Despite being at work all the time, and being constantly busy, I am still a human. I am social. I have a life, family, and friends. I have thoughts and experiences. Once in a while I share them, and when I do, I do so in this category. If you don’t know me personally, chances are you’ll find posts in this category particularly boring.
Finally, my order arrived from Amazon. My wishlist has been updated accordingly. :) This time I ordered a couple of books by Ansel Adams and few DVDs.
For some reason, customs office repackaged the shipment into a bigger bag and didn’t specified my full address. I had to go to the main post office and after a number of explainations and tricks, get the package there. Surprised? I guess not. :)
Being a lazy bastard and a horrible student such as I am, there is no surprise in that I failed so many courses in the college. I am currently standing at 3 courses left for my Bachelor’s degree. One of these three courses – Artificial Intelligence – seems to be the toughest target due to a number of arguments I had with a teacher. And there is no way there will be any other teacher for this course in the near future, so I have to prepare myself real good. It is about time that I start with my morale. :)
Not to scare myself away, I will start small. I will just put three links in this post to other web resources, that I will visit during my preliminary preparations. Here they come:
That’s it. This post is my greatest advance in studing A.I. during the last two years. :)
I’ve been a real lazy bastard for the last few years. Last time I’ve seen a barber was just before my wedding almost two years ago. Today I decided that it’s getting too heavy and hot wearing all these hair around, so I went to see the guy with scissors.
It feels much better now and I’ve got again something to grow. :) Check out the picture the left for the before/after view.
Just in case you’re wondering, haircutting got a bit more expensive during these two years. It was 16 CYP. Now it’s 20. But when you do it once in few years – who cares, right? :)
I’ve noticed recently an increase in advertizing of Google ads. Lots of sites do have Google ads, so I decided to try it out. As you can see, I’ve added a vertical bar on the right to all blog pages. I’ll see how it will go and if I like it then I’ll add it to other parts of the site. I guess that “Writings” would be the most appropriate place.
There is an article at kuro5hin.net called “Switching from PHP to Zope/Python“. This should provide for an interesting read for all those poor PHP souls.
As for me – I use Perl and I am not planning to change any time soon. There are two major bonuses in Perl for my programming tasks:
Said that, I am familiar with other languages, since it’s not rare at all that I need to patch someone else’s code. PHP being a widely used language for web development comes to my hands pretty often. My Python familiarity is more on the system level and GUI programming.