In the evening I forgot to put my new toy on charge — and in the morning I nearly overslept because the alarm didn’t go off. The battery died completely overnight, even though around 10 PM I checked and it still had more than 50%. I was generally …

At some point I gave up on del.icio.us (when Yahoo bought them they went downhill, in my opinion). I chose this service instead — it did an excellent job of syncing bookmarks between home and work. And now this service is shutting down starting January …

For my birthday I got myself a little Android phone — the Xperia X10 mini pro. A neat gadget with a 5-megapixel camera, a capacitive touchscreen, and a hardware QWERTY keyboard. I went for it based on my positive experience with Sony Ericsson. Turns out …

Android reminds me a lot of KDE’s Plasma — you can hang all sorts of useful and not-so-useful widgets on it.

My greetings, colleagues!

Aideko has announced a contest again — in addition to promoting their software, they are promising valuable prizes. Even last year’s humorous certificate was very pleasant to receive. The contest is here:

Contest “System Administrator - …

• yakuake

• krusader

• kvpnc

• audacious

• dropbox

• teamViewer

• keepasx

• gPodder

• opera

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• Firefox plugins

The power went out twice in two days. For 10 minutes each time. Apparently people have gotten air conditioners and the transformers can’t handle the load. I should get one too — the heat is unbearable.

1. Just for today I will try to live this day positively and will not try to solve all problems in advance.

2. Just for today I will be polite toward other people, will not raise my voice at them, will not judge or criticize anyone.

3. Just for today I will …

If the LiveJournal service and this blog in particular survive until the time I become a pensioner, I would like to think that the future me will find it interesting to re-read what I, young and youthful, was doing in general, and in particular what I …