The greatest disorder the blogging world is that those who have something interesting to say keep silent and those who don’t – write several posts a day. And I don’t see any way of fixing it.
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.
Purchased a DVD player
I’ve got bored with fixing NVidia drivers after every kernel update on my home machine and bought a dedicated device for DVD playback – trevi DVX 3508. I wanted one of those excellent Yakumo devices, but they were out of stock, so I settled down with the first thing that they offered me.
DVD players are extremely cheap this days and there is no excuse no more for not having one. trevi DVX 3508 costed me about 45 CYP. And it can playback everything – DVDs from any region, DivX and VCD, mp3 disks, and even jpeg photo galleries.
I haven’t had the time to test it properly but from the first few looks it looks great. I tried the playback of several DVDs from different regions (1 and 2 mostly) and they all worked. I’ve also tried the jpeg photo gallery on DVD and it also worked nicely with the slide show and all the usual bells and whistles.
We are alone again
My mother left Cyprus today, went back to Moscow. I feel sad. She is probably terrified. And that makes me feel even more sad. Heh. Tomorrow is another day…
Sleeping disorder
With my mother here I get more sleeping hours these days. I took few days off too. The surprising thing though is the more I sleep, the more I want to. I got used to sleeping somewhere between 4 and 6 hours a day during the last few month. Today I slept for more than 10 and I can barely keep my eyes open. What is this? A sleeping disorder?
Trying out Sim
During the last few days I’ve been trying out Sim. Sim is yet another open source Instant Messaging (IM) client that supports a variety of protocols (ICQ, Jabber, AIM, and MSN). I am currently interested only in ICQ though.
Before Sim I’ve been using Licq for a long time and centericq before that.
I switched from centericq to Licq because I wanted to have annoying notifications on new messages while in graphical mode. Otherwise I was constantly forgetting that centericq was running in one my konsoles and it stayed there abandoned for weeks.
Licq is almost perfect for my needs. And I wasn’t looking forward to jumping of off it. It’s just that a few people suggested that Sim is a better client in general, and that is solves a few of those issues that I have with Licq.
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