January 2005 Archives
Another weekend, another movie. This time, Fast Times at Ridgemont High (imdb). This must be one of the first teen movies (1982), but it contains almost or everything recent teen movies contain: boys, girls, teachers, drugs, sex, abortion, masturbation, nude scenes... well, it doesn't contain gay scenes (good!).
Rating this movie is difficult. I just can't rate it about what I think a teen movie should be nowadays, but how it would be back in the 80s. Well, 8/10.
I know I lost most of the readers which are Perl programmers. But here it goes. We have a tool, written in C, based in ispell, named jspell. We have also a perl module to interact with the C program. These bundle is installed with autoconf/automake stuf. Makefile.PL don't like it much, and I hacked it to work. Meanwhile, I wonder if I should just change the package to a Perl package: the Makefile.PL compiles the C program and the Perl libraries and install it all.
If you are a Perl programmer, give me some ideas. If I should, or not, do this, and if I should, how should the package be?
Some company decided to draw a new keyboard. It is not qwerty, it is not dvorak... it is abcde! Cool! Something new. Colorful. I hope it has drivers for windows...
...wait.. windows? How in hell I'm going to be able to type Ctrl+Alt+Del on that thing?
This weekend I've seen Mermaids (imdb). It is not a fantastic movie, but it is also not a bad movie. In fact, it has a story, minimally coherent, and nice girls. This last point is important. Everybody knows mermaids are very beautiful.
Voted 6/10 on IMDB.
Friends bought Macs (ibook, powerbook). I continue with my linux based PC Laptop. Not that old (almost three years) but still a 1Ghz Pentium III with 256 MB of RAM and 60 GB of disk, with a battery life of... 2 minutes.
Now, I can buy a new battery, a new laptop or a Mac. Given that I am giving again classes I am wondering if this extra money can buy me a Mac. Of course, I would buy a Powerbook 15" at 1.5Ghz (the superdrive and 80GB and 256 MB RAM model). Unfortunately, it is too expensive. About 2400 euros...
