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Happy Holidays!!! Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho!

It's hard to describe Wong Kar-wai's "2046" - it is one of the most complex movies I've ever watched. It's harder still to understand since I haven't watched In the Mood for Love, or any of Wong's movie.

The poignancy of it all

All aspects of the movie, include the musical score, and the shots are made to be poignant. When Bai Ling (played by the gorgeous and surprisingly mature and older looking Zhang Ziyi) and Chow (ladies and ladies, your heart throb Tony Leung) were together, Wong decided that it is best that they occupy the 1/3 of the screen - either on the left, right, or bottom. So I was left quite detached from the characters. But this amplify their intentions, despairs, happiness and sorrows - you can't miss a sudden flicker in their eyes, or the sudden change of expression on their faces. The most recurring scene is the one where the main characters are seen standing on top of the hotel floor, with the big neon 'H' on the foreground, and the characters left as insignificant backdrop.

All of the women in Chow's life has a strong hint of class, individuality and independence in them - Lu Lu (Carina Lau), Bai Ling (Zhang Ziyi), and Su Li Zhen (Gong Li). Bai Ling is the most prominet character - she appears in different points of Chou's life with different attitudes - from the slutty mistress to the happy and fun lover, and finally broken hearted. Faye Wong's character, while not that strong, was the opposite of the the rest. I can't quite figure out why she was featured, but her inclusion made the movie more complex.

2046 reaffirms what all of us wants - to go back to the past and correct our mistakes. It is a movie that is sometimes dull (probably due to the drab musical score) and sometimes touchy, depending on your point of view, and most of all, your past memories.

Seems like the latest phpBB worm is having its share of damage. But anyways, lets take a look of the search result for "NeverEverNoSanity WebWorm Generation" on Google and MSN Search, which is still in beta. One way or another, Google is going to lose its edge.

I love the smell of flame war in the morning. That, besides the smell of Nescafe, too. And maybe the fresh smell of nasi lemak, if and only if I opted to having the breakfast of champions. So here goes: How Can I Trust Firefox?, from a M$ blogger, ptorr. Dude, clean your own backyard before you point to the shit at other people's toilet.

One of the many criticisms of Internet Explorer is that customers are fooled into downloading spyware or adware on to their computers. This is indeed a legitimate problem, and one of the ways you can reduce the risks of getting unwanted software on your machine is to only accept digitally signed software from vendors that you trust. Every time you download a random piece of software from a random location, you're taking your chances with your PC and all the information stored on it. You wouldn't take candy from strangers, would you?

In order to help protect customers, the default install of Internet Explorer will completely block the installation of ActiveX controls that are not signed, and it will suggest that you do not install any unsigned programs that you might try to download. Of course, just because a piece of software is signed (or you have the MD5 hashes for it) doesn't mean it isn't nasty; it just provides some evidence you can use to make a trust decision about the software (in logical terms, it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for trusting software).

Lacking a PDA or a super all-in-one mobile planner, I've resorted to using Mozilla Sunbird. It is a damn fine product. But something unexpected happened today - after running for an hour or so, Sunbird suddenly hit 99% CPU usage! I can't for the life of me figured out what happened, except to say that it was running fine all day yesterday. Anyways, that's one quirk - the product is still in beta stage anyways.

Binary installation: It won't run after installation. What you need to do is su to root, run sunbird, then exit, then run it again as a normal user. I think its is due to some global chrome setting and other miscellany, I can't be sure. Firefox's binary does not have this oddity, though.