Am I awake?

Since I am posting so much into this blog and doing it all around the clock, some people started to use my blog to help them determine if I am awake or not (in the sense of accepting phone calls or not). That was a rather logical step and I should have covered it earlier.

The trick is really simple. Nucleus CMS allows me to specify date and time when the article should be published. Sometimes I post articles immideately after writing it. Other times, I push them further into the future. To destinguish one from another, just check the time of posting. If the time of posting displayes nice minutes (00 or 30 sometimes), than most probably the article was written in different time from the one it was posted. Most common “pushed” articles appear at 14:00, 15:30, and 16:00.

On the other hand, if the minutes seem random (like 47 or 09), then the article was probably posted immidiately after it was written. You can use this time to estimate if I am awake or not.

Real life example: I am finishing this article at about 23:15 of September 20th. But it will appear on the web only at 01:00 of September 21st, since 20th is already pretty busy with other post and I need a better destribution of posts over days so that you guys will keep coming back regularly.

Thanks for reading.

P.S.: I have also set the time for the future because I will not wait until the new day will come and will go to sleep. :)

New DVD club about to open

One of the ground floor offices in the building where I live haven’t been rented for years. Recently I have noticed some construction work going in there behind the curtained windows. A couple of days ago it became obvious that someone is moving in – most of the walls are painted in bright green. That’s a good enough sign for me.

Today I caught a couple of guys that were working in there and I asked them what they are opening. They said – “DVD club”. Surprisingly, I started to feel very very glad. I don’t know why that happened. I was never excited about someone’s office opening next door. Plus, I do use services of another DVD club which is 5 minutes drive from my place. Anyway, somehow their answer made me happy. I confirmed with them that they are going to rent DVDs and that blew my roof off.

These guys are virtually on the way between my flat and my car. There is no way I can get home without passing by their shop and getting a couple of films to watch. This is so great that I do have troubles expressing it. I guess that makes me a hardcore movie fan.

The works in the shop look to be coming to an end and some furniture is already in place. I beleive that I have even saw a computer box marked with HP today. That means that they are openning really soon. I cann’t wait.

I also hope that since they are a startup they will be more responsive to customer requests such as a website with online catalog and DVD booking system. That is so easy to implement and it makes life so much simplier that I am shocked to see that not so many shops implemented it.

Why You Should Never Lose Your Digital Media

Slashdot is a running an interesting story about the issue of losing digital media with private files, like photographs, and about someone else using it when found. It links to the blog (with the cool name “I Found Some Of Your Life”) of the guy, who found a CompactFlash (or something similar) with 227 images in the taxi. He started the blog with a daily post of one photograph from that collection and his own comments about it.

As many people, as many opinions they say. Some people are very concerned about privacy. Some are not so. You lose something, you lose something. Of course, it might be really uncomfortable to find your private parts all over the Internet (not the case here), but than try to not to do anything that you might regret afterwards. I think if I found someone else’s media with files, I would try to return it. But I wouldn’t go into great effort to do so. Just some trivia. If that fails, I might as well post all of the content to the web. This way the owner will have a better chance of finding it. :)

Picture of the day

Old singSomehow I failed to get back home from my yesterday’s night shift until today’s evening. Lots of home tasks and general sleepyness tried to stopped me from doing something for the ‘Picture of the day’ project of mine, but I am unstoppable.

Without much strength and will to go outside I decided to find something new in my home. And the first thing that pops up into a spoiled mind like mine is, of course, the bathroom. I have made a number of pictures there, which I think are more than enough to represent today in the POTD project.

Check all the pictures here.

Mozilla Firefox downloads jump through the roof

You have most probably read it already at Slashdot or a number of other places – Mozilla Firefox 1.0 has been downloaded more than 1 million times over a period of just 4 days. The original campaign reserved 10 days for this amount of downloads. With such a hype, can they go over 2 million downloads?

Well, I did my part…. Now, you spread Firefox.