A mirror, hammer and a string
by Primož on Dec.23, 2009, under Maelstrom
These days I rarely take time to think, theorize, or simply reflect on current problems and my decisions… reflect… such a nice word that embraces both time and space. It actually means “to recreate” and review. Well, right now I happen to have time to do this. To review things and realign my ambitions and plans. Even the weather is appropriate, warm and sunny, a completely different situation compared to the past weekend, and the ambient, music and the tea I’m drinking, make all of this easier and pleasant.
Yesterday I was suddenly struck by an urge to grab my guitar and play some music. The thing is, my guitar’s at home, so I borrowed one from one of my friends for a short time. It’s funny though, I’ve never felt the need or such a strong desire to play this instrument before. It was always either because I had to practice, or because I didn’t have anything better to do. This time it was the other way around. And it still is, so I’m quite anxious to come home this Thursday and put my hands on my guitar. Might aswell take some time to learn to play some new songs. (continue reading…)
From darkness to light
by Primož on Dec.06, 2009, under Maelstrom
Guess what? Time Recursion is back! After more than two weeks of complete darkness, the blog is finally lit up. Litterarily, almost like a Christmass tree. My old hosting provider, Talkhost, has ended it’s free hosting program, so I had to find another one. It’s quite sad, really, because in all those years, starting in the middle of August 2004 (that was even before Time Recursion was created), the Talkhost users and staff have become like a second family to me. Regretfully, as you can see, Time Recursion is far from it’s former shape. I didn’t have a recent backup, and all I could find was a month old database dump, so all the pictures in the previously posted articles are missing. I’ll try and find them again, but I fear it’s going to be an impossible task (except for the ones I took myself). Unless a spark of luck shines in my direction and the Talkhost owner contacts me back with the backup. But that’s a bit optimistic at this time, I guess.
How to safeguard your gadgets: Introduction
by Primož on Aug.30, 2009, under Maelstrom
[SinglePic not found]Nowadays we’ve become quite dependant on various electronic gadgetry, and there is hardly a day, that we don’t text, call, or in any other way contact somebody, look up for various information, or simply play around with our multi-functional cellphone, mp3, laptop or who-knows what else. Because of lightning fast advancements in high-technology, most of this gadgets pose with a colorful palette of options and features (which are mostly without any practical value, but do help us shovel away more time, trying to figure out what to do with them), luring us into entrusting them with more of our personal data and thus making themselves even more indispensable.
This is good in a way, since we have instant access to almost everything we need wherever we go, but what happens if we loose, misplace, or God forbid, someone steals our precious cellphone? In that case my friends, we’re on a roller-coaster that has a stinky pond as a final stop, in other words, we’d be better off losing our wallet.
Water, I need water!
by Primož on Jul.26, 2009, under Maelstrom
[SinglePic not found]The rain has softly passed our soil during night time, but just barely decreased the temperature and increased the unbearable humidity. The lack of a proper air conditioner only adds to the alarmingly high level of boredness and at the same time, the wish for doing nothing at all all day.
On the bright side, I’ve finally sweeped off the dust off my guitar and started practicing again. After almost two years of hiatus I’m actually pleasantly surprised that I still remember all chords that I knew before and can find most of their scales without having to look them up. There is one downside though. My fingers aren’t used to the metallic strings of my acoustic guitar anymore, so the progress is quite slow. It’ll also take some time to regain my previous agility in changing chords and staying in rhythm, which is proving to be quite a pain in the ass right now.
Time, perception and fare
by Primož on Jun.29, 2009, under Maelstrom
[SinglePic not found]I know, I know. I’m late. Again. Well, it seems like you’ll have to get used to it. However, the site itself gives me a pretty good excuse for this seemingly outrageous time gap in my writing. There is no time. So technically, everything is happening at exactly the same time, but since you don’t have the ability to foresee the future, my time bubble is impenetrable, and thus the news come with a delay.
