Alexey Solofnenko blog

It is usual for sequels to be disappointing. For example, I cannot watch Mission Impossible N++ or Ocean's 12. I think they suck because they try too much to be better than the original movies. Shrek just tells another story about the Ogre couple. It is funny, it is interesting, it has twists and unexpected turns. It is a good sequel. I enjoyed it very much.

It is now 1300.

We with my wife have a competition - who gets the best score in Bejeweled demo. The problem is there is only one level in the demo, so you need to plays as long as possible on it. My score is now 1100 points - 210 points more than hers and 150 points more than my previous record. For some time I can sleep soundly>>>

Sometimes "by appointment" wineries are open to the public. Once we visited Quintessa (good but too expensive wine). Now I found that Regusci is "by appointment" too. Maybe it was just insolence or luck, but I am going to experiment with other wineries to see if it is possible to go to other such wineries too.

... and a video on a wall shows George Bush senior.

My wife selected 65 photos for printing. I usually zip them without compression and upload the zip to Costco web site, but this time the zip was 177MB. I tried it twice and both times upload failed with some XML message. Third time I divided and uploaded two parts separately.

Zipping and uploading one big archive is much easier and faster than manually selecting the photos for uploading. I even wrote a small script that allows me to specify only the last few different characters of image file names and the script would search them in subdirectories and then zips them. So I can write:

./tosend dscn0465 7 80 93 510 1

to search and zip dscn0465, dscn0467, dscn0480, dscn0493, dscn0510 and dscn0511 images. I have to specify "dscn..." for the first photo, because I have had several different cameras and image numbers are not unique.

This is the script:
rm tosend.zip
for num in `perl -e 'my $last=""; foreach my $arg (@ARGV) { foreach (split(/[\s,.]+/, $arg)) { if (length($last)<=length($_)) {$last=$_} else {$last=substr($last, 0, length($last)-length($_)).$_}; print "$last\n" } } ' $@`; do find . -name "*${num}*" -print;done|zip -jD -0 tosend.zip -@


Last century music still rocks. It is also good to have Tivo that anticipates what I would like to watch.