Штормовое предупреждение (Russian for Storm Alert) is a prelude to Ураган (“Hurricane”). This track was composed and recorded by Igor Abakumov and me back in 2002–2003.
Storm Alert
Ubuntu/GNOME 3 random wallpaper script
This bash script picks up a random image file (.jpg, .jpeg or .png) from the predefined directory and sets it as wallpaper.
The previous version of the script worked fine with GNOME 2 and Ubuntu 11.04 (and earlier), but after GConf backend was changed to dconf in GNOME 3, it stopped working.
Minority report
In the groaning and moaning on Steve Jobs’ passing minority opinions coming from the dissentients get eminent.
Ryan Tate wrote a lengthy article What Everyone Is Too Polite to Say About Steve Jobs for Gawker. Its primary message is:
iMac: Mac OS X Lion + Ubuntu
Upgrading Mac OS X to Lion
A while ago I made up my mind to upgrade my Apple iMac 27" from Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard to 10.7 Lion. Not that I’ve been actively using it, but did it rather out of curiosity: I heard many positive reactions about it.
My main system on this machine has always been Ubuntu.
In theory, upgrading should not be a big pain. All you need is to buy Mac OS X Lion in Apple’s AppStore:
iSad
What this man has done in his not-so-long lifetime has undoubtedly changed the world for better.
October. Summer
Now that October has come, the summer is finally here. The last time it visited us was in April. After that I couldn’t say we ever had summer weather in the past months. Temperature would hardly rise above 21—22° C (70—72° F), and mainly kept around 16—18° C (61—64° F), especially during August and September.
But the last two days of September happened to be really warm, and on the first of October temperature soared to 26° C (79° F) again.
What else could one do on such a lazy Saturday than simply go to the coast?
AutoRAI 2011
Even though nearly half a year has passed, better late than never.
In April 2011 I visited the largest car exhibition of the Netherlands called AutoRAI. It takes place in the Amsterdam RAI exhibition centre, and its name originates from Rijwiel- en Automobiel Industrie Vereniging (“Bicycle and Automobile Industry Association”, founded in 1893).
The cutting edge of jogging
Our sports club has installed new treadmills, a quick googling showed it’s Matrix T7xe. They are very trendy ones, pure high-tech:
For Dummies
Each time when I saw books from the “For Dummies” series, I wanted to come up with a broader set of topics for John Wiley & Sons.
At last I got to do it. I give the ideas away for free, no royalties required.
Post Nubila Sol ‣ Pt. 3. Das ist noch in Fluß
This is the third and the last part of the Post Nubila Sol trilogy. It’s composed, recorded and mixed by me in the same 2002. Genre: Electronic/Dark/Ambient/Progressive Metal.
A new look
Yesterday I survived laser eye surgery, which was quite an act for me.
I was thinking about it a long time (money was another concern, of course), and it would apparently go on and on for indefinite time, but a chance turned up made me resolve to try.
Interview with Daniël de Jong (Desperados)
Tonight I surprised myself. It all began when my materials about Dias Latinos, the footage in particular, were all of a sudden highly evaluated by the Desperados band, mentioned in the above post. The frontman Daniël de Jong asked me if I could give him the original footage to use it for their promo package. We’ve met, started chatting and… then I decided I could make an interview out of it.