O Republic, Where Art Thou?
Some journalists are good, some are bad and some know nothing. Welcome to our tour around the globe while still being in Czech Republic.
I Know What I Did Last Summer
These freezing days remind me of last summer when I went on a trip to Norway. Falling snow, freezing wind, temperature below zero. Oh, warm memories. I know what I did, because I had a camera. I can't show whole video (you know, my friends are shy), but here is at least short teaser (1.3 MB in size).
Fighting The SVG Beast
Whole yesterday's night I was fighting this beast. It's nice technology, but it's not big win on Linux. Either there is a beta and sometimes crashing plugin for Mozilla from Adobe or standalone Squiggle the SVG browser that comes with Batik which supports only a subset of SVG (e.g. EcmaScript support is not complete).
Hi. I Am Additional Second Second...
Tonight I saw Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Very funny family (sort of) movie. Great Jim Carrey and, which is very surprising, children I don't hate! That's very rare.
Baldie For Charlie
Charlie Kaufman won (acceptance speech - search for Monday, 28 February 2005), Kate Winslet lost (her ceremony attendance), Jim Carrey and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind were not nominated. Well, at least one.
Playing Sports Is Like Getting High For Free
There are good decisions and bad decisions. You may guess what kind of decision is to play sports. At first it looks good: you'll get more healthier, your fat ass will hopefully shrink and thanks to endorphines you'll get high for free. Unfortunately with sports it's like with high school. The only things you remember are the good ones. The bad ones like when you got locked by footballers inside the locker, naked of course, are hard to recall.
Ten Things I Learned About Open Source Management
- Bad prototype is better than great idea.
- Cooperate. Ask for opinions. Dictators die alone.
- Forcing someone to participate is very hard, forcing him to leave is very easy.
- Someone else's bad idea does not give you the right to call him "douchbag".
- If you want to have something done, you must do it yourself. Noone will engender your children.
- Don't hesitate to kill your infants. Even gods make mistakes and bad ideas.
- Never ever participate in religious wars. Noone wins them.
- If someone attacks you, don't retaliate. Your followers will do it for you.
- Frequent releases bring more attention. Attention in open source world is like money in that other world.
- Transfer your duties to others as early as possible. That will leave you more time for ego-searching on Google. I have plenty of time.
World Has Gone Crazy And I Am Going To Prove It
Uwe Boll is still making movies (some found them not so good) which are less scary than Estonian advertising, action B-star records music (and some say it's not bad), R2-D2 sings Christmas songs (which is bad), Barbie gets her own cell phone (does it mean that little girls will practice call sex now and stop killing their sisters?) and sex is not hard work anymore.
World has gone crazy. Protect your children!
Sometimes You Just Forget
"So you party with girls at night, huh?"
"What?"
"Jane says hi to you."
"Who?"
"She was at your place yesterday."
"Where?"
"She was counting your radiator gills."
"Oh, the one giving me weird looks. How do you know?"
"She asked me if it was you."
"Do I know her?"
"You two met at Christmas party last year."
"Sorry, I have no idea."
"You were talking with her for more than hour."
"Oh, what a faux pas! Send her my hello."
"OK."
"... Is not she your girlfriend?"
Person number two is of course me. Person number one is my co-worker. Jane really is his girlfriend, but Jane is not her real name, not because I don't want to reveal it, but because I forgot it.
Songs You Can't Get Out Of Your Head
Thanks to Pamie I am listening over and over again to very funny song Business Time. And because one song is not enough I browsed my MP3 collection and found other equally addictive songs. Enjoy.
- FCC Song by Eric Idle
- Mahna Mahna by the Muppets (also in motion)
- Queen Medley in Japan
- Out Of Your Head by Hale & Pace
