Time, perception and fare
by Primož on Jun.29, 2009, under Maelstrom
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
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
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
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
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
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.
In the wake of uncertainty
by Primož on Mar.31, 2009, under On the Net
As I write this, we’re nearing midnight here, and with this the 1st of April, when the Conficker worm is believed to strike. You probably already know about this, or have heard about this imminent threat, because of all the hype the mass media have created around it. And how they couldn’t! It’s one of the smartest worms ever designed, and has already infected more than 3,000,000 computers worldwide.
But why are people so afraid of it, and why there’s no good way to get rid of it (Well, that’s not completely true, you can disable it without much problems, the hard part is finding out whether you are infected with it, and preventing from getting infected again)? (continue reading…)
The Watchmen
by Primož on Mar.30, 2009, under Multimedia
Maybe you’ve been wondering why there’s been no word from me for such a long time, or maybe you’ve been even glad about my silence. In any case, brace yourselves, ’cause I’m back! I’ve been busy, either working for various projects, and among other things also watching movies. One that caught my attention lately was the Watchmen movie.
Why, well, those of you who know me a bit better, or have read some of my earlier articles, will quickly make the connection. I’m a science fiction, fiction and action lover and I love good movies. And this one was awesome! Not just because of the story, which thankfully, hasn’t changed much from the comics, but more because of the way it was filmed. Do you remember the movies Sin City, 300 or Kill Bill? (continue reading…)
Meteotek experiment
by Primož on Mar.19, 2009, under The Sky
Earlier this month, a group of four Spanish students launched their own weather probe and proved, that you don’t need millions of dollars and high-tech equipment to accomplish what space and weather agencies do.
After almost half a year of preparations, tests and calculations, they finally assembled their probe and sent it towards the sky with great anticipation. The probe was equipped with a GPS module, a photo camera and instruments to measure air temperature, humidity and pressure.
Rubik’s cube got round
by Primož on Mar.10, 2009, under Experience
About a month ago, at the Nuremberg Toy fair in Germany, the new Rubik’s puzzle was officially presented. It’s called Rubik’s 360, and is in fact a sphere and not a cube anymore! To be more precise, this new wonder is composed of three spheres, that contain six balls, which you have to move all the way to the outer shell, and place them in their corresponding places. This new creation is less complicated, from the mathematical standpoint, than the original cube, and there are no mathematic algorithms involved in any of it’s solutions, but this doesn’t mean that it doesn’t represent any challenge. By the looks of it, and by what the demonstration video shows, it’s evident that it’s quite easy to spend a lot of time to solve this new puzzle.
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