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About Photographs

During my preparations for new job in Switzerland I found out that I need a lot of photographs for various documents. Unfortunately the old photographs which I had had taken few years ago won't work, because they are too old (yes, I have changed a bit) and because the don't meet the criteria required for various documents. Last time I had the photographs taken was probably for the diploma or the French/Swiss card. This time I will need them for even bigger number of documents. Unfortunately various documents have different requirements with regard to the photo size (easy to overcome without taking a lot of photographs) and to the things that are visible on the photo (one ear, two ears, etc). I found the necessity of having several photographs taken rather annoying.

First of all I have to change my National Id Card, as I am still a user of of identity document which was issued before 2001. Luckily there are no strange requirements on the photograph format, thus it should be rather simple. I think that it would be enough to fill in the form, pay the fee and wait for about 1 month (so I don't know when I'll be able to pick it up).

Emigration

The time has come and soon I'll be leaving Poland again. Again, this time for even longer period of time. I could even call it emigration - as I don't have intentions of coming back. Why? Maybe because I have always wanted to? To leave Poland with its problems, gloomy reality? To live in a country in which abortion, homophobia and communist past is not a daily topic in newspapers and TV? A country in which salaries are satisfactory and the employers do not try to save money at all cost? Of course I have to admit that it is possible to find a good, interesting job in Poland (if one has knowledge and experience or family in Samoobrona). But money is not everything. It is just a part of a certain level in Maslow hierarchy of needs. I thing that more general than money is something called a standard and comfort of living. In a longer timescale it has a major impact on our well-being.

I'm not going into the unknown. I can even say that I'll be coming back to Switzerland. A beautiful, trilingual country in the middle of Europe. I am a bit concerned about my French - as it is still far from being perfect. Fortunately enough I'll be working mainly in English, and after work I'll attend language classes (French and continuation of Japanese, in order to pass the JLPT in December). My new work will surely be interesting and I will have to travel a lot. I will have to go on regular basis to a city of Roseville in California, which is somewhere near San Francisco. It is a bit strange because I have never imagined myself going to the US. But now I was forced to. I still have to obtain a tourist/business visa, but I have already received all the necessary documents and hope that it would be sufficient to go for a meeting with consul.

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Interesting Identity

Not so straightforward identity following from the C language:

a[i] == *(a + i) == *(i + a) == i[a]

Beautiful Work of Art Damaged by Vandals

Gaudi's dragon

This is the famous dragon guarding the Güell park in Barcelona. Well it looked like that up till the beginning of February. But something awful happened to the Gaudi's dragon.

In the beginning of February this famous dragon had been partially destroyed by unknown vandals. They had smashed it's head with metal bars. Considering the fact that the dragon was rather massive, the art of destruction required significant amount of strength and determination. The police was lucky enough to catch one of the suspects - the 22 years old male from the Barcelona area. The witnesses had said that he was hitting the dragon with a metal bar. An offspring of stres-less education?

Dziura w suficie i remont natrysków

Upgrading Drupal to Version 5.1

Probably for over a year I've been using Drupal as a publishing platform for my blog and Japanese course notes. It is a quite simple, yet powerful Content Management System which maintenance does not require much attention. I have to check the log on regular basis and apply the patches (which usually fix some security problems or sometimes add new functionality). In addition to that I have to try to have the latest versions of the modules. And this task is rather troublesome, as there is no common interface (or at least I haven't found such) for package management which would simply show which packages need to be upgraded. There was also no simple way to determine the dependencies between the modules (which module depends on which, which conflicts with which, etc). To determine such subtle features of the modules it was necessary to dig in the INSTALL.txt files or try to experiment and determine the dependencies by analysing the error logs.

All the upgrades so far were rather minor as they were all related to one major version of Drupal (4.xx). But quite recently a new version of Drupal (5.1) had been released. The major version number had changed, which meant that really big changes were made and backward compatibility in some cases was broken. The changes most probably included: internal structures, API, database structures, module architecture. That is why I had to perform this upgrade with caution. I decided to make a local copy of my Drupal site and to execute the upgrade on the local machine and after double checking that everything is working fine to copy everything back to the server.

Akademik Tatrzańska - Żywe Muzeum Techniki

Chwilowo zdjęcia bez opisów i komentarzy, ale te powinny pojawić się jak tylko znajdę odrobinę czasu.

Wielgas Kutas

Fragmenty z tłumaczenia Tomasza Beksińskiego:

- Jak Cycus Zwisus i Wielgas Kutas, panie.
- Dlaczego tak cię smiesy Wielgas Kutas?
- Bo to śmieszne imię.
- Mój psyjaciel z Zymu nazywa się Wielgas Kutas.
...
- Wielgas Kutas się o tym dowie.
...
- Cy uwazas, ze to śmiesne,kiedy mówię imię... Wielgas...Kutas?
Więcej albo w filmie, albo w pliku z napisami, ewentualnie w scenariuszu.

Polska edukacja seksualna

Mogłoby się wydawać, że w krajach muzułmańskich o środki zapobiegające ciążę jest trudniej niż u nas, ale to nieprawda. Nawet w Tunezji czy Libii pigułki są bardziej dostępne niż u nas.

Złą propagandę robią antykoncepcji politycy, którzy promują w większości przypadków nieskuteczne naturalne metody planowania ciąży, co zostało ujęte w raporcie. Tymczasem Ministerstwo Zdrowia za najlepszą metodę zapobiegania ciąży uważa kalendarzyk małżeński i miało zamiar nawet poprowadzić wielką kampanię promującą jego używanie. A posłowie partii rządzącej głośno wypowiadają się na temat szkodliwości środków antykoncepcyjnych i ich wpływu na bezpłodność.

