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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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Travel-o-mania
Okay today was catch up day. Too tired to write much. Too much planning of the trip, and getting the front yard done. More stuff tomorrow, promise. Maybe. At least I finished editing the Style Guide for the justCheckers project. Also played a bit of World of Padman and S.T.A.L.K.E.R., both are quite fun and…
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Too Much Trip Planning
Its late, but I feel obligated to post at least a short blog post. I wanted to write the article today, but time did not permit. Hopefully, I will have more time tomorrow. Anyways, I started the day with the hope of completing a good chunk of the “landscaping” project. But I started late in…
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New Feature: Feature Articles
Starting with hopefully tomorrow, I want to introduce a new feature to this blog. I would like present a few articles about the game development, the open source/free culture world, and computing in general. Hopefully, I can share with you some ideas I notice as a person who lives and breathes in these three, often…
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Dell and Ubuntu! w00t!
I know this like old news by the time I post this. But dude, you can get Ubuntu from Dell! While Dell only officially supports three models right now, I can say that Ubuntu runs just great on my Dell Dimension 9150. Anyways, enough about my stuff. Everyone who likes Linux and especially Ubuntu, you…
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When Things Fall (Part 2)
I wanted to write and post the second part yesterday. But having scraped my fingers whilst gardening, any finger intensive activity like blogging or gaming had to be postponed. Now my fingers seem better, so I will continue where I left off… (Monday) …having arrived late into the night from Niagara Falls, I was not…