30 Jun
USSR in one picture: Uchquduq photo gallery. So typically sweet and native I am dying from nostalgia! This is a different country now – Uzbekistan.
P.S. Кстати, это Учкудук – “три колодца” – город шахтёров и металлургов – бывший оазис в пустыне.
Posted in Facts, Personal by: Alexey
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22 Jun
I’ve passed the “Sun Certified Business Component Developer for J2EE 1.3″ today. With amazingly high score of 95% (67 of 70 questions answered correctly). I’m saying amazingly because I did not really expect that. My knowledge of EJB 2.0 faded since I last worked with it (back in 2004). What I did to prepare is [...]
Posted in Java, Occurrences, Software Development by: Alexey
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17 Jun
Real life mis-spellings (saw them during last two days):
MDB = Massage Driven Bean (sorry this one is Java specific)
… CMMI curses are available … (from a corporate email)
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16 Jun
История немного неприятная, так что если вы едите, то сначала поешьте, а потом возвращайтесь дочитывать. Неделю назад мы заметили, что на дорожке вдоль канала, где мы гуляем, явно воняет разложившимся трупиком. Потом Юля сказала, что видела в канале труп собаки. Пару дней назад мы заметили, что собаку кто-то выращил и бросил в траву у забора. [...]
Posted in Facts, Life in the UK by: Alexey
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13 Jun
Вопрос: как, по вашему мнению, среагирует англичанин, если ему сказать невзначай: “как пел Модерн Токинг в песне ‘Брат Луи’…”? Именно так примерно я заявил в одной беседе за обедом. В ответ – полное недоумение. Два англичанина и один автралиец – никто ни разу не слышал ни их песен, ни даже названия группы. Причина была выяснена [...]
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10 Jun
I’ve recently found that the two petitions I signed (I’ve mentioned one of them already) were not just lonely voices of desperate people. Petitions were against a change in the UK immigration law that was applied retrospectively to current Work Permit and HSMP visa holders. A group of volunteers created a web site called Voice [...]
Posted in Life in the UK by: Alexey
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04 Jun
I found it irritating that 15 seconds delay before calls to my mobile get forwarded to voicemal is too small. Quite often I just can’t get to the phone in time to pick up a call. Here is what T-Mobile support suggested. There is a USSD sequence that you should send in order to increase [...]
Posted in Facts by: Alexey
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