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Righ, I never thought I will say this, but we, being European snobbish twats, are pretty ignorant about Americans. Probably just as much as they are about us. I mean it is funny to laugh at them for not knowing the basic European geography, but how many of us know all the states, let alone their capitals? I mean, what is the capital of California? What is the capital of Iowa? Is Rode Island a state at all?

And then there is Texas… Our perception of that state is just bizarre, I must say: we think the state is full of rednecks with arms and permanently drunk, while at the same time they manage to wear Steltons, cowboy boots and be oil barons, right? I mean, it does not even make sense, does it?

You know what, I think I will just retire for the night right now and continue with this post some time tomorrow…

To be continued…

Oh, and yeah, this is my second day in Houston, Texas…

The meat is amazing!!!!

I’ve got to admit, no matter, how socially unacceptable that is — I dislike the music of David Bowie. Beside the Cat People (the original Cat People soundtrack, not than that Tarantino’s rip off from Castellari, where he sounds more like Bryan Ferry) and the Space Oddity for the sad times, I find his stuff rather shallow.

Sorry everyone, I just don’t see it…

No more in denial — I do live in OZ for a while now, I admit! As the final stage of acceptance of that fact I have moved today. Out of the hotel, in to the flat — let the domestic crap begin!!!

It has been a while, that I have posted anything here. A lot have changed (well, by lot I mean that I’ve got less upset about every single thing out there) and perhaps it is time to start jotting down the thoughts once in a while again. Beside, I want to try out the newly updated WordPress 2.9 and compare it with squarespace — stuff, I am using now for my corporate site.

Also, I have started using LinkedIn intensively. Certainly beats Facebook…

I cannot believe — they do not have Thomas Mann in Perth’s Borders! They do have Devil Wears Prada, all sorts of Dan Brown and similar bullshit, but nothing fom the intellectual classics. Animals…

I love trying out new interfaces and environments. Normally, as my mobile phone, I am using iPhones exclusivley, snice they offer me pretty much all I need from a smartphone, but I have been very interested in looking into Android, since the whole open source, while I think is a total bullshit, nevertheless by pure logic opens quite a lot of possibilities for the developer, alas there should be plenty of extrordinary software. Being in Australia now for quite some time, I figured to get one of HTC Magic to play around in the evenings when I got nothing better to do. All phones are SIM locked in OZ, but having spent enough time in Antwerp, Belgium (the home of dodginess for electronics), I know better — went out, bought an unlocked unit and started playing around. Found couple of flaws, most annoying of which was no possibility to search local. Then, couple of days later — hurray! Android went 1.6 Donut, that has exactly this functionality amongs others. Great… Waited for the OTA update… nothing… official rollout… nothing. Started to look for the ways to manually update my unit. Found plentyful of files, but since my HTC Magic runs 1.5 Cupcake CRB43, could use none of them, as they where all ready for CRC1. Shit!

Finally, today, I have found what I have been looking for. Here it comes:

CRB43 to CRC1 is here

CRC1 to DRC92 is all over the place.

Enjoy!

Nothing, that’s what!!! WA is total bollocks! Perth, being a capital of almost half a continent resembles more a small German town, than some kind of capital. Culture? Nothing to do here. Entertainment? Nope. Shopping? Fuck that. The only thing that the city is offering is some poor interpretation of the sum of the named three – a fucking Casino! Perth sucks and I am seriously scared to go to Sydney or Melbourne for a weekend, just not to get disappointed by the entire continent…

More to follow…

Я верю в это! Стас и Гриша

I never thought I’d be so happy to be back home in Dubai. Approaching the landing and the heart starts trembling. Wow!

• fucking failblog – lame, but funny #
• Finally, finally, finally!!! Finally failblog took got rid of that stupid “failblog dot org” wanna be cool New York student announcement!!!! #
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Finally, finally, finally!!! Finally failblog got rid of that stupid “failblog dot org” wanna be cool New York student announcement!!!!

fucking failblog – lame, but funny

It has been over one week now in Libya, which is also my first trip to Africa (no, I have not been to Tunisia, Morocco or South Africa before!!!). While I can not speak for the entire Africa or even for North Africa for that matter, I got pretty clear opinion of Libya by now.

First of all:

• Mobile communications here are crap, i.e. local mobile operators are pretty crappy and roaming works only for 2 minutes or so, then the reception disappears somehow
• Internet is painfully slow
• Good food as we know it in the west (or in the Middle East) is practically non existent. Local food is a bit bland. They try to make up for the blandness by using spices, but this is not like in Lebanese or Syrian cuisine, so either I don’t get it or the spices are not really matching to the base and texture
• Here is no alcohol and with it we have realized how much we rely on this social lubricant in our past time in regions without prohibition. It did take us quite some time to find something to do in the evenings without involvement of alcohol
• DON’T GO TO THE MARKETS!
• ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE A WOMAN!!!

Not everything is bad in Libya. In fact majority of the negative things aren’t that negative, like with alcohol, for instance. On the other hand there are quite a few nice things about the country:

• People are super-friendly and helpful
• They don’t bother you at all
• Everyone is quite simple with straight opinions and no hidden agenda
• If in business someone does have a hidden agenda, you can see it through instantly. If you play along, everybody is happy
• Fish is extremely fresh (I can’t look at it anylonger though)
• Mediterranean Sea!
• Sahara Desert!
• Roman ruins!

The old town is worth walking around – it is not glamorous or anything, but it is so vibrant and some of the buildings there are over 700 years old. There are plenty of workshops, where guys are making textiles, bake bread etc. They invite you in, explain stuff (Arabic or at least French knowledge is recommended) and let you take pictures.

I am obsessed with neatness, functionality and aesthetics of bathrooms, so I am having hard time in this department, since folks here don’t pay much attention to this topic (unlike in Morocco, where even the simplest washrooms are done in a very stylish way). Neither attention to details seems to be of a priority here, but this is not the end of the world.

Anyways, these are just the first impressions of the country and generally I am liking it a lot.

More to follow…

ИНТЕРНЕТ, СУКА, МЕДЛЕННЫЙ!!!!

…despite the fact that we humans are great collectors of souvenirs, not one of these persons [claiming to have been aboard a flying saucer] has brought back so much as an extraterrestrial tool or artifact, which could, once and for all, resolve the UFO mystery.

Philip Klass

There you go, Klass and all the rest of you physicists, mathematicians, logists and other stinking scientists!!! Billy is here to show you aliens … in his backyard too!!!

More on that nutcase can be found in Wikipedia. Skeptic’s dictionary completely ignores the fact of existence of that moron.

Isn’t White Chalk a bit like Wet Water and Wet Wet Wet would be like Chalk Chalk Chalk?