Temptation Of Saint Aqualung // misc.

Bedtime Physics

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:02:00 +0300

I woke up this morning and saw a note written by my hand, although I don't remember it: «Doppler's Effect».

I guess, some thought crossed my mind when I was falling asleep, and I hoped I could finish thinking when I wake up.

Alas.

Ok, NOW It Is Winter

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:44:00 +0300

That snow I mentioned in October went off really fast, and then there was sad sunless cold dry autumn. Simply terrible. Finally, it's snowing again.

Lots of thing changed since then. I moved and finally live alone. It's too late to keep living with parents in 24. And a lot of other things I can't recall now :)

It's Officially Winter Here

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:51:00 +0300

Ok, here's the first snow. No more cycling 'till April. Time to hibernate.

Urals-2009

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:59:00 +0400

I've got too much work now to be writing about it, so I'll just tell you that I've had a perfect vacation this August.

I went to Urals. Those are very old (possibly the oldest on Earth) mountains in the middle of Russia. Those separating Europe from Asia, right. Been old, they aren't so high, most of them are below 1000 meters. I've been to south part of Urals and visited the highest peak around, The Big Shatak, which is 1271 meters high.

Oh, yeah. It was horse-back tour. I've never ridden horse before, so it was funny. For those looking at me.

Did you know that...

Sun, 17 May 2009 14:55:00 +0400

...my vacuum-cleaner sucks?

Happy Birthday, Alex!

Thu, 14 May 2009 00:43:00 +0400

Alex is my cat. No, we have diffrent names, he's Alexander. He is eleven now, but we still fight when we're in a mood for that, and he still can wake up everybody in the middle of the night if he thinks his bow is half-empty. We're both pretty pessimistic.

Also, he snores.

A Little Industrial Stuff

Sat, 09 May 2009 01:38:00 +0400

Recently a friend of mine came over for a day to see me, drink a couple beers and walk a few miles in the darkest places in Nizhni Novgorod she haven't seen yet. It was cool. Both of us forgotten camera, though.

Have you ever seen a bridge construction site from underneath?

The pictures suck, alright. We've forgotten our cameras, so it's just cellphone. There's more cool places there, and we're planning to repeat the trip with a decent camera and sober.

I'm Back, Baby!

Sat, 09 May 2009 01:04:00 +0400

It's been a damn long winter: it really was long and it felt even longer. I literally slept through it, going to work, returning home, watching tv series, working some “side projects”, drinking and actually sleeping; but now I'm finally awake.

It feels surprisingly good. Hi, everybody! Stay tuned.

Forgetfulness, or Why Integration Isn't Always Good

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:04:00 +0300

Moved my jabber server to another physical server, spent week fighting (no that interesting, it's just my lack of python experience) old python 2.3 there to start YIM transport... And forgot my ID at Yahoo!

And of course I forgot the password, too. I just didn't care for more than a year. All my instant messaging is performed thru my jabber account and a bunch of transoprts to other IM networks. I've just set it up once and forgot.

In integrated environments you often forget the details. Write them down, for Heavens sake! Document everything!

Update: restored it. ID was obvious, and having ID I realized I remember password. So always document even obvios things!

Underestimating Digg, Or 100 Most Popular Words on Digg

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:52:00 +0400

One day (two days ago, as far as I remember), I asked myself a question: «What are the most popular topics on digg.com? Sex? War? $$$ per oil barrel?».

I downloaded all 571 pages of popular stories for last year with cUrl (there were more than 8000 stories), parsed them to extract titles and diggs, and processed the titles with a simple PHP script.

[ See the results ]