I’m a horror movies, and books, fan for like forever. I’ve liked them even when I was small kid. I was scared like hell, but I’ve still wanted to watch them as they’ve had this special magnetism. Then I’ve started to read books and of course fell in love with Stephen King’s writing. This guy could write manual to VCR and I would still read that. After some time I’ve become immune to the fear presented in picture or by letters in the book. I’ve still enjoyed them much, but they weren’t able to shock me anymore. Of course there were exceptions, like Philosophy of a Knife. Which is this kind of movie I feel that after watching it something would irreversibly switch in my head. And I don’t want that. But this is rather hardcore example. I can watch Hostel or Saw and eat anything I like.

As much as I accept him as an actor, he’s quite alright in few movies, I simply can’t stand Daniel Craig as a Bond. He’s not acceptable for me from the beginning. He just doesn’t match my expectations as to this character. And now I have one more point to support my reluctance. He looks like SPECTRE assassin from From Russia With Love:) Take a look if you don’t believe me.

I’ve seen several movies recently where makers obviously had no idea how to end them, but The Call is next generation. We have quite nice story. There is emergency line operator played by Halle Berry who once makes mistake during the call and as consequence young girl dies. After such shock she can’t handle calls anymore, so she resolves to teaching. And then one day killer reappears. Of course Halle is again involved and tries to save the girl from the psychopath.

If you’re receiving error 0x8024402c in Windows Update then simply turn off any proxy you have set up in Internet Explorer. On the Internet you’ll find many advices, but it’s as simple as that. Unless you have some other network problems, but you would notice them rather quickly, it’s for sure not working proxy. It really sucks that this browser sets settings for the entire system not only for itself.

Well, according to the commercial above it is. But I tend to disagree. Sure there is a lot of stupid people there. And probably they’re the target of this platform as they’re spending the most of time on it. But common. Some individuals, including myself, are using it to simply stay in touch with friends and distant family, especially if you’re living abroad. And not everybody is addicted. I can live without Facebook for whatever period. But it’s nice source of entertainment and news about people I care about. However such commercials are lowering it to the level of dumb party-goers, hipsters and half-brains who cannot find any other activity for themselves than constantly reading about other peoples’ lives.

I’ve bought Office 365 Small Business Premium license as soon as it was possible, so on March 16th. And I simply love it. Let me just mention that transfer was really smooth. I haven’t done a thing. Then I’ve just bought new license, switched it for my account and cancelled my old plan. So easy. I had to reconfigure nothing. Well, I’ve uninstalled Office 2013 from my computer and installed it from scratch as I was using preview version of Home Suite, so wasn’t sure if transfer would be possible and clean. Anyway, it took just few minutes. Nothing like with older office which needed quite some time for the installation to complete.

My story with Apple started late with first iPhone. I was visiting States for the second time and wasn’t planning to buy this phone. I’ve went to Apple Store to buy one for my colleague who wanted it badly. After I’ve seen it in action I’ve immediately bought one for me. And as there was purchase limit back then I wasn’t able to get one for my pal after all. I’m still feeling a bit sorry about that. Anyway, phone was brilliant and I consider it my best smartphone to date. However it was also last time I’ve bought phone from Apple as I don’t like to overpay and the new ones, especially in Europe, are too pricy. Not that first iPhone was cheap, but it had no real competition. Now when I was looking for new smartphone and saw Samsung Galaxy Note at much lower price than iPhone 4, the decision was simple. Not to mention that in my opinion Note offers more. Still IOS is much better operating system than Android and if somebody doesn’t agree then please borrow an iPhone from somebody for two days and see how it’s managing apps and how it generally feels. If you still think that Android is better then you’re Google Fanboy and I can’t possibly convince you. So if ever Apple would catch up technologically with Android phone makers and would drop prices to more reasonable level, then I’m ditching Android and getting back to IOS. However I would have to be insane to hold my breath to see it coming.

I value Bruce Schneier as security expert. I love his blog. I like that he’s not fast to make opinion and analyzes everything thoroughly. I’ve enjoyed his book Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World. And as he advertised his last book, Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive, a lot, I’ve decided to give it a try. It was easier decision to me as it’s available on Safari Books Online.

I’m using Outlook and Exchange both at work and privately. And I love them. I like how rules are working in Exchange and the way it syncs. I like Outlook vast functionality. Maybe I’m strange, but I don’t really like Gmail’s WebUI, it just isn’t for me. Even though it has advantages, like ability to view images. I can’t imagine me using email through the browser without OWA. I also like Outlook categories more than Gmail’s labels.

I can say to myself, I’ve told you so. I don’t like Craig as a Bond, I simply hate this lady as M, but I’ve still watched new ones as it was good fun. And I like to relax from time to time. Comparing to old ones everything was worse, even girls, but it was watchable. What they’ve done in Skyfall is simply ridiculous.