Posted by Stefan Schmidt Sun, 04 May 2008 10:24:00 GMT
If the title of this article reminded you of something, yes this is a quote from the song ‘My Favorite Net Things’ from back in the days when the coming of pure ip was still a future thing. You can also get it here for your collection.
I don’t have any explaination of what happened to youtube yesterday but just wanted to show you what it looked to me when i found out about it. Just like this:
Posted by Stefan Schmidt Thu, 01 May 2008 09:45:00 GMT
I couldn’t find any lyrics on the song Cinephile by the Band Cinephile so i just typed em up.
You can listen to the song on last.fm.
Here is another song that got featured on CSI. And of course there is some more.
I would best describe their music as lowtempo atmospheric trance so be warned that this probably won’t fit if you’re not in the mood for it. ;-)
Here we go:
He loved movies.
He loved The Big Sleep,
The Big Chill
and The Big Easy.
He loved Al Paccino,
in the godfather
and Rita Hayworth,
in Gilda.
He loved the Golfmatch,
in Goldfinger
and the shock twist,
in the Crying Game.
He loved Westerns
where the morality of the hero was suspect,
and romances
where her true love was there in front
of the heroine from scene one.
He loved period Drama
and Samurai Epics
and political Thrillers
and Detective Features,
but most of all
He loved Movies
of his wife.
Our firm always gave him the most
personal of attention.
And by the time he died,
none of his friends were left alive.
So as junior partner i got to spend a week
in his Primla Court townhouse,
sifting though books, suits, furniture
and sixty-three cans of super 8 film.
He was known to sit in his study
into the small hours,
alone with the flickering screen,
a glass of wine
and the quiet chattering of the projector.
Each reel had a date inscribed in careful black ink.
I watched them from first to last,
in that same study,
where the curtains drawn and a pot
of darjeeling by my elbow,
they were all studies,
portraits if you will.
In the early sequences she is shy,
hiding behind doors.
Raising her hand above the shot,
her plain gold wedding-band prominent.
After a spool or two she relaxes
and begins to play to the camera,
spinning in the garden,
swirling a scarf around her head,
blowing kisses and pointing her stern finger.
The subsequent reels are the most intimate,
as she learns to forget she is on film.
We see her reading at the window,
nibbling her nails,
talking on the telephone
and slowly, dreamily cowing her hair.
In one feature length sleep sequence,
she barely moves and eyelid.
But the cracks begin to show after ten
or eleven spools,
where once she was relaxed she is now
uncomfortable in the frame.
Her expression,
her whole body language,
becomes defensive and strained.
Still the images continue,
recording her in the same locations
around the house,
the same outfits.
With a hand on her hip,
she lectures a point beside the camera.
She waves at him to stop filming,
yet the footage continues unyielding
and the reels stack up.
Repeatedly shot after shot after shot
she leaves various rooms.
Trapped for a few seconds she screams
in silence taring at her hair
and eventually she throws things.
Their marriage lasted eight and a half months
and for thirty-seven years afterwards
he sat until late in his study
feeding the projector and blinking in the half light.
He loved those movies.
Btw. i’m not so sure if i heard the ‘Primla Court townhouse’ right, could be a street but just as well a coating, i could not really make it out for sure.
Posted by Stefan Schmidt Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:57:00 GMT
Alright i’m abusing my blog as a bookmarking tool again…
Last week a collegue of mine hit a problem in his java code trying to resolve mailexchange handler (MX) hostnames. He tried to get both A and AAAA records at the same time with the java dns library (JNDI) and found that sometimes he would only get a SOA reply back and that the library was doing ANY queries to accomplish the task with just one DNS query.
This is error! ;-)
Bert Hubert pointed me to this thread on the issue whether a recursive nameserver should recursve for any records upon an ANY query or just answer them from its cache if it has something for the qname.
As Edward Lewis put it:
I’ll nominate section 5.3.3. of rfc 1034:
5.3.3. Algorithm
The top level algorithm has four steps:
1. See if the answer is in local information, and if so return it to the client.…
T_ANY is at best a debugging tool. It has been used in the past to get mail records I think, but really, T_ANY is just for debugging and others trying to abuse the service.
Posted by Stefan Schmidt Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:12:00 GMT
I always wanted to try it out after someone (i think it was fh told me about mymuesli in 2k7.
As it just so happens i received a newsletter from Paypal this morning baiting me with free shipping, so i ordered these: Zaps Berry Crunch, Zaps Classic
Can’t really wait to test em because a) i never ate a cereal like those two combinations and b) i haven’t had breakfast yet. ;-)
Posted by Stefan Schmidt Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:38:00 GMT
Thanks to this german news article i am now aware that today it is “CSS Naked Day” where you get your site stripped of all its cloth^h^h^h err CSS stylesheets and see if it is standards compliance and still looks good without all that nifty design f00.
Before you complain: Yes i know that despite the links on the bottom my blog does not validate for xhtml… Typo puts it there and i did not have the guts to go look for it in the code. ;-)
Posted by Stefan Schmidt Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:28:00 GMT
So what do you think.
Is my blog magenta or what?
I think its not too far from this or this and that but there’s always someone straying the other way off course… ;-)
Apparently there are more shades of pink than magenta.
In the other news:
Don’t run a DNS smokeping on the root nameservers if you’re not ready to see this…
Posted by Stefan Schmidt Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:13:00 GMT
I already knew that german telecom was tracking the use of ‘magenta’ in other countries too but i just now stumbled over this interesting/funny site from the Netherlands. http://www.freemagenta.nl/
As some commenter in a webforum said “This marketing desaster will be hard to overcome, even with the billions they are putting in there.”
I know there were some german sites dealing with that topic too but sadly i cannot remember any of those anymore.
Anyways, its still pink for me. ;-)
Posted by Stefan Schmidt Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:46:00 GMT
After reading This engadget article i could not hold back anymore and switched by blog theme once again. Originally it was ‘Pink!’ by Jordan Elver but i shamelessly ripped and modified it a bit so that it now features a T-Com style magenta ‘Z’ insignia. ;-)
Go get it here if you like it. Works for me with Typo 5.0.3 at least.
Posted by Stefan Schmidt Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT
Yay, i just received this newsletter on my aim account. They now allow multiprotocol messenger clients to use any kind of library to connect to their OSCAR service and there is OSCAR Protocol documentation available - yay someday there will be a stable jabber transport for aim, lets all hope for that.
And the best thing is the newsletter is even plaintext and just works with textile/markdown.
Would you like to know more…? ;-)
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