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SNCF Ringtone

We (me and my fiancée) recently traveled to France. It was a fantastic vacation. One of the cool things we experienced is the high speed train, the TGV. We took it from Paris to Marseilles, and from Nice back to Paris. It’s a marvel of modern technology, fast, efficient and comfortable. We also rode the [...]

Posted 30 October 2009 † Dmitry § life § music ‡ Comments (1) °

Slip of the day

…consluting.

Posted 24 May 2008 † Dmitry § ‡ Comments (0) °

Second Life

На AskMefi сегодня попросили рассказать про то как плохо работает Second Life (это такая виртуальная среда/игра, фиг его знает). Самый последний пост:
I tried SL a year ago and didn’t get it, but I read about NOAA creating an island with all sorts of weather related exhibits the other day, so installed it again.
I logged on [...]

Posted 31 May 2007 † Dmitry § books § geek ‡ Comments (0) °

New toy: Nokia N800?

Well, my birthday has come and gone and I haven’t bought myself anything nice. Choices abound but I just can’t make up my mind.. Lately, I’ve been thinking about getting another electronic bookreader.
I have a miniscule attention span - unless I’m coding or doing something similarly attention grabbing - so I tend to read 10 [...]

Posted 09 May 2007 † Dmitry § books § geek ‡ Comments (0) °

“…your biggest liability is your need to succeed…”

Conan O’Brien’s fascinating and funny grad speech at Hardward:
I’ve had a lot of success and I’ve had a lot of failure. I’ve looked good and I’ve looked bad. I’ve been praised and I’ve been criticized. But my mistakes have been necessary.

Posted 12 April 2007 † Dmitry § geek ‡ Comments (0) °

Idle Randomness

I’ve gotten an outdated mac mini to play with. The hardware is subpar (1.5ghz G4?, half a gig of ram) but OS X, oh man. It’s like someone took one part windows, one part linux and one part illicit drugs. It feels strangely like home. I keep hitting alt-tab to switch between windows, but it’s [...]

Posted 08 December 2006 † Dmitry § coding § geek § life ‡ Comments (0) °