The metro has a new design for the metro line map. Now every station has its own icon (a pictogram, that is). I dare say this is a kind of innovation. As far as I know, there’s nothing else like it anywhere in the world.

Proletarska — a hammer and …

Let’s talk about Kharkiv news. But not about events in our glorious city—about Internet news services. Since I rarely get to watch TV the window into Hell, I subscribed to several online news feeds. Let’s go through each of them.

• Media Group “Objective” The quality of the …

Nice setup the guy’s got. He fixes computers exclusively for girls.

I wonder what “Hairy diCUBE” is? Is it popular with the target audience?

Yesterday I read in the news:

Voting in the metro is taking place for the first time, Viktoria Belan, press secretary of the municipal enterprise Kharkiv Metro, told MediaPort. The purpose of the event is to find out whether Kharkiv residents are satisfied with how the subway is run.

The …

Many people have already noticed the appeal from Jimmy Wales — the founder of Wikipedia, beloved by us all. As we know, Wikipedia operates on voluntary donations, as well as the work of millions of volunteers around the world. Every year, closer to Christmas, Jimmy Wales calls on people to make …

On the first day of the last month of autumn, a terrible traffic accident occurred in Kharkiv.

A streetlight pole, traveling in the left lane in violation of the speed limit, decided to perform a maneuver prohibited on this section of the highway: overtaking a car. After crossing the double …

So I’m checking the blg’s visitor stats in the morning and I see:

Who would have thought people read from iPads more often than from Windows NT. By the way, Other Unix is probably Ubuntu. I knew it: they don’t count that distro as Linux.

Two postcards arrived today, on the same day. One from Moscow, the other from Myrhorod. The one from Myrhorod set a record for delivery speed. Just on Saturday, November 13, I dropped it in the mail in Myrhorod, and today, on the evening of November 15, it was already lying …

I continue studying the user interfaces of Microsoft—the leading corporation in developing office products. Last time we drew your attention to the alignment of numeric data in Outlook. Today we’ll be talking about saving files in PowerPoint.

One typical operation is saving each slide of a presentation as …

A correspondent from Prague reports:

As of January 1, citizens of the Czech Republic are allowed to have on them: up to 15 grams of marijuana, up to four ecstasy tablets, two grams of amphetamine, one and a half grams of heroin, one gram of cocaine. They are also allowed …