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.

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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.

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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?

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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 🙂

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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 of movie one can see after a long exam session :).

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Full Speed Ahead

Posted on February 25, 2004 by joachim

ADSLSpeed.pngFinally, 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 end up having downlink speeds of roughly 160 kB/s. It’s still amazing though.

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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 around. In Safari 1.1, everything worked perfectly but Safari 1.2 only moves a row once, then everything gets stuck. For example, you can move the first row down once and the third one up once and that’s it, no further moving around.
I do not claim my JavaScript is 100% bug free, but it works with Mozilla and WinIE 6 perfectly. One small difference I noticed is when I change the content of a row (e.g. a value of on input field) and then try to move that row. Mozilla moves the edited content but WinIE and Safari move the original content of the row as it was in the loaded HTML file. Another difference is that Mozilla has some #text element between the tr elements and Safari has not (viewable in the dom tree).
I am asking myself how to debug JavaScript code in Safari since there is no JavaScript console I know of.

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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?

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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), but none of this happened.
The question is: Is Apple’s core business strategy to sell computers or is the focus shifting to software and internet based services?

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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, the new added feature can give you a little hint 🙂

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