Old age begins with pills on the bedside table)

I’ve long wanted to support this service with a small contribution — I’m perfectly happy with the free ad-supported version, I even disabled my ad blocker on their site.

Finally today I bought an annual subscription — in honor of Halloween …

AWS CloudFront locations show the centers of civilization. You can see that India has it, while Africa does not. Same for northern Nigeria…

Actually, you should take stock and make plans not on January 1st, but when the season closes.)

Installing XBMC, a.k.a. Kodi, again. Remembered that I once wanted to try OpenELEC. Turned out you can’t change the root password in it, and in general it’s a heavily precompiled system. Tried it on ubuntu-server, but the graphics were pretty …

Tried a perepichka. Pretty decent thing — a sausage in dough, extremely hot. It got me thinking about Ukrainian marketing: over two decades, one modification, one stall, no advertising, nothing — and there are queues. Quite interesting )

Passport documents have been submitted. Waiting.

Wednesday. Morning. A police bicycle patrol is pushing a stalled minibus stuck in traffic. Pushes it, then rides on.

Wonders never cease.