Anyway, I’m at the University right now, just finished writing an exam, and am preparing for two more that are coming this Friday. (continue reading…)
A new Wave
by Primož on May.31, 2009, under On the Net, Wonders
[SinglePic not found]The time is ticking again, and surprisingly enough, the Internet has prepared a handful of new surprises in the meantime. Probably one of the most anticipated and revolutionary that is sure to reshape and realign the development on the Big web and might as well be called the innovation of the decade, is Wolfram’s WolframAlpha web search engine.
Some of you, mostly those that are in Computer Science, Mathematics or Physics related studies have already met Wolfram Mathematica, a great piece of software that’s become quite indispensable in my every day’s life. And now, we can finally enjoy all of the beauties, functionality and computational power of its algorithms on the Internet, for free. But the awesomeness doesn’t stop here, it continues with the search engine’s capability to serve you some cold facts about countries, finances, cities, important personalities and even more, all enriched with additional charts and data to help you get what you want. The usefulness of WolframAlpha is so enormous, that there’s been already released a Firefox plugin, that let’s you integrate Wolfram’s search in your Google home page. Now what do you want more for a perfect browsing experience?
Duke Nukem Fornever
by Primož on May.08, 2009, under Recreation
[SinglePic not found]It’s hardly possible that you’ve not yet heard about the Duke Nukem franchise, except if you’re not interested in computer games, and you’re still in primary school. The first three games, bearing this title have been released in the distant nineties in the previous millennium. The last one, Duke Nukem 3D started its sales in 1996, evoking a revolution among the 3D games and their game play, and meant a big step forward in both visual and playing experience. The extraordinary reception of the game led to the first announcement of the future game, called Duke Nukem Forever in 1997, which, according to the sources, should be released “soon”. Everything else is history.
In the past, almost twelve years, we’ve been witnessess to an endless massive campaigns promoting this game all around, showing us inside peaks, and promises of the upcoming release, to the point it all began to look like a bad hoax.
Tick, tock, … duck?
by Primož on May.03, 2009, under Maelstrom
[SinglePic not found]Time is definitely not a statically defined unit as many want to make us believe. If it would be, I wouldn’t be here writing this, wondering how could I have not updated my blog in such a long time, and at the same time thinking, but hey, didn’t I write that fat food article only yesterday? The same applies to much feared long minutes of waiting, before being coldly invited in the professor’s room for another, even longer dose of anguish, fear and torture, before being awarded a grade, usually not in the least resembling my expectations.
While the perception of my efforts towards the freshness of the contents of Time Recursion may seem to me quite frequent, the past week has been archived in my memory as one of the longest, and possibly the best I’ve had in the past years. (continue reading…)
Big tasty fat Mac
by Primož on Apr.16, 2009, under Experience
[SinglePic not found]Shoving aside the largely unsuccessfully propagated, mostly true and real prejudices about the dangerously low health factor of fast-food and similar mostly American “fat-food goods”, I was delighted to stop at McDonald’s last evening. Again. After a few days’ break though, to console the irritated uprising horde of readers flashing a mix of alarming reactions on their clearly shocked faces. Hey, I can’t help myself! A nicely packed, warm, tasty Big-Mac is still a Big-Mac, no matter the rampaging economic crisis. And surprisingly enough, an unhealthy meal at the said “restaurant” is still much cheaper and commonly affordable than it’s healthy equivalent of the same caloric composition served in a fancier ambient. And not to mention that it takes less time and effort to order and consume it!
Bed, my sweet bed…
by Primož on Apr.07, 2009, under Experience
[SinglePic not found]Whew, it’s over. The hectic days I mean. This weekend has been packed with various scouting events, preparations for the Day of youth in our local Catholic community, studying for an exam, and not to talk about the unexpected attack on one of the sites I help to manage. I really had a hard time locating all the compromised files and ensuring better security. And there are still things I have to take care of, but at least the schedule’s not so tight anymore.
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