ZsuKov has it right, and i won’t repeat. Especially because i’m continously sneezing—it’s not funny. Reason: i’ve been cycling (a 15 mile ride in an hour) and decided to wash my hair after. And i think the shampoo went into my nose and made the hairs inside also shiny and stuff—the problem is that it’s making me sneeze. Just as my hair (on the top of my head) makes me go crazy in the days after i wash it… Not funny, i said (at least don’t laugh).
Доверяи но проверяи
Not yet writing in Russian, but that time won’t be very far either. I’ve just read that phrase in an Ars Technica article, about a security flaw in GMail. That flaw is quite troublesome, because—as the article says—GMail is trusted by other e-mail providers, i guess because its invitation system: the e-mail that’s coming from GMail can’t be very bad. I don’t know the actual nature of that flaw, but it’s something about being able to send as many e-mails via GMail as they want, because a “minor” mistake in the SMTP servers allow anyone, who knows how to exploit that mistake send an unlimited amount of e-mail out to everyone. Since the 95% of total e-mail traffic is spam, this method is really dangerous, because it “bypasses both Google’s identity fraud protection mechanisms and the current 500-address limit on bulk e-mail”. OHNOES.
Naruto Shippuuden Movie
Or as they say in japanese: 劇場版ＮＡＲＵＴＯ−ナルト− 疾風伝 (Gekijōban Naruto Shippūden). I’ve watched it (Dattebayo sub) yesterday, and decided to write a little review, or description or whatever about it today. Before going into spoiler mode and putting tons of screenshots, i’d first summarize my opinion. As expected. It’s nothing extreme: though the big hype around Naruto dying in this movie was surely a great help to make it popular, the story, the style, the characters and the fights are all of the kind we’ve already seen in the anime. Let’s say, in the Raiga filler arc. It provides one and a half hour of entertainment, with laughs and excitement, for the more sensitive people even worry for their much-beloved characters. As usual, Naruto has very deeply philosophical discussions (arguments) with everyone not agreeing with him–even more than in previous movies, i think. And not everyone shows up from the old crew–but of those story-specific details only later. To put it short: this was a good movie, with Shippuuden-quality graphics, a movie-average storyline, and a bit of otherworldly twist. Something a Naruto fan must see.
Advice
You shouldn’t drink a litre of orange juice at once during a movie. It will make your insides go crazy.
Oh, and i put russian on my “must learn these languages” list. I’ve already started learning the cyrillic alphabet.
Pessimistic valedictorian
I’ve seen this article linked in at Caracalla’s. I wondered if it’s right what it tries to say… Is it really a fact, that valedictorian students are just “lousy bloggers”, totally hopeless in the business, unable to write anything interesting? I think i can label myself a valedictorian – even my nick fits that title. But… I’ve always been trying not to become someone boring. This already puts me in the loser category of the copyblogger, since i’ve been trying. It’s not like i started writing and everyone was like “wow” (sadly). Though… On the other hand, it may not be such a bad thing to have a comment ratio of less than 1.0 – it kind of gives the blog an alternative atmosphere, even if that’d be a bit forced category to apply. I can write whatever i want, almost no one cares. Would it be better if i could write whatever i want, and everyone would be interested? Do you want to see your blog popular? What would it feel like? (Don’t have to answer in english.)
Truth
After listening to the first few songs of the Roundhouse Tapes, i concluded something that i already knew for long: Opeth plays great music.
Joke again
– Why do programmers mistake Helloween for Christmas?
– ???
– Because oct 31 is the same as dec 25.
via RaszP
Next time
I’ve got the feeling, that as soon as the next blog version will be up (and that’s still a long time), you’ll have to face the extensive use of tags. These categories just can’t keep up with me…
Just fly a kite
I don’t mean the deviantART artist—he has a great gallery by the way, i once feated a drawing of his. His style just rocks, but nowadays he only draws crazy comic strips.
So, if not him, then what? Once i got a kite from by bro as a present, and now was the time to try it out—earlier either it was not the best weather for it or i just forgot it. There was no wind now either, but we didn’t care. The kids of my other bro came with me, let’s just call them bro and sis from now on. For the first few attempts, we tried it so that they threw it up anytime there was even a slightest bit of wind—and it didn’t work. Nor did it when i was the one throwing it, so we had to think a little bit. If there is no wind, let’s make some. Naturally not by blowing, but by running. So it was like they threw it, and the moment it left their hand i pulled and started running like crazy. Since it was behind me, i could only navigate by its shadow, which was not an easy job. Especially since it was sunset, so soon even the shadow disappeared–not to mention i couldn’t stop, because then it’d fall. It was fun though, i really enjoyed it.
Network
This is going to be a rant. (Not.) I’ve installed the new Ubuntu (8.04, Hardy Heron), and… I’m not satisfied at all. It does recognise my wireless card (Broadcom 43xx) out of box, but no way it’s working. The config doesn’t help at all… There are a few things though that made me laugh. One such was that i configured the wireless through the terminal (since the nm-applet, the network config GUI couldn’t get it working), using the good old sudo iwconfig wlan0. It did set everything right, and it stayed like that (iwconfig wlan0 showed it clear and bright), the one problem was that it didn’t work at all. Not even sudo iwlist scan (claimed that the network is down)… It was right with that claim: i checked out the hardware with sudo lshw -class network, and then decided to come back to windows. Look: the dear linux does see and recognise both my wired (which i don’t use) and wireless cards — but both as wired. There is a separate wireless something, with the wlan0 logical id. And it’s “disabled”. I have no idea how to enable it, or how to bind it to the real hardware. I’m fed up. I could get the whole thing working in five minutes under that “oh-so-crappy” Windows. And on the Ubuntu site it says “You’ll never go back.” Well, i did.
