Month: January 2004

Frida

The main movie i saw this past weekend was Frida, a biography of mexican artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.

The movie was pretty good, especially the acting, photography and visual style of the movie.

I’ve always liked real life stories, they have this certain feeling of truth in them, which makes them more interesting for me to see.

This story was an interesting one, although i didn’t relate to it, but i liked the historical background it introduced.

All in all, i give this movie 7/10.

PS: The movie contains quite a number of nudity and sex scenes, so Salma Hayek fans should definitely see it, looool…

Blogless

Well, i wanna blog, but i don’t have anything to blog about, so what do i do ?
I blog that i have nothing to blog.

And what use is that ?
Well, at least i blogged, and now i won’t feel like i have to come up with something to blog, because i know i won’t find anything worth blogging.

Waste of time ?
Maybe, but now the blog-itch is gone, and i can enjoy the rest of my day without thinking about blogging 😛

Cya…

Programming Play

Recently, i’ve gone back to playing around with programming at home and trying out things that are either new or that i’ve always wanted to try but never had time to. And lately i’ve been playing around with Cold Fusion MX 6.1 and it’s Cold Fusion Components as well as it’s xml capabilities.

ColdFusion, i feel, is somehow the Apple of web programming languages, without the problems that come with Apple’s products. It’s great, it’s easy, it’s fast, it gives you the best time-to-market, but still it’s not as widely used as the rest of the web programming languages out there.

Anyway, Cold Fusion Components (CFCs), are simply great. They must be the easiest and fastest way to create a web service / class.
In ASP.NET C#, it’s really easy too, and i really like how it’s done there. But ColdFusion’s syntax which is so web-like makes it more intuitive.

I’m actually playing around with organizing / layering my code and creating different tiers using custom tags, includes, CFCs/WebServices and some xml files. And i’m getting really good stuff out of it. If i get to put more effort into this, i think i’ll be able to turn it into some sort of framework / methodology.
I’m also interested in trying out the same stuff with C# & ASP.NET.

Something else i’m looking forward to trying out is the ability to merge and cross between using ColdFusion & Java/JSP.
Ever since ColdFusion MX, Cold Fusion (CF) has become a layer on top of a Java App. Server, giving it more power and stability, and opening it up to use of Java classes, beans and JSPs.
I haven’t had the chance to test all that out and get something running as a hybrid CF/JSP app yet, but hopefully i will soon.
What’s so cool about the idea is that you could do all the classes and data-crunching using Java, and build the interface that consumes those classes and serves as a fa

Top 10 Impossible Inventions That Work

I just found this really cool list about inventions that seem impossible but that actually worked.

Here they are:

1. The Space Energy Converter
2. Cold Fusion (of course not the programming language & app. server)
3. System to split water from fuel by using resonance
4. System for sending power wirelessly
5. Anti-Gravity device
6. A metod for trasmutation of elements
7. Orgone Accumulator
8. The Cloudbuster
9. The Rife microscope & frequency generator
10. Electronic Telepathy Device

These are all really interesting ideas and inventions that i hope people would seriously work more on bringing to everyday life and reality.

For the full details on the list above, click here.

Tunisian Ghost Story

I just remembered this ghost story that supposedly happened in Tunisia. It’s quite a well-known one, and i first heard it when i was a kid.

I have no idea what reminded me of this, but i remember this and other stories like it nearly made me shit my pants as a child, lol…

The story goes as follows:

This guy was out for a night walk in downtown Tunis and as he passed by one of the Belvedere Park’s gates, he saw this good looking girl all alone and feeling cold.
So, he walks up to her and gives her his jacket and starts talking to her and all.

They ended up spending the night together, and then he took her home to her parents’ place.

The following morning, he remembers he never got his jacket back from her, so he passes by her parents’ place to get it, and her mom tells him that it’s impossible because her daughter had been dead for years.

So he asks where she was buried and he goes to her grave. And there, lying on the girl’s grave was his jacket.

Quite creepy, huh ?

Top 250 Movies

IMDB have released a list of the Top 250 movies as voted by the users.

It’s a really cool list.
I’ve seen a lot of these movies and agree that they are among the best movies ever made, although i might not fully agree on the order they’re in.
For example, i’d rank Godfather II higher than Godfather I, and the Lord Of The Rings trilogy would certainly top my list.

Anyway, i’ll be trying to see some of the other movies that i don’t know yet if i can get my hands on them, some of the stuff dates back to the 1920’s.

Car Sounds

The other day, on our way home and as were stopped at a traffic light, a taxi stopped next to us and the driver pulled up the hand break.
Automatically, and by the sound of the hand break, i told my wife it was a Peugeot 205, and it was.
Of course, i know the sound of a Peugeout 205 hand break and engine because my dad has one and i’ve driven it quite a number of times, and in fact crashed it quite a few times too 😛

But, that reminded me of this game i used to play with my friends of childhood in Zimbabwe.
After school, and while we were waiting for our parents to come pick us up, we’d stand with our backs to the parking, and we’d try to guess what type the cars entering were by their sounds.
With time, we actually got to guess most of them right away by the sound of the engine.

I’m quite sure our ability to guess cars from their sounds never added anything to us or helped us in anything in anyway, but still it was fun, and it was our special game 🙂

I think it’s really interesting how children can be so creative in making up new games and creating new ways to have fun and enjoy themselves.
I wish we could carry that same spirit of fun and creativity with us throughout our whole lives, it would really be so great and helpful.

Man blows up car trying to defrost it

What the hell was this guy thinking ?

A Croatian man blew up his frozen car after trying to warm it by lighting a fire under the engine.

Zlatko Grden, 52, lit some old newspapers under the engine of his Opel Kadett after it failed to start in freezing temperatures.

He told local media: “I couldn’t start the engine and realised it was frozen. I decided to warm it up. Maybe I used too much paper.”

Grden, of Donja Stubica near the Croatian capital Zagreb, added: “My lovely car is now destroyed.”

[via Ananova]

Hmmmm…
Sure, your lovely car is now destroyed Mr. Oh-maybe-i-can-fire-it-up-a-bit !
That’s because you didn’t use your oh-what-do-we-have-here-maybe-it’s-a-brain !

Ok, i know that was not nice of me, and i know it must have been a very tragic event for the guy, but i just can’t help wondering what the guy was smoking or drinking before he did this…