, Software, Web | 2 Comments

Paycheck

Posted on January 28, 2004 by joachim

I almost forgot to write about the last movie I’ve seen! Maybe because there was no single memorable quote in it or maybe because the movie was just an average B-action-movie without any particularities?

Posted in Cinema | Comments Off on Paycheck

Is Apple still a Computer Company?

Posted on January 28, 2004 by joachim

Well, if you head your web browser to www.apple.com, you must take a magnifier to realize that Apple is still building computers. Everybody was expecting some Macintosh-related announcements in the timeframe around the 20th Mac™ anniversary (which was last saturday), … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple | Comments Off on Is Apple still a Computer Company?

Categories

Posted on January 17, 2004 by joachim

In the process of updating my weblog to Movable Type 2.661, I added the ability to browse my posts by category. In addition to that, each message has its category link. So if you’re not sure what I’m writing about, … Continue reading →

Posted in Web | Comments Off on Categories