Today there was a solar eclipse in our part of the world. We’ve climbed up the roof to watch the eclipse, have some coffee and take some pictures.
Here’s some pictures, most of them done through an iPhone camera. We used the magnetic part of the floppy disk to look at the sun / take pictures through it. Was fun 🙂
I’ve got some pretty old “server” here and it’s disk said goodbye to me a few weeks/months ago.
I finally found some time to clean it up – clean all the dust inside, apply some toothpaste thermal paste to the heatsink and replace the disk. Unfortunately i didn’t take a picture of how awful it looked before, but here’s a cleaned up version.
As you can see – it has a bracket for one disk, and there’s space for another one. It worked with one disk so far, but it would be a waste of space not to add the second one – the disks are so cheap now. I tried to search for the other bracket but couldn’t find it anywhere, and i couldn’t find a spare one to buy at the local stores.
We’ve got a MakerBot in the office out here. So, i’ve asked a friend if he can try printing one for me. The next day he comes back with this:
I was a bit skeptic about the real use of 3d printers in homes / offices, as the printed examples i usually see are keychains or other useless stuff, but now i might change my mind. maybe.
P.S. Not sure how will the heat influence the bracket – hope i won’t see any smoke coming out of the case…
As a Mac user, i have been (ab)using the Notes app quite a lot – i always copy commands/output/text from terminal or web pages, and it always annoyed me that Notes app, by default, would always format the text – create links, change the quotes, try to have text background (i.e. black when copying from Terminal). That’s the most annoying thing ever…
I remember i tried to look in settings to see if there’s a way to disable this, but I didn’t find anything when i looked. Today, it annoyed me too much again, so i thought i need to find a different software for that… but first let me try to look at it again.
So, after some googling around, i found a solution – you can remap the ⌘V key to paste without formatting!
Steps to achieve that:
– Go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> App Shortcuts
– Add a new shortcut
– Choose “Notes” as the aplication
– Name the Menu Title “Paste and Match Style”
– In Keyboard Shortcut press ⌘V
This should re-map the ⌘V to use ‘Paste and Match style’ rather than the default Paste method.
Life just got a bit less annoying 🙂
Just got a gift from my secret santa – a lot of different chocolates from US and Australia.
Can’t wait to try them all out!!!
Yummy 🙂
While cleaning up pictures, i found some pictures of the apple juice we made this year – apples came from friends garden.
Natural, tasty apple juice 🙂
One day, i might get one of these too!
A few months ago, Konstantin Kovshenin pinged me and asked if I want to come over to Moscow for a WordCamp. Without thinking too much, i have agreed. Unfortunately, that had some consequences – i had to give a speech in a WordCamp.
Why unfortunately? Because:
Well, but i still agreed on it!
As always, i had delayed to create the presentation up to the last week. If not for the few pings from Konstantin, I’d probably delay it until the last minute.
I’ve got to Moscow on Friday morning, and spent most of the day working from the hotel and Starbucks. Then, in the evening, we had a pre-WordCamp meetup with all the volunteers / speakers. The meetup was in some lovely caffe called ‘Chocolate‘ and you could see a part of the Red Square from it. I’ve met all those nice and smart people! Everyone looked so brave, but i knew that deep inside they were also as afraid of the next day as i was 🙂
Next day i’ve got to the Digital October lounge around 8am to help out with anything that’s needed, but it looked like almost everything was planned and ready. People started gathering 15 minutes before the registration, which was at 9am. There was around 150 people in total, which isn’t that much for Moscow, but it’s quite a lot for a first WordCamp.
Konstantin was leading the first part of the WordCamp, and Nikolay Mironov was leading the second part. They had some nice idea of presenting the speakers in some funny way – although the funny part was usually truth.
First speaker, the bravest woman of them all, was Olga (Ольга Горяева) with her presentation about using WordPress for everything else rather than just a blog – news sites, portfolio websites, internet shops, radio/music streaming websites, twitter analytics and etc. Of course i knew this, but it was a really good presentation for all those users who still think that WordPress is only for blogs. Double points for being the first speaker!
Second speaker – Nikolay Mironov – was talking about portfolio websites and freelancing. Lots of freelancers don’t have a portfolio website, and it’s not that hard to make one (pretty easy actually). Also, he gave lots of hints on how to be a good freelancer, where to search for clients, how to make the clients stay and etc. The way he did the speech was very attractive – he was very dynamical / active.
I missed the third speech as i was getting caffeinated and nicotinated before the next speaker … me! But from the number of questions after the presentation i understand that it was very interesting, especially to some people interested in the topic.
So, my presentation probably didn’t go very well, but well, there’s always a first time for everything, and it’s usually not ideal on the first time 🙂
My presentation took only about 20 minutes (whereas usually other speakers spoke for about half an hour) and then i had a number of questions. I was very nervous so i probably gave some false answers to one or two questions (i.e. the hdd brand we use the most). Also, some of my answers were short and i could have given more information about the answer.
My presentation was the last one before the lunch break. We had some subway sandwiches ready for us (separate sandwiches for the vegetarians). I was very hungry, nom nom 🙂
Next presentation was from Sergey Biryukov about taking part in WordPress development. It was nice to hear how WordPress development works, the meetings for developers, where to start, where each part of development happens and etc.
The next one was Konstantin and he gave a presentation about increasing the performance of your WordPress website. It was probably the most interesting presentation for me, as a sysadmin. He told about some interesting situation where he had to create some custom tables with MySQL on insert/update triggers to better use the indexes on the fields he needed. If i did this presentation, i would probably have missed some parts he talked about.
https://twitter.com/lily_xl8/status/366160777910026240
Unfortunately, i had to grab my notebook at this time and missed out on the last two presentations made by Gennadiy Kovshenin – Unit testing in WordPress, and Anna Ladoshkina – Adaptive content in WordPress, but i will definitely watch these two presentations when they’ll come out on WordCamp.tv
After that, we had some after party in the local bar called “Progress Bar”. For some reason, most of the people went home, and didn’t want to spend their Saturday evening having a chat with geeks. By the way, if you ever go to Progress Bar – don’t forget to look down when you go to the bathroom, it has some interesting view out there 🙂
Overall, the WordCamp was great, i met a lot of interesting people, the presentations were also interesting. If you’ve got a WordCamp anywhere around your city – please go, you’ll really like it!
Last sunday we went to get some mushrooms in the woods. This time we’ve got a lot of Boletus – i haven’t had that much in a single day ever 🙂
I was talking today with Ashish about traveling and souvenirs, and i told him that i usually just bring a fridge magnet.
He wanted to see my fridge door, so here i share it with everyone ! 🙂
Siandien teko pabuvoti Antakalnio kapinese, ir besivaiksciojant po jas pamateme V. Sapranausko kapa…
Buvo labai keista, kad tiek Lietuvos demesio sulaukes zmogus, tiek zmoniu ‘apverke’ jo mirti, o ant kapiniu galima buvo pamatyti te pora gelyciu 😦
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