New washing machine

Today we finally changed our old washing machine. It wasn’t completely broken though. The problem was that it didn’t want to get water by itself and someone had to pure water into it every time it wanted it. No fun. On some rare ocassions it would also spoil the clothes by putting some rusty color on them.

The problems are minor and could have been fixed, but we decided to get a new one anyway. A tour around the city suggested that washing machines are all in 200+ CYP range. They would get bigger and smarter with the price. But we wanted something small and simple. When we almost lost all hopes, we found what we were looking for. Galatariotis shop offered us Indesit W162 for 160 CYP with delivery, installation and two years guarantee.

It is the second time Galatariotis comes with the best offer (the first one was the fridge couple of years ago). I guess we are going straight to that shop next time we’ll need an electrical appliance.

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

New York Public Library has published a Digital Library – a collection of almost 300,000 images. Images are conveniently organized into collections, which are both browsable and searchable. As an example of stuff that you can find there, check this collection of Soviet posters from years 1918-1922.

Found via this post.

Climbing up the Google ranking table

Hitting first pageI’ve accidentally noticed today that I have climbed up yet another step in Google’s page ranking table. Searching just for “leonid” brings up the link to this blog on the first page of results!!! I’ve attached the screenshot for historical reasons too (that is when I’ll be the number one link).

Things like this boost my enthusiasm enormously. Expect even more blogging in the future.

Diamond mine “Mir”

The biggest open mine in the world is located in Russia in the town called Mirniy. It’s somewhere in Siberia if you don’t know. Basically, it is a huge hole in the ground, which is about 600 meters deep and has an opening diameter of 1200 meters. It doesn’t sound as big as it looks on the pictures though. Check the pictures here and here (one, two, three, four, five, six).

There is no way you won’t say “Wow!”.

Motherhood

Motherhood

Today’s submission to ‘Picture of the day’ is a family photosession. Maxim is still my primary subject for photography practicing, but I try not to concentrate on him too much. Also, Olga feels good enough to make a few shots of father and son (me and Maxim). I’ve played with the pictures in Gimp a bit, just to keep up my skills. Nothing fancy though…

Album location: /photos/2005/2005-03-06_POTD