Why Santa is not visiting kids with dyslexia?:)
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As always with delay, but at least, writing. The weekend of 8-9th of November I’ve spent in Vienna with my girlfriend Ariette. As I’ve only about 140 km to there from the place I live it wasn’t long trip. But I was planning it for a long time. And it was awesome. It’s one the prettiest cities on the world, yeah, I know that I’ve written it before. A real must see.

I’ve attended company event last weekend in Slovakia. It was in the beautiful village called Cicmany. It was nice, but a little crazy. As we were really overworked we wanted to relax, fully relax. So we’ve drunk everything what was in sight, I mean everything. Well, sometimes a man must just reset his mind. And I did it, successfully:)

Anyway beside of drinking there were also other nice activities such as walking on beautiful hills in great company, bow shooting (no, I’m definitively not next Robin Hood for sure, but it was quite nice), and of course pig killing. No I wasn’t killing the pig myself, people from the pension took care of it. And trust me there is nothing better than meat from fresh killed pig. I was about post here the pictures of killing the pig, but decided that it would be too brutal for some people.

Well, learn from Mythbusters!

Cheers = Na zdrowie

Finally I’ve a little time to write about the conference I’ve attended this month. It was Microsoft Technology Summit in Warsaw, Poland. It was a bunch of lectures about current IT stuff. I’ve been on almost all lectures about Active Directory service in which I’m very interested. They were great, especially one given by Tomasz Onyszko. This guy is awesome and really knows his work. There was also a tremendous duet, John and Sally, they’re born to giving lectures. But not all was good. There was a Hyper-V lecture which was pretty lame. It was given by a guy from MS and he really knew the subject. But he was not confident about this technology. Every time somebody asked him a question “Is this a good solution for…?”, he replied “Yes, but if you want to be 100% sure you should do it old fashion way (without virtualization)”. So he didn’t got me into Hyper-V, no sir.

From now on I’m adding second name to my list of favorite writers. First is of course Stephen King. And now second is Kurt Vonnegut. I’ve read Slaughterhouse-Five and I was amazed. Now I’m reading Cat’s Cradle and I know that this is it. This guy is talking to me. My language. My type of thinking. Wow! Unfortunately Mr. Vonnegut died in 2007 so he would not give me new masterpieces. But there are still so many books and short stories he written and I need to read, that I feel safe. For now. But I know that after I’ll read the last, I would miss something. Like a family member. Unbelievable feeling.

Watch the short horror movie which will really shock you at the end. And don’t tell me that you’ve suspected how it would end up, because you don’t!

I was so overworked that I forgot to write that I had a very short vacation this year. And yes, I was in Hungary. I’ve seen the most beatiful lake in the world, Balaton. But weather was awful so I haven’t been in the water:( I was also in the capital of Hungary, Budapest. And I must say wow! It’s the most beatiful city I’ve ever seen. The feel when you’re walking on these very tight streets, it’s underscriptable. You must see and feel it yourself. And these buildings, very old, and quite different from the rest of Europe that I know. It was very nice to be there.

Next episode of my music discoveries. This time I’ve discovered Fear of the Dark - Iron Maiden. It’s good, very good. I like it. As a big horror fan I had funny feeling when guy was singing “I have a constant feel that something’s always here”:)

I like my last.fm subscription and I think I’m gonna keep it. There is still so much music to listen to. Oh, and this is not my favorite kind of music. But maybe that’s why it’s easier for me to write about it. Maybe some day I would write about Aphex Twin, maybe.

I’ve seen the last lecture of Randy Pausch “Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”. And only one thing I can say right now is wow. This guy was amazing (was, because unfortunately he died on 26th of July this year, RIP). I wish I had such professor when I was at university doing my MA. He was quite a guy, with power and energy, and he was very good with people I believe. I was crying at the end of his lecture. It’s worth to spent 1.5 hour, believe me, I’m putting my word on it. Please spare your time, watch it and try to learn something from it. Trust me you need it.