Thursday, March 07, 2002

New Oscar Category: Best Retard. Sean Penn in I Am Sam Billy Bob in Sling Blade Leonardo DiCaprio in What's Eating Gilbert Grape W. Earl Brown in Something About Mary 3:01:03 PM

I'm so sick of actors, their arse licking, their self aggrandizement.  Last night on Charlie Rose, Jennifer Connely on playing Alicia Nash in "A Beautiful Mind." It was really difficult.  I had to play a 25 year old who was both smart and beautiful. Yeah Jennifer, really difficult.  Emoting while reading someone else's words.  You want something difficult.  Try this - pretend it's September 11th and you're on the 80th floor of the WTC.  The fire is just about to engulf you.  What do you do?  Leap 80 floors to your death or burn to death.  That's difficult.  Memorizing lines is not.  Please remember that for your next interview. 2:50:53 PM

I tried the php accelerator http://www.php-accelerator.co.uk on the next revision of my companies web site: Test (transactions/sec):   ON OFF %faster portal w/ 15 modules 22.88 13.34 58% article with my cache 30.50 21.67 71% article w/o cache 24.25 17.53 72% Smarty 2 released - the PHP compiling template engine. This release is a huge milestone for Smarty. Most notable new things are a plugin architecture, removal of PEAR dependency, and optimizations that drastically improve the performance (see benchmarks) of Smarty in most cases. [PHP Everywhere] 12:47:18 PM

WSJ, Best of the Web: According to some reports, including this one in the New York Daily News, Petty Officer 1st Class Neil Roberts, a Navy SEAL who perished in the attack, "was captured by Al Qaeda forces" after falling from his helicopter "and later executed." Gen. Hagenbeck says the killing was recorded by an unmanned Predator surveillance aircraft. Strangely enough, today's International Herald Tribune does not have an article by anyone from Human Rights Watch demanding that al Qaeda treat captured American men in accord with the Geneva Conventions. 10:55:31 AM