WYSE

At work, I'm learning to support one of our old software products that runs on SuperDOS off of 20 year old WYSE terminals.

Every day is an exercise in modern technology appreciation.

Media Coder

I've been extremely busy lately and haven't posted anything, but I wanted to share my new favorite media-file toy: Media Coder.



It's an any-to-any (within reason) audio/video file transcoder. I love it because it can transcode any video file I throw at it into a Zen-friendly xvid file in a fraction of the time (and with better quality) than it takes the transcoding software that came with my Zen. And of course, if I'm posting it here it's 100% free. Check it out.

http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/

All the Movies I Saw for the First Time in 2007

These are all the movies, new and old, that I saw for the first time during 2007. Reviews are based on 4 stars.

1.Rocky (***1/2)
2.Lucky # Slevin (***)
3.Crank (**1/2)
4.Snakes on a Plane (**1/2)
5.Saw III (**)
6.The Night Listener (**)
7.Millions (***)
8.Unforgiven (****)
9.Hollywoodland (***1/2)
10. Babel (***)
11. Rocky II (***)
12. Stranger Than Fiction (****)
13. Zodiac (****)
14. Marie Antoinette (***1/2)
15. The Last Kiss (***)
16. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (***)
17. Dog Day Afternoon (***)
18. The Good Shepherd (***)
19. Children of Men (****)
20. Blood Diamond (***1/2)
21. Hot Fuzz (***1/2)
22. Deja Vu (***)
23. The Bone Collector (***)
24. The Queen (***1/2)
25. Shaun of the Dead (***1/2)
26. Curse of the Golden Flower (**)
27. Rocky III (***1/2)
28. Charlie's Angels (**1/2)
29. The Fountain (***1/2)
30. North by Northwest (***)
31. Spider-Man 3 (**)
32. 28 Weeks Later (***)
33. Breach (***1/2)
34. 1408 (***1/2)
35. Shattered Glass (****)
36. Black Snake Moan (***1/2)
37. Transformers (***1/2)
38. All the President's Men (***)
39. Say Anything (***)
40. The Number 23 (*)
41. The Simpsons Movie (***1/2)
42. Click (**)
43. Knocked Up (***1/2)
44. The Towering Inferno (**)
45. Disturbia (***1/2)
46. House of Games (***)
47. Akira (***)
48. 300 (***1/2)
49. Fracture (***1/2)
50. Tombstone (***)
51. The Host (***1/2)
52. The Lookout (***1/2)
53. Ghost World (***1/2)
54. Death Proof (****)
55. Next (**)
56. The Good Girl (**)
57. Bee Movie (**)
58. Planet Terror (***)
59. Sicko (****)
60. Talk to Me (****)
61. No Country For Old Men (****)
62. Ratatouilli (****)
63. The Mist (***)
64. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (***)
65. Rescue Dawn (***1/2)
66. Night at the Museum (***)
67. Ocean's 13 (***)
68. Live Free or Die Hard (***)
69. Waitress (****)
70. Superbad (***1/2)
71. Once (***1/2)
72. National Treasure: Book of Secrets (***)
73: The Bourne Ultimatum (****)
74: The Black Pirate (**)
75: Eastern Promises (****)
76: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (***1/2)

2007 Top 5 (Including Only 2007 Movies)


1.No Country for Old Men
2.Zodiac
3.Black Snake Moan
4.The Lookout
5.Death Proof


2007 Top 5 (Including All Movies Seen in 2007)


1.No Country for Old Men
2.Unforgiven
3.Zodiac
4.Children of Men
5.Black Snake Moan

Here's the 2006 List