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It had to be done

Frantisek Fuka is now in relationship. It's not complicated.



It took me more than 9 months after the break-up (and 8 months after Jitushka moved out) to do this.

My "Recent Interesting Links" not working in Google Reader

In the last 3 or 4 weeks, I have weird problems with my Google Reader. I dont' see the people I should be following and people who are following me don't see my posts. I am not the only one with this problem.

If you are affected by this problem (i.e. you are "following me" in your Google Reader and yet you don't see my recent shared items), you should - at least as a temporary measure - use the RSS version of my recently shared items which seems to work OK (although it's not real-time and lags by a few minutes, which shouldn't pose a problem).

This seems to be a part of bigger problems stemming from the fact that I use "Transitioned GAFYD account", i.e. my Google username doesn't end with "@gmail.com" but with "@fuxoft.cz". Because of this, I "officially" cannot ("yet"!) use Buzz, Latitude Check-In, Google Profiles or "Google +1". "Unofficially", I have bizarre problems like the one described above. It's sad. :(

Back from Japan

I'm back from my (fifth!) Japan trip which went a little bit differently than I expected. You can read more about it (in Czech) here.



This time, we (me and two other people) visited different Japanese cities, including Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Fukuoka, Saga (where my friend's wedding took place), Osaka, Kyoto and the amazing Naoshima "art island". The photographs can be seen here.

A Walk Through Osaka

These photos were taken several hours ago, while strolling through Osaka, "the anti-Tokyo".

While the other guys went to explore the seedier city life, I fired up the Gimp and mutilated my pictures:



Coincidentally, if you live in Osaka, Kyoto or Tokyo and would like to show me some interesting stuff during the following days, don't hesitate to contact me.

Testing, testing…

This is a test post from the official Blogger app for Android.

Meanwhile in Japan...

This is REAL, unedited, non-ironic advertisement of Japanese McDonalds...

My Dogs Need Your Love

(This is for Czech readers only, sorry)

Basically, I need your votes to get my dogs' love message to the first place for this Milka love poster to be displayed in Vysocanska metro station:



To accomplish this, you should go here, register using a SMS (the cost is just 3 CZK) and then click on "Dát hlas" every single day (or as many days as humanly possible) until February 1st - you pay just for a single SMS, then you can click each day...

This is supposed to be a Valentine Day surprise for Albert, so don't tell him about it...

Today in pictures

P.S: I didn't have sex with anyone / anything in these pictures. And yet, it was a good day.

What's Wrong With Today's Video Games?

A few days ago, I gave an interview (in Czech) where I mentioned my disdain for most of mainstream games of today.

Here I have two perfect examples of current high-profile videogames.

First, here is one of the levels of the latest Call of Duty videogame, played on "Hardened" difficulty. The player beats the level WITHOUT SHOOTING, just semi-randomly dodging bullets.



Even funnier is the following racing game using Kinect (i.e. controlling the car using your own body). Note that the player doesn't do anything during the whole race, not even pushing the gas. He finishes third out of 8 racers...



You can argue the second game is aimed at "casual" players... You can argue anything you want but I consider this to be very sad. And I consider it amazing that no high profile review mentions the interesting fact that you don't in fact have to play these games to finish them...