Due to scheduling problems (new job, p300, …) I decided to cancel my movie database 2 project. I just feel much better without it constantly lingering in the background. The precious coding time I have really needs to go into p300 right now.
Sharing is important for people to interact and communicate.
The music industry doesn’t get it, wants to get rid of YouTube and music downloads.
The movie industry doesn’t get it, wants to get rid of movie downloads.
The games industry seems to get it, with web interaction in games and multiplayer options ever increasing.
And the latest culprit? garfield.com. How the f**k am I supposed to show a friend a funny comic strip if I can’t link to their damn flash strips? (And yes, it’s technologically possible to provide links to flash strips.)
I had to change the blog theme, because while Vistered Little looks great, it had too many drawbacks in terms of style with the newer WordPress versions (like badly looking text next to pictures).
I’m now using the quite popular Atahualpa.
As guruz noted, there is a new version 762 of p300 out.
Unfortunately still without any improvement by me, but I’m actively working on those (distributed search).
p300 is a file-sharing tool for VPN and private networks.
Noteworthy features:
License: Public Domain
Painting the Mona Lisa with 1.001 paint balls coming from 1.001 barrels.
The MythBusters guys Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage did it at the NVISION08 show.
(Setup & Pretext: Part 1)
As you can see, I added the CodingClues.eu feed to the sidebar.
CodingClues.eu is my other blog, where I’m among a couple of geek friends writing about code.
It’s kinda like Coding Horror and Daily WTF, but more focused on code and applicability.
You can also copy the feed link from here, and add it to your RSS reader: CodingClues Entries RSS.
If you only want to read my entries, you can use this link: Sebastian at CodingClues.
I seem to go back and forth between CreativeCommons by-sa and by-nc-sa for this site and my pics every couple of months.
I just can’t agree with myself what is the best one:
So, from now on, I’ll use by-nc-sa again.
I saw this movie on Thursday.
I give it 4 / 10.
Good
It really feels like X-Files.
The atmosphere is there, Mulder and Scully are there, the weird stories are there.
If you’ve always waited for another film partly set in the morning snow, this is for you.
The slowly-typed labels have a comeback as well.
Bad
Unfortunately, although the story would be good for a new episode, it’s not blockbuster movie material.
Additionally, Mulder and Scully have way too much to discuss about their personal positions to the case at hand.
Usually, character development is a good thing, but it just swamps the thoughtful story.
And not in a good way.
The movie also has the feel of being unfinished, as if the final cut was… missing.
As if the makers decided halfway through that it wasn’t such a good idea to make it after all.
Conclusion
It’s a weak 4 / 10.
In my opinion, it’s not even as good as the first one.
It’s just… average.
Yet, it made me remember the good old X-Files series, and I’m planning to watch it again at some time.
We all know the famous scene from Frank Miller’s 300 where Leonidas casts the Persian messengers into the pit, shouting “This is Sparta!“.
It has been reproduced ad absurdum into all kinds of image macros and memes.
Now, we all know the movie is not actually close to historic truth.
People who don’t realize this are just idiots.
Or are they?
I recently read a history magazine about ancient Greece (GEO Epoche Griechenland), and guess what I found:
In 492 BC, the first Persian attack failed.
One year after, the Persian king sent diplomats to the Greek cities (”poleis“).
They are to take soil and water as a sign of submission of the Greek people.
Everybody submits.
What does Sparta do? They throw the messengers into a canyon.
But Athens throws them into a well for them to take soil and water by themselves.
So much historic accuracy in one often-copied image macro. Fantastic. 
