Today I heard the claim that in order to live longer, one should live more economically: breathe less, move less, eat less (and therefore digest less), meditate, spare one’s nerves….

While looking for a way to archive the journal, I fell into the classic trap: when you start tidying up and throwing out old things — the main thing is not to start browsing through them))) It was so interesting to look back at my old posts and see the …

So much has changed over the years of having that LiveJournal page…. Moving back to the homeland and back again. And another move. More moves that never got written about. Buying real estate and movable property. Significant and pleasant career …

After every call, popups started appearing offering to install Facebook or Yandex.Taxi. I read around online — people write that a lot of junk like this comes pre-installed in the phone’s firmware.

I decided to check one suspect — TouchPal — as what …

Got an invitation to a corporate chess tournament — I had marked somewhere that I enjoy chess, so they found me and sent an invite. The game is online. Haven’t played in a while; curious how chess affects work, life, and decision-making.

Need to …

I’m taking an ITIL course and remembered that I once invented my own CMDB without knowing any ITIL practices or recommendations.

It’s hard to say whether it’s a good thing that I’m so clever, or a bad thing that I hadn’t read …

Installed Docker on the laptop.

Had been afraid of it locally for a long time — figured it would eat up all the space and thrash the SSD.

But eventually had to bite the bullet. Moved /var/lib/docker via a symlink to the HDD, will keep an eye on the space …

As a small preamble to the upcoming article about debugging bash scripts via Eclipse, here’s a note that there is a port called win-bash — a console for Windows.

Yes, everyone knows about Cygwin, but it has certain quirks. Here we have an archive …

The Nook has its uses: as a tablet it doesn’t justify itself much — pages are awkward to flip through, and browsers don’t recognize the standard Nook buttons — but as an e-reader it’s excellent.

Bought myself a Nook Barnes&Noble Simple Touch Reader.