Memories
Well, I'd just assorted my old music when I found this. So, it makes me fill how much time passed since I've first listened that version... It was Mission Quest 2001 I guess... wow, I'm so old :)))
About yesterday's Gmail crash
Copy-paste from Google's blog:
Update (3:49 pm): Lots of folks are asking what happened, so we thought you'd like an explanation. This morning, there was a routine maintenance event in one of our European data centers. This typically causes no disruption because accounts are simply served out of another data center.
Unexpected side effects of some new code that tries to keep data geographically close to its owner caused another data center in Europe to become overloaded, and that caused cascading problems from one data center to another. It took us about an hour to get it all back under control.
The bugs have been found and fixed, and we're in the process of pushing out changes. We know how painful an outage like this is — we run Google on Gmail, so outages like this affect us the same way they affect you. We always investigate the root causes of rare outages like this one, so we can prevent similar problems in the future.
Russian media, "Om Gud vill", "A Vow to Cherish" and relations...
Last weekend I had a chance to watch a Swedish movie "Om Gud vil" that was kindly given by Marisha. So, imdb.com describes it for us as:
It's the summer of 1975 and Stockholm is in the grip of a record heat wave. During daytime Juan packs fruit in the market place halls, as does his brother who he also lives with. In the evening he starts his second job as a cleaner in a fast food restaurant. His wife is coming to Stockholm in seven days time and then everything must be perfect. The lack of sleep and the oppressive heat make his loneliness more apparent. Early one morning his spot at the bus stop is occupied by a beautiful woman, Juli. After a couple of chance encounters the nightly meetings with Juli become the most important thing in Juan's life. God willing, fantasy can become reality.
Well, the first adjective which was on the tip of my tongue after watching this film is unusual. It's definitely unusual one, especially if we compare it with all that bullshit on Russian TV... It's quite trendy now in Russia to accuse Hollywood of promoting all possible and impossible sins and vices. Of course that idea closely related to general anti-american/anti-western hysteria in our society, but absolutely not related to reality and common sense. After producing such "masterpieces" as "Бригада", "Дом-2", еtс. it's a good idea for russian Hollywood-critics to shut up! Obviously American movies are not catechism of morality, not at all, but at least there are the concept of Good and concept of Evil and The Good constantly defeat The Evil. Saying that more simple I prefer to watch Chuck Norris killing bad guys than to feel sympathy for russian mafia baron Саша Белый. So the only thing I don't like in Hollywood movies is lack of profound ideas... not all movies again... better to say: "You need a profound idea? - Call Tom Hanks!"
So, last weekend after watching "Om Gud vill" I was nicely surprised - low-budget film, without Tom Hanks :) but very nice.
First of all I like immigrant's living as a background. As a feature immigrant (I hope) I feel Juan's enthusiasm and diligence very inspiriting...
The main idea of that movie as I understand it is Juan's loyalty, faithfulness to his wife, his principles... And here I can see a close analogy between "Om Gud vil" and rather old american "A Vow to Cherish", the same concept of conjugal loyalty takes place, however if in "A Vow to Cherish" an intrigue was lost in the middle of action (may be with the advent of Billy Graham, who with all my big respect, but plays a role of "Chuck Norris" here:) ... I mean - Hey! The good guy is here! The good will definitely win! :) ...heh, I like Billy and Chuck too)
Anyway, in "Om Gud vill" they could save the plot till the end: "How would Juan handle his relationship with Julia and his wife?"
And he did it brilliantly! He not only demonstrated true allegiance to his wife, his marriage, but he also could save that kind of romantic friendship with Julia, not offended her in any way. And it's really neat!
So the film makes me respect that sort of pure, hard-working and integral guys even more.
