Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Bits and pieces
Tidbit time:
  • Raymond has an über-interesting post on the potential security issues with C's strncpy, including an interesting bit of history.
  • Senthil Kumar's found out an interesting detail regarding the equality (==) operator in .NET System.String.
  • GAIM joins in on Google's Summer of Code project. I just wish I were a student living in the States with enough free time...
  • Remember the old Amiga game Cannon Fodder? Well I found this promitional (?) video for the CD-32 version of Cannon Fodder - so funny it's disturbing.
  • A pretty interesting post at The Register claims Microsoft's Windows 2000 operating system was a complete flop as far as security's concerned, but it marked an interesting shift in the company (and therefore the industry).
  • I don't find myself completely disagreeing with Roy Osherove that often, but his his take on The Grudge is completely opposite my own: the movie was not scary at all, for the most part very poorly acted and I came out of the theater feeling as though I've just wasted 37 NIS (the price for a preordered movie ticket in Israel, approximately $9 US - way too high anyway) and two hours of my life. On the other hand, I've found White Noise quite appealing; it didn't scare me proper (only System Shock 2's managed to do that in recent memory), but it did leave me unsettled, which is also pretty unusual. Probably the only good horror/thriller I've seen in ages is 2002's The Ring. I openly admit to not having seen the original Japanese version, nor have I seen the supposedly great The Sixth Sense. Working on it.
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Tuesday, June 07, 2005 5:00:40 PM (Jerusalem Standard Time, UTC+02:00)  #    Comments [2]  |  Related posts:
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Friday, June 10, 2005 9:17:24 PM (Jerusalem Standard Time, UTC+02:00)
White Noise, for crying out loud? The movie has no fucking point. The usual build the theme in order to show something interesting, if you're investing two hours of your life to watch it. This one had no twists, and a mostly predictable and boring plot.

As for scary movies, my personal all times champion is the oginal Blair Witch Project. Yeah, I know everybody says it's not scary. That's why I said _personal_.
Ron Gross | ron dot grossAT NOSPAMgmail dot com
Tuesday, June 14, 2005 8:36:15 AM (Jerusalem Standard Time, UTC+02:00)
Since when do horror flics have a point? Can't seem to remember the Blair Witch having a point (of course, I can't seem to remember much about the Blair Witch Project in general, thank God). White Noise was very well done, very well acted, and with the exception of the predictable/silly ending (the ending proper, with the woman in the wheelchair) I enjoyed it immensely.

I guess horror movies really are a matter of personal preference, but I really haven't seen a good one in ages (I wonder if The Lawnmower Man could be considered a horror movie?)
Tomer Gabel | tomergAT NOSPAMbigmail dot co dot il
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