Blog of Leonid Mamchenkov

Reading Linus Torvalds’ blog I came across this paragraph:

Not that I actually ever really minded wearing glasses, but I could not recognize my own kids when in a swimming pool and they were more than six feet away. And let’s face it. swimming after other peoples kids and tickling them is not socially acceptable. At least in the US.

Laughing…

I don’t know if this was posted by someone else somewhere else before (probably it was), but that’s what I came up with yesterday, while explaining our password policy to one of the (male) colleagues.

Passwords are like women:

• you should have as many of them as you can
• you should change them as often as you can
• you should never share them with another man

Judging by reaction, I got the point across.

It’s been a slow news day, so here is something to make you smile on this Sunday afternoon - martial arts video clips from one Indian movie - Hebetudinous:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snJYagxgx5U
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNxBdG4TZT8
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_7208QRX6Q
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-InxPME85eM
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zngt8OdXWSo

Intense, beautifully choreographed, bloody as hell, and, above all, hilarious…

Via exler.

Somebody mentioned to me that I must have a huge face, since it’s not fitting anywhere.  Examples to the argument were the header image of this site and my avatar, which I use on many web sites.  To you, sir, I say - you’re wrong.  The About page of this site features a picture with a full face o’mine.  Thank you for the smile.

I’ve been using Gmail for bookmarking for quite some time now.  It works, but not as good as specialized bookmarking applications, such as del.icio.us .  So, I’m moving many of my bookmarks from Gmail to del.icio.us .  A few minutes later, I see them coming up in my Google Reader subscriptions (I’m subscribed to my own feeds as well for easier searching).  I look through them and think “these are some cool links!  I should add them to my del.icio.us bookmarks.”.  Puzzled…