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Fantastic Mr. Fox trailer

Been a bit of while coming, seeing as the film isn’t too far away from being released: Fantastic Mr. Fox trailer.

It’s been made by Wes Anderson who is one of my favourite directors – I love the way his films look, it will be intriguing to see what he can do with animation.

UpdateL They seem a bit nervous about the film at The Guardian

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STS-51-G – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

STS-51-G – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Found out yesterday that the commander of the Space Shuttle flight that was launched the day I was born was named Daniel. Coincidence?

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Moon

Movie Review: Moon.

Looking forward to seeing this, just found out it’s on wider release in the UK now. More to come after I’ve seen it!

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Sysadmins

This is a pretty good summary of what my job is (for those who sleeplessly wonder).

A sysadmin unpacked the server for this website from its box, installed an operating system, patched it for security, made sure the power and air conditioning was working in the server room, monitored it for stability, set up the software, and kept backups in case anything went wrong. All to serve this webpage.
A sysadmin installed the routers, laid the cables, configured the networks, set up the firewalls, and watched and guided the traffic for each hop of the network that runs over copper, fiber optic glass, and even the air itself to bring the Internet to your computer. All to make sure the webpage found its way from the server to your computer.
A sysadmin makes sure your network connection is safe, secure, open, and working. A sysadmin makes sure your computer is working in a healthy way on a healthy network. A sysadmin takes backups to guard against disaster both human and otherwise, holds the gates against security threats and crackers, and keeps the printers going no matter how many copies of the tax code someone from Accounting prints out.
A sysadmin worries about spam, viruses, spyware, but also power outages, fires and floods.
When the email server goes down at 2 AM on a Sunday, your sysadmin is paged, wakes up, and goes to work.
A sysadmin is a professional, who plans, worries, hacks, fixes, pushes, advocates, protects and creates good computer networks, to get you your data, to help you do work — to bring the potential of computing ever closer to reality.
So if you can read this, thank your sysadmin — and know he or she is only one of dozens or possibly hundreds whose work brings you the email from your aunt on the West Coast, the instant message from your son at college, the free phone call from the friend in Australia, and this [blog].

I am part of a large group of teams of sysadmins we have networks, storage, windows, unix, directory services, operations, telecoms and us data centre. So we’re pretty much in the middle of all of them and need to talk to all of them whereas some of the other teams might only speak to a few of them.

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Veronique

(sorry about the post title I can’t get it do a é The proper title is Véronique)
Buxton Opera House.

Times Review

Even more enjoyable was Giles Havergal’s immaculately stylish, witty and touching staging of Messager’s neglected little chef-d’oeuvre, unaccountably not seen in a fully professional UK staging since the first decade of the 20th century. Messager’s score is froth, but del ectably airy froth, full of instantly hummable tunes and catchy ensembles, deftly orchestrated and brilliantly paced. The story is a time-honoured operetta yarn of an aristocrat (Hélène) disguising herself as a shop girl (“Véronique”) to test the love of the man (Florestan) she is destined to marry.

The operetta passes in a flash, thanks to Wyn Davies’s sprightly conducting; Havergal’s lightness of touch looks wonderful in Leslie Travers’s simple but evocative black-and-white sets; and the singing is pretty good, too. Mark Stone as a raffish Florestan, a French forbear of Lehar’s Count Danilo, and Helen Williams as a sparkling Agathe — a happily married lady with an eye for mustachioed men — have the operetta style to a tee. There is excellent work from Yvonne Howard as Hélène’s flirtatious aunt, Andrew Mackenzie-Wicks as a deadpan Inspector Loustot and Donald Maxwell as a bumbling Coquenard, the florist who employs “Véronique”. Only Victoria Joyce’s soubrettish leading lady is a slight disappointment, but she doesn’t spoil an enchanting night in Buxton.

Guardian review

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Moon Trailer HD / Inglourious Basterds

via YouTube – Moon Trailer HD.

I intend to go see this at the Cornerhouse this week.

Also doing the rounds, a new Tarantino movie!

Apple Trailer Page – downloadable HD versions, etc

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