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2004/02/23
 00:33:31
Friday... It's never fun when important people say or do things and schedules get swapped around. Spent most of the day migrating people off a server. Actually went incredibly smooth, I'm sure partially since we picked probably the easiest group to do it to. Ended up staying a bit late, and talked to Joe for a long time. Gave me time to finish up everything though, and what could have turned into a couple checks over the weekend was done before I went to bed. Saturday slept in really late. Then sat and just listened to music for a while. I need to figure out a way to create playlists based on quality though. Even 160kbps encodings can sound quite bad when in a mix of higher quality ones. Took a couple pictures, and played with gimp a bit. For the evening went over to Dave's sister's place, where he was dogsitting, and watched Cinema Paradiso and hung out with friends. Good flick, although the quality was a bit odd at times on the technical side (weird film grain issues). Was very wide awake due to all the sleep, but Sunday morning not sure what happened to that. Kept waking up for like an hour earlier than I needed to, but then could hardly stay awake in church. In the afternoon worked on my photo web application some more. I now have the ability to edit captions and descriptions, as well as rearrange images on the admin area (on my laptop). The public interface also has comments now, and I have a way to sync them with a single command too. It makes it a lot easier when you can design the database around replacing parts separately. Ended up with a bit of a headache, not quite sure why. Sorta like lack of caffeine (yea, I know that's bad), but it's not like I hadn't had any in a long enough time for withdrawal. Decided to pick a relatively short movie though, and watched Behind Enemy Lines. The pounding inside my head quickly gave way to the pounding on my chest by the movie. That movie is very well done technically. The picture was awesome, and the sound even better. I especially liked the way they handled sudden panic type events, mimicing the way the human mind tends to work there, and otherwise with perspective and camera shaking. The soundtrack while sounding a bit odd if you're just looking at it or hearing it, but if you're actually immersed in the story is very well chosen. The plot was relatively decent too, but had the usual failings of an action movie in that regard. :( The movie's definitely meant to involve you by making you feel like you're there with both video and sound, so if you haven't seen it on a good system you may want to watch it again. Anyways, I think it's time for me to try and sleep off the headache, and hope that tomorrow's not a mess as a result of Friday's work...