We’ve got a parcel from France today. I have to say that that was unexpected. In the parcel there was a toy and some clothes for Maxim. Yes, I am sure it was for Maxim since Olga’s and my name were written on the envelope. I don’t personally know anyone who lives in France though. After some thinking I realized that the parcel was sent by Sylvy – my mother’s friend. She wanted Maxim to have something French and insisted on some presents. We gladly accepted, although I must say I feel a bit strange getting presents from someone I never met or talked to.
Year: 2005
Turetskii gambit
Watched “Turetskii gambit” on DVD.
Directed by: Dzhanik Faiziyev
Genres: War, Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Cast: Yegor Beroyev, Olga Krasko, Marat Basharov, Vladimir Ilyin, Dmitri Pevtsov, Viktor Verzhbitsky, Aleksandr Baluyev, Aleksei Guskov, Yuri Kutsenko, Andrei Krasko, Leonid Kuravlyov, Yevgeni Lazarev, Didier Bienaim, Viktor Bychkov, Sergei Gazarov, Anatoli Kuznetsov, Aleksandr Lykov, Daniel Olbrychski
IMDB raintg: 7.2
My rating: 6.0 [rate 6.0]
Downtime
The site was down for a few hours today. This was caused by weather conditions which brought my Internet connection down. And, of course, I was deep sleeing after my night shift in the NOC to notice the absense of The Web. Sorry.
KDE pager progress
KDE pager is one of the biggest annoyances for people coming to KDE from AfterStep world. But the good news are here:
the pager has gained drag and drop, so you can move windows between desktops using it. in fact, you can drag from the taskbar to the pager as well. crazy cool. next will be to (optionally) show the desktop backgrounds.
The quote is from this post in the blog of Aaron J. Seigo, KDE developer.
The Art of Photography
Here is a complete guide to photography from Canon – The Art of Photography. It covers a whole bunch of topics from the usual composition, equipment and lighting to rarely mentioned ones like light metering, choice of lenses, and simplification of images. Lots and lots of pictures help to illustrate the points. The book is based on Canon equipment, but most of it can be easily applied to other brands.