http://www.dmitriev.com/blog This is a private blog of mine where I share my thoughts, concerns or anything else I care to write about. Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:00:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Let's take a look at the elections with the eyes of the web-developer. We'll take a look at following parties: RV, SV, DNA, SP, KrF, V, H, Frp I choose to focus on 4 areas, each of those will get a score -2(awfull), -1(bad), 0(neutral), 1(good), 2(excellent). The areas are: 1. Visual design 2. ... http://www.dmitriev.com/blog/2007-08-27/september-10th-municipal-government-and-county-council-elections/ For those of you who want to use ctwm window manager on ubuntu. I installed ctwm and was surprised that it did not show up among other sessions in the login screen of gdm. With a little research I found that all you have to do is: cd /usr/share/xsessions copy one of those ... http://www.dmitriev.com/blog/2007-08-26/starting-ctwm-on-ubuntu/ I tried installing a WordPress plugin today that should show random picasa albums (Picasa Web Matrix was choosen for the task). Of some reasons it did not work :-(, so I had to dig into code myself. Found out that probably google have changed the structure of the feed, so ... http://www.dmitriev.com/blog/2007-01-22/wp-picasa-plugin-on-dreamhost/ One more gadget in my collection at home is this beatiful Network Storage device with a capacity of slightly over 1Tb :-) It took a night to build RAID5, and another 15 hours to transfer everything from two external hard disks, but after that... it's only joy. It runs scielently ... http://www.dmitriev.com/blog/2007-01-22/new-gadget-network-storage/ I've been shown a little video by a friend of mine and just want to share this one with you. Enjoy beatifull music and amazing 3d graphics. http://www.dmitriev.com/blog/2007-01-22/excellent-music-and-beatiful-3d/ Well if you ever wondered why there was so scilent here I tell you. We were intensively working on redesigning www.kvasir.no so I simply did no have time. Now things are finally falling into the right place (still som bugs to fix) but you can check it out and make a ... http://www.dmitriev.com/blog/2006-10-22/kvasirno-redesign/ Have you ever caught yourself trying to remember a password when asked and then being not able to answer? I did. Not only once. And the strangest thing is that I simply do not remember the password. I have typed it so many times that at the end it sits ... http://www.dmitriev.com/blog/2006-06-27/finger-memory/ Indeed, following ideology: color by itself does not mean anything! Nothing. At all. All taks about some colors not harmonizing with others or meaning something without the surrounding context is shamanism worse then horoscope. "Red means danger" says a man that in the morning had eaten a tomato with fortitude without ... http://www.dmitriev.com/blog/2006-06-18/colors-is-ideology/ I have made changes to the design of this blog throwing away old theme and making a new one. Pretty happy with one. Enjoy. http://www.dmitriev.com/blog/2006-06-16/redesign-of-this-blog/ Often I find myself analyzing the ad, thinking of relevancy towards my query (or page I'm on), etc all this in a blink of an eye and then suddenly I start using ages (comparatively to the milliseconds that went on the previous step) and my thoughts are very strange:   ...how much ... http://www.dmitriev.com/blog/2006-05-03/to-click-or-not-to-click-on-adwords-overture-e-spotting-etc/