Movies I watched – December 2007

Posted on January 1, 2008 by Nimal

Disclaimer: This is not a movie review or comparison of that sort. I just wanted to write something about some of the movies I watched during the month of November, 2007. If you are interested about these movies, just check on Wikipedia or IMDB or just Google.

  1. Hairspray (2007)
    Watched on: 01/12/2007 - Xvid/DvDrip
    IMDB – Wikipedia
    Genre: Comedy / Drama / Musical
    MPAA: Rated PG for language, some suggestive content and momentary teen smoking.

    Comments: A very boring musical, would say its stupid to watch and I didn’t watch it full.

  2. Sicko (2007)
    Watched on: 02/12/2007 - Xvid/DvDrip
    IMDB – Wikipedia
    Genre: Documentary
    MPAA: Rated PG-13 for brief strong language.

    Comments: As any other documentary its not so interesting to watch unless you are interested in the subject, medical insurances, and I couldn’t watch it full, as it was not for me.

  3. Stomp the Yard (2007)
    Watched on: 03/12/2007 - Xvid/DvDrip
    IMDB – Wikipedia
    Genre: Musical / Romance
    MPAA: Rated PG-13 for a scene of violence, some sexual material and language.

    Comments: This is a kind of a cool story, typical one, but interesting.

  4. Disturbia (2007)
    Watched on: 04/12/2007 - Xvid/DvDrip
    IMDB – Wikipedia
    Genre: Comedy / Crime / Romance / Thriller
    MPAA: Rated PG-13 on appeal for sequences of terror and violence, and some sensuality.

    Comments: A very interesting thriller movie and the romantic element is also nice.

  5. Phone Booth (2002)
    Watched on: 05/12/2007 - Xvid/DvDrip
    IMDB – Wikipedia
    Genre: Thriller
    MPAA: Rated R for pervasive language and some violence.

    Comments: Watched it after some time, and still its one of those interesting movies for me, and at least I love it for the way of narration.

  6. Road Trip (2000)
    Watched on: 06/12/2007 - Xvid/DvDrip
    IMDB – Wikipedia
    Genre: Comedy / Adventure
    MPAA: Rated R for strong sexual content, crude humor, language and drug use.

    Comments: Just the kind of comedy movie I love to watch, and it was a great entertainer, with comedy and some romantic aspect as well.

  7. War (2007)
    Watched on: 07/12/2007 - Xvid/DvDrip
    IMDB – Wikipedia
    Genre: Action / Thriller
    MPAA: Rated R for sequences of strong bloody violence, sexuality/nudity and language.

    Comments: This a really good action movie to watch, and the suspense is there till the end, till the last sentence is said.

  8. Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
    Watched on: 08/12/2007 - Xvid/DvDrip
    IMDB – Wikipedia
    Genre: Adventure / Sci-Fi
    MPAA: Rated PG-13 for some sexual content and violent images.

    Comments: I’m not a big fan of this movie, but still it was interesting and had a good time watching it.

  9. Superbad (2007)
    Watched on: 13/12/2007 - Xvid/DvDrip
    IMDB – Wikipedia
    Genre: Comedy / Romance
    MPAA: Rated R for pervasive crude and sexual content, strong language

    Comments: Just another romantic comedy, and its kinda cool one.

  10. It’s a Free World… (2007)
    Watched on: 14/12/2007 - Xvid/DvDrip
    IMDB
    Genre: Drama

    Comments: Not a really interesting one, and its kinda boring and I didn’t watch it full.

  11. Taxi (2004)
    Watched on: 15/12/2007 - Xvid/DvDrip
    IMDB – Wikipedia
    Genre: Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller
    MPAA: Rated PG-13 for language, sensuality and brief violence.

    Comments: Cool action movie, but sometimes thought bit ‘?’, still the action and stunt sequences are superb.

  12. Antitrust (2001)
    Watched on: 16/12/2007 - Xvid/DvDrip
    IMDB – Wikipedia
    Genre: Action / Thriller / Crime
    MPAA: Rated PG-13 for some violence and brief language.

    Comments: I just love this movie, may be I’m a fan of opensource or for the movie. And its a cool movie for me.

  13. The 13th Warrior (1999)
    Watched on: 17/12/2007 - Xvid/DvDrip
    IMDB – Wikipedia
    Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy
    MPAA: Rated R for bloody battles and carnage.

    Comments: There is nothing special in this one, but is a good one to watch when you get a copy.

  14. American Pie Presents: Beta House (2007)
    Watched on: 19/12/2007 - Xvid/DvDrip
    IMDB – Wikipedia
    Genre: Comedy
    MPAA: Rated R for pervasive strong crude and sexual content, graphic nudity, language and excessive drinking.

