As in, “Ugh, there’s a blog?”

I just posted a new application I wrote to the software page. It’s called the Extension Calculator.?There is no reason that anyone would need this program. Usually. I recently had an issue at work where someone was going to extend the edges (by painting in a new background) of some vertical photos so they would fit a 16:9 frame.

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Vertical photo in a 16:9 frame

They wanted to know what dimensions they needed to extend it to. Since each photo was a different size, I wrote a program to calculate what size they should be extended to in order to make them 16:9. So, as you can see, it’s a very niche sort of task, but maybe it’s useful for someone sometime, who knows. Simply drag an image into the well on the left side of the application and it will display what the new dimensions need to be. Enjoy.

This item appeared on the imdb today:

Bollywood Producers Warned Against Button Remake

The Hollywood producers behind The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button are threatening legal action against Bollywood filmmakers over their plans to remake Brad Pitt’s Oscar-winning movie.
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A New Delhi law firm representing Warner Brothers will pursue legal action against any film made ?either in English or Hindi or other language, having a similar script, screenplay or story line or character sketches or interplay of characters or sequence of events? to the original movie, reports Agence France-Presse.

This is pretty unbelievable. Let’s look at what Warner Brothers had to pay to secure the Button franchise. If they paid anything more than $0, they got ripped off, because the short story “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” by F. Scott Fitzgerald was published in 1922 and is, therefore, in the public domain. Yes. Warner Brothers wants to sue some Bollywood company over their use of PUBLIC DOMAIN MATERIAL. Granted, WB used the original short story as a jumping-off point for their own film, but honestly, how can they sue for similar “story-lines” when they don’t own the story-line? This sort of thing makes me furious. While I’m on the subject…there must be broader and more-clearly defined terms of fair-use in this country and congress should be hastening the entry of material into the public domain, not slowing it. If all public knowledge stops (as it does now, with some exceptions) in 1923, innovation is stifled.

Two of the films on my site, Two Brilliant Discoveries and I’m Not Woody, got a nice shout-out from the folks over at myfilm.com. I’m not sure how they found out about me, but thanks, guys. I will definitely be checking out your blog from now on. And so should you, readers.

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Yeah, so there’s a blog. Will I update it? Eh. Maybe. We’ll see.