Atonement 2007 (R)

Atonement. ***  NFK.  An artsy film.  It was filmed beautifully.  I liked the beginning but when it fast forwarded, I didn’t really get into it that much.  It wasn’t my favorite performance by Keira Knightley.

Open Range 2003 (R)

Open Range. **** This is my second time to watch it.  I loved the performances of Robert Duval, Annette Benning and yes even Kevin Costner.  I know Kevin isn’t  a great actor but he looks good playing the part. I liked the story. It reminded me of one of my favorite westerns El Dorado  ( Rio Bravio).   I little violent with a good ending.

Handy online postage calculator

If you know the weight of your package this online form will tell you the postage needed.

How NOT to handle an HTTP 404 error

 
What a fiasco. This morning I opened my Watchmen Movie Pack that I picked up at Best Buy. Inside was a card with a code and instructions to visit this website which immediately asked me for my credit card number! What? Is this a scam?  It sure looked like it.  There was no reason they needed my credit card number and no indication what this site was.  I was pissed. Why did the packaging at Best Buy not warn me I would need to provide a credit card number?  I was so mad I called the manager at the Best Buy store and I also spoke to XBOX Live support (the movie pack was a cross promotion for XBOX Live).  I actually even filed a complaint with the FTC.  I thought I was doing my part being a good citizen.

As it turned out, I spelled the url wrong ..\watchman instead of ..\watchmen.

The website was directing the request to the unexisting page to their home page.  First, who puts a request for a credit card on their home page with NO explanation?  That’s their first mistake. And obviously, handling an HTTP 404 response by redirecting to a page that asks for a credit card number is their obvious mistake. Surely, I’m not the first person to make this innocent mistake.

Tinyurl

Google docs is great but what is up with the long URL’s? A link to a form I created looks something like this:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=ceeHhmbjk5Qkp1OF9hQ1pCVUlsNmhrYmcee6MA..

(don’t use it, I made it up). Not very user friendly. So I remembered the TinyUrl site and used it to reduce it to something like this (again, don’t use it, I made it up):

http://tinyurl.com/aqkfca

Raylight Mac Training Video

Raylight Mac Training Video

We’ve created our first training video. It describes how to use our Raylight for Mac program which allows you to edit P2 data in Final Cut Pro without having to convert it to quicktime first. As far as training videos go I think it’s pretty snazzy. Check it out here .