Month: January 2004

2004-01-16

Really heavy day in the office. Few strange things happened. First of all, one of the new HP Proliants that we have was playing magic tricks on the file system. My hair almost went gray. Server was discovering partitions after I was removing them and loosing them after it confirmed a successfull creation. Strangy…


Later another machine started to corrupt the filesystem every 2 hours or so. Roll back to the old hardware fixed the problem, but I’ll have to find a way to use the better box.


All this problems were painting the end of week in dark colors, so I decided to go visit my old friend Slawka. We had a lot of food, vodka, and music played in the kitchen. Live music that is. And there were all instruments except the drum and piano. ;) Very nice.

2004-01-13

First day of work started with a bunch of people literally tearing me apart…and all that while I was catching up on those 10 thousand emails. Very productive day never-the-less.


Trip to Larnaca in the evening to Svetka, since it’s her birthday party. :) Few beers and pizzas… Again, I’ve tried to shoot some pictures, but mostly got nothing. Low light and lots of moving people and one crazy dog don’t help a photonewbie. :) Flash is way too disturbing, so I didn’t use it at all.

Photo session

I couldn’t sleep in the morning for some reason, so I went out for a 4 hour photo session. For those who think that it is my normal behavior, I should mention that it is not. Especially considering the fact that there was a heavy rain, cold wind, thunders and lightnings, etc.


Finally, I’ve got completely wet and cold, but couldn’t make any nice pictures. Actually, I’ve made lots of shots, but only few of them are worth a look. I’ll publish those some day in the Photo section of the site.

Linux gaming


Accidentally, I’ve spent the whole day playing a bunch of Linux games. That is what happens when you just pass by the Happy Penguin web site. Here is the top three games:



  • NetPanzer – multiplayer network tank game. Nice graphics and sounds and live chat. Also there was no difficulty finding the server. I’ve been mostly dead though, but I still enjoyed it very much. There were even some people that Allied with me. :)

  • LiquidWar – a somewhat doom/quake mixture. Some nice graphics, but balance of the game is a bit off and my sound of was lacking behind a second or so for some reason. Still nice. :)

  • Open Mortal – that one should is actually on the first place. :) As you might have already guessed, it is a clone of Mortal Combat – a well known game. But this one is totally rewritten, looks similar, but heros are real fun! :) Evil forces are set to still Saturday from people and are about to leave the humanity with 5 working days and only one holiday for ever! Good forces should prevent them. Real fun. :)

In the evening we went to see “Love Actually“, which was better then we expected. There were some laughs and few nice shots of scenery. Not too bad.