Month: May 2005

The keyboard for the perfect world

As many of your know, I am an advocate and promoter of touchtyping. In my perfect world everyone would type with their 10 fingers. (And, yes, everyone would have 10 fingers in my perfect world). In the perfect world there’s no need for labels on keyboard keys. And, it turns out, that there is just the keyboard for this world of mine – Das Keyboard. It’s perfect! It has no labels, it has all the buttons, and it is styled in black. Is there anything else I could wish for?

The perfect keyboard was found via this article.

Street photography

Street photography is one of my favourite websites on the subject. It features a great deal of images both in color and in black and white. There are pictures from all around the world.

Kinsey

Kinsey (2004) I wanted to see “Kinsey” for some time now. I heard that it was a movie about a scientist who did the biggest study of human sexuality back in the middle of the last century. The study was so huge and complete that it is often found in the use even these days.

Directed by: Bill Condon
Genres: Drama
Cast: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O’Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow, Tim Curry, Oliver Platt, Dylan Baker, Julianne Nicholson, William Sadler, John McMartin, Veronica Cartwright, Kathleen Chalfant, Heather Goldenhersh
IMDB raintg: 7.6
My rating: 6.5 [rate 6.5]

Continue reading Kinsey

Upgraded to WordPress 1.5.1.1

I’ve upgraded the WordPress installation to version 1.5.1.1. This is a minor upgrade and was done to fix a just a couple of bugs. I had it partially applied previously, but decided to finish it to have things nice and clean. You can look at Change Log if you are interested in what exactly was fixed.

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory

I’ve been playing Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory for the last few days. It was originally designed to be an expansion pack for Wolfenstein, but than the plans were cancelled and the game was released to the world for free (as in beer). The best of part of it is that the software is multiplatform.

It is possible to download the installer from a number of places (here for example). Game manual is also something that you’d like to scroll through before playing the game.

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is somewhat different from all the multiplayer games that I used to play before. Mobile objectives and rewards I haven’t seen before anywhere. Rewards add to the functionalities or abilties of the soldier (more ammo, more equipment, faster reloads, faster running, etc). Medals and ranks come as a visualisation of skills so to speak.

I’ve been having lots of fun on some European servers with as much as 30 people plaing the game (15 on each team). My favourite soldier class so far is Covert Ops, although I must admit I didn’t use the full functionality of it yet. Sniping is my favourite activity, although it’s not that easy to do with a 100+ ms ping.