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See 45 GOOD movies – The march challenge

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

I was actually planning on making my march something about running in the lovely spring weather. Well, there are stille traces of snow and I injured my knee, so I better come up with something different. Especially now when one third of the month have already passed. So I’m setting a goal that should be easier and entertaining at the same time. So see 45 good movies. Good is a strange term, in this contexts mean that the movie is represented on icheckmovies.com and I haven’t seem them before. A prette lame challenge if you don’t consider that I will receive my PS3 today. Spending time watching movies instead of shooting birds and buildings in GTA4 will be a challenge.

The list completed so far:

  1. 02-03: Moon (2009) by Duncan Jones.
  2. 03-03: Zombieland (2009) by Ruben Fleischer.
  3. 04-03: Apocalypto (2006) by Mel Gibson.
  4. 06-03: Stalker (1979) by Andrei Tarkovsky.
  5. 06-03: Up in the air (2009) by Jason Reitman.
  6. 07-03: The twilight Saga: New moon (2009) by Chris Weitz.
  7. 07-03: The Manchurian Candidate (1962) by John Frankenheimer.
  8. 07-03: Witness for the Prosecution (1957) by Billy Wilder.
  9. 08-03: Roman Holiday (1953) by William Wyler.
  10. 08-03: The hurt locker (2008) by Kathryn Bigelow.
  11. 08-03: La vita è bella (1997) by Roberto Benigni.
  12. 11-03: The visitor (2007) by Thomas McCarthy

I’ll try to update the above list, but it’s not that fun. More or less just copy paste from my public icheckmovies profile.

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Dvorak keyboard layout – the february challenge

Monday, February 1st, 2010

So this is the first of my monthly challenges.

I’m a pretty good typer on a normal QWERTY keyboard (numbers later). Many people are faster and more than those are slower. I don’t really need the ability to type faster, so learning the Dvorak layout and using it comes from a number of other reasons:

  1. I’m spending less and less time on actual geeky stuff. Soon(ish) my Computer Science degree will be earned and I need something that will tell people I’m still a geek at heart. And preferable not my looks :)
  2. I hate the fact that QWERTY has invented to slow people down. Where were the germans when we got rit of the actual type writer arms. They should have been on the front making sure QWERTY died.
  3. I don’t like people using my computer. Hopefully they will select another one at the office.

Number 3 is of cause not an actual problem, but a 2 bullet list is just to short. I’ll try to speed test my Dvorak typing each day in the month and put it into a nice graph. I speed tested my querty speed on speedtest.10-fast-fingers.com, and completed with 332 points, 81 words per minute, 440 chars a minute and 0 errors.

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Personal development a month at a time

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

I saw somebody else doing it, and it seems like a cool idea to try some new things and ideas you wouldn’t normally try. So starting from feb 2010 I’ll change my live somehow that will affect my day-to-day routine. The about 2 people reading this blog is very welcome to pitch ideas.

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