Olga’s mother came to Cyprus today. She will be staying with us for the next month, helping with the baby. I’m glad she finally came, because Olga was missing her a lot. It’s been about three years since they saw each other last time. Kudos to all who helped with the paperwork logistics.
Year: 2005
3 1/2 hour downtime
My appologies to anyone who tried to reach this site between 12:00 and 15:30 Cyprus time today. There was a power cut in the area, which resulted in both the server and Internet connection to be cut off. The power cut was, of course, shorter than three and a half hours, but I was out of town to notice the disruption.
One day I will get the UPS…
Wonders of the Web – Blogging
Ken Leebow of the Blogging about Incredible Blogs fame has posted notes for his upcoming speech about, uh…well, blogging. These are in a form of nested bulletted lists with lots of links to other resources. Many aspects of blogging are covered, even those that aren’t that obvious. This is an excellent summary for those who wish to fill in the gaps in the understanding of the subject.
Bloglines went down
Bloglines went down. They had some problems with the database at first. They said that no data was lost, but some people just couldn’t login (like yours truly). They than returned back online. After a few hours they posted another notice saying that they need to replace some hardware which will cause another downtime. It looks like that “another downtime” had started a few minutes ago.
The good news are that Bloglines provides the way of exporting subscriptions into OPML files. The bad thing is that I remembered to do so when they went down. Thus, as you can see, my blogroll is not functional currently.
Prepare yourself for Kakomalis 2005
There are many names for the same event – Kakomalis 2005, KSP, Amateur Song Festival. Call it whatever name you want, but it still means the same thing. I am talking about a song festival which happens twice a year in Kakomalis, Cyprus. Roughly a 24-hour non-stop music show where everyone and anyone can participate.
The next festival will happen at the same place (map here) on the 1st of May 2005. Most of the information about it is in Russian, so you’ll have to ask for other languages separately. If you read Russian, than check the official website of the event, as well as this discussion at RussianCyprus Forum.
There’ll be all the usual stuff with lots and lots of music, food, games, and sporting activites. New addition this year is the photo exhibition. Once again – anyone can participate.