We’ve had an eventful or uneventful weekend. Nothing really happened, but it seems that we’ve managed to do a lot of stuff.

Yesterday started with Alena wanting to go to some hair salon on 86th Street to get something done to her hair and I didn’t want to drive back home, so I went to visit Ignat. We ended up watching some TV, talking about travel, technology and all other kind of stuff. Read more…

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Maruk says:
March 30, 2008 @ 23:07

Yep, Best Buy does that sometimes, have great deals, but not often enough. Still something to look out for. Hopefully now that you have all the season, we can borrow some time.

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Daniel says:
March 30, 2008 @ 23:09

Sure. I just hope the later seasons are as good as the first 3 ones. I read that Sorkin (the main writer) left the show after season 4. But people say even though it got a bit worse, it was still good.

We’ll see.

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Artem has made a post with a pingback to our blog today. When I saw it appear in the comments section looking all nice and clean I remembered that for some reason my pingbacks always come out completely screwed up.

I started digging the WP code to see how it grabs the excerpt. Turns out that you need to have some kind of important tag separating your actual post text with your header and comment sections, so it wouldn’t grab those. Also it turned out that DIV is not one of those important tags. P however is.

It took me a while to realize that, but I must say that I impressed myself. All should be well now.

Image Captions is a simple script that uses the alt attribute of your images to create a mouse-over captions for them. The captions do not change the layout of your site in any way and the installation is as simple as including 1 line of code in the header of the page. If you kept the alt attributes of your images in order you won’t have to change anything else. The script finds the right images and adds the captions automatically.

You can see the example of the script in action on the image above. To get that result all I had to do was to add the following to my post:
<img src="mac_screen.jpg" class="centered"
alt="Image Captions Script on Mac Screen"/>
The script will work on any page and does not rely on any WordPress functionality. The code has been tested in the following browsers: Firefox 2.x, Firefox 3.x, Safari 3.x, IE 6.x and IE 7.x. Read more…

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Artem says:
March 24, 2008 @ 20:29

Pretty cool, dude. Nice thing to have.

I’ll play with it a little later. Right now I’m working on new ASP.NET project. Everything seems weird with it…

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Daniel says:
March 24, 2008 @ 21:27

Ah, I wanted to ask you to test this thing out and give me a feed back on the installation process — weather I wrote it up OK, or not, but you went offline at that very moment!

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Artem says:
March 24, 2008 @ 22:20

I didn’t realize you wrote this script. I’ll install it sometime this week - it’s just that I can’t look at my computer anymore

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Darya and Artem’s Blog » New Feature says:
March 25, 2008 @ 17:32

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Уже конец марта, а на улице до сих пор холодно! Непорядок!

Сегодня уехала т. Лиля — она приезжала на месяц погостить у Даниных родителей. Время прогарцевало мимо лёгкой иноходью, оставив за собой лишь лёгкое чувство недоумения — неужели ТАК быстро мы постарели на месяц?

Вчера ночью приехал Лёнчик, который будет в Бруклине пару деньков — какой-то там у них отпуск случился. Он немного рассказал нам о своих буднях. Вот что меня поражает, так это то, какими лёгкими в его устах звучат испытания и тренировки — ну прям Read more…

I finished editing the footage from our New Year 2008 celebration. I figured I’d post it here. I’m sure it’s going to be boring for most of our visitors, but I just want to give the link to my parents.

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Maruk says:
March 20, 2008 @ 20:35

very cool, we should all celebrate together 1 year.

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It’s now have been a couple of days since I’ve started playing with a Mac. There are both positives and negatives that I’ve run across. For me something new is always interesting, and considering that I’ve been using DOS, Linux and Windows for decades now — Mac OS I’ve only seen from a far.

I’ll start with specs of our machine — MacBook Pro.

• 2.4GHz Intel Penryn Core 2 Duo
• 2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM — 2×1GB
• 200GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm
• NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 256MB
• 15-inch Glossy LED Widescreen Display
• SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
• Backlit Keyboard/Mac OS - U.S. English
• Multi-touch Trackpad

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Artem says:
March 17, 2008 @ 14:29

Congrats, man! Like I said in my previous comments I knew you would get it soon.

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Maruk says:
March 19, 2008 @ 16:51

Now i finally i have some1 i can do ichat with, very cool, hope u keep enjoying it.

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Max says:
June 5, 2008 @ 15:30

currently i’m using pc/windows
my dream is macbook, the problem is usual - no money but i will collect it and buy it asap

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Today I’ve met up with Alena after school near the local Apple store. I’ve got to give it to Apple — even the design of the store itself is nice.

Now this is going to be embarrassing — I touched the iPhone today, for the first time. It is as nice as I thought it was. I was especially impressed with Read more…