Harsh J

I don’t remember reading any news about the restart of GMail’s storage counter post April 1st when it stopped counting anymore. But now, surprisingly (Logging out from my account for the first time was the surprising part, to myself) I noticed that its yet counting! Or maybe that’s just my -Never-Sign-Out- ignorance that made me notice it now ..

Anyway, head to GMail’s site to learn counting with Google.

Am no huge fan of TMNT nor a geek about it, but I like the turtles a lot. I remember watching those TV series and a movie with Shredder in it. The TV series was really good. Anyway, this post is about the recent movie, which was full CGI.

TMNT Movie Poster:

This new movie is pretty much the same legendary resurrection blah blah, nothing in it. What is good in it is its character detail of each of the four turtle brothers (Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael).

And as you’d expect by the movie’s obvious title ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’, there are a lot of cool stunts and fights. Enough to set your eyes bouncing from one edge of the screen to another without caring anything about the plot. Overall, the best fight is between the brothers themselves. Raphael’s been ignoring Leonardo’s orders after the latter’s return from training and he challenges Leo for a fight. The rain and the stunts in that sequence was simply cool. The rest about stopping the 3000-year old legend and other monsters etc wasn’t really good.

I’d give this movie a 7.5/10 for its effects and a laugh here and there. And yes, the DVD’s out, go get it! (And did I mention that the music was good in the movie? Am getting myself its OST, for a while.)

Adding to this excellent piece of Bash entry, here’s mine:

… said Hermione, looking skeptical. “You know, the only true thing he said to us was that there have been stories about extra-powerful wangs for hundreds of years.”

“There have?” asked Harry.

Hermione looked exasperated: The expression was so endearingly familiar that Harry and Ron grinned at each other.

“The Deathstick, the Wang of Destiny, they crop up under different names through the centuries, usually in the possession of some Dark wizard who’s
boasting about them. Professor Binns mentioned some of them, but—oh, it’s
all nonsense. Wangs are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some
wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people’s.” …

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows

Just before a few hours days to the release of the overhyped ‘greatest’ book in history of jupiter earth.

Yeah right, even my blog needed a Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows spoiler news post.

Well, if you are up to date on the leak, here’s a bit of what am talking about:

The bloke who snapped off a few pictures of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and showed it off on the internet is likely to be identified because investigators can make his pictures talk.

This week the anonymous bloke or blokette took pictures of the book and posted them on the world wide wibble including the last chapter.

According to the Times, investigators have scryed into the pictures and are fairly certain they can nab the bloke wot did it. The method did not involve the sacrifice of any goats or chickens either.

Each of the photographs has metadata built into each photo. Canon says that the pics were snapped with one of its cameras. In fact it says it was a Canon Rebel 350D and the model is three years old.

This means that if the owner had the camera serviced at least once then they will have his or her name and address.

However, if the pirate didn’t have it serviced, Canon’s UK head office said it was possible to find out which country the camera was sold in and in turn the warranty.

The owner is probably from the US or Canadian because the camera was not sold anywhere else. Publisher Bloomsbury has promised to send every legal demon it knows at the offender.

Inq via Giz

Now why do I get a bad feeling that people who think they made a damn good gadget purchase 3 years ago will regret their decision?

Here’s what they’d probably get soon:
Attn: U r a prim suspct in takin pix of HP:TDH, plz srrndr fer interrgtn. kthxbai.
Damn lolcat, doesn’t leave my mind.

This Mark Wahlberg starrer is simply excellent. Its about an abandoned top-class sniper working for the US Army being re-recruited into some ‘top secret mission’ which aims to *attempt to kill the US President* and not exactly kill him, for political purposes, of course.

The plot’s like they re-hire our hero, and he does his homework on finding a good shot to snipe the President. And when the real sniper fires, they try blaming our hero for the deed. Cause there’s more they can do when the security realizes that the threat is dead. About how he escapes from the cops and FBI and all and gets back at those who recruited him, forms the story. And mind you, he is deadly accurate. Mark Wahlberg’s acting is really good in the movie, just as good as he was in The Departed.

The ending of the movie was sort of faster than it should’ve been, which is probably the only few negative points of the movie. I’d give it an 8.5/10. DVD’s out as well, go get it. Action lovers will like it quite a lot.