Some people think that I “understand computers”, which in their mind somehow implies that I will be able to solve their Micro$hit Windoze (tm) problems (tm). They know that I use linux and that I hate Windows (tm), but that doesn’t stop them from asking me various questions about how to solve their various Windows problems (ranging from networking problems (I only know that ifconfig is called ipconfig in windows and that’s about it), through undeleting their deleted files, to questions about obscure things concerning Word and Excel).

It is completely beyond me why they think I will be able to help them (and that I will actually want to :-)). Go and ask Bill Gates, he is responsible for your Windows related problems…

Well, I once posted some optical illusions, and now I found a site that has them all. Yup, pretty much all the optical illusions that are, they are about 60.

Humm, it would be probably useless to write more shit^HH^HHstuff here, so I will just send you to the optical illusions page.

As a side note, I feel really exhausted now, not sure why, haven’t done anything tiring today and it is only eleven o’clock…

They built a bus stop just in front of our house. It is only used by night buses, which none of our family uses much, so it is pretty useless for us. The bus goes up the hill so as it accelerates it makes a horrible noise.

Now to get to the main point – there are english speaking (or more like english shouting ;-)) students waiting for the bus almost every hour from 10 in the evening till 1 at night, and most of my relatives want to sleep by then.

I was sent to talk with the students (who are often a bit drunk already) and found out they were coming from Vinařská campus. They have one bus stop that is closer and down the hill (as opposed to the one by our house which is up the hill for them). Some of them didn’t know about it and some just said they were used to coming all the way up the hill to our bus stop. So now I go there every night almost every hour to give them little papers that contain a map showing the closer station and I explain them how efficient it will be for them to go there next time they want to get to the city.
One really surprising thing is that these are only foreign students (and I met several 5-30 people groups), some of them are apparently French (yeah, all the French people speak English in their own French way), but they are probably from all the different countries because else they would just speak French. :-)

And the point of all this? … You were expecting a point, huh?

I’ve just returned from six hours long go playing session. It was in a tea-room called “Chajovna” (in Brno, Dominikánské náměstí 6/7) and I really liked it. I haven’t been going to Brno go club lately (for several years :-)), but I think I will now start going to Chajovna more often (I’d even dare to say regularly, but that seems a bit too binding ;-)).

Most of go playing people there are beginners, but there seem to be a few single kyuish people and hopefully my presence will also bring in some more serious players. :-D

Anyway, the atmosphere alone was enough to make it a very nice experience.

Huh, well, yeah, I am czech student champion.

I won all six games, but most were against kyu players, so it doesn’t really count…

I was rather lucky in game against Písa (1dan), where he managed to perfectly destroy my moyo/influence, then I beat Hezi (5dan, 2nd strongest czech player) in a crazy game where I played for influence and he played for territory (usually it is the other way around). Another game worth mentioning was against Bróňa (1kyu) whom I’ve beaten by 4 or 5 points after crushing him in the endgame (so I must had been losing before).

For the first place I won 500CZK (cca 18€) – w00t. (yeah, it barely paid travel expenses…)

Another second place on a go tournament in a short time frame, though this one wasn’t such a succes as I was theoretically strongest there (according to the Go rating). But in fact I was rather lucky in some of my games.

The tournament was very nice, with a small and very cheap bar just at the playing place and many pubs near. One could even watch films in the evening or drink vodka with people from Poland :-)

Kudos to Janek for winning the tournament without a single loss and to Tomik for finally getting 1d.

I just finished about half an hour long session of shooting/killing/getting killed. Cube is wonderful FPS (First Person Shooter) written by Aardappel. It is small (30MB but 25MB is just maps ;-)), free and runs smoothly on my old comp even in 1280x1024.

The game is very fast paced, there isn’t much tactic involved, just take the opponents down. :-) I’d invite some additional features like different colours for players and team game and CTF (Capture The Flag), but it seems that the creator isn’t going to implement it (he is not really interested in gaming… quite strange).

Anyway the game is very easy to handle and completely addictive. :-)

Some people comment spam on blogs. There are quite a lot of them. Maybe it would be more appropriate to say that there are still people who actually don’t comment spam…

Most of the comment spam is pretty obvious – usually dozens of pr0n, pills or casino links stuffed in a single post. If the maintainer cares at least a bit, it is pretty easy to get rid of this kind of spam.

However, I’ve recently seen something much more clever. There was a normal comment below a blog post, signed by “Cycate Kobiety”. Even with my poor knowledge of Polish I felt this wasn’t the actual name of the poster. With some help from a dictionary (and also by actually having a look at the site ;-)) I concluded that it means something like “busty girls”. That is truely ingenious. The American owner who barely knows where Poland is (no offence), won’t think there is anything weird about the name “Cycate Kobiety” and will just let it go.

People who spam like this don’t even harm maintainer or readers. And if the comment is particulary enlightening it can even be beneficial for the blogger and his readership.

Now I just hope I won’t rank in SERPs for “cycate kobiety”, that would be awkward ;-)

“I live my life one stone at a time; for that one stone, nothing else matters, not my school, not the disgusting world.”

I thought that this quote just deserved a special post. I found it in KGS’ user info of suilki.

The more I read it the more I like it. Any explanation seems to be just twaddle, you have to feel the same way to understand it.

Googlebombing is getting a certain webpage to the top results of google search just by anchor text in links to it (the page doesn’t have to contain the words (in fact when we talk about googlebomb it shouldn’t contain them at all)). The most well-known googlebomb is search for words miserable failure returning biography of George W. Bush on the first place. Google responded to people who complained about this being unfair.

A friend of mine incidentally googlebombed himself with the word operanda. He accidentally put his “secret” nick into anchor text of a link to his homepage on a PR4 page (which is full of links so this one shouldn’t have much weight). This link alone was enough to make his homepage rank first out of about 600 results (even though all of them contain the word, some even multiple times).