March 5, 2008 at 23:32
· Filed under Movies & TV
Plot: In the 1960s and on the eve of his retirement,
a janitor (Michael Caine) plans to go out with a bang.
He’s actually able to convince an unfairly treated
female executive (Demi Moore) to help him steal
some loot from their employer — the London Diamond Corporation.
This was a pretty exciting thriller, with a decent cast. Caine was quite good, although far from his best. Demi Moore is obviously starting to look her age (hehe!) but does play her role fairly well. I love the bit where she asks the investigator, “How can you think that I could be so diabolical? *blink, blink*” …and he’s instantly swooned into a mushly blob of gooey-ness….LOL!
- 1st Jan 2007…
It is already 2007 here in Colombo, while England is two hours away from crossing over. Colombo was flooded with crackers, mostly noise makers rather than sky rockets - I just hope the number of inju...
- Lunar Eclipse of March 03 2007 @ 22:43GMT
...
- ICC Cricket World Cup 2007: Decisive Dismissal of New Zealand
Today has been another one of those good and bad days for me, and had a rough experience involving the Colombo Hilton which I will be taking up with the General Manager in the morning.
This has by ...
- ICC Cricket World Cup 2007: Semi-Final, Sri Lanka vs. New Zealand
Pictured below are Lasith Malinga and Muttiah Muralitharan as they arrive in Kingston for the semi-final against New Zealand. This game starts tomorrow @ 14:30 UTC, which is 15:30 BST or 20:00 Sri La...
- Christmas 2007…
It was great to be back home for the holidays and I had my last exam today. Here are a couple 'WIS' shots I took...
The rest are all on my cousin's cam...and I need to try and source them from her...
Permalink
February 28, 2007 at 23:58
· Filed under Movies & TV
Thanks to Laurie for letting me know about this, check out his post here.
- Using Subversion (SVN) in OS X with XCode & Apache2
I finally managed to finish this article today, mainly as I was setting up SVN for work. Simply making multiple copies of source-code was getting tedious and hard to track. Check out the full articl...
- while(1){do_thesis;}
The subject title says it all. There really isn't much to report apart from the fact that all the hard work gone into MARV culminated into a meeting with my thesis supervisor and a simple demonstrati...
- E6600 @ 3.42GHz!
I just got my conroe E6600 today along with the other bits. It's on the stock cooler atm, but I'm thinking of getting the Scythe Infinity.
Superpi 1M is done in 14.953 seconds, with dual 32M pa...
- SVN: Taking it Further
29.12.2006
The reason for writing this article is that I recently had my powerbook die on me, and I had the bright idea of making it my primary SVN repository. While this seemed like a nice idea a...
- Plasma TV is Dead
As we predicted several years ago, plasma technology is on its way out. Putting one of the nails in the lengthy coffin is Pioneer Corp, who is stopping ALL production of plasma display panels. Last we...
Permalink
February 25, 2007 at 4:05
· Filed under Movies & TV, Random Ranting
This has by far got to be the bloodiest episode of Stargate ever. The fight between Arcad and Teal’c, ends with Arcad first running his ’staff sword’ (stealthed too - it was given away by the obvious curvature of the ‘bo’, you will notice the staff given to Teal’c is straight…at first!) through what seems to be Teal’c’s goa’uld pouch.
In an amazing, impossible-but-expected, come back he kicked Arcad to a wall with what appears to be a weapon rack, who gets run through. Teal’c proceeds to pull out the sword from his belly, advance towards Arcad, and run it through from his upper-left shoulder blade, down through his torso towards his right kidney/liver.
I imagine this penetrated through his lungs, stomach and who know’s what else, but did seem like a very painful way to die.
This episode is probably one of the first episodes in which Stargate has taken a very ’serious’ and bloody tone, and sadly just goes to show what we are going to miss in almost another three (3) to seven (7) episodes at most.
As a finale, it is going to be brilliant, and many have suggested that SG-1 should have ended ages ago, but hey - I’m not complaining, at least Atlantis is slated for a few more seasons! =)
Permalink
February 16, 2007 at 21:46
· Filed under Movies & TV
I was watching Goldeneye and I admit, I was tracking the Seamaster on Brosnan’s wrist quite a bit. Does seem that it’s fairly large for him the way it slides a good two inches up his arm at times, but I must say - this is one of the nicest bracelets ever.
These images are from the scene near the end where Sean Bean compares Bond’s SeMP (right) with his own (left). The next shot, he presses the He valve, which according to the film, wirelessly controls the activation of a timer on a charge of C4, and you can see is being pressed by Sean.
- Review: Omega Planet Ocean vs. Rolex Sea-Dweller
This comparative review has been authored by Shaun, and is being published here with his express permission. It pits the Omega Planet Ocean vs. the Rolex Sea-Dweller in this extremely factual and...
- Omega Speedmaster Professional, a.k.a “Moonwatch”
I have compiled a new article which maybe found here. It presents the basic history of the Speedmaster and jumps right into movement comparisons and explains the differences between the 3572.50.00 an...
- Mistake by Omega?
It definitely seems that way. Some detective work that I have been pursuing for the past couple days has finally paid off.
The NASA mission logs for Apollo 11 state the following,
4:18 p.m. EDT...
- Mini-GTG in Switzerland: Visiting the Omega Museum…
A couple months ago, I noticed 'Speedy MK IV' posting pictures of his new Omega Seamaster Pro. 2254 along with a very smart Omega America's Cup cap. I thought I'd drop him a PM and the next thing I kn...
- Omega Speedmaster Professional, a.k.a “Moonwatch”
As a first timer to the Speedmaster scene, I initially found it a rather daunting task to decide which one to actually get. I first spent a couple days browsing the TimeZone.com Omega forum, whic...
Permalink
January 24, 2007 at 0:59
· Filed under Movies & TV
Removed by request of #24 @ EFnet…
Disclaimer: I am in no way responsible for the use of this information and am just providing said information according to the laws of freedom of speech. Misuse of this information is at the discretion of the user.
- The Wait for 24
According to #24 on EFnet,
00:18:07] [24] S06E05 [STATUS] Unaired [TIME] 1days 7hrs 12mins 15secs remaining
...oh the agony!
...
Permalink
