Published on
February 11, 2008 in
Cinema.
Last night, for the first time in a while I got out to the movies. Lady dragged me out to see “Atonement” (UK/France; 2007; director: Joe Wright; cast: Keira Knightly, James McAvoy; based on the novel of the same name by Ian McEwan) — purely English film. So much so as parodied by Eddie Izzard, English comedian.
I can only speak of my particularly personal impressions of the picture, for I am no movie buff, I cannot authoritatively discourse upon the actors’ play, or talk about reminiscences evoked by camera operator’s work. In that regard it’s better to seek out more critical reviews on, say, iMDB, written by seemingly competent authors.
Finally got around to set up the English version of my blog. It shan’t be exact copy of the Russian version, but most of my posts would be republished here. Moreover, I’ll translate notable backdated posts.
In the year since I set up WordPress on my site, some positive development occured both in the core software and plug-ins. Firstly, WP now (comparing versions 2.1 I had then and 2.3.2) properly supports UTF encoding — database directive “SET NAMES” now included in wp-db.php file. Also, in wp-config.php there is now a way to set up encoding and collation for DB. That and the fact that my hoster started to offer 5th version of MySQL made installation a breeze.
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