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PerfectDraft Pro
After some years of hesitating I finally bought my own PerfectDraft machine and a Pro one at that. Ever since my wife stopped drinking wine because the sulfites give her headaches I am mostly drinking beer. But there is never room in the fridge and one beer is too little while 2 are often too […]
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Star Wars: Episode 3 – Revenge of the Sith
Episode 3 is the last part of the prequel. Here the premonitions that Anakin will fall under the spell of the emperor to be and turn to the dark side finally come true and Darth Vader is born. Driven by ambition and the fear for losing Padme after already having lost his mother Anakin is […]
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Arnold
Watched this 3 part documentary on Netflix. Each episode is roughly 1 hour long and covers a different period in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s life. Part 1 covers his youth and body building career. Part 2 is about his career as an actor and part 3 covers his venture into politics as governor of California. The series […]
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Responsive Design
My youngest started first grade this year and needs some tool to help him study so I decided to create a quiz app in a browser for him. So it was time for me to brush up on html, css and JS. I have some basic code in Javascript for randomly picking the questions and […]
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Heart of Stone
Watched this on Netflix during the Xmas break. I categorise it under light entertainment. A spy movie that borrows from James Bond and Mission Impossible but without an attractive story. All the typical ingredients are there (except for the obligatory Bond sexcapades) and Gal Gadot is an appropriately attractive lead actor but she lacks the […]
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Interceptor
Watched this movie on Netflix during the Xmas break. It stars Elsa Pataki in the lead role of a disillusioned army captain who is promoted away to an isolated missile interceptor base after a #MeToo incident. She soon finds herself in charge of defending the base against a terrorist attack. The movie got a lot […]
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Hidden Strike
Watched this movie from 2023 with Jackie Chan and John Cena recently on Netflix. I found it a run of the mill action movie. Not bad but also not great. It lacked a bit of dramatic tension but the typical Jackie Chan slap stick humor works well in combination with John Cena. This was the […]
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Interview with Richard Rhodes about The Making of the Atomic Bomb
I was surfing the web for some information about the Oppenheimer movie and came across this interview with author Richard Rhodes on YouTube in May 2023. Really interesting to hear Rhodes talk about the many people he talked to in the course of writing this book and others. Well addition to reading the actual book.
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Killers of the Flower Moon
Last week we had an unexpected opportunity to go to the cinema and watch Killers of the Flower Moon as both kids were not at home. Even though the movie was only released mid October we had to look for a theatre that was still playing it. We were in luck that it was still […]
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Mosaic
Even though Netscape was the first really widespread browser it really started with Mosaic. Marc Andreessen was involved in both products. There is s a short Computing Conversations interview about the origins of Mosaic.
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