Year: 2006

I believe I have figured it out completely now. Every problem in the Universe has a solution. And not only that, but you can find the solution yourself. If you searched enough, but never figured it out, then here is a little tip for you.

Get youself an IRC client. Start the program and go the settings, where you can specify servers and channels to connect to. In the servers list you should have irc.freenode.net. This is the one where all the smart people hang out (those who hang out on IRC at all). Got it? Good.

Now you need to /join two channels – #perl and #math. That’s it. Seriously.

Don’t believe me? Try it out. These people are both willing and smart enough to help you with any problem of yours – technical or not. And every problem out there can be figured with enough math knowledge and processing power. #math people have the knowledge. #perl people will help you gain the processing power. And the ultimate thing is that while they speak two different languages, they can switch to a dialect that is understood in both of these groups.

Let the problem solving begin.

P.S.: Until today I thought that #perl only is enough on it own. I was wrong and I do appologise for any misleadings.

Daylight saving time (DST) often catches me by surprise.  Today it happenned again.

And not only I was completely unaware of the time change, but I was also refusing to accept the fact of the new time.  I looked at Olga’s desktop and saw the time being one hour ahead of what I cosidered correct.  This happens somtimes, because Maxim likes to play with the mouse, clicking and dragging everywhere, causing the change in displayed timezone.  I then checked my watch and the time was correct.  The fact that my watch doesn’t have the ‘automatically adjust to summertime’ functionality didn’t bother me.  I then continued with the check – my mobile.  My mobile has the automagic feature, but I switched it off on purpose.  So the check was useless.

And even when outside and people were telling me to adjust my watch, I was arguing that they should do so themselves, because DST change always happens on Sunday.  Hello?  Anybody home?  Today is Sunday!  I guess I should sleep more often…

It’s been long two years since I’ve started blogging seriously. In March of 2004 I decided that I should write at least one post a day – every day of week, holiday or not. Or at least I should think of (write mentally) at least one blog item a day and then post it whenever I have the time.

For the last two years, there weren’t a day that I don’t have a post for. On the contrary, there are many more days when I thought of multiple posts, than days when I wrote just one time.

My blogging went through a lot of evolution in this last two years. I started with simple posts – just a couple of sentences or a link to some interesting website. There was no theme or direction in most of my early posts. I was just writing about everything and anything.

With time, writing posts became much easier for me. I could go on and on for paragraphs and paragraphs. My blogging interests started to shape.

Looking at my recent posts, I started noticing several major trends in interests. These deserved attention and separation. Thus my blogging network started to expand.

Now I feel comfortable with everything I’ve done. And I think that the time came to make my life a little bit easier. My policy ‘at least one post each day’ needs a change. From now it won’t be limited by this blog alone. I will still be writing at least one post a day, but this post might be for any one of my blogs – here, my parenting blog, Cyprus Scout, Filmocular, My Pod Voice, my LiveJournal blog, XA-XA-XA, or any other blog that I might start/join in the future. I will try to keep them all equally updated, but as you can understand – that’s quite a job. So, if you’d notice that this or that blog lags behind, don’t get too grampy – I am trying my best.

Now… this takes care of today…