New Year Is Here. Have A Giga Pudding!

Very Merry Christmas from Henrietta and Merna

Sorry about my previous post (PF 2009) which might be disturbing for some viewers. To make amends, here is heartfelt Christian song, much needed in these difficult times:



Also: Special bonus from their father.

Bow Down, Heathens!

High-Tech Solution For Low-Tech Problem (Part 2)

This was my first use of Google Sketchup. Pity it doesn't run natively under Linux...



A little explanation if you care for it: The dogs are sleeping with us in the bed since God knows when. The bed is over 60 cm high but Chucky is capable of jumping on it from the ground and Albert had a little wooden box next to the bed and he used that as a springboard.

So the problem was not getting to the bed but I was worried that jumping down from the bed can be harmful to their backs (especially for rather heavy Albert with rather short legs).

Of course, the hardest part now is to teach them to use the stairs and not just jump down from the bed...

P.S: I did not construct the stairs, of course. I just gave the blueprints to the carpenter and afterwards glued the pieces of our old bathroom mat (with penguins!) to the surfaces.

High-Tech Solution For Low-Tech Problem

Because od the nature of our lives, Jitushka often wakes up to go to work/school shortly after I go to sleep. This complicates any potential start-of-the day communication, especially concerning the dogs. It's not easy to let the other person know when our dogs were last fed/walked.

I solved this problem like a man. Like a geeky nerdy man, that is. I made a special CGI web application to track the dogs.



Because we both have www-enabled mobile phones, we now just use a private URL on my webserver where we can see when the dogs were last fed and walked and we can both set these times to "now" or to some predefined times in the past ("30 minutes ago", "1 hour ago" etc.). And we can see the info and set it from any place with network coverage.

I pity the people who had to solve this problem 10 years ago. They were screwed and had to resort to uncool paper and pen.

TODO: Automatic sending of alarm SMS when the dogs are not walked for 10 hours or more!

Cooking By The Book

This video is a work of genius. Every second is brillantly done, it's catchy and it's so wrong on so many levels.

Remember, if there was no Internet, we'd probably never see this.



For those not "in the know": This is a mashup of two completely unrelated videos.

For those "in the know": This is the stuff Pedobear's dreams are made of.

Yes, I Consider That Funny!

I used to enjoy The Onion tremendously and I bought several of their books many years ago. However, during the years, they got stale and I started ignoring them, except for occassional chuckle when reading their American Voices.

Recently, however, there has been a surge in quality of their video section. These new skteches are snappy, well written, directed and acted, even - dare I say - witty. Take a look at a few choices:


In Thanksgiving Tradition, Bush Pardons Scooter Libby In Giant Turkey Costume


World's Oldest Neurosurgeon Turns 100


Attractive Girls Union Refuses To Enter Into Talks With Mike Greenman


Live From Congress: Rep. Ingersoll's Murder of a Hobo

Skoda Felicia: More Than Meets The Eye

Now my car finally gets the respect it deserves.

Eradicating Fuxoft@Gmail.Com

I am in a rather complex process of eradicating all references to my fuxoft@gmail.com account from public view, while remaining dependent on Google services.

That means everything public from fuxoft@gmail.com is being transfered to fuka@fuxoft.cz Google account and "fuka" account at Google hosted "fuxoft.cz" domain - these are two different accounts, believe it or not! For example my e-mail and Jabber chat is being handled by fuxoft.cz Hosted Apps, while Google Reader or Google Notebook are handled byt "fuka@fuxoft.cz" standard Google account and linked accordingly (hopefully).

Why should you care?

You should care if you still use "fuxoft@gmail.com" in any form whatsoever in any contacts or services of your. You should replace all of them with "fuka@fuxoft.cz". The most important and not readily apparent stuff:

• My E-Mail/Google Talk/Jabber id is fuka@fuxoft.cz (this is true for several months already, I am just repeating it in case you missed the change).
  
• My "Shared Items" (interesting links) are now residing at the new address with much nicer URL: feeds.fuxoft.cz/Fuxoft/Shared (if this domain doesn't seem to work, wait a few hours for the DNS changes to propagate). If you subscribed to my Shared links before October 27, 2008, that feed will no longer be updated!
  
• If you used one of the early Google Social features (for example "friend feeds" in Google Reader), you should remove/ignore fuxoft@gmail.com and add fuka@fuxoft.cz instead.

To make it easier for you: If you see the name "Frantisek Fuxoft" (instead of "Frantisek Fuka") anywhere, that means you are using the old contact (fuxoft@gmail.com) and you should replace it. Whew...

And while we are talking about friends and sharing, my "Activity stream" is at fuxoft.jaiku.com. This is a combined feed of "everything Fuxoft" - my blog posts regardless of language, my uploaded photos, my Jaiku status changes, my favorite discovered links, uploaded and discovered videos, etc...

Gregor Mendel Was Right

This cute canine is supposedly a mix of Prazsky Krysarik and Shitzu. Wonderful. (Click for larger sizes and two other photos.)



If he was a "she", he would be perfect for Albert to have hetero sex with.