Month: April 2006

I’ve been promising that if I get Cyprus citizenship, I’ll learn Greek. It’s about time I start acting up on that promise…

I will be participating in the Greek course that our company organized for its employees. Starting next Tuesday, I’ll have one and a half hour lectures twice a week. The teacher, I’ve heard, has good reputation and a lot of experience in teaching Greek to foreigners.

I’ll keep you posted on how this will go. Or you’ll notice yourself – Greek alphabet looks very much like Russian cyrillics. And I am not going to post anything in Russian here. So, if you see something you can’t read – it means the courses is doing very good and I learn Greek faster than I can start a new blog (trust me, I’m fast with starting new blogs).

Any pointers to language learning techniques, Greek language textbooks, and other tips, are, as always, very welcome.

This is a quick one – happy birthday, grandpa! We are coming to see you pretty soon. All three of us. Until then take care. It was nice talking to you on phone today. I should call you more often. But then again, I always say so. Anyway, cheers!

I am moving forward with my Flickr saga. I ran out of bandwidth last month and was thinking that I’ll use the time to edit and minimize some pictures, while I have to wait for more resources.

That didn’t happen. Instead, I realized that the last week of April has already started and I need to urgently upload 2 GBytes of images in order to continue with my migration.

After some careful considerations, I decided to switch the direction. Instead of uploading pictures in chronological order – 2003, 2004, 2005, etc, I’d do them in reverse (2006, 2005, 2004, etc). The thing is that my most recent images has been all edited, cropped, and optimized for the web (or so I like to think). It will be much harder to run out of bandwidth while uploading them. Gradually, I will move down to those pictures which noone cares about no more, and I won’t be in any rush, and hopefully will also have some time to optimize them.

I have already finished uploading pictures from years 2006 and 2005. I still have a few megabytes to fill in for April. I haven’t done much of organization too. Basically, sets are tagged with an automatic keyword which looks like dump123456, where 123456 is the timestamp of the upload initiation. I’ll sort them out, tag, and organize in sets a bit later. For now I just want to have them all up there. And so far I am succeeding…