Month: October 2005

Daily del.icio.us bookmarks

I have slightly changed the appearence of the links in daily del.icio.us dumps. Now the links themselves should be more obvious. Tags are not as visible as they used to be, but they are still here and you can find them if you want to.

These were shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user tvset on 2005-10-06.

It looks like a newspaper!

I’ve been getting some positive feedback about the new look of the site. It seems that most people like it. There is one who doesn’t though – my wife Olga. Here’s how she expressed it:

Olga: I don’t like the new look.
Me: Why?
Olga: I don’t know.
Me: But if you think about it, maybe there is something you can put your finger on.
Olga: Well, it looks like … like … like … LIKE A NEWSPAPER!
Me: Hm…
Olga: Yes, exactly. It looks like a newspaper. Before it used to look like a magazine.

After a short discussion, we realized that she meant that there weren’t enough colors on the site. It looked black and white to her. Interesting.

Oh, and while I am listening to all opinions, I am not going to change anything just yet. I myself like the new look a lot and that’s the most important thing of all, isn’t it?

I promised you movies – I give you movies.

I know that this doens’t go very well with my recent connectivty degradation, but I though I would post this anyway, as I promised it for a while now.

I have setup added a special album called ‘Movies‘ to the gallery. It has the same organization like my photo albums, but instead of photographs it has a number of moving pictures. These are mostly unedited and “unbeautified” pieces that were shot on different occasions. These clips mostly hold value to Olga and me and to Maxim when he will grow up. Some of this clips are rather heavy traffic-wise, so you might think twice before watching them.

Also, please don’t ask me how you can see them on Windows or Mac – I have no idea. They all play just fine on Linux. If it helps, most of them were encoding with ffmpeg. Google will help you if you have a problem.

I have uploaded all the clips that I had minus some really really bad ones – content-wise or technical-wise. I will also be posting new clips if I will have any.

I would like to thank Vladimir Ivaschenko for it was his two cameras that shot most if not all of this material. Let the internet save our memories now.

More gadgets for the kitchen

Olga and I were planning to get few more gadgets for our kitchen for some time now. We need the functionality, but we are a bit tight on space. Today we decided that we won’t find a solution unless we would actually be having a problem. So went out and bought ourselves a blender (27 CYP) and toaster (12 CYP). Blender is needed for Maxim’s food cooking. And toaster is just an old dream of both of us.

So far we haven’t yet unpacked the new items, but we already have two or three solutions on how to rearrange the kitchen order. I guess we will work something out now.

Renewed car insurance

This post is just for historical reasons, so you might want to skip.

I have renewed my car insurance today and paid 133 CYP. That’s 23 CYP more than I paid the last year, although the car and drivers are still the same, and there were no accidents for my insurance company to pay up. The reason for the increase I was told is country-wide and has something to do with matching insurance prices with the rest of Europe. I’ve heard this from other people before, so it might be true. Although I think that it has more to do with the continues grows of traffic accidents per person in this country. Insurance companies have to get money from somewhere to pay constantly.