Category: personal

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Parliament election

My first experience as an observer happened ten years ago in 2011. It was really bracing experience that changed my attitude towards government and mass media.Since then many things changed, I have much less time to spare now and election was stretched for three days making it more challenging to observe.

Marrow spread

It was a period in my life when I ate marrow spread a lot. My father worked in sales for a company that produced variety of canned goods. So, sometimes instead of money he got a lot of canned vegies. Marrow spread was the best among them. I could eat entire jar in one attempt.

Alpha Defeat

Another long story finished recently. Crooks form Alpha-insurance were trying to get extra money. But choose a wrong target. It all begins in 2018…

Blood donation

For a long time, I was thinking that people already found a way to make artificial leather, diamonds, and blood. It turns out that with blood I was wrong. In my previous job, I’ve met with couple guys who were regular donors and they told me about the constant demand for all types of blood. […]

Back to office

I’d been working from home since last March and almost etrirely forgot about office. However life is going forward and I decided to return to Moscow Boeing Design Center. That is why my remote working was over on Monday.

Subsonic goes wrong

Not long ago I was bolstering  that I have my own music server and don’t need to pay monthly to listen music I’ve already purchased. You could imagine my surprise when I saw the message in android app that my trial period of Subsonic  license expired and I need to pay 1$ a month to […]

Censorship and VPN

In Russia goverment is trying to control everything: from oil production and pasta price to information. During the first Putin’s term he destroyed independent TV. It was explained as a fight against oligrachs, that controled media. As a result state controls all TV channels now and there is no place for Kremlin critics there.

COVID-19 trial update

I wrote back in December about my paticipation in COVID-19 vaccine trial. Since then I am in weekly contact with my doctor, and nothing serious happens except first days temperature. Meanwhile, I have a lot things to do in public places which have been postponed since last March. So, I decided to take a test […]

Hardware fun

I published my first site about five years ago. At first, I used the free hosting platform Infinityfree that has multiple limitations and was unavailable from time to time, then I moved to cheap Hostbudget hosting. It was really awesome. All that tools for managing e-mail, instaling software in one click, SEO, and so on […]

MSC conference

Yesterday I took part in the 20th annual conference of MSC Software. This company was formed in the US in 1963. Their goal was to develop a program for finite element analysis. To make a long story short, this method allows engineers to split the complex tasks into small pieces that could be analyzed using […]