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Simplicity and power of UUID v7
UUIDv7 addresses performance issues associated with earlier UUIDs by embedding a timestamp, ensuring better data sorting in databases. Discover how to use this powerful variation in your auditing and logging tables
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Why I Love Leonard Cohen: Insights and Musical Highlights
Reflecting on my admiration for Leonard Cohen, sparked by a song heard years ago on a flight. This appreciation deepened through Cohen’s profound poetry and storytelling in music, which deserves focused listening.
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Inside the FTX Scandal: Michael Lewis on a Crypto Catastrophe
The book recounts the rise and fall of the FTX crypto exchange, led by Sam Bankman-Fried, resulting in a $8B loss and his 25-year imprisonment. Michael Lewis explores the complexities and naivety of those involved but leaves the true story unclear. The narrative is engaging but feels incomplete due to ongoing developments.
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Office Space (1999)
This 16 year old gem was not an immediate hit when it first came out. Mike Judge (Beavis and Butthead fame) wrote and directed this story about a young mans disillusionment with corporate life. Let us cut to the chase – if you have never worked in an office cube, with all the inter-office politics then this movie will simply fly over your head. Let me save you some…
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Spooks: The Greater Good (2015)
Spooks was a very successful BBC drama series that ran for a number of years and was the jumping off ground for one or two big movie stars – BBC dramas have a good habit of that (see Idris Elba in Luther). Though while the BBC make world beating dramas, they rarely make the leap into the silver screen. In fact, I am struggling to recall they have ever…
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3 Days to Kill (2014)
Kevin Costner, obviously seeing how much of an action star Liam Neeson was turning into in his later years, was wanting some of that action. Having a script from Mr Transporter himself ( Luc Besson ) we have Costner, a older CIA agent who finds himself dying. He decides to reconnect with his ex wife and daughter who are living in Paris. Of course it would pretty damn dull if this was…
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Shakespeare in Love (1998)
I remember the first time I seen this movie. It was the opening weekend in Leicester Square, London and the whole place was decked out in a very Shakespearean theme. We follow Will Shakespeare in Elizabethan London as he attempts to finish his play; Romeo and Ethel – the pirate princess. So already you know this is not a serious retelling of Britain’s most beloved and favorite playwright. It is a…
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Calvary (2014)
I am such a huge fan of Brendan Gleeson and for that reason I keep an eye on his output. A lot of his movies don’t make the mainstream press and this one was no different, hopping in and out of the cinema fairly quickly. Usually the ones that don’t make mass appeal are the one set in Ireland with a very Irish lilt to it. The Guard for example…
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Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
So after 3 nights in Las Vegas what better movie to watch on the flight home than Ocean’s Eleven – the Clooney/Pitt version. I do have the original rat pack version in my library which I will review at some point on this movie-a-day-for-a-year journey. Amusing that the stranger, sitting beside me on flight, she opted for The Hang over, another Vegas set movie. Here we have Clooney and his…
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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
Hard to believe this movie is 21 years old, yet still as funny, sharp and clever as the first day it was viewed. You wouldn’t think this would age terribly well but it is holding up extremely good. Jim Carrey proved his comic genius when he burst onto the screen as Ace Ventura, the Columbo of the pet world. Just as Mike Myers introduced many a catchphrase to the cultural…
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Michael Jackson: One (2013)
Okay, while strictly not a movie, this was a show that was taken in while visiting that oasis in the desert they call Las Vegas. This was my first ever Cirque Du Soleil show and I wasn’t disappointed. I am a Michael Jackson fan and with such an iconic catalog of music, the very least was I going to be entertained. I had no idea what I…
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Plastic (2014)
I will confess that this one was an impulse watch on Netflix. Sometimes the odd gem pops up on Netflix that missed all the usual marketing hype. This isn’t one of them. Here we have a bunch of college students, who are apt at acquiring credit cards through fair means or foul and then spending on them before the card is canceled. Sometimes a good cast can make a bad…
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