    Comments: Same as the earliear Pies, but some of the earliear ones were even better though. Ok.

  15. 50 First Dates (2004)
    Watched on: 21/12/2007 - Xvid/DvDrip
    IMDB – Wikipedia
    Genre: Comedy / Romance
    MPAA: Rated PG-13.

    Comments: A very fine story, different storyline, loved it. The storyline is like ‘Henry Roth is a man afraid of commitment up until he meets the beautiful Lucy. They hit it off and Henry think he’s finally found the girl of his dreams, until he discovers she has short-term memory loss and forgets him the very next day.‘

  16. T4XI a.k.a. Taxi 4 (2007)
    Watched on: 22/12/2007 - Xvid/DvDrip
    IMDB – Wikipedia
    Genre: Action / Comedy

    Comments: Interesting, but not much with the Taxi though. Also I don’t know a single word in French.

  17. 23- ATM
    Would say not at all good, except some songs, nothing else is good.
  18. 23- Rescue.Dawn.
    Good, interesting, not a so exciting one, but good though.
  19. 25- Cellular (2004)
    Really interesting screenplay, good one
  20. 27- Billa (2007)
    Ok, Picturization is good, even though its a remake, still its interesting most of the time.
  21. 28- DOA
    Kinda cool martial arts diaplay

Will be updating soon… as always :)

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Its a new year…

Posted on January 1, 2008 by Nimal

Happy New Year 2008…!

I just wanted to put something on my blog on the 1st and so this is. But I have no specific things to say here. Normally many bloggers have written about the past, the furute and so many other things, but I have no such specific plans or may be I don’t know how to put them in words.

So I just wanted to mention one thing I just noticed on my blog, that this is my 51st post, meaning, I just finished my 50th post in 2007 starting from My blog, I’m learning… on Wednesday, July 19, 2006 to this on December 27, 2007. Other than that there is nothing special or significant to share for now.

Finally let be say this, ‘Its a new year, and I want to do some new things and continue with many other things I was doing, in my best possible way’.

And thanks for coming to my blog :)

Good luck to everyone and I wish you a happiness and success in this new year…!

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Intersection and Set-Difference in MySQL (A workaround for EXCEPT)

Posted on December 27, 2007 by Nimal

The INTERSECT and EXCEPT operators of SQL are not supported in MySQL. So there there seems a workaround, you use a join with all corresponding attributes equated in place of an intersection.

For instance, to get the intersection of R(a,b) and S(a,b), write:
    SELECT DISTINCT *
    FROM R
    WHERE EXISTS (SELECT * FROM S WHERE R.a = S.a AND R.b = S.b);

To get the set difference, here is a similar approach using a sub query:
    SELECT DISTINCT *
    FROM R
    WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM S WHERE R.a = S.a AND R.b = S.b);

Note that both these expressions eliminate duplicates, but that is in accordance with the SQL standard.

So for example for something like this using EXCEPT,
    SELECT T.data_id from table T
    WHERE T.keyword = 'google'
    EXCEPT
    SELECT T2.data_id from table T2
    WHERE T2.keyword = 'yahoo'

Would become,
     SELECT T.data_id
    FROM table T
    WHERE T.keyword = 'google '
    AND NOT EXISTS (
        SELECT T2.data_id
        FROM table T2
        WHERE T2.keyword = 'yahoo '
        AND T2.data_id = T1.data_id
    )

This is just a small workaround that works for me, and I had to spend sometime finding this solution. So this is just for a reference of mine sometime later, but if its useful to anyone of you that would be great.

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Save Electricity

Posted on December 26, 2007 by Nimal

Hi All,

Saving Electricity is very important. So please read this doc & see whether we can do that. Then forward as much as possible.

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Thunderbird & Lightning – Its my calender

Posted on December 17, 2007 by Nimal

Lightning is the working project name for an extension to tightly integrate calendar functionality (scheduling, tasks, etc.) into Thunderbird. Lightning brings the Sunbird calendar to the popular email client, Mozilla Thunderbird. Since it's an extension, Lightning is tightly integrated with Thunderbird, allowing it to easily perform email-related calendaring tasks.

Lightning is an iCalendar compatible integrated calendar application for Thunderbird and its just the perfect choice for me and gives me great flexibility and usability on day to day activities. Now you can directly addIt can be downloaded from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2313

Provider for Google Calendar is a Thunderbird extension that allows bidirectional access to Google Calendar. This extension allows Lightning to read and write events to a Google Calendar. And now all my existing Google Calender data a displayed in the Lightning calender and the updated I make are synchronized bidirectionally. It can be downloaded from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4631

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