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Somewhere in my basement I still have the original Watchmen comic books from way back when (1987) and consequently was thrilled to hear that a movie was made then disappointed when it got slammed by the main stream media.

When I finally went to see it I found a movie that was a a faithfull adaptation of the original comic book. It was dark, gritty, the casting and acting were excellent and the special FX were stunning.

And yet I couldn’t wait for the long (162 minutes = almost three hours) movie to end. Maybe it was that I already knew the ending which is equally dark or maybe I’m just too used to the instant gratification of the recent spate of Hollywood movies whereas Watchmen stuck to the pace of the original story which slowly and inexorably led us to its inevitable conclusion.

Again, all the technical elements of a great movie were there but for some reason it just didn’t come together for me but nevertheless is certainly didn’t suck. A worthy adaptation of a comic book classic.

Oracle Components for Java (OC4J) is a top notch J2EE container based on the Orion J2EE Server.

OC4J provides a number of mechanisms for user authentication; the older less secure method which uses the principals.xml file and a newer method based on the Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) standard.

Oracle’s implementation of JAAS is known as JAZN (Java AuthoriZatioN).
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Parallels just release version 4.0 of their Mac Desktop and they claim that with the new 3D (DirectX and OpenGL) support we can now play games on their Hypervisor.

Thought I’d give it a try and the results are mixed, to get any kind of play without jerkyness I had to reduce the resolution down to at least 800×600 (results were best at 640×480) and dumb the details way down.

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I recently attended a photography workshop by Darwin Wiggett and although I’ve been shooting pictures for a while it still turns out that I knew nothing (now I only know next to nothing) about photography.

If you want to gain an insight into how to take better pictures I highly recommend Darwins seminars, check out his web site for seminar dates.

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Not sure why it took me so long to write about this but the Dandy Warhols show in Calgary last May of 07 (2007-05-29) was the best dang concert I’be been to in a long long while.

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I actually wondered if people want to see this or if it’s pretentious of me.

I asked my mommy and my auntie and they said they would like to see it; so back by popular demand here is the Zardecki wish list.

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At last! I got my beautiful DVD box with Flight Simulator Deluxe! This is a small story about this wonderful game (which has only one disadvantage it’s too damn slow, even on my super PC). Read the rest of this entry »

For all the times I was looking through a big project trying to find my TODO taks I’ve created an Eclipse plugin which helps track TODO tasks in any large Eclipse projects. Read the rest of this entry »

Well after some time off from Battlefield 2 (BF2) I saw my son playing it and decided to try it again. I remember playing BF2, I liked it once. Read the rest of this entry »

Sprogger back with another passion of mine. Games, more specifically, Internet Games. Whether it be online 1v1 or in a team, against the computer itself or in this case NukeZone. Read the rest of this entry »