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Had an film noir evening watching two classics, The Third Man and DOA. (The copyright of DOA has expired and this film can be downloaded from the Internet Archive.).
Also watched The Corporation, good, if a little bit preachy, and Wild at Heart, good but not great.

Watched The Birds. Very good, also interesting to see just how much inspiration later films, especially Night of the Living Dead, have drawn from this classic.

Watched Capricorn One from 1978. Nothing to get excited about really, ok acting, bad script, and it felt quite dated.

Watched Resident Evil. That’s one and an half hour of my life I wont get back, the movie was predictable, boring and not at all in line with the (quite good) video game.
As a side note, I remember one of my friends mis-heard the title of the game and thought it was called “President [...]

Some time ago I made a suggestion to the maintainer of Totem to add a hand cursor when you hover the mouse over DVD menus (to make them easier to find). This was implemented almost immediately, but with one small bug. The hand cursor was never visible when running Totem in fullscreen.
I reported it (wonder [...]

Debian Sarge was finally declared stable and released. I created a simple wallpaper in Inkscape to celebrate this.
Not everyone thinks a military style wallpaper is a good idea, so this is of course highly unofficial.
The wallpaper is also in my small gallery with the SVG file. (Licensed under GNU GPL)

Watched (in no particular order), The Butterfly Effect, The Art of David Lynch, Revenge of the Sith, Voices of a Distant Star, Twelve Monkeys and Bubba Ho-Tep.