Hacker's Diary

A rough account of what I did with Emacs recently.

March 9
The Tale of Despereaux: the trailer is a bit more promising than the movie, which has a voiceover and a few didactic overtones, but on the whole it's quite a bit of fun.

March 7
I had an odd issue with a shared Google calendar I'd created: of all the people who were allowed access, I was the only one who couldn't actually see it. I got it sorted out today by removing and re-adding my own account to the calendar using another "admin" account, but The Brother had already tried that so I'm not sure why it worked for me.


March 6
Movie rewatched: Wedding Crashers. Admittedly I wasn't paying too much attention this time around as I was engaged in conversation.

March 3
Franklyn is... odd. I guess it's pretty well done and all, but it's one of those dual storyline movies, except it keeps the stories separated so long that you kinda spend too much time wondering when and how they're going to mesh.

March 2
Terminator: Salvation: isn't particularly bad; in fact, it's a fairly acceptable action movie by itself, with the exception of the needless Precocious Child Who Is Vital In Some Pointless Way. What really lets it down, at least for me, is the number of sly back-references to the other movies: whole lines of dialogue, and visual motifs like the motorbike versus truck sequence which may even have gone so far as to ape the camera angles of Terminator II. Still, I guess it does what it sets out to do: it's a bubblegum movie.

March 1
Reinstalled the CVS server on the Cube. I should really package it up as it's fairly handy to do so in a reasonably independant fashion.

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