Year: 2003

Rough Guide To Cyprus

Saturday again. :) This time we follow the instructions of the newly acquired by Hazard book – The Rough Guide to Cyprus by Marc Dubin at al. So, we go to Akamas all the way behind Polis and very close to Baths of Aphrodite. There’s a little tavern with fish meze on the menu. :) And then the sea – first, it has this magnificant dark cyan coming into dark blue color. Then, the waves. Waves are rather big, but very friendly. It’s like the sea is in the mood for swimmers today. :) Riding the waves is fun for those who don’t care to swim to much. :)

Back to Limassol for everyone to fall asleep suddenly.

Phone Booth

Big day at work – I’ve finally released the new version of Intranet (Webcentral). This time it was completely rewritten in perl (originally in PHP). Lots of bug fixes, new features and design improvements. Nice! :)


Movie in the evening with Olga and Hazard. This time we went to see the “Phone Booth“. Olga and Hazard both didn’t like it much because of the trivial ending. I, on the other hand, enjoyed all the way. The plot was exactly as I expected it to be – no surprise there. But acting was very nice and the shooting of the whole damn thing from the point of view of the single phone booth was rather nice. Anyway, I liked the movie a lot, they didn’t, but I can write about it here and they can not. :)

Sophie’s ice cream afterwards. Then some beer and a discussion about high school times, marasm, Cosmopolitan and Playboy, and some other mostly random staff. :)

2003-09-03

Also, I’ve finally upgraded my home workstation to Red Hat Linux 9. This officially marks the point in history when all my computers at home (4 currently) are running the same version of the same operating system. I think that’s for the first time since the beginning. This event also marks the point in history at which all machines which are primary and vital for my work are running the same version of the same operating system. And that adds the office workstation to the pile. :)

Overall, I am pretty happy with Red Hat Linux 9. And especially with new version of KDE that was shipped with it. Most of the glitches that annoyed me before are fixed, fonts are looking good, integration made a long way and is close to perfect now. Numerous pieces of software for every possible need I had, have, will or might have in the future are all installed here also.

All these altogether masquarades my personal record of staying off the AfterStep for more then a week now. AfterStep is, or should I say was, the absolute champion in my window managers category. It’s light, fast and furious. KDE, on the other hand, is more featured, easier to use, and is actually a desktop manager with a window manager built in. Both are good, and I needed to change something, so I guess that’ll be it. :)

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life


Off to the movies to see “Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life“. It was as good as I expected it to be. Some bits were looking rather stupid and totally unprofessional (like the titles, shark, Pandora Box reflection in Croft’s eyes, etc), but some were rather nice and splendid (falling stones of the island, golden ball with Africa movie in it, etc). Overall it was in the same atmosphere as the first movie. If you like d that, then go see this one too. :)

In the other news: the new project of Hazard and myself about Cyprus has been released to the public today. I’ll let it stay there in test mode for a couple of days and then I’ll publish the URL everywhere I can. So, if you can guess the domain, then you are welcome. Otherwise, you’ll have to wait for the official announcement. :)

Twiki is great! :)