Arellanes.comLife, tech, music and some politics from Prague, Czech Republic.New RSS feed address- November 29, 2004 My new site is up and running on the WordPress platform, and my blog's RSS feed address has changed. It can now be found here....http://www.arellanes.com/archives/000643.html Pardon my dust- November 29, 2004 Pardon my dust around here for a little while. I'm migrating my blog to the outstanding WordPress blog platform. WordPress is free and open source (the letters GPL may ring a bell with some of you) and has a slew...http://www.arellanes.com/archives/000642.html Pimp My Gripen- November 26, 2004 Earlier today, I decided to ask my main man, the Notorious bWg, what he thought about the news today that the first Gripen fighter jets for the Czech Republic are rolling off the assembly line. bWg, as regular readers of...http://www.arellanes.com/archives/000641.html Czech Stoners: We're Number One!- November 26, 2004 Hm. What is it that tells me that across the Czech Republic, stoners are high-fiving each other and waving big foam "We're 1!" fingers today This story led MFDnes today, and the translation is mine: Czech Republic is a paradise...http://www.arellanes.com/archives/000640.html Skin in the Game- November 26, 2004 While I won't be celebrating Thanksgiving until tomorrow (Saturday), I made my traditional phonecalls home last night. Most of my family had questions along the lines of "when are you coming to see us" Thanks to cheaper calling (and as...http://www.arellanes.com/archives/000639.html Havel for UN Secretary General- November 24, 2004 A number of bloggers, including the Instapundit, are calling for Kofi Annan to be removed as UN Secretary General based on allegations of widespread corruption. They're even raising Vclav Havel as a potential replacement. There's no question Havel would make...http://www.arellanes.com/archives/000638.html NVU- November 23, 2004 Those of you who have to do any web design might be interested in NVU, an excellent open source web design program based on Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine. For me, the real test was how it handled CSS files, and...http://www.arellanes.com/archives/000637.html They Beat Bartoov!- November 22, 2004 This is a pretty disturbing story, even for devoted watchers of Iveta Bartoov (and therefore, by extension, Blesk's coverage of her), and I would like to wish Iveta a speedy recovery. The translation is mine: They Beat Bartoov! Singer Iveta...http://www.arellanes.com/archives/000636.html Slovak Army to Clean Up Billion-SKK Calamity- November 22, 2004 From Sme.sk My heart goes out to anyone familiar with the beautiful High Tatras region of Slovakia, which was devastated by a massive windstorm over the weekend. While winds were strong across central Europe, Slovakia was the hardest-hit. This...http://www.arellanes.com/archives/000635.html Superfuture Prague- November 19, 2004 If you don't know yet about Amy Langfield's excellent NYC blog Newyorkology, then act like you know. One of her posts today was about the bercool shoppingdesign site Superfuture, which has a pretty good NYC section, as well as a...http://www.arellanes.com/archives/000634.html |