Pasaules lekšanas diena (World Jump Day) ir 20. jūlijs, tātad rītdien.

Zinātnieki ir pētījuši un uzskata, ja vienlaicīgi vismaz 600’000’000 Zemes iedzīvotāji palektos, būtu pietiekami, lai mainītu tās orbītu. Šis pasākums nepieciešams, lai apturētu globālo sasilšanu, palielinātu gaišo dienas laiku un radītu viendabīgāku (homogēnāku) klimatu.

Lekšana paredzēta 2006. gada 20. jūlijā 11:39.13 GMT (13:39.13 pēc Latvijas laika). Tad jau gatavojamies pēc 26 stundām nedaudz palēkāt!

Ne tikai cilvēkiem ir smagi šajā karstajā vakarā, manam datoram, piemēram, arī neklājas pārāk viegli un brīžiem nākas nedaudz pasvīst. Ja salīdzina procesora vidējo temperatūru gaidīšanas režīmā starp maija vidu un šodienu, tad redzama šāda aina:

Maija vidū vidējā temperatūra – 22..23C
Jūlija sākumā vidējā temperatūra – 30..31C

It kā jau vēl salīdzinoši mierīgi tomēr jāuzmanās ir, jo, piemēram, šodien vienam no istabas datoriem izdomāju iepētīt procesora temperatūru un izrādījās, ka tā ir 62..63C, kad papētīju sistēmbloka sastāvu, noskaidrojās, ka procesora radiators ir pilns ar putekļiem. Pēc ģenerālās tīrīšanas šim temperatūra nokritās uz 49..50C – patīkami.

Braucot mājas no darba, pieķēru sevi pie tādas dīvainas domas:

Redz, kā sanāk – vasarā sievietes to vien dara kā cenšas ģērbties pēc iespējas “trūcīgāk”, lai viņām pievērstu aizvien lielāku uzmanību, bet lūk, ja tu cilvēks nejauši aizskatīsies par ilgu, tad jau tu būsi blenzējs un visādiem citādiem ne pārāk labiem epitetiem apzīmējams subjekts…

Pagājušās nedēļas nogalē bērnības skolā bija salidojums. Tā jau interesanti satikt klasesbiedrus, kurus neesi redzējis kādus gadus sešus. Atmiņā viņi saglabājušies tik veci cik bija toreiz un, tagad atkal satiekoties, nevari nemaz noticēt, ka laiks tā paskrējis un viņi arī taču pa šo laiku ir pamatīgi izauguši, daži jau paspējuši pat apprecēties. Vot tādi tie pīrāgi, trakas lietas!

Few days ago I got to know game called Sudoku and it immediately caught my attention, played it for almost all weekend and adding that I’m having cold and not going to work today – I’ll probably play it again.
Rules are as simple as that:

The aim of the puzzle is to enter a numerical digit from 1 through 9 in each cell of a 9×9 grid made up of 3×3 subgrids (called “regions”), starting with various digits given in some cells (the “givens”); each row, column, and region must contain only one instance of each numeral.

Sounds easy? Last sentence about sudoku rules goes like this: “Completing the puzzle requires patience and logical ability.” Still easy?

For MAC I downloaded Sudoku Companion, but I’m sure there’s plenty of other versions out there. Web is full of sudoku boards.

Good Luck!

PS. Don’t try this if you have something urgent/important to do, trust me!

Heh, 1st of April is almost over and no matter how strange it sounds no one fooled me today (at least that I know of). But it was fun (kind of) reading about crazy stuff that happened today like for example:

Microsoft Buys OpenOffice.org!

For an undisclosed sum reputed to be in the billions, Microsoft’s Bill Gates has personally bought the leading open-source desktop project. Saying he “was sick and tired of open-source eating away at his profits,” the world’s richest man decided to put an end to the nuisance and simply buy OpenOffice.org. It will form part of a growing list of Microsoft acquisitions, including several erstwhile competitors, a considerable number of prominent politicians, and a few small governments.

The initially stunned OpenOffice.org community–a happy-go-lucky international band numbering in the hundreds of thousands–later turned to champagne to celebrate their newfound wealth. “Bless Bill!” one happy Torontonian exclaimed, bubbly in hand. “With all this money, I can beat Mark’s time in orbit!”

Gates has assured all current OpenOffice.org users that their future migration path to Microsoft Office is guaranteed thanks to OpenOffice.org’s faultless support of MS Office files formats. Users can further rest assured that the full functionality currently provided by OpenOffice.org 2.0 will be available in MS-Office 2020 – or possibly 2030.

or Google Romance

Slashdot got new skin:

Canonical Ltd. asked for nUbuntu to Cease Development:

In an email I received from Canonical today, they have stated that nUbuntu must cease development. Their reasoning behind this is that the ideas behind nUbuntu are giving Canonical & Ubuntu a badname. I have fully complied with their request, and this site will go down as of 12:00pm on Saturday.

I would like to thank everyone who has supported nUbuntu and I hope I will be able to develop a new distribution, which people will find just as good as nUbuntu.

Thanks
Posted by TomB on Sat 1st April 2006

…and so on and so forth…

PS. Just read it now (02/04/06 @ 09:31:57) that Wikipedia has a page April_1,_2006 where lots of other hoaxes are listed.

Picture I took in Berlin airport. The funniest thing is that week later scenery hadn’t changed… still hang up.