Work and the Bike

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 …

Disqus

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 …

Firefox

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…

LVM and Repositories

As I mentioned, I’m setting up a local mirror of repositories — so that the fleet of Linux machines gets updates quickly and over Ethernet. For this, I attached a 100 GB disk to a virtual machine, and now a specially crafted script is downloading …

On Victory Day

I didn’t want to write anything, but on my way to the store a scene caught my eye that very vividly illustrates the attitude toward Victory Day and veterans — both from our authorities and from certain circles of the public. Photo from the wall of a …

about movies

Having run into the cinematographic crisis known as “nothing to watch” together with my loved one, we decided to go through the Top 250 list in order. We’ll only skip films that both of us have seen and not too long ago — like …