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- Register to receive the Microsoft Architecture Update, a newsletter for business, applications, infrastructure, and technology architects with essential information on current publications, events, and discussions. |
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- Discover 24 features in Microsoft Visual Studio code-named "Whidbey" that will make the development of data-driven Web applications easier and faster. |
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- The other day I had to mess around with struts-menu, so as to make certain menu options disappear based on who was logged in. Eventually, I worked out how it's done. Mostly by reading the source-code. I figured I'd write up what I did so maybe someone else can benefit from my day. (625 Words) |
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- New Yorkers Turn Out for Oct. 25 Anti-War March |
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Monkeyness (Oct 29 2003 07:59 GMT) - Sooo unbelievably swamped at work. Swamped swamped swamped. Is it next summer yet? Is it bad when you go to Trader Joe's on lunch to stock up on food for lunch and dinner at work? In the morning when I came in - I got hit on by the garbage truck driver at work. |
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- Mér finnst það ekki oft komast nógu vel til skila hversu mikil snilld hljómsveitin Trabant er. Manni líður alltaf svo vel á ... [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] |
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- ó jæja - (Oct 29 2003 07:59 GMT) - Það var gaman um helgina. Myndirnar sýna það. Við strákarnir áttum það allir sameiginlegt að ölvun réð okkar hreyfingum og o ... [1] [2] [3] |
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- Chillin' at the top of the Westin with Shawn Wildermuth (ADO Guy), Michele Bustamante, Christian Weyer, Clemens Vasters, and Cathie Gero. Best pretzels in L.A. |
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- Los Angeles: Skein remains in prod'n, set to return in December NBC is getting out of "The Lyon's Den" for the November sweeps. Net has pulled all episodes of the Rob Lowe legal drama for the key ratings period. |
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- Los Angeles: Exec to o'see development, day-to-day prod'n UPN is getting aggressive on the reality TV front, naming Larry Barron as the net's VP of alternative programs. |
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- Los Angeles: McKairnes instrumental in launching '75 Moments' CBS has upped Jim McKairnes to senior VP of program planning and scheduling. McKairnes, who had been VP in the department since 1998, helps to schedule series and specials for both CBS and sister web UPN. |
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- Los Angeles: Christopher to receive nod Feb. 14 at BevHilton Roy Christopher, winner of seven Primetime Emmys and a 32-time Emmy nominee, has been tapped for the Art Directors Guild's Lifetime Achievement Award. |
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- Los Angeles: Ban could last until the end of November Federal officials, beset by Southern California's rampaging wildfires, have pulled the plug on filming in the Angeles National Forest north of Los Angeles for as long as a month. |
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- Los Angeles: Variety editorial |
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- Los Angeles: Guest column |
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- Los Angeles: Guest column |
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- Los Angeles: Brian Lowry: Tuning In |
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- You'll definitely eat well (or "Eet smakelijk" as Tara translated from Dutch) if you cook Tara's Dutch Apple Pie. Check it out! It's a great way to use those apples from the recent |
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- like steve, i'd love to see it. i'd been wanting to tackle the spec myself but just haven't had a chance. very grateful you took the time. i'd imagine once steve gets it out there we'll start seeing ... |
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- Okay. I'll admit it. I was one of the six or seven people in the world who really liked IBM's famous "butterfly keyboard" that expanded as you opened the laptop. Many people hated it, and as screens got bigger, IBM realized that they could fit a pretty complete keyboard on a laptop. Now, however, some researchers at IBM's design labs (which still seems like one of the only places that actually tries to innovate on laptop design) is working on some new models that contain variations on the butterfly keyboard. |
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- Politik: Deutsche sollen mehr arbeiten |
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- TRENTON, N.J. - The state hopes to collect $950 million in fines from 66 companies known to have polluted the Passaic River, but experts say that amount will likely fall sharply as negotiations progress. |
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- VPage: Mouse house preem praised despite fires, buzz Hollywood could use more gestures of showmanship such as Monday night's preem for "The Matrix Revolutions" at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. |
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Janice Rule (Oct 29 2003 07:57 GMT) - Obituaries: Actress Obituary |
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- Film Reviews: Packaging "speaks" in "1.99 -- A Supermarket That Sells Words," a very curious experimental work by Brazilian maverick Marcelo Masagao. Set almost entirely in a fantasy supermarket where everything is white, neat and uniformly boxed, film inventively inveighs against mindless modern consumerism. |
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- Film Reviews: Fable-like tale shot in rarely heard Kannada dialect may have a limited life, even within India. But elegiacal pic did win last year's Golden Lotus prize for best feature in that country's National Film Awards -- the fourth such win for helmer Girish Kasaravalli. Comparisons to Satyajit Ray's early village pictures are apt only in that there are no song-and-dance numbers and action operates both on realistic and symbolic levels. |
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- Film Reviews: One might expect "Shelter Dogs" would appeal only to PETA and pet lovers, but engrossing pic, winner of top awards at the Director's View and Newport fests, has plenty to say about society in general, with moral issues getting more complicated, not less. Pubcasting and cable beds are assured, but this should keep them panting at docu fests for quite some time. |
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- Film Reviews: An enlightening portrait of three rappers in Rio de Janeiro's ghettoes, "Living Rap in Rio" hits the viewer with major doses of realism that overturn a lot of expectations. Not an overview of the city's rap scene, film follows two men and a girl for nine months, concentrating on their lives more than their music. Final twist is a shocker. |
