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Art at Bratislava Public Transport Stops

Interesting street art initiative started to pop up in Bratislava, specifically at the bus and tram stops. An unknown person has been installing animal symbols on the public transportation stop signs. As you can see from the pictures below, different animals have been spotted – a cow, a dog, a cat, a bat and some [...]

May 25, 2012 at 00:47 :: Filed under Musings :: [*] :: No Comments ::

Think Globally, Act Locally

‘Local character’ is thus no mere accidental old-world quaintness, as its mimics think and say. It is attained only in course of adequate grasp and treatment of the whole environment, and in active sympathy with the essential and characteristic life of the place concerned. Patrik Geddes, a pioneer in town planning Although, the meaning of [...]

February 6, 2012 at 13:04 :: Filed under Musings, Politics :: [*] :: 2 Comments ::

Sergei Einsenstein’s Strike, Music by Alloy Orchestra

Found in this wonderful guide to 420 free movies that you can watch online, Strike is a early communist propaganda movie by the director Sergei Eisenstein. His another well-known propaganda movie is The Battleship Potemkin and is also now in public domain. Both of them are silent movies and many bands has composed soundtrack later. [...]

October 4, 2011 at 20:42 :: Filed under Musings :: [*] :: No Comments ::

Facebook Comments Box Indexable and Crawlable by the Search Engines

SEOMoz community member Roy Peleg writes about how to make the Facebook comments (part of the Facebook comments box iframe) indexable and crawlable by the search engines including Google. He links to a PHP script that basically pulls out comments from the API: http://www.rayhe.net/fb/comments.phps and inserts them into a page. He writes: So basically you [...]

June 16, 2011 at 11:37 :: Filed under Internet, Musings :: [*] :: 1 Comment ::

Cycle The World (You Will, Guys, You Will!)

I received a message from my friends in Vienna about a German couple that is on their way around the world… on bike. They asked me, if I would be able to host them in Bratislava. Am I able to host somebody cycling around the world? That’s a courage I like, so definitely: yes! Andreas [...]

March 31, 2011 at 23:40 :: Filed under Musings :: [*] :: 1 Comment ::

Retrofitting Bike Light (Old Dynamo Bulb to a Battery LED)

My friend teased me to retrofit a headlight on my old bicycle, so I accepted the challenge. After spending few bucks on small soldering iron, custom switch and a new ultrabright LED flashlight, I started to work on it. First, dismantling the whole thing, picking out a bulb and other small items included in the [...]

March 1, 2011 at 20:48 :: Filed under Musings :: [*] :: 4 Comments ::

5 Google Tools for Collaboration in Groups

After spending some time creating a closed online community based solely around Google services, I have few recommendations for smaller groups on what online tools to use. Gmail – although well-known, it still helps to have a common email environment, when collaborating using Google tools. Not only because it integrates well with other Google services, [...]

January 25, 2011 at 19:55 :: Filed under Internet, Musings :: [*] :: No Comments ::

KDE, XFCE et al.

I’ve been using KDE since my final migration to Linux operating system in 2005. It used to be useful, although ugly looking environment in its first versions. KDE version 3 set the standard and KDE version 4 has improved over it. But including inclusion of the Plasma desktop instead of experimental SuperKaramba used previously has [...]

From Terminals to… Terminals

The irony of how we use computers. When the processor time was expensive, there was only one heavy computer with lots of terminals connected for access. Then the personal computers came and suddenly, everyone had to have one bragging about their hardware, processor type, memory size etc. Then came the internet and with the broadband [...]

November 23, 2010 at 23:07 :: Filed under Internet, Musings :: [*] :: 5 Comments ::

New York City, Fall 2008

Folklore. That of New York consist of honking cars speeding in the streets. Red light or traffic jam? So what?! To honk here means to get done with your morning hygiene. Saturday’s night belongs to fours. The fours of young girls walking on the streets, hailing taxis or getting out of them. Better living in [...]

November 20, 2010 at 03:21 :: Filed under Musings :: [*] :: No Comments ::

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