Mathieu's log

Last week, I watched Inside man, a bank robbery film by Spike Lee. I prefer not to spoil elements of the film so I won’t go into detail but the plot is very original and different from conventional films of the same genre. It is lacking a bit of suspense at some times but is always quite entertaining. The casting was excellent. Especially, I really liked Clive Owen, a rising british actor, who is elegant and gives a dark atmosphere to the film. I had the same impression of him in Sin City. In short, I recommend this film ^^.

Christopher Bodenstein, who said “I’d like to thank you for that wonderful program. I use it nearly daily and it really saves my day”, has kindly contributed back Debian packages for Nihongo Benkyo. He had the great idea to package data for it too. If you’re interested in testing, please join the project’s mailing-list. Christopher would like to know if you encounter problems, or have suggestions of any kind.

Nihongo Benkyo is as far as I know also available as RPM for Mandriva, ebuild for Gentoo and package for Arch Linux. Cool!

In the process of making my daily internet activities (reading emails through IMAP and a webmail, accessing to my bookmarks with del.icio.us…) accessible from any computer connected to internet, I have installed Gregarius, a web-based feed aggregator.

Feeds can be organized by folders, categories and tags. It seems to use a lot of AJAX. What I liked too is that anyone can read feeds (unless you protect your installation with a .htaccess) but only the administrator can mark news items as read. It does not require access to CRON.

Prior to Gregarius, I had tried out Planet Planet which was clearly too limited for my use as there’s no way of classifying feeds.

The result can be found here.