I’ve recently been wor­king on chur­ning out some dyna­mi­cally gene­ra­ted PHP ima­ges using my per­so­nal movies data­base. This of course has been com­ple­ted in-between watching Zach John­son win the Mas­ters (I had my fin­gers cros­sed for Jus­tin Rose right up until hole 17) and Manches­ter Uni­ted losing to Ports­mouth on Satur­day. In fact, the majo­rity of time over this Eas­ter period has been spent watching sports — cric­ket world cup, golf and foot­ball — still more to come with Cham­pions Lea­gue matches tomo­rrow — what fun! My work can once again be fue­lled by cho­co­late as I have cere­mo­niously ended lent after having suc­cess­fully given up cho­co­late, crois­sants, pas­ties, crisps and those tasty iced buns.

Any­way — back to the case in point; the gene­ra­ted ima­ges have three modes: a) Show the details for a given IMDB num­ber b) Show details for the top item in a key­word search c) Show my most recently rated film. Upon gene­ra­tion these files get cached, the cache upda­tes once a week for film details and one a day for the rated film. So, here are some fun fun dyna­mic images:

http://​movies​.tri​vial​being​.org/​m​y​/​r​a​t​e​d​/​r​a​t​e​d​.​png

http://​movies​.tri​vial​being​.org/​p​i​c​/​l​ost in translation.png

300. No more, no less. Nothing more, nothing less. It’s a fea­ture length trai­ler of epic pro­por­tions by a direc­tor “with a machine gun for a dick”.

Saw this a cou­ple of nights ago. Pretty hard to watch if you are a guy. I’ve heard peo­ple state that this sti­mu­la­tes all sorts of deba­tes about pae­dophi­lia and vigi­lan­tism; per­so­nally it seems like this extreme set­ting is merely jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for a graphic tor­ture film (so is the Lion’s gate way) invol­ving some crazy bitch attac­king some pro­po­sed kiddie-lover. The true menace to society would be illus­tra­ted in a sic­ke­ning role rever­sal, honestly I believe this film achie­ves little more than some light (albeit gritty) enter­tain­ment. Plus I pre­fer soft gums.

I was meant to make this blog post last night but I ended up watching Scrubs ins­tead. Then I couldn’t make it this mor­ning because I had an oh-so fun direc­ted rea­ding dis­ser­ta­tion write-up to con­ti­nue with and a pains­ta­kingly mono­to­nous test pro­ce­dure to carry out on some newly made sam­ple blocks for my pro­ject. Yes­ter­day the results made no sense, today the sen­sor broke half­way through.

Howe­ver, I have writ­ten my 1800 words today and I am ready to take some time off. So, in-between work and more work I squee­zed a little bit of MySQL PHP coding into a new site spe­ci­fi­cally for my movie collec­tions. The site lists my owned movies and my rated movies (grabs my per­so­nal ratings from IMDB — all 400 of them), using the IMDB cata­lo­gue num­ber it fetches data such as title, year, direc­tor, run­time, rating, plot and pos­ter image auto­ma­ti­cally. I guess I am brin­ging the site out of beta by inc­lu­ding the link here, check it out:

http://​movies​.tri​vial​being​.org/

Terry Gilliam back on form with a stun­ning per­for­mance by Jode­lle Fer­land. I feel like a per­son of few words today so I shall just say that I really loved this film and then show you some beau­ti­ful pictures: