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mFlow: music-on-demand start-up

mFlow is a very nice and interesting start-up based in Chiswick. They do music streaming on demand, just like Spotify. You can listen it for free. I don’t claim to understand their business model (OK, fine, you can buy music there as well, but so you can in zillion other places) but they are [...]

Q: How To Sneak Into Google Office (A: NO WAY!)

This way clearly doesn’t work, so don’t try it at home to repeat it.

On engineers, physicists and mathematicians. Best quote ever.

An engineer thinks that his equations are an approximation to reality. A physicist thinks reality is an approximation to his equations. A mathematician doesn’t care.

Honestly, this could easily be the best and most apt phrase I ever heard. Does anyone know who should I attribute this quote to?

Space Odyssey 2001

To be perfectly honest, I cannot give a definitive answer on how did I miss this particular novel (and even more than that, three following ones!) by Arthur Clarke – when I was a child and a teenager I used to read every possible bit of science fiction I could came across. Yet not this [...]

Google Chrome OS and Cr-48 and 3G connectivity using Vodafone, O2, T-Mobile UK

Despite rather lengthy title, the post itself will be rather short and straight to the point. If you are lucky owner of Cr-48 Chrome OS netbook and very inconsiderably live outside of the United States (like, you know, some of us happen to be), you can still get a joy of wireless 3G connectivity. Not [...]

On ushankas, balalaikas and international ignorance

You know, when I first left my motherland, it struck me how much people’s ideas about Russia are ruled by Hollywood stereotypes (bears in ushankas drinking vodka on a Red Square accompanying themselves with balalaikas and garmoshkas — did I miss anything?). Bit later I realised this isn’t only Hollywood — e.g. episode 6, Skins, [...]

While you’re waiting for your Natty Narwhal…

Waiting for a Natty Narwhal to come and save us.

“Ah, this is so un-Agile” or Agile People Still Don’t Get It

Early in the development cycle, it’s perfectly acceptable to go for a policy of “zero bugs” and “100% tests”. But as the deadline looms, these choices need to be reconsidered all the time and evaluated while keeping a close eye of the final goal. Very often, Agilists simply forget that their job is to produce [...]

Java Forever

…from creators of Javatar and .NOT…

— Mom? I have a confession to make. I use Java.
— What the hell are you talking about?
— I want to use a programming language which doesn’t only run in Windows.

My, this is so full of win!

— Hey, what are you guys up to?

Remote madness

Tried to assist my sister with filling in an online payment form to her summer college in London. I couldn’t make TeamViewer (which is great by all means) to work on my laptop (it just keeps failing and closing), so I had to make an SSH tunnel to my home iMac via my NAS, forward [...]