Archive for the ‘Geek’ Category
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. [...]
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 [...]
Dassault Systems prepared a very nice video showing simplified version of PLM – from requirements through design, manufacturing tooling preparation to final product. Impressive!
If you are fascinated by technology, get excited by possibilities of human determination, like suspense and thriller stories or just like the history books – Vulcan 607 by Rowland White is the next book you should read. It first strikes you with a background story – history of conflict on Falkland Islands. It doesn’t read [...]
GeeCON is an annual Java conference I had a pleasure to attend to. Spending two days in awesome geeky atmosphere is definitely the thing to do! So, was there something apart from unlimited free coffee? Yes, there was! Conference started with Oracle’s official presentation on future of Java (Oracle Java… it still sounds strange, doesn’t [...]
Couple year’s ago I received a pretty funny joke – Albanian Manual Virus, which went something like: DEAR RECEIVER, You have just received an Albanian virus. Since we are not so technologically advanced in Albania, this is a MANUAL virus. Please delete all the files on your hard disk yourself and send this mail to [...]
