Saw this movie this weekend and thought it was very impressive. It’s about a diplomat (Justin Quayle played by Ralph Fiennes), who, right before he leaves on a business trip to Africa meets Tessa, an activist and they start a romance that soon leads to a marriage, because Tessa wants to join Justin on his trip to Africa. The movie starts rather dramatically when Justin receives the news that Tessa might have been killed by local bandits. The first 45mins or so of the movie are all flashbacks and there are more of them in the rest of the movie. A plot then unwraps that her killing might have been more than just a coincidence. I wont go into that for the people that didnt see it yet.
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Basically I have too many interests. I like to read, play PC games (ESO and various builder / factory type games), watch movies, listen to music, and tweak PC's, browse the web and read news on Reddit and hang out on twitch and discord. My dayjob is Software Engineer!
Mac Book Pro
Oh dear this new laptop from apple looks sweet. A little over my budget though ;).икони
The Grizzly Man
Lord I do not want to be hurt by a bear
No this site is not turning into animal planet. It’s just coincidence I watched two animal related movies this week :). The Grizly Man is a documentary on Timoty Treadwell. For 13 years Treadwell lived amongst the Grizzly bears in Alaska during the summer. The movie is a collection of Treadwell’s own footage he shot during the last few years of his life and interviews by the director of the movie Warner Herzog.
In the fall of 2003 Treadwell and his girlfriend were killed by a bear, which made the news all over the world at the time. Overall the documentary is well done, you see TT talking with the bears (he even gave them names) and the interviews with people he knew are nice and informative, though some are a bit too emotional for my taste. This documentary isnt perfect but it’s very enjoyable nevertheless. I love the endearing moments, like chasing his pet fox who stole his cap or the one where he talks to Chocolate, one of his favorite bears.
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Sidebar.php Blues
Oh noes, Michael has updated the K2 template again, the only file I edited so far is the sidebar, so I figured I’d just leave my old version as I dont feel like editing it again :). Looks very nice though again so /thumbsup to K2 !
Tektonic.net Screwup
Ouch, my vps at tektonic is b0rked, they probably didnt extend the domain registration in time, which is part of the package, look at http://www.wickedmessenger.net. Filed a ticked a few days ago and still no response.
Update : On jan 2nd I finally got a response, I can reregister the domain with them for $13,- and they immediately released it so I can transfer it to godaddy. Since the vps itself is working fine, I decided to do this and keep the vps. Seems to be they want to get out of the registrar business…
March of the Penguins
Imagine walking 70 miles through extreme cold weather, snow in your face and not eat for 3 or 4 months once you arrive at your destination… That’s what this movie is about. The Emperor Penguins do this every year to get to their brooding place. And this movie is impressive to say the least. It’s a wonderful documentary, narrated by Morgan Freeman, who does a great job. There are very comical moments in the movie, like 2 penguins diving into a tiny hole in the ice at the same time, and very sad moments, like when a couple looses their egg, or when one of the chicks dies. Definately a must see for everybody who cares even remotely for these curious animals.
Site Update
Updated the site with k2 beta one as recently released, which made me upgrade to wp2.0 ;).