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Animefest 2011

2011-05-16T02:30:00.003+02:00

Spring, Brno, Animefest... Last two years I was there only two days due to lack of time, this year I was prepared to be there all three days and enjoy it as much as possible. One thing is plan, another thing is what the body allows. Unfortunatelly I wasn't lucky in the morning program and missed many screenings and presentations. As usually a short list of screenings I have seen sorted by my

Animefest 2009

2009-05-12T23:53:00.022+02:00

Last year I have begun with "another year, another Animefest". It could sound like something usual, that's why I dont't use it this year. Although I haven't enjoyed it enough because of lack of time, I'm impressed of progress the organizers did.First of all, not two days, but three. Certainly the national holidays helped much, but I hope guys will manage it next year as well. Furthermore, not two

Kočičková madness

2009-03-18T23:28:00.011+01:00

I don't hink you can be musically compatible with me :)In case you want to do something with that :) I recommend to start with 1, 2, 3 and 4.

A Song of Ice and Fire

2009-01-02T23:38:00.009+01:00

If you like fantasy books, I recommend to look at A Song of Ice and Fire series. There are only 4 of 7 volumes available at the moment, each volume consists of two books in Czech edition. Why is it so interesting? There is huge number of characters, one chapter narrates story from the side of one particular person. You'll understand a behaviour of important characters and take a fancy or hate

My daily routine (2)

2008-12-31T00:19:00.001+01:00

As last year I looked at my Google websearch trends:

PF2009

2008-12-24T20:54:00.006+01:00

Dialog

2008-11-30T23:18:00.004+01:00

A: Hi!B: Hi.A: Haven't heard about you several months.B: Yeah, man. I got pretty lazy since I have moved.A: You have moved? Where do you live now?B: I live on Cejl since October, I was talking about move for a long time.A: Give my regards to our fellow citizens :).B: Well, I have seen blood twice on the pavement, but haven't experienced any problems. There are only bunches of loafers in the

More comfortable work

2008-08-02T13:24:00.003+02:00

I was working hard two weeks before our demo release to prepare environment for our production servers. So I bought an ergonomic keyboard by Microsoft into work (hope Good Data will pay me that :-). There are good reviews on many servers, e.g. Živě, and the price is really reasonable. At first it was problem to write on that, but after two days I got completely used and nearly forgot how to write

Dracula: Origin

2008-07-27T14:08:00.020+02:00

Two weeks ago I have spotted the Dracula: Origin adventure game, downloaded demo and tried in Linux (with Wine certainly). Initially I had problems to run it, but those appeared to be caused by missing Nvidia libraries only. In short time I have finished the demo and planned to buy a game when I have more time. Time has come and I bought it on Friday, succesfully installed and ... it can't be run

Worsened safety

2008-06-08T20:08:00.014+02:00

When we go to swim, we usually choose the best (I mean largest) swimming pool in Brno. Unfortunately the safety there got worse recently -- a month ago I was robbed of around 600 CZK I left in locker. I found out that later in Tesco, I had everything except the money. Today we were swimming there with Dan and I took only the money, season ticket, swimming card and cell phone. I wasn't robbed this

Animefest 2008

2008-05-11T19:30:00.033+02:00

Another year, another Animefest, two days marathon which I take for granted already. Next time I have to bring a strong coffee in thermos, I was drowsy the second day because Cola is weak. I was there alone, but met Mirka (pleasant surprise) and Roman Žilka (whom I saw to work as a cloakroom attendant and ID badges checker -- work at CVT is obviously good training :-) there by chance.I didn't see

Notebook, finally

2008-04-24T00:45:00.004+02:00

Two weeks ago I got finally a notebook at work. Till then I worked on own old one and had to change broken power supply and HDD in last weeks already. We are slowly (very slowly, as you can see) replacing old notebooks and I was one of two who got them first. I'm glad that my employer chose T61 (review with slightly diff. configuration) with 14.1"w by Lenovo, because I personally would also buy

From ČSOB to eBanka

2008-04-20T18:08:00.030+02:00

This week I got angry a bit on my old bank (ČSOB). They have cancelled my old student (and the only) account, because I didn't bring them the confirmation of study. Although they wrote me 3 times to bring that, I didn't believe they would cancel it :-). Common behaviour in other banks is to change the account type to some generic one. Maybe I had an account with different contract conditions than

Vidi, vidi, vidi

2008-04-06T02:58:00.015+02:00

Yeah, today I have seen last 220th episode of the Naruto. The end is opened enough for at least another 220 episodes. But not for me right now :-).Do you have any suggestions for good and reasonably long anime? I have the Samurai Champloo in my queue already, it has good score. And btw. the Animefest in Brno is getting closer, don't forget to register in time!

