Ondrej Jurik

Videos from my old job as a weight loss camp director

Ondrej — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:31:23 +0000

You might know I used to run summer camps for past couple of years. Here are the videos about two camps that I helped to get off the ground. As you get imagine I had a ton of fun starting these two camps and met a lot of amazing people. CBC story about Wellspring Vancouver [...]

President Havel in U.S. Congress in 1990 (video)

Ondrej — Mon, 24 May 2010 05:20:27 +0000

President Havel came to the U.S. shortly after the Velvet revolution in February 1990. He met with president George Bush Sr. and gave speech to the joint session of Congress. The speech was important because Vaclav Havel was the first head of state from former communist block to visit the US after the fall of [...]

2009 on the Web and in Tech

Ondrej — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:45:22 +0000

The year that just ended brought some interesting changes to the web and technologies. It was not a year of revolution, but a year of a good progress that has been due for some time. It was the year when Office was badly wounded, Google confirmed its leader position with couple of cool services, Wikipedia’s [...]

Just below the equator

Ondrej — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:00:12 +0000

Colombia and Ecuador do not feel like neighboring countries to me. The differences are too obvious. The good thing about Ecuador is that everything is cheaper. What is less likable is that there are significantly more tourist, streets and buildings are dirtier, electricity gets cut couple hours a day, people are not as beautiful and [...]