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Another Earth

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Watched Another Earth on CanalSat today with Christina and the kids and we were all amazed by the quality and the beauty of this movie!

It’s about a tragic accident, seeking forgiveness, love and another planet earth.

The script is written by Brit Marling, the main actress, and she also is the producer of the movie. For someone who is only 30, this is an epic achievement as both her writing and acting are wonderful.

I give Another Earth a very deserving 9/10. Watch it with an open mind and I’m sure you’ll love it.

Open source DJing with Mixxx

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On 31 December, my mission was to make people dance from 22:00 to 03:00 in the morning. Fortunately, I could rely on Mixxx, a fantastic and powerful DJing software available for free for all platforms (Linux, Mac OS X and Windows).

Mixxx performed admirably during the five hours.

On Linux, Mixxx supports MP3 out of the box but as I had quite a lot of AAC (i.e. M4A) files, I had to compile it from source. Here are the commands I used on my Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS box:

sudo aptitude install scons qt3-dev-tools libqt4-dev g++ bzr libportmidi-dev libsndfile1-dev libtag1-dev libmad0-dev libid3tag0-dev libmp4v2-dev libfaad-dev portaudio19-dev

scons -j2 faad=1 shoutcast=0 tuned=1

sudo scons prefix=/usr/local install

The first line is to install all the required dependencies, the second is to compile Mixxx with AAC support (faad=1) and specifically for the processor I was using (tuned=1). The third line is to install it in /usr/local

Have fun DJing with Mixxx :-)

Ted

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Just finished watching Ted with Christina and the kids and we all loved it!

It’s a hilarious movie on a 35 years old man, played by a very good Mark Walhberg, having, as best friend, a teddy bear named Ted! As you can easily guess, his girlfriend, played by the gorgeous Mila Kunis, is not at all happy about this bizarre situation.

Mind you, this movie is not really a movie for kids. Ted swears, talks bullshit and even has “sex” during the movie. So be prepared to ask your kids to close their eyes while you mute the sound track from time to time. Nevertheless, some of the scenes like the one with Flash Gordon or the fight scene are fantastic!

I give it a solid 8/10.

Merry Christmas to all of you :-)