Ciąg dalszy selekcji naturalnej

17-letni chłopiec zginął w wypadku samochodu kierowanego przez 16-letniego kolegę, który w Pruszczu (Kujawsko-Pomorskie) nie zatrzymał się do kontroli drogowej i uciekał przed ścigającymi go radiowozami.

Młody kierowca opla vectra nie zatrzymał się na wezwania dwóch kolejnych patroli i uciekał przed ścigającymi go radiowozami. W pewnym momencie stracił panowanie nad kierownicą, zjechał na lewą stronę drogi i uderzył w stertę kamieni na poboczu - poinformował Sławomir Ruge z kujawsko-pomorskiej policji.

Remont w Akademiku Tatrzańska

Czy panowie muszą tak napierdalać, od bladego świtu?! Że nie podbijam karty na zakładzie o siódmej rano, to już w waszym robolskim mniemaniu muszę być nierobem?! Już możecie inteligentowi jebać po uszach od brzasku! Żeby se czasem kałamaż nie pospał godzinkę dłużej kapkę od was, skoro zasnął dopiero nad ranem! I żeby się kompletnie spalił w blokach już na starcie! Grunt, że kurwa inteligent załatwiony na dzień cały! Wrócić i napierdalać jak siąde do pracy!

Nowy Polish Joke

Zasłyszany niedawno Polish joke:
  • Czym różni się Polak od E.T?
  • E.T. mówi po angielsku, ma rower i chce do domu.

Matlab R14 Ubuntu Problem

I haven't used Matlab for quite some time and in the meantime I have performed at least one major update to my Kubuntu system. And now time had come and I have to use it again (because I have some things to do that cannot be done in Octave) and I got really strange behaviour like frequent unexpected crashes or no labels on the plots. I don't have time to obtain newer version of Matlab from the university (besides am not sure whether it is a problem of version). However after some googling and experiments I have managed to pinpoint the underlying problems.

Godzina policyjna dla małolatów

80 procent Polaków zdecydowanie opowiada się za wprowadzeniem godziny policyjnej dla młodzieży - wynika z sondażu jaki TNS OBOP przeprowadził na zlecenie redakcji "Faktu" i "Dziennika". Przeciwnego zdania jest 19% ankietowanych.

Wyniki sondażu nie pozostawiają żadnych wątpliwości: mamy już dość hord agresywnych nastolatków, włóczących się po osiedlach. Czas, aby po 22 ślęczeli nad książkami, a nie przebywali na ulicach, zgodnie wypowiadają się w badaniu mieszkańcy miast i wsi.

Hmm, skoro teraz ta młodzież jest tak niebezpieczna, to dopiero będzie ciekawie jak dorośnie i wyjdzie w nocy na ulicę. Jedna wielka dzika horda ludzi... Ponadto będą mieli wtedy prawa wyborcze i być może nie zapomną do tego czasu, kto zrobił z nich przestępców.

Gazeta.pl i DDOS

30 listopada, nie dało się w zasadzie korzystać z portalu gazeta.pl. Ci co mieli wiecej szczęścia mogli zobaczyć różne śmieci, np:

URI: index.html.ca Content-language: ca Content-type: text/html URI: index.html.cz.iso8859-2 Content-language: cs Content-type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-2 URI: index.html.de Content-language: de Content-type: text/html URI: index.html.dk Content-language: da Content-type: text/html URI: index.html.ee Content-language: ee Content-type: text/html URI: index.html.el Content-language: el Content-type: text/html URI: index.html.en Content-language: en Content-type: text/html URI: index.html.es Content-language: es Content-type: text/html URI: index.html.et Content-language: et Content-type: text/html URI: index.html.fr Content-language: fr Content-type: text/html URI: index.html.he.iso8859-8 Content-language: he Content-type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-8 URI: index.html.hr.iso8859-2 Content-language: hr Content-type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-2 URI: index.html.it Content-language: it Content-type: text/html URI: index.html.ja.iso2022-jp Content-language: ja Content-type: text/html;charset=ISO-2022-JP URI: index.html.ko.euc-kr Content-language: ko Content-type: text/html;charset=EUC-KR URI: index.html.ltz.utf8 Content-language: ltz Content-type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 URI: index.html.lu.utf8 Content-language: lu Content-type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 URI: index.html.nl Content-language: nl Content-type: text/html URI: index.html.nn Content-language: nn Content-Type: text/html URI: index.html.no Content-language: no Content-type: text/html URI: index.html.po.iso8859-2 Content-language: pl Content-type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-2 URI: index.html.pt Content-language: pt Content-type: text/html URI: index.html.pt-br Content-language: pt-br Content-type: text/html URI: index.html.ru.cp-1251 Content-language: ru Content-type: text/html;charset=WINDOWS-1251 URI: index.html.ru.cp866 Content-language: ru Content-type: text/html;charset=CP866 URI: index.html.ru.iso-ru Content-language: ru Content-type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-5 URI: index.html.ru.koi8-r Content-language: ru Content-type: text/html;charset=KOI8-r URI: index.html.ru.utf8 Content-language: ru Content-type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 URI: index.html.sv Content-language: sv Content-type: text/html URI: index.html.zh-cn.gb2312 Content-language: zh-CN Content-type: text/html;charset=GB2312 URI: index.html.zh-tw.big5 Content-language: tw, zh-TW Content-type: text/html;charset=Big5

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