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- Film Reviews: The legacy of political activist Wu Zhongxian is fondly recalled by his friend and fellow revolutionary, Mok Chiu-Yu, in director Evans Chan's mostly straightforward filming of Mok's acclaimed 1997 stage play. Essentially a small-scale, one-man show, in which Mok gives a bravura performance as both himself and Wu, pic nonetheless manages to convey a sweeping sense of Chinese countercultural activity throughout the decades, and should become a well-traveled fest item, of highest interest to Asiaphiles and theater buffs. |
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- Film Reviews: Peripatetic docu "How to Be a Model" is better as a warning than as a definitive take on the modeling world. Pic will probably have more legs on vid and cable than on fest runways. |
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Maqbool (Oct 29 2003 07:57 GMT) - Film Reviews: Bollywood meets the Bard in "Maqbool," a transposition of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" to the criminal denizens of modern Mumbai that's a clever idea but doesn't grip as a pure gangster yarn. Less involving than recent criminal epic "Company," and more suited to being just a festival curio, film demands a good knowledge of the original play to work. |
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- Film Reviews: A beautifully structured script, in which the characters ripen and all the elements click together, makes "Manhole" a fine standard-bearer for quality Chinese commercial cinema. Entertaining crime caper-cum-black comedy-romance, which finally opens on the Mainland in November, has been strangely absent from most Western fests' lineups this year, which is a shame for ordinary auds. |
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- Film Reviews: Repping an important addition to fast-fading history of audeville, "The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam" doesn't answer all of its own questions but raises a lot of interesting ones along the way. Ann Marie Fleming's first feature-length docu examines the mysterious life of her own great-grandfather in playful and personal ways. |
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- Film Reviews: A potent compilation of damning feature and talking-head excerpts, Nicholas Dembowski's "Lord's Song in a Strange Land" is the "That's Entertainment!" of anti-Arab sentiments and imagery in Western popular media. Drawing on clips as far back as the silent era, astutely edited video pastiche eschews any narration or other commentary of its own, letting the biases of Hollywood, news outlets, etc. incriminate themselves. |
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- Film Reviews: A thorny subject is handled with care in this meticulous reconstruction of life inside the East German police state, as boiled down to the experiences of just two ex-inmates -- one man and one woman --- of a notorious Stasi prison. Pic should carry as much weight with auds contemplating the nature of totalitarianism as it does with those interested in the terrible particulars of a vanished world. |
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- Film Reviews: A gagman on a personal and professional bummer is the anti-hero of a character study with just the right mix of laughs and soul-searching drama in "Roy Hollsdotter Live." Writer-director Matthew Saville was honored with the Australian Writer's Guild award for best original screenplay. |
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Prosti (Oct 29 2003 07:57 GMT) - Film Reviews: Fine performances allied to solid cinematic technique make "Prosti" an unexpected pleasure in generic territory. Story of a cynical pimp who finds true love via a college student-cum-hooker, this is way above the normal level of Filipino pics devoted to life's sexy underbelly, and marks director Erik Matti as a name to watch. |
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- Film Reviews: A wannabe scarefest that hides its lack of originality beneath a deliberately discombobulating structure,"The Grudge" is a haunted-house one-trick pony. Already a legend among Asiaphiles, and with an English-lingo remake in the works under producer Sam Raimi, pic is an OK entry in Japan's rich psychothriller genre but is far from a classic. |
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- Film Reviews: High style meets an interesting but flawed script in Zhang Yuan's "Green Tea," a glossy take on male-female relationships with two of China's biggest stars going head to head. Fans of Mainland hunk Jiang Wen and the elfin, all-eyes Zhao Wei ("Shaolin Soccer," "So Close") won't require any further recommendation for what is basically a two-handed demo of screen chemistry, and fests which don't require Chinese fare to be either political or "indie"-flavored should certainly give this a spin, triggering some niche business outside East Asia. Pic preemed in China in mid-August and went wider the following month. |
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- Film Reviews: Writer-director Jang Hang-jun returns with the more conventional "Spring Breeze," an odd-couple romantic comedy centered on a third-rate novelist and a coffee-bar ditz. The first of Cinema Service's inhouse productions supervised by director Kim Sang-jin ("Kick the Moon," "Jail Breakers"), pic performed just OK on September release. |
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Flyfishing (Oct 29 2003 07:57 GMT) - Film Reviews: An antic Brit sex comedy, filled with lonely spinster women and corny, double-entendre-leaden dialogue, David Williams' "Flyfishing" plays like a two-decades-too-late entry in the old "Carry On" film series -- which isn't an entirely bad thing. While not particularly inspired, pic ambles along amiably for a very brief run-time, with a few (though not enough) spots of genuine hilarity. |
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- Film Reviews: A "Jules and Jim"-like tale of two men in love with the same woman, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" is at its best when it's least hip. First feature by songwriter/commercials director Gao Xiaosong has the full battery of expressionist props and colors, pretentious dialogue and musicvid-style cutting and songs, but it's the more natural moments that work. A curio for Sinophiles only. |
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- Film Reviews: Popular actor Cha Tae-hyeon, who shot to fame as the sappy vis-a-vis in "My Sassy Girl," reinvents his screen persona in "Crazy First Love." The noisy student comedy-romance set South Korea's B.O. tills ringing this summer (2. |
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Fake (Oct 29 2003 07:57 GMT) - Film Reviews: Slick, stylish and utterly empty, "Fake" lives down to its name by tossing its young, attractive cast around a sleek, modern Bangkok purely for effect. Tripartite structure, following three dudes in love with the same gal, adds up to nothing but formula. Walkouts were rife at Vancouver bow, and though pic was OK earner at home, it won't be getting real at too many fests after this. |
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- Film News: Civil War pic snags $10,000 prize Paul J. da Silva, graduate student in screenwriting at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, has won first prize in the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards for his screenplay "Deep South." |
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