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This internet thing …

Posted in random on 10 June, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Internet still amazes me. I first went online in 1995. You couldn’t do much on the internet then. I didn’t really understand it (I was young and knew only really basic english), there was no Google at that point, it was slow and expensive.
Forward 14 years. I remember watching the 1998 winter olympics opening ceremony [...]

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mnemonic for roman numerals

Posted in did you know?, random on 22 October, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve always had problems with remembering the correct order of roman numerals. L, D M, C they just didn’t make any sense. But now I have a nice mnemonic. All you have to do is remember (you’ll soon see that you already know it) the order of these 4 letters:

L=50
C=100
D=500
M=1000

What’s the secret formula: LCD Monitor [...]

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Life is like juggling eggs

Posted in random on 18 June, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

And sometimes you make a mess.

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white is the winner

Posted in random on 13 June, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Imagine you have a lot of various cables in a box. Here is my box:

Now lets play a game with this picture. Ready?

Quick, find the cable for my Garmin GPS receiver! You have no idea how does it look like?

Okay, let’s try another one. Ready?

Quick, find the cable for my iPod! Done? Already? That was [...]

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1234

Posted in random on 15 March, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

iPod nano commercial (music: 1234 by Feist)

TIM commercial (music: All together now by The beatles)

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Rock and rule

Posted in random on 15 March, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

hee hee :)

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scanning acrobatics

Posted in random on 23 February, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I’m too lazy to go out and make photocopies of some articles, so I decided I’ll just scan and print them. That’s easy to say and pretty hard to do. Especially if your computer desk looks like this:

See the distance between my mouse and my scanner? The problem when scanning from books is that [...]

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chocolate

Posted in random on 10 February, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I used to collect chocolate wrappers. I don’t have much of them and mainly have Milka ones and those from my country. Although, I found one gem: it’s a small wrapper and on the back it says “made in west Germany”. I’m not that old (maybe the chocolate was … I remember getting it [...]

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*is confused*

Posted in random on 18 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Can someone explain to me how seedless grapes grow? Out of what? I’m confused.

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morning music

Posted in random on 27 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Listening to “Don’t stop me now” by Queen while making your bed really makes you think you rock. That you are the best and could do that for a living. You are the shooting star, the tiger and a racing car. Because you are fast and need absolutely no help. And it’s not the stupid [...]

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