Archive for the ‘Fun’ Category
Warning: graphic details. I have identified a serious flaw in MacBook Air design. Now I have either lose weight or buy other laptop. I think I will choose the former. But what is this all about? It’s because the touchpad. Well… Mac OS X UI is driven by brilliant use of multitouch gestures. Doing an [...]
My move to Boston is almost completed. Home office is mostly set up, day to day things seem to go smoothly enough, so the time has come to start conquering New World! My first step is to attend Barcamp 6 in Boston, where I expect to meet some proper geeks, nerds and other amazing people. [...]
I’m currently preparing to become “a lawful wedded husband”, which involves buying tons of stuff. I was comparing various offers and one pattern emerged: if a thing X is renamed to “Wedding X” it automatically becomes at least two times as expensive. See for yourself: wedding photography costs 295-1500 GBP while corporate event photography 75-180 [...]
I spend long hours reading on-line (don’t we all?). Most of interesting material is available in English only (including en.wikipedia.org which is much superior to my native pl.wikipedia.org), so I tend to read all in that language. And as it is my second tongue, I need to use translator quite often. Google translator is doing [...]
Having worked with heavy J2EE applications for couple of years I have almost forgot how much fun one get from programming. I got used to massive tools, complicated frameworks and other Very Serious Stuff. And then I decided to give Microsoft Visual C# 2010 a try. It was a love from a first sight! The [...]
Exploiting errors in software and firmware is actually more fun that using the device in first place. Recently I’ve discovered that HB354BS has an error that let’s one skip unskippable parts on dvd. No more annoying ads when I want to see next episode of ‘Allo! ‘Allo!. When you put dvd in the reader, the [...]
I just invented An Ultimate Scrambled Eggs. Here comes the recipe: 1/2 red grilled pepper 1 slice of ham 100g of king prawns Green Jalapeño peppers 1/2 lrg red onion 1 lrg carrot 1 lrg tomato 2 eggs. Chop veggies and ham and fry with prawns and three drops of Tabasco until carrot is tender. [...]
This Big Nate comic strip just made my day:
And it finally happened! Amazon started UK edition of Kindle Store!. If you have been using US version of Kindle Store, you need to transfer your account, which takes just two clicks. And that’s all. The new Kindle Store works perfectly with iPad, the prices I checked were are almost exactly the same as in [...]
