arafalov on April 28th, 2007

Getting Things Done (GTD) is an interesting system for managing one’s time and making things happen. It was originally pitched at CEO, with a lot of different projects on their plates at the same time. Lately, however, I have noticed a significant uptake of it by system administrators, programmers and other IT geeks.
Being a geek [...]

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arafalov on April 24th, 2007

I really like WordChamp to help me with learning foreign languages. It was good for me when I was learning French. It is good to me now that I am learning Spanish. And the last couple of months it was getting better nearly on a weekly basis.
That did not used to be the case. I [...]

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arafalov on April 15th, 2007

Netflix prize must be doing well, as there are now other companies willing to tap into web’s researchers with deep knowledge of computational techniques.
The latest company is Spock, a company so new that you have to read 3rd party sites to figure out exactly what they do. Even to use it, one has to signup [...]

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arafalov on April 12th, 2007

Tonight (April 12th, 2007) is Yuri’s night, a celebration of first manned space flight done by Yuri Gagarin, the russian cosmonaut. It is 46th anniversary of the original 1961 event.
I had missed the party last year, but - being Russian and a geek - I am certainly making it this year. There are parties [...]

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