Category: Personal

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.

The Secret Project coming through

The Secret Project that I working on is coming along nicely. We had some breakthrough activity today. The biggest task that we had so far seems to have been solved. Data importing will take a couple of days and than on we’ll have only exciting stuff to work at.

The original deadline of first beta release still stands at March 1st, 2006. We might get delayed a few days, but no serious show stoppers can be seen from where we are now.

We will select a few people to for the first beta testing – to get really ugly things out of the way. That should take about a month. And than we’ll unleash it onto all of you who want to test the second beta. That should run for a couple of more month. And than we’ll have the production release. That is if everything will go fine (read: as it goes now).

I can’t wait to tell you more, but that is all I can say now. Maybe even slightly more than I should have said.

Happy birthday, Dad!

For a long time now my father tells everyone that he is old. He accepts no arguments against the statement, even though his own parents tell everyone that they are young. I’m not going to argue. I’m just going to use Internet. Everyone knows that Internet is always right, so here is the official statement from the Internet:

My Dad Is Young!

Now, the tricky part is that once it is out there, it’ll always be out there. There is no way to correct this. And if he will try, that’ll just prove more that he’s still young. Beat that!

Happy birthday, Dad! I wish you all the best, as usual. I also want to wish you have some extra strength as you need it so much right now.

Hope to see you this summer…

Tooth #6

Tooth #6 is a surprise again. We were waiting for the one on the bottom (so that Maxim would have to up and 4 down, as so many other kids). But this kid is special and even his teeth prove so. His upper gum gave birth to another tooth and the score is now:

Upper gum vs. Lower gum – 3:3.

This game is so much fun to watch!

More on Skype

Let me do a little side note, before I start – Mom, you should really read this post! :)

Now, just a couple of days ago I wrote that I decided to try Skype. I downloaded it and installed on my computer. There were few nice things about it that I noticed immediately, but there are so many more that need a second look!

Here we go…

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How far can you throw this?

Maxim has acquired a new skill – throwing. For a long time now he was dropping things, studying the effects of gravity forces. He would pick up something, move it up and release it then, watching how different items fall differently. If an item (like a sock) would get stuck somewhere, Maxim usually picked it up again and dropped it again, just to see the completed path.

These last couple of days he realized that throwing things (in other words, applying force and direction) is much more fun. The concept is new to him and provides for the most entertainment. So far he doesn’t even care where the object will fly and how far. Just the idea of supplying it with a lot of force is fullfilling. After every launch Maxim laughs maniacally and applauds himself.

We have all kinds of things flying all over the place now. Everything you could imagine from toys and books to socks and plates. It feels like being in the cheap war action movie or a family scandal comedy. Really. That much fun.

And then there are more teeth coming…