Personal Archive
Have time for web-2.0-ing?
4 Comments Published by Alex Gorbachev 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Blogging and PersonalI just wondering how people have time for that twittering, flickering, blogging, facebooking, del.icio.us-ing, listing, and other 42 types whatnot-web-two-point-zero-ing, and still getting some work done and keeping family happy.
I’m definitely doing something wrong here. :-\
I guess I’m just too slow…
See also: blogging time management
Google Toilet Internet Service Provider
1 Comment Published by Alex Gorbachev 1 year, 1 month ago in PersonalGoogle TiSP. Brilliant. GFlush your toilet and you have free broadband internet.
See also: humor
The first skating on the Rideau Canal
2 Comments Published by Alex Gorbachev 1 year, 3 months ago in Photos and PersonalThe weather was excellent last weekend. I was on-call but, fortunately, the world is not without nice people. My colleague Virgil was very kind to cover me for couple hours so that we could enjoy our first skating experience in Ottawa.
There were impressive number of people:
See also: Canada skating
Playing Outside in Freezeing Cold
2 Comments Published by Alex Gorbachev 1 year, 3 months ago in Photos and PersonalMy son Alex is a hero. He spent couple hours outside and by the time I could finally force him to go home the temperature went down to -15 with light breeze and somewhat high humidity. According to the local weather network it felt like 25 below zero.
See also: Canada
Apollo 11 on the moon - tapes lost?
4 Comments Published by Alex Gorbachev 1 year, 3 months ago in PersonalWhile going through my Google Reader today I noticed this post on StorageMojo referencing Washington-Post article. Can anyone believe that someone could actually forget about those hi quality tapes for years? Impossible.
Plenty of sources claiming this was a fake landing I especially like this page with the image:
… and “9 space oddities” from just mentioned […]
Camp Fortune - Night Skiing
0 Comments Published by Alex Gorbachev 1 year, 3 months ago in Photos and PersonalCouple weeks ago we went skiing for the first time in Canada. We choose Camp Fortune for few hours of night skiing - it’s only 15 minutes from downtown Ottawa.
I’ve got one shot to share. It’s not the best but hey my Olympus C-5060 is quite old. I guess I have to think about proper […]
Lone Star Texas Grill
3 Comments Published by Alex Gorbachev 1 year, 3 months ago in Photos and PersonalToday we had a “bye-bye Doug” dinner at Lone Star Texas Grill. From left to right - Alex Jr., me, Paul, Nicole, Olga and Doug (already switched to UK time zone as you can see):
They have excellent Fajitas. Of course, they serve Corona which is my second favorite beer after… eh… well, you know. They […]
Knoblauchrahmsuppe
0 Comments Published by Alex Gorbachev 1 year, 3 months ago in Photos and PersonalIt looks like finally the weather is “nice” enough for skiing. Recalling our skiing trips in Austrian Alps last year I can’t stop thinking about my favorite food there - Knoblauchrahmsuppe. Yum-Yum! I think I can translate it like garlic cream soup. I had to find some local substitutes here in Canada. Nevertheless, it tasted […]
My last hours in Germany… While I enjoyed Munich a lot, it’s time to move. It was a pleasure to work for Amadeus but I am looking forward to my new company. Next time I will write from Canada.
By the way, now you understand why I wasn’t much active last weeks.
Update: Fixed some […]
Moving to Canada… Oracle 10g RAC + Solaris 10g + VMware
17 Comments Published by Alex Gorbachev 1 year, 10 months ago in Oracle and PersonalBig news - I’ve got an exciting opportunity in Ottawa, Canada and finaly we decided to move. Quite a change as we were thinking for few years already to move to… Sydney! So quite an opposite place in the end with rather opposite climate. Once again I can see that my family is the […]
