I’ve started to watch Newsroom after watching this video:

I was amazed. Finally there would be something smart to watch, the series which would be intellectually demanding. Not just another dinner supplement. How horribly wrong I was. First episode was alright, especially because of the above scene. But after that it was worse and worse. It’s simply just another soap opera. They’ve ditched all intellectual stuff, or in the best case made it a background, for love story between Will and MacKenzie. By the way who decided that this actress is suitable for this role? She’s so lame. If it’s not enough of romance for you, then you also have a love story between Jim and Maggie. This time though I’m not so sure who is beauty and who’s beast. Oh and don’t let me forget about Sloan played by Olivia Munn, who was once loved by all geeks. I don’t get it as she looks average at best. And her character is just ridiculous. The girl who’s maintaining business news and is supposed to be the genius, but all you get from her is constantly saying that she has diploma from there and she knows that. There is also one episode where it turns out that she speaks Japanese which supposedly should make her supper smart, but then makes mistake which wouldn’t be made by half-brained reported from community college. I simply don’t know what they’ve wanted to achieve with her. Not to mentioned that she’s mentally unstable, but it’s common for all characters in this series.

Fox started the new year with the new show, The Following. As I enjoy watching thrillers I’ve had to check it out. Especially that a lot of people on the Web recommended it. Yeah, I know, it means nothing. Anyway, I’ve got through first episode and it wasn’t bad. Nothing new, nothing brilliant, but decent. It had this typical for American television patronizing style. Characters are constantly explaining each detail of the story, so even half-brain could catch up. It’s pretty annoying to me, but OK, I can live with that.

After watching 2012 in Gaming on YouTube I’ve wanted to try Deadlight. I usually don’t buy games just like that. I’m first reading some reviews online, then trying to see gameplay on YouTube and if price is right (I’ve never paid “normal” price for the game in my life) I can bought it. This time it was love at the first sight. I’ve just checked the score on GryOnline (Polish games site) and as it was just 5,99€ on Steam, I’ve bought it immediately. Later it was half of it, so damn you Steam, but anyway it was worth the price.

Remember Home Improvement? Quite nice family show with Tim Allen. Nothing special, but I’ve enjoyed watching it. It was funny, sometimes educational. All family members were chosen well, so you’ve felt like it’s real thing.

Now Tim is back with Last Man Standing which is actually the same thing. Few differences, he’s now working in some outdoor store rather than being host of his own TV show, and his children are girls instead of boys (but he still has three kids). Wow, how much have they changed:) Daughters are weaker part of the show as they don’t feel so well adjusted, especially Eve. I simply hate this character, it’s shallow and this actress is plastic even compared to Kristen Stewart. I’m also missing Wilson and his good advices, sure we have Ed who is trying his best, but it’s not the same thing. Definitely the strongest part of the show is oldest daughter, grandson and son-in-law of Mike. Their constant conflicts are quite interesting and showing good spectrum of modern world problems. Yeah, it’s sounds big, but don’t expect much:) In one episode they’ve reminded me why I hate vegetarians:)

When I’ve started reading The Bookstore Strikes Back in the newest Atlantic I was thinking, well this is another nerdy lady who has too much of free time and is trying to make a fuss around her. How wrong I was. Or actually how well Ann Patchett is able to tell this story. As I’m always saying, I would read manual to screw driver with flush on my face if it was written by Stephen King. Some people just have this gift to tell even most boring story as if it was in fact the greatest adventure. And Mrs. Patchett has ability to sell any, even the craziest, idea just by creating interesting story around it. And she sold it to me.

The last few years were really bad for horror movies. There was almost nothing good. As I love the genre I’m always trying to catch every piece of good film I’m able to find. So I’ve watched Sinister recently and must say it was quite alright. I believe my judgement is blurred by lack of any alternative. The latest horror I’ve seen was the one with Mr. Potter and I really want to forget about this waste of time. Oh, and there was also The Cabin in the Woods, but it’s more a comedy/teen movie/soft porn/slasher. And slasher is not a horror for me. I need to be scared, not disgusted.

Microsoft is retiring Messenger which would be replaced by Skype. I have nothing against, one client less to stay in touch with everybody. But I wonder if then Lync would be able to connect with Skype users. Right now Lync has ability to connect with Messenger users which are outside of our organization. Sometimes it doesn’t work as I’ve described here, but in general it’s nice functionality. If Lync would be able to communicate with Skype then I would definitely be happy.

I’m happy user of Windows 8, really. It’s nice OS, definitely worth 30 Euro I’ve paid for it. It has this nice feature that you can put one Windows App (yeah, it must be app of new type) on 1/4 of the screen and second one (any app this time) on the rest. So you can surf the web and chat without switching between windows. Works nice, feels nice, love it. As there is new Skype app and I’m using it a lot I’ve decided to try. And well, Skype for Windows 8 works good, looks great, but has no notifications about incoming messages. Which sucks and makes it pretty useless for me. I’ve wanted to share my grief with the public, what do we have Internet for anyway, so I’ve posted my thoughts on Twitter. And here is the reply from Skype support, it’s automatic and totally unrelated, but made my evening:)

For a long time Matthew McConaughey was for me symbol of wimp, the actor who can play action hero only for women audience, love boy. I’ve thought the same about Ben Affleck and I’ve changed my mind, but it’s subject for another post. Now I’ve changed my mind about Mr. McConaughey. It started with The Lincoln Lawyer which was good movie, but still not it. But after seeing “Killer Joe” I can honestly say that he’s the man.

I was setting up OpenVPN on my VPS today. I was following this tutorial and everything went smoothly until I’ve installed client on my Windows 7 desktop. I got connected, but my Internet traffic wasn’t forwarded through VPN and this was my main goal. So I’ve checked server config and applied few ideas found via Google, no luck. Modified iptables, still no forwarding. Then I’ve checked logs in my client, now I know that I should’ve started there. It turned out that because I was running client in standard user mode it wasn’t able to create proper routes in system as only admin can do it. The solution to this is to either run OpenVPN client as administrator, I don’t like it, or to add routes manually. I’ve chosen second option copying all route related lines from the log and adding them to bat file, then I’ve just run bat as administrator. Works like a charm!