Personal Archives

Despite being at work all the time, and being constantly busy, I am still a human. I am social. I have a life, family, and friends. I have thoughts and experiences. Once in a while I share them, and when I do, I do so in this category. If you don’t know me personally, chances are you’ll find posts in this category particularly boring.

  1. He means …

    By Leonid Mamchenkov

    This is just too good not to share.  But before I do this, consider the disclaimer – it (allegedly) happened at Maxim’s school, he then (allegedly) told the story to my wife, who then told it to me.  So there might be a few inaccuracies.  Anyways …

    It’s Monday.  The kids are back in the classrooms after a sunny weekend.  The teacher is asking them how they’ve spent the weekend, what they have done, and so on.

    Maxim’s friend: I was out with my parents.  There were a lot of hot ladies at the beach…
    Teacher (stunned): What?
    Maxim: Hot ladies.  He means – sexy!
    Teacher: (blink blink … what the … ?)

    Just so there is no confusion, right?

  3. Ah, mornings … If I ever kill anyone, they won’t need to work hard to establish the time of death …

  4. The sun is rising.  Must be the time to go to bed …

  5. During vacations I tend to naturally shift to my own sleeping cycles … Going to bed at sunrise (around 5:30am) and waking up around 2-3 o’clock in the afternoon.

  7. I just patched up my first Ruby application (Redmine).  Made it do what I wanted, but didn’t enjoy any of it.

  8. RSS + IFTTT + Evernote = Backup

    By Leonid Mamchenkov

    This post is just a test.   I’ve created a new personal recipe using IFTTT service, which will pull the RSS feed of this blog, and create a new note in a specific notebook of my Evernote account.  This is not recommended as a backup solution of course (you should do a proper filesystem and database backups), but if it works as good as I imagine, then I can use it for part of my RSS aggregation.  For example, I follow some blogs that I’d like to save most of the posts, but not all, and then search through those.  With a similar recipe, RSS feeds can be pushed into my Evernote account, and I can then just delete those notes that I don’t need.

    Anyways, if you haven’t tried out IFTTT or Evernote, I strongly recommend both.  Those services are magical.

  9. 35 and counting

    By Leonid Mamchenkov

    I’m 35 today.  Just a year older.  Everything else seems to be the same.  I am still surrounded by awesome people (thank you all for the calls and messages, and for all the kind words and good wishes).  I am still doing a billion things at a time, without actually finishing any of them.  I am still fooling around too much.  Maybe I’ll grow up this year, who knows.

    beer

     

    Cheers!

  10. One million views

    By Leonid Mamchenkov

    It’s been a while since I posted any milestones for this blog, so here you go.

    1 million views

     

    Yup, according to WordPress stats, my blog pages have been viewed a 1,000,000 times.  Now, they were probably viewed way more than that in the full version of the history, but the plugin that counts them was only installed in 2007, if I remember correctly.  Also, there used to be a period of time when this blog was served via an external cache, so only a few of the visitors triggered a real page request.

    Still, it’s nice to see the number build up.

    According the graph above, I’m getting significantly fewer visitors in the last year or so.  That’s because I’ve been running between several jobs and side projects, and at some point nearly stopped blogging completely.  But I am back now, so that should go up as well.