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Weeknotes 2024-02-05
Weeknotes 2024-02-05 Feb. 5, 2024 Jochen Wersdörfer A priest, a p...
🎬 Aces Go Places IV: You Never Die Twice
Another Mondo Bizarr feature. And this was just 100% fun. It has a lot of Jackie Chan trademarks: great action, quirky humour, likeable characters and a whole lot of breakneck stunts (OMG they had a little boy dangling on the outside of a skyscraper). Very much recommended, if you’re into that sort of film.
🎬 Midnite Spares
It’s always fun watching a movie with the Mondo Bizarr audience. And this was no exception. But boy, this was a bit rough: while the story is simple enough, it’s still hard to follow, it has less action than expected, and it gets sidetracked by too many characters and unnecessary scenes. So, not exactly my thing.
🎬 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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The story certainly has its length. But otherwise there’s lots to like: from the concept of the pods, to the special effects, Jeff Goldblum and Leonard Nimoy, and at last a surprise ending.
Celebrating Lunar New Year 2024: Year of The Wood Dragon
a love note for my broken heart
Celebrating Lunar New Year 2024: Year of The Wood Dragon
a love note for my broken heart
Weeknotes 2024-01-29
Weeknotes 2024-01-29 Jan. 29, 2024 Jochen Wersdörfer The Web is t...
heartbreak in paradise is still a heartbreak
heartbreak in paradise is still a heartbreak
A Day Lived in Surrender & Simplicity
A Day Lived in Surrender & Simplicity
🎬 RoboCop
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This has a good story, and was overall a well-rounded experience. It's still a pretty typical action movie, and has a few clichés. But it's certainly well above average. I was a bit surprised by how brutal some scenes were. It's almost like in a splatter-movie, and really well done. But boy, how they shoot Murphy to pieces is just horrifying. But the film also has some great humor in it: like the super-duper killing robot ED209, which can't descend a flight of stairs and subsequently lands on his back like a helpless bug. Anyhow, can recommend.
Weeknotes 2024-01-22
Weeknotes 2024-01-22 Jan. 22, 2024 Jochen Wersdörfer career Verb ...
Trust and the Issues with context
Trust is important! It provides mechanisms in public key infrastructure (PKI) that keep our (digital) world turning. Windows and Linux follow different approaches. Both have their issues… The Windows world of trust Microsoft Windows has the Windows Certificate Store. One for the Machine (certlm.msc), providing the baseline, and another one for the User context (certmgr.msc). There are attempts to separate certain types of certificates by their intent e.g. Trusted People for S/MIME signatures and encryption vs.
🎬 Opera
I don't know what to think about this. It's so well filmed, and looks so good. And it has lots of good moments. But I think I can't get over the fact that this is then spoiled by nonsense dialogues, a weak story, bad dubbing, and weird music choices. Maybe this is meant to be funny? Is it a parody? I don't know. Weird movie.
🎬 Diner
So, me and the guys had dinner, and we then went to see this on the big screen on film. It was a great evening. And this movie was enjoyable, too: a great cast with their distinct characters in a dialogue-heavy movie. And up to all sort of shenanigans during a what seems to be a turning point in all of their lives. Quite a bit of macho-attitudes and actions, but overall very enjoyable. Has a great cheesy, silly, over-the-top dance scene. :)
XML to markdown with XSLT
I’m currently reworking the process of how software documentation is produced. At the moment of writing we have many manual steps involved updating Microsoft Word document and finally exporting it to the portable document format (PDF). One of the steps is to copy a list of events including their identifiers, category, level and message, from an XML source to a Table in the word document. The new process will allow to have source code management compatible plain text files as a source, from which a PDF is generated.