Yenya's World

Which Bike?

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:26:00 +0100

The 30 years old frame of my bike broke several weeks ago, so I will need a new bike. We have already decided to buy a new bike for my wife, so I have took the frame of her present bike, and remounted some components of my former bike to it. So I don't need a new bike right now, and I have more time to decide what I want.

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Citroën Xsara

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:02:00 +0100

It has been seven years since I have bought my Citroën Xsara. At that time, I have considered several models, looking for an estate car for my family. Having used several Škoda Felicia cars in my previous job, I have definitely wanted a car from some other manufacturer. My opinion was "the car can have its problems, but at least let it be different problems than Škoda have".

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Is My Teaching Getting Bad?

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:04:00 +0100

The results of the final exam of the UNIX - Programming and System Administration I course make me wonder whether I am getting gradually dumb or bad at teaching.

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Outgoing Mail

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 10:55:00 +0100

I archive every e-mail message I have sent since April 1999. Today during making backups of this data I have decided to count how many messages I have sent each year:

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PF 2011

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:46:00 +0100

I wish happy year 2011 to everyone who reads this blog.

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Electricians

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:50:00 +0100

I have discovered the following gem behind the wardrobe (note the colors of the wires).

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Thesis Proposal

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:26:00 +0100

OK, I have managed to defend my Ph.D. thesis proposal and to pass the doctoral exam. Now I "only" have to write the Ph.D. thesis itself as outlined in the proposal.

Digital Slot Cars

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:16:00 +0100

We have got a new slot cars set for Christmas. I had one when I was a child, and I quite liked to play with it, build and tune my own cars, etc. Several years later, we had an 8-track slot cars simulator in our SGI computer lab. Well, today's state-of-the-art slot cars systems are completely different beasts to what I used to know.

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Footwear Waterproofing

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:03:00 +0100

This year's Tmou with its almost start-to-finish rain has made me to think again about my approach to waterproofing my boots. I have about eight years old Hanwag Alaska Nubuk leather boots with Gore-Tex membrane (which is definitely not functional anymore after these years). So the leather is now the only barrier between the outer wet conditions and the inside of the boot.

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Svíčky 2009

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:42:00 +0100

As in previous years, also this year I took part in an outdoor puzzle solving competition - Svíčky. This year the weather was better than the last year.

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Pragocentrism

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:17:00 +0100

I live in a country with population of about 10 milion, with the capital Prague with about 1 milion inhabitants. Today's rant will be about narrow-minded journalists living and working in Prague.

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Status Update

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:52:00 +0100

I am still alive, but busy doing a real-life work rather than writing about it :-) In the meantime, I have received my results from the JLPT 3 exam: I have passed, but with lower points than I had from JLPT 4 last year. So the next step would be JLPT 2, requiring about 1000 more words and 600 more Kanji, definitely not a task for the next year only.

JLPT 3

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:12:00 +0100

After a year, I went again to Budapest, to undertake a next level of Japanese language exam. A month ago I tried to do a pre-exam test, from which I had 57 % (the limit for the exam itself is 60 %). So I hoped I would manage to gain those remaining 3 % in the last month by studying hard.

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Stepping Madness

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 03:02:00 +0100

People around me became addicted to dancing computer games (like Dance Dance Revolution, Stepmania, or In The Groove). I have to admit I tried it, and became addicted too. We have even bought our own dance pads and we dance^Wstep at night.

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Alpha 700

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:45:00 +0100

My old camera stopped working with any memory card bigger than 512 MB, so I have finally decided to buy a true D-SLR. Having several Minolta-A mount lenses and a Minolta-compatible flash, I have decided to buy a Sony Alpha, which is a successor of Minolta (later Konica-Minolta) cameras.

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