Welcome to the first post in my London travel blog. I'll try posting at least daily, but might post more than once a day if I deem so fittable. You are welcomed to create lots of traffic on this website and pet my lovely ego in that way. The little bugger will appreciate it greatly.

yesterday I left Ljubljana in the midst of the largest rainfall I've ever seen in my life and was later informed that it resulted in flooding, which kind of sucks, but hey, who gives a shit, I'm several thousand kilometers away aren't I? The aeroplane and ports of air were pretty fun to deal with and weren't at all confusing as I'd feared what with being a first time flier and all. There was just quite some waiting to do, which I never like.

The flight was very fun, especially in the first part of it when we were climbing through the storm over Ljubljana; the freefalls were something extroadinary … freefall is bloody awesome.

Upon my arrival to London I of course promptly got lost because I took a coach from Stansted that mirraculously (pure luck, didn't know where I was supposed to go) dropped me off quite near my hostel. But I made a newbie mistake and walked the wrong way to it and actually ended up going away from it. So when it finally felt like a bit of a long walk I went to the tube, bought an oyster card and reached the hostel pretty quickly.

Then after a bit of finding around the hostel was found, stuff was paid and I went to bed quite soon after. Those backpacks are heavy when combined with walking. Had a calm night and now I'm here, posting this blog for the world to see.

Po enem tednu se mi je danes končno spet uspelo spraviti na fitnes in se malo pretegnit, kar je bilo zaradi zmešanega delovnika zadnje čase nemogoče. Odkar sem začel fitnesirati je to najdaljše obdobje tišine in občutek je bil kar čuden. Po svoje si ves švoh in nesposoben, hkrati pa se nekako nisem tako utrudil kot ponavadi. Mogoče sem pa le lenaril v strahu pred poškodbami iz švohnote.

Mi je pa vseeno se skoraj uspelo poškodovati, ko sen delal benčpres. Štanga se na levi strani nekako ni uspela zataknit, ko sem se odloči, da je konec, roke pa sem vseeno sprostil. Na srečo je štanga tako dolga, da je prej zadela ob tla kot pokvarila moj obraz. ÄŒe od dvigovanja mrtve teže ne bi bil tako zmahan, bi me dogodek verjetno globoko pretresel.

Sem omenil zmešan delovnik kajne? Ukvarjamo se z nekim projektom, ki ga je treba kaj hitro dokončati, čeprav smo ga v skrb dobili šele pred kratkim, kar je zahtevalo v povprečju 12 ur dela na dan. ÄŒe bi bil redno zaposlen to še niti ne bi bilo tako slabo ampak vraga to je v osnovi samo študentsko delo!

Today I finally managed going to the gym after almost a week of not being able to attend my daily sessions due to insane work hours. Since I've begun going this was the longest period of not going and it was quite an odd feeling. I felt weak and powerless, but at the same time didn't get as tired as I usually do, which, in a way, is good, but maybe it just shows that I was slacking off lest I hurt myself.

I did almost manage to hurt myself when I was doing benchpresses where the left side didn't quite go into the resting position, but I still laxed my arms. Luckily the bar was long enough so as to hit the ground before breaking my face. If I wasn't in so much pain from lifting that thing I'd probably get very very frightened by this event.

Mentioned insane work hours didn't I? There's this project at work that needs immediate finishing, we only got it a week or so ago, and it required that I worked 12 hours a day on average for a few days including the weekend. If I was a proper employee this wouldn't be too bad, but for cthulhu's sake, I'm technically doing this as a bloody part time job!

Pomanjšalnica linka na večjo sliko. Kaj je ta slika se sprašujete? No mogoče vam povem.

Slika vsebuje tako imenovani "tag cloud", v bistvu povzetek, vse snovi pri književnosti v četrtem letniku gimnazije. Zgeneriral ga je program, ki ga razvijam praktično že celo poletje in se ukvarja z analizo tekstov. Delo na njem je prav sladko in še celo plačan sem, da to počnem, zaradi česar je še slajše. Največja prednost je napreden uporabniški vmesnik, ki konkurira googlovim ali flickerjevemu, mogoče je v nekaterih pogledih še celo malo boljši.

Mogoče se ob končanju aplikacije spustim v globlje nakladanje o vmesniku, mogoče ne, zadnje čase sem nekam len z bloganjem. Kakorkoli, srednješolsko poglavje življenja sem zaključil in testiranje s srednješolsko snovjo ni prav nič več strašno ali boleče.

