20 Aug 2010

Scottish Icetrip – English from Petzl-sport on Vimeo.

If there is one place on earth where climbers celebrate the arrival of the next snowstorm, it has to be Scotland. Each winter, pounded by the North Atlantic winds, the Scottish Highlands are covered by a layer of snow and frost at the mercy of weather conditions. Here, winter climbing has existed for more than a century, and the smell of adventure is as authentic as the whisky borne of the local peat. Climbing is done from the ground up, without bolts, and generally onsight. An introduction to the very modern ethics of Scottish mixed climbing. It’s in those condition that Ueli Steck flashed “the secret” (X, 10), the hardest climb in Ben Nevis.
See more of mountaineering videos, gear and techniques on :
http://www.petzl.com/en/outdoor/activities-techniques/mountaineering

14 Jul 2010

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

— Antoine de Saint Exupéry

02 Jul 2010

Migrating the blog

I decided to migrate my blog to a new server. This way I will have better control over my content. Some posts will survive, others will not. I hope you will still find all the information You need. If You think, that something essential is missing, please don’t hesitate and drop me a line.

24 Jan 2010

Webapp that looks like Windows 3.1

06 Jan 2010

Strangest Language feature

Dmitry: Don’t know if it can be considered a language feature, but, in C++ almost any compiler error related to templates delivers a fair amount of WTF to many C++ programmers around the world on daily basis :)

MadKeithV: That’s okay, most code related to templates already creates plenty of WTFs around the world.

Matt Greer: Oh come now. undefined reference to ’std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char»& std::operator« <std::char_traits<char> >(std::basic_ostream<char, std::char_traits<char> >&, char const*)’ Is perfectly readable!

via StackOverflow – Strangest Language Feature

05 Jan 2010

j.mp Bookmarklet

bit.ly – a url shortening service becane now only four characters long saving You your valuable characters in tweets. It is now called j.mp. I’ve created 2 j.mp bookmarklets to use in your browser. They should work with all decent browsers, where the bit.ly bookmarklets work. Just drag the one you like to the bookmark bar to save.

This one will open the j.mp shortener in new window:

Shorten with j.mp

If you want to use the j.mp shortener as a sidebar, here is another bookmarklet for this:

Shorten with j.mp

NOTICE: These bookmarklets are not officially supported by j.mp. They were created by altering the official bit.ly bookmarklet and they work for me. However I am not able to provide any support.

03 Jan 2010

Color changing card trick.


How our mind is aware of things around :)

02 Jan 2010

Genetic programming

Genetic Programming: Evolution of Mona Lisa

(via lessless)

28 Dec 2009

At the geothermic laboratory of the Permafrost Research Centre.

(via proofmathisbeautifulfreshphotons)

19 Oct 2009

Academia vs. Business

Some engineer out there has solved P=NP and it’s locked up in an electric eggbeater calibration routine. For every 0×5f375a86 we learn about, there are thousands we never see.

07 Jul 2009

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

— George Orwell

19 Apr 2009

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

16 Feb 2009

Rush order

unalone via sucroseboy

05 Jan 2009

When you drive home, drive on the sidewalks: all the accidents are happening on the streets.

— Danny Kaye (“An evening with Danny Kaye”, 1981, New York)