Month: June 2005

Fonts saga continued

I mentioned recently that I’ve installed a whole lot of fonts on my office workstation. I was never actually concerned about fonts and was very satisfied with the default few that I had on box. But I surprised myself. The view of the world looked so different and it appeared so nice that I decided to do the same procedure at home. I am way too addicted to the good looks of the Internet to view it in Helvetica 24×7.

If you are like I was, never caring about installing fonts, then I suggest you try it. You’ll be amazed as to how different the real thing is.

P.S.: One of the side effects was also my blogging fever. After I installed all these fonts I started to browse the web more, and WordPress’ administration interface looked so good, that I couldn’t stay away.

Firefox bookmarks tip

I found this excellent tip in Ovid’s LiveJournal.

And if you use Firefox, here’s a tip that many don’t seem to know about: keywords.

Let’s say that you’re constantly searching images.google.com. Go there and type a search for “daisies” and bookmark the resulting page. Then, goto “Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks” and select the bookmark you just saved. Ricght-click the bookmark and select “Properties” (or “Edit -> Properties” from the Manage Bookmarks menu). In the resulting dialog box, you can edit “Name”, “Location”, “Keyword” and “Description.” The “Location” will look something like this:

http://images.google.com/images?q=daisies&btnG=Search+Images

In that URL, find the word you searched for (“daisies”, in this case) and replace it with “%s” (without the quotes):

http://images.google.com/images?q=%s&&btnG=Search+Images

Then, type “images” (without the quotes) in the keyword field. Click “OK”.

When you’re back at the browser, you can now just type “images” followed by what you want to search for and you’ll go straight to the google images page for that. Try it with “images puppies”, for example. This technique will work for just about any site where you can search.

Relatives reloaded

Olga’s cousin – Tatiana Babenko – came to Cyprus again. Last time she was here with her sister Natalia in September 2004. It’s amazing how relative the time is. One one hand, it seems like only yesterday we had all this trips to beaches around the island. On the other hand, Olga was pregnant but her belly wasn’t even that obvious in September. And now Maxim is alsmost four month old and we see the world differently…

Anyway, Tatiana’s comeback is a good opportunity to shake our routine life. Especially Olga’s. She spends most of the time taking care and thinking about Maxim. She’s trying to maintain his schedule as close to the constant as possible. Now she’ll have to have some changes – with beaches, walks, etc.

We already visited Chesters for some snacks and drinks today and have a Kurium beach trip scheduled for tomorrow. It will be Maxim’s first beach visit. We wanted to do this for some time now, but were a bit afraid, although our pediatrician says that sea can do some good for the guy. Stay tuned for the report on how it will go and probably some pictures too…