So I go into Windows Task Manager and see this.

Let me explain why it’s so much. 10 megabytes is the chat functions. The other 90 is the set of animated smileys.

Choosing between an Apple iPad 2 64 GB WiFi+GSM and some other cooler gadget, I didn’t think long and picked the cooler gadget: a second-generation “Digilent-Basys” development board.

The development board has a Xilinx 3S100E FPGA installed, with a degree of integration of 100,000 logic gates, which …

I finished reading Jiří Toman’s book “How to Improve Yourself.” The book was published in 1980 in Prague, and in 1988 it was translated into Ukrainian and published in Kyiv by the publishing house for political literature.

The book covers questions such as:

1. What would you like to achieve …

I go to http://cist.kture.kharkov.ua in the morning to check the schedule, and here they tell me: “ORA-20001: Your IP address has been blocked.”

What’s that about? To check the class schedule at KhNURE, do you have to go to the institute?

P. S. They unblocked …

There’s an opinion that all processes in life happen in cycles. Here things are going badly for us. Then something gets a little better, then everything is absolutely wonderful. We’re at the top. At this point we realize that happiness can’t last forever, and the next downturn …

Construction in Ukraine has its own peculiarities. At the minibus loop by Proletarska, they were rapidly building a simple little one-story shop. They built and built, and finally built it. Once, walking past, I even saw the signs: “Inexpensive Shoes” and “We’re Open.”

But with the arrival of spring …

Bless, O Lord, my computer for the successful installation of the first service pack for Visual Studio; deliver the installer from the evil one and grant rest to the souls of the temporary files. Amen!

The service pack installer is competently made. As the components are downloaded, they start getting …

I’ve had cases like this in my practice: you ask a programmer to make some feature, and he answers, “It’s impossible to make it.” I ask, “Why?” and he replies, “I read such-and-such documentation, looked at such-and-such example, tried doing it this way and that way, and realized …

The rules are very simple. You have to come to any city. Buy stamps and a postcard with an image of that city. On the back, write under what circumstances you ended up in that city. Then put down your home address and drop the postcard in a mailbox.

Axiom …

Anna Herman reported on the workaday life of Ukrainian patriots:

“Three very nice women came to see me from Lviv. And they said, Ms. Anna, let’s talk it over, what are we going to do, since a very good Lviv woman, a patriot, has been arrested, and we need …