Bored with a game, I wrote a solver
Today I am going to tell you about a game I got into a few weeks ago. It's kind of addictive: very simple, click-click, tap-tap, no need to think too much. All ...
Kategoria: English
English is my second language. Not much here I’m afraid.
“Walking to Aldebaran”. Book review.
Actually a review of a portion of a book, as I didn't make it to the end. I let myself go at about 28%. The paperback is 95 pages long, so you could say I...
‘Artemis’. Book review.
Andy Weir wrote "Artemis" on the success of "The Martian". I've been meaning to read it for quite some time, but was put off by the overwhelmingly unflattering ...
Black matter, or Schrödinger’s cat on steroids.
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger died in 1961. Even assuming the cat was a long-lived Siamese breed, the beast has been dead for at least 40 years. Joke...
“Recursion”. Book review.
I had never heard of Blake Crouch before. I found out about this book by reading an interview with Andy Weir ("The Martian", "Artemis", "Project Hail Mary" and ...
“Staged”. Mini-series review.
Why mini? Because each episode is about 20 minutes long, so the whole first season can be easily watched in two and a half hours, with loo breaks. "Staged" is a...
Undying Mercenaries: Machine World.
I didn't manage to finish the fourth part of "Undying Mercenaries". After quite a start, when McGill takes part in an exam for a higher position (a classic set-...
Slow RSS feed on your blog? Here’s what to do.
A friend was trying to subscribe to my RSS channel recently but his NewsBlur was reporting a timeout nine attempts out of ten. I tried accessing my /feed/ url l...
Reader View in Firefox: why is it bad and how to disable it?
What's wrong with the Reader View in Firefox.
Copy variables between SSIS packages
How to copy-paste multiple variables between SSIS packages.