December 2010
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The A2Z of Movies: A for "American Beauty"
I cannot really remember whether _American Beauty_ was critically acclaimed when it came out, but could not care less. It looks like an exercise in art, an intimate movie, a “life” movie, although I do not like this expression. I personally think that this is a true masterpiece… Second vision is as good as the first one, and more, better things come to mind. See, I’m now 40...
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Lyon's festival of lights
Like every year, we’re having the festival of lights in Lyon. Thanks to @gruber and @danbenjamin in yesterday’s [“The Talk Show”](http://5by5.tv), I’ve learnt that this is also a Jewish holiday, which I ignored up to now, being from Lyon.
Thing is, in Lyon, we’re been having this party for a long time, since 1643, when it was called the...
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NSRegularExpression & Brackets
I’ve been looking recently at a decent and elegant way to replace portions of a string of characters. While searching and replacing parts of regular strings, for example “foo” by “bar” is a built-in functions of iOs since the beginning, doing the same for “[^whateverfoobar]” in a sentence is clearly a pain, as one’s got to find the first two...
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iPhone facts and figures
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Just to remind myself I found this one pretty cool…
