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Russia’s Putin Reclaiming Dominant Role in Former Soviet Union – COLUMN – MOSNEWS.COM: At the center of the Russian policy in the region is a determination to resist the West’s efforts to boost its influence at Russia’s expense, in what Moscow says is falsely portrayed as a bid to promote democracy. Let’s just take a … Read more

WinXP and OSX dual boot in MacBook Pro: Finally I’ve succeeded in installing Windows XP in MacBook Pro. Now it can dual boot between Windows XP and MacOS X. There’re few issues with windows xp but being able to boot smoothly between these 2 OSes are really amazing. I do consider myself a geek, and … Read more

Backup Files to DV Camera: Tape backup was once the norm for archiving files from home PCs. Consumer grade tape drives tended to be flaky and slow, but were the only alternative to using dozens of floppy disks. … The average price for MiniDV tape in consumer quantities is about $4 or as low as … Read more

A revelation has downed on me the other day during one of the endless meetings: It does not matter how elegant or smart a solution is (or can be). What matters is how timely it is and how well it addresses (especially a long-standing) immediate need. Case in point — procurement process (or rather lack … Read more

An interesting point at “sleeping on it” or the way we put it in Russian — “утро вечера мудренее”. The research suggests the conscious mind should be trusted only with simple decisions, such as selecting a brand of oven glove. Sleeping on a big decision, such as buying a car or house, is more likely … Read more

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I wrote before about my little pet project that is not really going anywhere — a moderately sophisticated personal accounting package for MacOS X. I am well aware of such apps as LiquidLedger, CashBox, Conto (btw, if you are really new to this and just want to get a feel for keeping your hands on … Read more

The theme of this blog right now uses Helvetica Neue Condensed in heading elements, yet rendering of this font on a Mac is very much different between Safari, Opera and Mozilla-based browsers, see for yourself: Safari Camino Opera Not sure why Safari does not render condensed font correctly and no info seemed to be anywhere….

As I am working on an update to Ceesaxp.Org, I have decided to change the theme used here at Blogger. I’ve gone for JellyFish. It is relatively light, although a bit large or my taste. I might tweak it a little, or I might change it around entirely to suit the main site’s theme better.

While one might opt to pay for iRooster, there are cheaper if not a bit less elegant ways of achieving pretty much the same goal: getting up on time.