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 ...
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“Blindsight”. A book review.
Some time ago I reviewed here a book called "The Time-Lapse Revolution", which turned out to be quite different from what I had expected, but in spite of that -...
“Gambit”. Book review
Artificial intelligence is a cool invention, as long as it doesn't get too carried away. And when it does, things can be very tricky. It's not too bad if it tel...
“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...
TKL
I have always been tempted to get a TKL keyboard, but somehow never had the impulse to do so. Some time ago, however, one of my old, worn-out keyboards went int...
‘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...
52 and counting
I recently reached 52 litres of donated blood. This time the event took place in Clane, a small but picturesque town some 15 minutes drive from home. I arrived ...
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-...
“Orders of Battle”. Recenzja książki.
Po czym poznać, że książka jest dobra? Można sprawdzać opinie na blogach i portalach książkowych. Można pytać znajomych albo fachowców od literatury. Można dużo...
Economical mumbo-jumbo
Whilst browsing the Internet I recently ran into an interesting (and probably totally unreallistic) idea: universities should be free from charge for all studen...
0, 1, 8, 144 (EN)
While surfing the Internet I recently found an interesting (although completely incomprehensible) proof of a conjecture stating that 0, 1, 8 and 144 are the onl...
Reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits, again
A little bird told me that car insurance prices are going up again this year - both in Ireland and in other EU countries.
Sh*t happens
As Confucius used to say, shit happens. He was a smart lad so there is no point not to believe him. Shit that happens to happen is usually a bad shit. Mo...
“I’m lazy, not stupid”
This is what my fellow colleague used to say when someone was trying to explain Things to him. Being lazy is actually a good thing. It's just that some people m...
A short story about (in)consistency
Few years ago I made a small purchase for my blog: a WordPress menu plug-in called UberMenu. A really nice, fully featured, with all the necessary bells and whi...
George Carlin: A Place For My Stuff
Actually, this is just a place for my stuff, ya know? That's all; a little place for my stuff. That's all I want, that's all you need in life, is a little place...
A Third Variable
If you still remember my recent post on moving my hosting onto a brand new, shining VPS server (from an old, equally shining one) then I feel deeply sorry for y...
Memcached and W3TC
If you ever wondered why, despite all your efforts and Goole-jistsu, you still couldn't get W3TC to detect your local memcached install, well. You haven't googl...
Bloody Thursday
So, you think you know what "boring" means? You think you've watched some three hours of Parliament discussions about legal ways of composting farms' waste, and...
Yop Poll – do not upgrade to 5.0!
If you are reading this post, chances are you are either one of my three returning visitors (although there is a possibility that some - or even all - of those ...
Big G Down Again
Gmail went down for about half an hour this afternoon. This is a second disruption of the service in the last two weeks. I am starting to wonder whether I shoul...
Back to roots
Somewhen in June 2010 I got my very first smartphone. It was a Samsung Galaxy S. OK, to be completely honest, I used to use one or two Windows Mobile based phon...
Przecież to logiczne
Dostałem dziś rano zautomatyzowanego maila z prośbą o wypełnienie ankiety na temat obecnej sytuacji na rynku pracy IT. Obiecano mi, że ankieta będzie krótka ora...
Ups & downs
You can't fight entropy. You can pretend it doesn't apply to you but it does, all the time.
The Ultimate Solution
In my last two articles I explained how to generate all 3-letter combinations, starting from AAA, AAB, AAC (and so on) up to ZZX, ZZY, ZZZ.
Out of juice
It happens to me every now and then to drain my car's battery simply by leaving it overnight with some electrical device powered on.