A little milestone has passed that I hadn't noticed at first. The posting counter for this blog, which started in February 2003 at 1, clicked over into the four-digit range a few days ago.

posted: 8:21:34 PM  

Finding myself recently in need of Unicode codes for Anglo-Saxon letters and Japanese transliterations with macrons, the tables at FileFormat.Info have been most helpful.

posted: 8:14:02 PM  

Pedro Almodóvar's latest, La Mala Educación (Bad Education), evokes the most stylish film noir of the 1940s and -50s, with a creepy Double Indemnity-inflected murder and a Vertigo-influenced plot twist. More deeply personal for Almodóvar in its roots, it is paradoxically one of his most emotionally chilly films. The characteristic multiple layers of narrative, in this case a movie-within-a-movie structure, are there to please fans of his style. And Gael García Bernal as the shape-shifting Angel is—what's the word I want?—dreamy.

posted: 7:59:22 PM