Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
WP2.3 upgrade woes
I have upgraded now to WP2.3 but this time it wasn’t smooth as last time.
First of all, the one-shot automatic upgrade provided by this plugin stopped before completing the job (when it had to upgrade database). After which I used its step-by-step and started from beginning and hence had to activate plugins myself
Second, [...]
Comments - Posted in Site design by Rk
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Cinema halls..
The other day, had a very satisfying “outing” in Innovative Multiplex. The theatre which I had avoided almost for its first two years, for the sole reason that it is too far and the time so much spent for a movie is not worth it. I always felt it was so awfully out of the [...]
Comments - Posted in Movie talk by Rk
Monday, October 8th, 2007
Manorama Six Feet Under
The following is what I wrote on Flixter to my flixter account through FB
I wish I could give it 5 star rating! The progress is good, the first half builds the entire premise and second half goes around tieing the lose ends, but it is not until last few frames that the entire picture [...]
Comments - Posted in Movie Reviews by Rk
Sunday, October 7th, 2007
Difficult to write…
It is sometimes excruciatingly difficult to blog, esp to write a post (not the linking stuff). Writer’s block is one thing and having too much to write but finding no time to write is another.
And then, like it has happened today, the whole time is spent in browsing, chatting, installing and stuff. I haven’t been [...]
Comments - Posted in Blogging, General by Rk
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Random Bursts of Thoughts and Happenings - 2nd Edition
Part 3:
# Saw these movies: Great Escape, Where Eagles Dare, Green Mile, No man’s land, Saving Private Ryan, Silence of the Lambs.
Silence of Lambs was very gripping and good story telling. Though I did not clearly understand the climax - was the person she searching happened to be main criminal - was it a just [...]
Comments - Posted in Movie talk, Other activities by Rk
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. Marcus T Cicero
Sometimes a Good Morning quote ignites a conversation. A recent one ignited two :
ONE::Rk:
I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. Marcus T Cicero
Adiga:
should it be the otherway round? prefer righteous war to unfair peace? I heard it that way.
Rk:
Many replied like that … this is what Marcus said..may be righteous [...]
Comments - Posted in Quote, Timepass by Rk
Monday, October 1st, 2007
Kane and Abel - Jeffry Archer
Finished reading “Kane and Abel” - the first novel I have read of Jeffrey Archer.
Haven’t found a good review of the book, if you know, let me know. The search on Google throws up results about two musicians and their music.
My thoughts/comments :
Again enjoyed the initial story thoroughly. The struggles of Abel (Wladek) were thrilling to [...]