The thumbnail links to a full size image. What is this image you might ask, well I might just tell you.

The image contains a tagcloud, a summary in essence, of all literature stuff taught in the fourth year of high school. It was generated with a piece of software I've been developing practically all summer and revolves around text analysis. It's pretty sweet and I'm actually paid to do it, which makes it even sweeter. Its biggest attribute is the cutting edge user interface that is right up there with google, flickr and the likes as far as awesomeness go, except mine is perhaps a bit higher still.

I might get into a bigger ramble about the interface when everything is complete, or I might not, have become very lazy about blogging lately. However, the high school chapter of my life is closed and using high school content for software testing is not at all daunting and painful anymore.

V nedeljo sem po dolgem času, sploh več ne vem kako dolgem, končno uspel popraviti svoje računalo in blogal bi o tem prej, a sem in len in zaposlen, kar pa je za bloge najhujša kombinacija, saj kanijo malček trpeti.

Po računalnikovi smrti sem se odločil, da je problem v matični plošÄi in začel se je lov na tako, ki bi podpirala vso ostalo antično opremo, ki prebiva v tisti škatli. Noro je, ampak praktično ni trgovine, ki bi imela na zalogi kako matično z AGP in IDE porti.

Smešno, a resnično! Menda pričakujejo, da bom z matično vkup zamenjal vse od procesorja do rama in še diskov. Preklet steklen kapitalizem in Moorov zakon elektronike sta ušla preko vseh razumnih meja, vsaj za nas nebogate osebke. ÄŒe se na mojem računalu še kdaj kaj polomi, mi ne preostane drugega, kot da ga zavržen kot razbit krožnik, ki ga nihče več noče pogledati.

Sedaj pa pika na i. Nekako mi je pri sestavljanju uspelo napajalnik vstaviti obrnjen na glavo in sedaj je 12cm ventilator obrnjen v steno namesto, da bi imel prostor dihati. Kako? Ne vem.

On Sunday I was finally able to fix my computer after a very long time, I'm not even sure how long anymore and you know, I would've posted about it sooner, but I'm both lazy and busy and that's never a good combination for blogs as they tend to suffer a little.

After the computer died I decided the problem wasin the mother board and a hunt began to find a mother board that supports all of my other antique hardware of three or four years ago. It's crazy, but there are absolutely no stores that are readily able to provide youw ith a mother board that still has an AGP port and IDE disk connectors.

This is just silly! Do they expect me to swap everything from my RAM to my CPU and even disks just so I can buy a new mother board. Damn rabit capitalism and Moore's law of electronics and it's all getting quite out of hand if you ask me. Especially for us unrich people, especially for us. Why if anything ever breaks on my computer again I'll be left with only one option to chuck it out and cast it away like a broken plate nobody wants to look at again.

Now here's the real kicker, I somehow managed to flip the pwoer supply upside-down and point the large 12 centimeter fan at a wall instead of into the computer where it can get air. How? I don't know.

O tem videu ne morem povedati nič, kar bi ga bilo vredno, zato si ga poste pač morali ogledati.

There is nothing I can say about this video that will do it justice, so you're just going to have to watch it.

V soboto sem šel na precej zabavno srednjeveško prireditev v Žički Kartuziji. Nastopajoči so se dobro odrezali in so uspeli zadržati zabavnost kljub temu, da so isti, kot na večini drugih podobnih prireditev, ki sem jih obiskal … poznavanje igralcev v bistvu prinese nek nov zanimi aspekt vsemu skupaj.

Najbolj zanimivo se mi je zdelo, da prireditev ni bila viteški turnir, kot so ponavadi, ampak predstavitev srednjega veka v svoji bolj pravšnji luči. Najboljše so bile perice, ki so bile izjemno življenjske in jih ne bi bilo težko zamenjati za prave. Nastopal je tudi nekakšen vaški norček, ki je imel dve kači in je z njima in svojimi neumnostmi zabaval obiskovalce kljub svojemu popolnoma pedofilskemu izgledu … mogoče igralec ni dobro premislil te vloge.

Naredil sem veliko fotografij, 540 če smo natančni, od katerih jih je 168 preživelo prvi krog izbiranja in le 38 drugi krog, se pravi so dokaj solidne fotografije … najboljše (čeprav so nekater grozno neizostrene ampak je motiv dovolj dobro uspel) si sledijo spodaj.