Archive for February, 2007

Not waking your opponent 5 comments »

This weekend, I was at a tournament. Saturday was not nice, I got just one win out of three, in the first game. Second game was a loss against Vladimir Danek, in a position that was impossible to lose. So third game was an automatical loss too (you know, totally demotivated). Then I didn’t sleep […]

Posted on 2007-28-02 in go, random thoughts
EYGML Be the first to comment! »

EYGML stands for European Youth Go Masters League. I’ve been creating (official) EYGML 2007 pages. I have learned a lot of new things, and I have refreshed some that I knew already…
I’ve…

…discovered some xhtml/css tricks (like using double divs right inside each other to avoid weird margin adding).
…learned to work with GIMP (using layers religiously) […]

Posted on 2007-22-02 in computers, go
IQ 4 comments »

I’ve completed an official Mensa IQ test a few years ago. When one of the organizing guys was telling us the results, he has taken me aside, which suggested something special - I scored 144. That means that I should be able to solve IQ tests better than about 99.8% of people. I considered it […]

Posted on 2007-15-02 in random thoughts
Cross-country skiing Be the first to comment! »

I’ve just returned from a four day cross-country skiing trip. It was great.
Although the snow was rather wet (temperatures above zero all the the time), the weather was nice and I hope we all had a good time (I did). We played various (mostly silly but funny) games, we talked a lot (there were some […]

Posted on 2007-11-02 in sport, travelling
Amarok 2 comments »

The creators of Amarok say “rediscover your music”… and I did.
I always thought that having playlists and just opening them with any simple player was enough for me, but now I thought I might try to use something more sophisticated. I tried Rhythmbox, it was simple, clean and working but nothing astonishing. On the other […]

Posted on 2007-05-02 in linux, music