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All Done! (Blessed Eid Al-Adha and Happy Thanksgiving to All)

Um Abbas — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:20:47 +0000

Finally I’ve – hopefully – finished setting everything up, all posts should have valid permalinks, read more tag at the longer ones, proper categories assigned, and links out working – though it gave me a bit to remember them all. … Continue reading →

Morning Walk and Recent Days

Um Abbas — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:26:11 +0000

Yeah. I won the fight with my laziness (and migraines) and actually took my butt outta the pit of our house, to take Dori on a walk, and we decided to go to the sea. No big traveling, just 20 minutes by metro to the seaside. Due to early hours of the day (at least for Britain) and the fact it was Monday, most of the places were empty - best time of day for me, personally. We had some fun on the beach, Dori exploring something quite new for her (and she started to like the waves too much, for the weather it was, I say), me just having fun with camera after a while I didn't take any pictures at all. Wasn't in the right mood for that, I guess.

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Virgin Media: Powerful Incompetence

Um Abbas — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:00:45 +0000

The internet service provider for a big part of Britain has a widely spread advertisement: Powerful Stuff. It promises broadband of nice download limits (we personally pay for XL package, supposedly 20Mb which we never got, but, oh well), nice upload, TV and phone line; package of powerful stuff. We bought it - and started to use XL package, 20Mb download, not so bad fair user policy. Virgin was serving ok for nearly two years. Occasional problems with lag usually solved in few hours. But... When a problem occurred, Virgin has shown it's real face. Crap support, crap service, crap excuses. Our internet connection is literally worse than dial-up for about a month already. It randomly even disconnects, just for sure. Pings to close servers end up in time outs mostly. When they manage to go through, the show catastrophic numbers of 1000+ ping within the island, package loss in most of the cases over 10%. First call, maintenance. Continue reading →

Drahá Rodina

Um Abbas — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:07:14 +0000

Neboť se blíží všemi oslavované (obzvláště majitelé všelikých velikých obchodů) a ekonomicky ruinující období roku, většině lidstva známé pod pojmem Vánoce a Advent, optala se má rodina sídlící v ČR, zda si probojujeme cestu na pár dní zpět do země rodné a oblažíme naše okolí špetkou multikulturality. Continue reading →

Lady’s Purse

Um Abbas — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:34:31 +0000

Did you ever wonder, what containes lady's purse? What secrets can a woman hide inside, dark and all-eating space, in where is carried almost anything possible you can think of? I don't know how other ladies, but my 'purse' (it's more like a bag, bought it in one ethno shop) doesn't contain much things. I carry there the following: Continue reading →