Yenya's World

Web Comics Dying?

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:26:00 +0100

Is it just an unfortunate coincidence, or are several web comics sites slowly dying?

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Wikipedia Warning

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:24:00 +0100

Warning: idling at Wikipedia can be dangerous, as it can destroy your image of completely innocent things forever.

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Questionable Content

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:40:00 +0100

When browsing the Web, one can often find a content, which is - how to say it - questionable. Recently I have found an excellent example of it :-)

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Ebooks and Copyright

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:18:00 +0100

Just a pointer to two interesting blog posts I have just read: Ted Ts'o discusses the ethical problem of wanting an e-book version of something which is out of print for a long time, and also has an interesting follow-up in which he discusses whether copyright is a matter of money (like most books or films) or control (like in some software, especially many copylefts like GPL). So what do you think about handling rights for the work which is abandoned for a long time, or simply which is not available in your local part of the timespace? And should rights for "static" work like books, music, films, photos, etc. be handled differently than rights for things which can be improved by further work of other people (like software)?

Without Visa?

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:26:00 +0100

Today's newspapers are full of articles commenting the fact that Czech citizens now can travel to the U.S. without visa, and taking it as a big achievement of Czech politicians. Having gone through the U.S. visa procedure myself recently, I wonder why no journalist pointed out the sad truth, that in fact, the visa procedure is still there.

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Stitching Photos

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:31:00 +0100

In Oregon, I took several photos from one point in order to try to stitch them to one panorama later. The shots were taken from hand, so it was not optimal. In further experiments I would have to use a wider angle lens and higher overlap of the frames (I used about 20 % on each side). Manual exposition and focus is a necessity in order to get the same level of light across the whole view.

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Driving in the United States

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:23:00 +0100

I will not write about everything I did in Oregon (you can get better insight to the way of life in the US from the point of view of a foreigner in a Linus' blog), but there is one pretty interesting topic: my experience from driving a car in the US. There are several differences for the European driver:

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Orange Sunglasses and Chromatic Aberation

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:40:00 +0100

I bought a new sunglasses for use on my bicycle. Somebody recommended orange colour because of supposedly better levelling between shade and light (which I often need, esp. on the forest roads), so I went for orange ones. I have discovered that when riding a bycicle, I see the edges of shadows coloured asi if my eye had chromatic aberation:

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Lawful Ransom

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:04:00 +0100

My almost five years old compactflash microdrive in my camera has finally died, so I have decided to buy a new CF card. To my great surprise, about 10 % of the total price is the "authors fee". Which is law-imposed tax (a ransom, in fact) for supposed loss on authors' fees caused by distributing copyrighted work using this CF card. WTF?

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Presentation Charts

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:44:00 +0100

The "most funny image of the day" award goes to this one:

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The Best Deal

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:55:00 +0100

I normally try to avoid looking at banner ads in the web pages. However, today I have seen something which I nominate for my Daily WTF award :-)

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Frying Pan

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:04:00 +0100

Our relatively new (~1 year) frying pan with teflon coating is becoming more and more sticky, so we are looking for a replacement. However, I don't think buying the new frying pan every year is the right solution to the problem.

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Order of the Stick

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:29:00 +0100

Have you ever played a fantasy role-playing game like Dungeons & Dragons[?] (or a local variant Dračí doupě)? And did you enjoy it? Then you may want to have a look at the Order of the Stick, a quite funy web comics, which takes place inside the RPG. The image is taken from the OotS cast page.

Girls Everywhere

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:47:00 +0100

It seems that these days, every university or faculty[*] needs to have an attractive girl in their home page, presumably to attract applicants :-)

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Energy drinks

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:29:00 +0100

Does anybody know how energy drinks are supposed to work? Last weekend we took part in TMOU 8. I have bought - probably for the first time in my life - an energy drink (its name was "Kamikaze" - lacking any other reasonable criteria for choosing an energy drink, I have bought the one with Kanji on it :-) in case I would get tired.

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