I’ve been puzzling over this: why didn’t the phone’s manufacturer give it the ability to act as a Bluetooth receiver?

I’d happily lie on the couch and watch a movie through my favorite wired headphones — without a cable running …

We’re not afraid of any crisis — we’ve stocked up on salo!

True, it might not last the whole winter, but still — when there’s a little box like that sitting in the fridge, somehow your soul feels a bit lighter and warmer.

Radio Rocks was so great when it first appeared — pure music, no shows or ads. Just music. 24 hours a day of proper rock. Can you imagine?

But little by little ads started showing up — taxi companies at first, then more and more, and now it’s simply …

A huge desire of mine, once I go on vacation — to flash my Xperia with some alternative firmware based on Cyanogenmod, there’s just so much tasty stuff packed into it.

Found in the code of an official developer:

 **KvoSpisuem** = Min(RowNU.QuantityNU, **KvoSpisuemBU**);

It should be either “Spisuemo” (Ukrainian) or “Spisyvaem” (Russian).

But here you go — a surzhyk mashup right in the variable …

I got fed up with Mint running slowly, especially compared to the beast of a machine at work.

Added the noatime,nodiratime options to /etc/fstab and ran the following command I found:

tune2fs -O has_journal -o journal_data_writeback /dev/sda5

to disable the …

Now instead of this set of sticks

2 GB each, I have this “sweet pair”:

DDR3 1333MHz, 4 GB each.

I’m cycling to work! Hooray :) Since half the route goes through Khortytsia, the exhaust fume problem is cut in half — almost no cars there. On top of that, leaving home at roughly the same time, I arrive at work 20–40 minutes earlier than I would by …

Finally got Disqus comments hooked up to Blogger.

Apologies for any lost comments — once I figure out how to migrate them, I’ll bring them back.

If the new comment form isn’t showing up for you, you’ll need to allow JavaScript from this …

Looks like I’ll be rolling back to Firefox version 3, because version 4 keeps crashing on Windows — a pile of open tabs, and bam — crash.

With version 3 there was none of that, none of that…