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2009
1229
2008
Although I knew the history about Claus von Stauffenberg’s attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Valkyrie still managed to make my hands sweat and my heartbeat accelerate. Valkyrie succeeded in making the entire movie suspenseful even if you know how the story is going to end, and that is a huge accomplishment of this film. Thanks to the director Bryan Singer, the film kept the storyline straightforward and without any unnecessary sub-plots. As a result, the film is focused and never lost its pace.
1217
2008
Few days ago, I upgraded Wooden Fish to WordPress 2.7, a release that received quite amount of praises prior to its official release, and also an upgrade that I was excited about. After a smooth upgrade on Wooden Fish (I crossed my fingers during upgrade and it worked!), I continued my work on the upcoming new theme. I want this new blog theme to be 2.7 compatible, especially incorporating the newly introduced feature, threaded comments. To write the new comments.php, I followed this guide on WordPress Codex, also the example comments.php from Otto is extremely helpful. I wanted a customized comment layout, so I used a custom callback function. This part can be confusing, so I recommend this post from Jeremy Clark. You can start out using the example function he provided.
1213
2008
Initially when this film was in theaters, I had no desire to watch it. After watching the trailer, the main subject of this comedy did not appeal to me. Now, after Tina Fey’s skit in SNL as Sarah Palin, and her tremendous success in doing the imitation, I have enough reason to give this film a try, also I had a bit of expectation. Perhaps, such expectation prior to the viewing can be troublesome. Throughout the movie, there were some funny moments, but they caused just giggles, nothing to the effect that make you drop to the floor and rolling, fearing that if you laugh a bit more your belly would explode. I agree with one of the reviews I read, all the funniest moments are already in the trailer. The plot is very predictable, towards the end you are just waiting for things to play out like you imagined. The acting of the two main actresses, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, is just average. Maybe because I have too many images of Tina Fey as Sarah Palin, sometimes I notice gestures of Tina Fey too Sarah Palin like, and that is not a good thing. Anyway, I am just glad I watched it on DVD.
1201
2008
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December 2008 Wallpaper Highlights