Day: December 24, 2003
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Movie: The Lord of the…
Just returned from a late-morning matinee showing of Return of the King, the third in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I enjoyed it, and the seige of Minas Tirith is the spectacle it was cracked up to be. The postscript, which in the book feels important, drags on a bit in the movie. I…
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Movie: The Last Samurai
Over two weeks ago, I got out to The Last Samurai, with Tom Cruise as post-Civil War mercenary in rapidly industrializing Japan. I liked it. Only one truly regrettable cliche, where Cruise’s character lives through a suicidal charge that brings down all those around him, sparing him so that he can deliver the moral message…
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Favicons in NNW
I’ve been using NetNewsWire for several months now. I just moved from v1.03 to v1.07, since I haven’t been sure I needed any of the steps in between. I can see that I should have moved earlier, for WebKit among other things, but the part that is the most fun, even though it’s a small…
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NYTimes special report on China
Hope to find time to review this report on China at some point in the future. Only problem is that the link is in the graphic at top right, which my eye skipped over at first. Say it with me… text links work. Don’t depend on graphics only.