I like my new job

2008-04-06T02:53:00.002+02:00

I thought I'll blog more with my move to the Blogspot, but now it's my first submission after nearly 3 months :-(. It's mostly because I was pretty busy at new work in January and February and wasn't able to spend tens of minutes writing anything meaningful in English then at home. March was calmer month already.Although according to my employment contract I should work as programmer, I didn't

Good bye, faculty

2008-01-07T01:24:00.000+01:00

Last two month of previous year I was looking for a new job.The first company I have addressed was Acision. I was interested in the position of Integration Engineer, but when I came there, they offered me the position of Tester. Most time I told them that I'm not interested in Tester, but after two hours I found out that position was not available already. When I thought about Tester at home,

Nice rdesktop utility

2008-01-06T20:40:00.000+01:00

A month ago I have found an interesting utility for rdesktop named the SeamlessRDP. It allows to show the Windows applications as X11 windows. All you have to do is call this utility after logon on the server.$ rdesktop -A -s 'h:\rdp\seamlessrdpshell.exeC:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe'server.localdomain

I want you for ...

2007-12-18T17:48:00.000+01:00

There should be the Uncle Sam poster here :-), but it is so widely used... I want only to ask if you aren't interested in joining us in kenjutsu, jodo or iaido trainings. This term we have a low attendance in comparison with last year and the recruitment leaflets are still not prepared. You can read more on our webpages.Some photos by Valor:

Export/import all your database

2007-12-18T17:30:00.000+01:00

I have many backlogs at the faculty, the one was new server with user databases and other services. So I spent this Sunday moving them from one server to another. PostgreSQL and MySQL were easy, but I had some problems with installing Oracle 10g on Gentoo x86-64. I made a short notes for me on how to export/import data from them.PostgreSQLWith the indentity of user postgres dump all:$ pg_dumpall

Moving to Blogspot

2007-12-17T00:14:00.000+01:00

Update your RSS reader, please. I'm temporarily moving to Blogspot.I planned to create my own simple blogging application, because I hate Blosxom for using PATH_INFO. I have already created the backend for loading/saving blog posts from/in data files, but I won't have time to finish that in near future (for reasons which I'll uncover in another blogpost). The Blogspot was a natural choice,

My daily routine

2007-11-23T21:29:00.000+01:00

I was looking for something in the Google web search history and found statistics of my hourly search activity after nearly two years. Yes, I don't wake up early ;-)

Sad funny recording

2007-11-02T20:36:00.000+01:00

My flatmate and classmate from the secondary school and the university Michal told me, that today on the Internet is popular this recording of a woman calling to some ad distribution company. Something you have heard many times, it is funny and man always thinks if something like that can be real or is well prepared. But this one is different -- it is not much funny, because I know that woman.

LifeInLine in Brno and Pardubice

2007-09-30T21:06:00.000+02:00

Because I had my skate repaired, I joined my friends in skating races. First one in Brno was a dead failure -- I came, put my skates on and started immediately without time to prepare. I started very slow to save my energy for last laps. But I was tired soon and happy to finish at all nearly 5 min slower than last year. Second race was in Pardubice and I was more satisfied with result, although

Repaired inline skate

2007-08-30T20:23:00.000+02:00

Yesterday I made a short trip to Zlín, because I needed to repair my broken inline skate. One of the lace loops cracked during the lace in spring. HELIA Sport sent my skate to some servis in Brno, but I got it back unrepaired. People there suggested me to try Gemma Sport servis (but I didn't have luck there) or send skate to the servis in Zlín. Several months I wasn't able to send the skate by