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So, i’m going to travel back to Lithuania this week for a few days to see my girlfriend and eat some REAL food, and not the UK something that is called food and is 99% genetically modified shit and really tasteses horrible food.
I  have a flight from Liverpool to Kaunas on 19th of November (thursday) in the morning (doh, getting up at 4am sucks…), and i’ll be back in UK on Sunday 22nd of November (flight from Vilnius to London).
The second flight isn’t the best one, because i’ll have to drive 300+ kms from London to Knutsford (where i’m staying in UK). I’d better drive 100km from Vilnius to Kaunas, and then fly to Liverpool

So, finally i’ve took some time and set up a photo album based on gallery 3 from svn.

I’ve finnaly uploadedthe photos from my new photo camera!!!

You can see the photos on http://photo.fw.lt which i took while being in UK.

There are photos from Knutsford – the city where we are staying, and Chester.

There are some photos from Cheshire Militiary Museum too.

So, while in UK i thought that I’ll buy a new photo camera.

After talking with my friends and looking at whats available in th shop – i bought a Canon EOS 450D.

I didn’t have any SLR camera before, except an old Russian Zenith (i don’t remember the model), so this is my first normal digital SLR camera!

So far I like it very much! The kit lens isn’t that great, but i don’t have money for a good right now, maybe in the far far future I’ll be able to spend money on some good lenses

Oh, and that’s the main reason I’ve looked for a new photo gallery! I used gallery2 before, but the code sucked and it was a big-fat piece of software so in some time i started to dislike it. Now I’ve looked at over open-source photo galleries and selected… gallery 3! It’s a new release which was rewritten from scratch and is more lightweight.

We’ll see if it’ll fit me

Anyone knows any decent and good photo gallery software, or a photo gallery service?

Picasa is really nice, but it has a limit of 100 Mb which is really small.

Gallery 2, last time i checked, was a lot-of-stuff-in-one-place-with-difficult-and-crappy-code-inside kind of project. I’ll take a look if it got better recently.

P.S. Perl/php/c/c++ prefered. Java/Ruby/python isn’t prefered either (could be the client part, but not the server part).

Oh my, 10 months already passed since i last written in here!

So, a lot changed since my last post.

First of all, i’m already living at my new place. A lot of money spent on it, and still a lot of money to spend on mortgage Most of my friends already were at my new appartments, but if anyone didn’t – i’m always free in the evening to drink a beer or two and spend some time with my old friends

Secondly, i left Baltic Data Center. I’ve only been there for 10 months, but i’ve got an offer from another company and accepted it. BDC is a nice company, so don’t think i left it because there was something wrong in it.

So, as i mentioned before, i’ve got an offer from another company. Since october 18th i started working at Barclays Bank.

I’ve been sent to UK for a training period and i’m currently located in Knutsford, near Manchester. If anyone would like to meet for a beer – i’d be really glad to do so! I’ll be in Knutsford until December 18th.

Knutsford is a nice little town. The only problem is – it’s REALLY small. I don’t have what to do in this town in the evenings, so i just stare at tv/notebook every evening. It’s almost winter and it gets really dark in the evening, so walking around in the town isn’t that attractive.

I’m staying at Danebury apartments. It’s a nice place. The only trouble is – we’re staying in Tabley apartments, and it has 2  bedrooms – one really really small with a single bed and one is normal/bigger with a double bed. Guess in which i’m staying

Oh, and do you remember the wine i did in the last year? I’ve drank it all allready. But i’m brewing about 30 more liters!

Didn’t i say ‘famous last words’?

I haven’t written here for almost three months. It’s time to write something…

So, what’s “new”?

• I started working part-time at Vilnius College as a laborant. I want to make studying there better by changing some things out there. I’ll write about it when i’ll finish (not soon).
• I’ve changed my job from Hostex to Baltic Data Center. Baltic Data Center is part of TEO group – Lithuania’s largest Internet Service Provider.
• You’ll call me an iFan, but i’ve changed my old Sony Ericsson T610 to … an iPhone 3G. And yes, i DID use the phone function already ! P.S. my number changed, so if anyone wants to update my number – drop me an email.
• Remember my vine? I’ve made 30 Liters of it… less than 15 liters left already. Atelast everyone who tried it said it’s real good! I liked it too.
• I’ve got a Cisco Catalyst 2900XL at home for free, hooray!
• Didn’t I say Happy New Year yet?! Happy New Year!

I think that will be enough for today.

So, after a few months of not having a good place to work at home, i finally bought a new notebook!

It’s a MacBook! Yes, yes, a MacBook.

It’s a white 13″, 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo with 2 GB of RAM, 160 GB SATA 5.4k rpm’s, a 8x superdrive and Intel GMA x3100 144 MB video card.

Almost everybody who i’ve told that i bought a Mac asked me what OS will i be using…

Mostly, i use FreeBSD (yes, on desktop/laptop), but this time i’m trying to stick to Mac OS. It’s quite nice, stable, and almost usable… although there are still some little things i have to get used to.

If i won’t like it, i’ll try get back to FreeBSD, but so far i’m liking it.

Oh, and also, now when i have a new laptop – maybe i’ll be writing more posts to my blog (famous last words).

I’ve stumbled upon this picture today. That’s all, i’m removing all my non-windows systems ( that is, ALL systems) and installing windblows there!

Ok, ok, just joking. But the banner is really funny.

One of my co-workers was on vacation in some strange country ( i don’t remember the name right now, but if anyone cares i can re-ask him), and he bought something for us, something we didn’t expect at all …. you know already what it is by the title of this post

Co-workers say that it was yummy yummy and they wouldn’t mind to eat more of that

Anyway, picture below:

Last two evenings i was trying to brew some home vine from apples.

I spent the biggest part of time at getting the juice out of those damn apples (i’m soooo tired of that).

Anyway, just a few hours ago i’ve filled the bottles … now time to wait…

I’ve made 20 liters – two bottles x 5l, and one x 10l..

If at least one of them will become something which could be called vine – i’ll be happy!

A picture of my “home factory” below.

Home vine