Sunday, 6 May 2007
Drama
<bill-paxton>The Server is Down, man! The SERVER-is-DOWN!</bill-paxton>
With the right dramatic inflections, maybe that’s a little, teeny-bit funny. I got home from some errands today, day two of temporary bachelorhood BTW, with three movies.
- The Fog
- GitS:Innocence
- Blade: Trinity
So I watch GitS:Innocence first. Good anime to be sure, but not the same with all of the CG. The story is more complex than the original, and the characters as philosophical as ever.
The Fog was next. Not that piece of shit remake, I’m talking about the original John Carpenter’s The Fog. Funny thing about that movie, it is one of those movies that makes an impression on you as a teen (yeah, I was a teen when it was was in the theater). Creepy even now. In a former career I worked with a producer of The Fog and Escape From New York. It’s one of those circle of life encounters that sticks with you.
Having watched it twice today, once raw and a second time with commentary, I went to blog…instead laid my eyes on a Status Code 500.
The reasons turn out to be part server migration, part lurking mis-configuration. The two together made for two extremely boring hours of debugging. The migration part meant a reboot of the UML host. Yet, how the mis-configuration never blew up in almost a year of uptime, I’m not sure. But it all allowed me an op to update some server software at the same time, eliminating a potential DoS hole in my Apache-Tomcat connector.
Now, I’m enjoying Blade: Trinity. Yes, actually enjoying it. The movie as a whole is not as good as the first, but better than the second. Jessica Biel with a ultraviolet arc laser and compound bow is smokin’ hot. “Van Wilder” as Hannibal King is a nice touch, funny as hell. Oh, the vampire flame-outs are much better in this one. And I still have a thing for Parker Posey, though her hair choices in this film really didn’t do anything for me.
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