Category: Life

  • A Free Society Needs a Free Market and Free Software

    A few days ago I finished reading Richard Stallman’s “Free Software, Free Society”. The book consists of a number of interesting, well-written essays on the philosophy and history of the free software movement. Most people heard of open source as a practical development paradigm and distribution method. Eric Raymond’s “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” describes…

  • PSA: Elections in Ontario & Referendum

    Today, we Ontarians get to pick a new premier. Lets hope its someone who can actually deliver to help the majority of people, instead of just promising. The more pressing issue is a referendum. The question is whether we stick with the current system. Or do we go the “mixed member proportional system”. The current…

  • What I Am Thankful For

    Today is Thanksgiving, at least in Canada. You Americans, will have to wait for few more days. This year I want to thank a number of people for this and past years. Thank you to my classmates and writing friends in my Professional writing classes, for helping edit and improve my writing pieces. Thank you,…

  • Happy Birthday Bro

    Just wanted to say happy birthday to my brother, Martin. He turned 15 today… this year he borrows my computer to play games. Next year, he will want to borrow my car. Just you wait and see.

  • Let the Mad Scribblings

    It took me some time. But now I am ready. I caught up with most of backlog of work, and now I can finally sit down and work on something productive. After much debate, and internal conflict I brought myself to writing a novel. Its a new idea that spawned in my brain, early this…

  • 6 Weeks Away and Everything Changes

    I go away for 6 weeks and everything here changes. Its a strange feeling. When you live in a place for so long, that everything seems in stasis but its not. Maybe I am just noticing something everyone knows about. So while I was away, my best friend Dmitri and his girlfriend Sarah got engaged.…

  • Home Again, Home Again…

    Back in sunny, and fortunately not scorching-hot Toronto. Actually, I flew in on Wednesday but I need about two days to unpack, clean up and readjust. Everything around the house is still in various levels of disorganization, disaster and chaos. So nothing much changed since I left, at least around here. Anyways, currently I am…

  • Chilling in Umbria

    Okay. I admit it: I have been too lazy to write updates in a while. Instead I am enjoying the “high” life in Terni, Italy. Mostly just learning Italian (Mia italiano e povero, perche sono canadese e non sono italiano.) via translation from Polish (yes, its doable), travelling and chilling. Travelling certainly expands one’s perspective…

  • Telegramic Greetings from Poland

    Just wanted to leave a note to all my readers… (the approx. 10 of you, please correct me if I am wrong). I am currently outside my birth city Szczecin in beautiful Poland. Having a wonderful time. Finally stopped raining… and I leave for Italy and Rome on Tuesday. Will write soon. Maybe.

  • In Reverse Chronology

    Yesterday, I turned 24. Or 109 in dog years. I feel old when I think about it that way. But then again, reflecting back these past 24 years have been eventful. Thanks to everyone who helped, guided and positively influenced me over the course of those years. I just hope that the next 24 years…