Starring: Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy (also seen as the evil lawyer in Batman Begins)
We’ve been seeing Rachel quite often these days. She stars in two of the current top 10 movies. I remember having seen her first in “The Hot Chick” and noticed her in “The Notebook”. She has a very pleasing persona on the screen and is good with her diction and expressions. She is a very pretty woman; although I don’t think she’s drop down gorgeous. To sum up, I think we have a promising star in Rachel.
Coming to the movie, Red Eye is about a woman who is on a flight, sitting next to a person who threatens her with her father’s life if she dosen’t give-in to his demands. This is a thriller about a woman who has to choose between what is right and what will save her father.
With no moments of high intensity, the movie is quite predictable. We can almost feel the ending half way thru the movie. Rachel brings freshness to the screen, other that that there are no performances worth a mention.
My rating: save the ticket’s money for something better.
Ok, The plain text version worked. Now for formatted text with a picture.
Here is a pic from “The Dukes of Hazzard” – a nice slapstick (The review for which I never posted)
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Do you see the pic above?
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Pic gone...but after clicking "publish", there was a pop-up message that mentioned the lack of support for the same. Colored text is gone. But bold and italics text was published well.
Pretty good for v1.0. Looking towards further enhancements from google (one company that we can expect it from :) )
Just today, I learnt about the new Word-Blogger integration tool. This is my first post using this tool. As this is being written, I wonder if the tool will enable picture data blogging? What about OLE inside word documents…will it strip the doc to txt and upload it.
The experiment is in progress: Lemme try this txt only post first
Smart and Gets things done - aptitude Make A Decision - Hire or No-Hire
Here's a typical plan for interviewing a programmer:
Introduction
Question about recent project candidate worked on
Impossible Question
C Function
Are you satisfied?
Design Question
The Challenge
Do you have any questions?
Before the interview, I am very, very careful to avoid anything that might give me some preconceived notions about the candidate. If you think that someone is smart before they even walk into the room, just because they have a Ph.D. from MIT, then nothing they can say in 1 hour is going to overcome that initial prejudice. If you think they are a bozo, nothing they can say will overcome that initial impression.
Design is about asking questions - Jonathan Ive (Link)
Interviewing is more of an art than a science, but if you remember the Smart/Gets Thing Done principle you will be in good shape
Good read.... http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html Lemme know how you feel
Also... Work To The Measurment Software organizations tend to reward programmers who (a) write lots of code and (b) fix lots of bugs. The best way to get ahead in an organization like this is to check in lots of buggy code and fix it all, rather than taking the extra time to get it right in the first place. When you try to fix this problem by penalizing programmers for creating bugs, you create a perverse incentive for them to hide their bugs or not tell the testers about new code they wrote in hopes that fewer bugs will be found. You can't win.
I take this opportunity to recollect Brook's Law. The software development spirit lives on...
Things to take a note of: a large number of social networking sites sprawling up: We've had orkut, yahoo 360. One new and very popular site I came across http://www.myspace.com/
Now we have a large number of tools to create a virtual online community: egroups, online albums, communities, blog, our personal mailing lists, online bookmarks, forums and so on.
Have you been tracking the development at defcon? Goto http://www.defcon.org/ for starters.
