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#15 – Goodfellas
Another recent BluRay purchased to replace a flipper DVD, and the second Scorsese film in a row.
What more can I say about it? If you’ve seen it already you know how good it is, if you haven’t seen it you need to rectify that omission immediately.
Posted in The top 250 films project
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Do they mean me?
6 Election of Officers:
a. President – Committee Recommendation:- Richard Wood Esq.
http://www.oldsulians.org.uk/2009/01/old-sulians-agm/
Apparently they do.
Posted in Me
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Noise annoys
The DVD drive in this Lenovo laptop is fairly noisey, which is pretty annoying when you’re trying to watch DVDs on it.
I should have ripped them to the HD first.
Posted in Tech
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#44 – The Departed
Another excellent film from Scorsese, and this BluRay version is helped by not being a flipper like my DVD.
Posted in The top 250 films project
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Paranoid? Me?
In the interests of experimentation, I’ve encrypted the hard drive of my big laptop using TrueCrypt, partly to see how it works, and partly because I’m doing the ISEB Certificate in Information Security Management Principles course next week so I ought to start practicing what I’ll be preaching. So far the fact that the drive is encrypted doesn’t seem to affect the operation of the machine at all.
We already use SafeBoot aka McAfee Endpoint Encryption at work for it’s centralised management, but I’m somewhat underwhelmed by it, each new version seems to be slightly worse than the previous one.
Hot hot hot
For the first time in ages I’ve cooked a huge amount of Chili, although after tasting it I think I may have overdone the Tabasco a touch…
Posted in Me
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#71 – Der Untergang
That’s “Downfall” for the germanically challenged. Popularised by many a viral-video on the interweb, it covers the last days of Hitler in his bunker in Berlin.
Posted in The top 250 films project
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Planet Earth
I’m sat watching Planet Earth on Blu-ray and it looks absolutely superb. This is what Blu-ray was made for, and a bargain at just under £20 for 5 discs.
Posted in Films
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Who let the cats out?
After several weeks of confinement, I’ve let Mulder and Scully out of the house again. I wonder if they’ll disappear for several months like last time?
Posted in Mulder and Scully
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#84 – Amadeus
Disappointingly, "Rock me Amadeus" by the legendary Falco has nothing whatsoever to do with this film.
Posted in The top 250 films project
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Lottery
An email went round at work pointing out that we were on a record losing streak with the lottery, so asking for 6 numbers.
Strangely enough they didn’t like my suggestions of e, pi, 27½, i, 6.0221414 x1023, and 1.6180339887.
Useless Numbers – the 2008 version
In 2008 I bought 30 CDs, 103 DVDs, and 14 Blu-Ray discs. Quite a bit more than during the previous year, partly due to a lot of sales at Play and HMV, and partly due to watching a lot more TV series on DVD. I think I’ve watched all of The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Band of Brothers, The Lone Gunmen, Red Dwarf, MASH, Black Adder, Black Books, and The West Wing this year, and I’ve just started on The Fast Show, and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
I also bought more books than I care to count, and dipped my toes into the world of graphic novels which looks like it could become an expensive habit.
Posted in Me, Music, Television
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Is it 2009 already?
Apparently so.
Let’s hope this year is a bit drier than the last two, and we actually get a decent summer at some point.
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