Though I haven’t made any conscious effort, I seem to have watched quite a few Jean Renoir films lately: The Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion), The Rules of the Game (La Règle du Jeu), and this film.

More and more web developers and designers are starting to pay attention to the user experience of their web applications. This is an extremely good thing; webapps have traditionally been about “more is better,” when there are some lessons to be learned from “less is more.”
I think this change in mindset can be traced back [...]

This is the most recent of the late period Kurosawa films I have seen.
It’s somewhat different from his others, in that it’s a collection of shorts instead of a regular feature. To my knowledge, the only other Kurosawa films like this are Rashōmon (羅生門) and Ikiru (生きる), though those tell the same story from different [...]

I installed KDE 3.4.0 on my Debian boxes today. There are some minor issues (as is expected with a point-zero release), but I’m very pleased overall.
Here are some of the interesting nooks and crannies I’ve found.

The DVD format is (mostly) a superset of the existing VCD and SVCD standards. This allows us convert VCD and SVCD to DVD without reencoding the video.