Chinese restaurant

On Thursday i felt pretty hungry so i decided to go to a Chinese restaurant.

They have this very cool principle AYCA - All you can eat - as it says, eat as much as you can - pretty useful if you know you are not going to eat the rest of the day.
Also the price is quite acceptable ( about 2€ with state subvention - some of the student food is state subsidised, more on how the system works some other time).
Anyway, the restaurant seemed pretty Chinese to me - all the people working there where Chinese and most of them had serious problems attempting to communicate in Slovene - I really had a hard time understanding one of them - hey but in the end with a help of non-verbose communication the waiter managed to get the message through. I was wondering if they managed to get the menu right. They didn't. Made a couple of serious mistakes mostly related to noun gender ( in Slovene all nouns have a thing we call "gender" and it sounds a bit obscure if you mix it up - I don't exactly understand how some people manage - it just sounds so wrong.
Two of those mistakes were quite funny - and they got me to remember xiangming and his famous quotes.

P.S. I am using firefox 2.0 and must admit - this spell checker is pretty damn useful - it corrected more than 10 mistakes and typos in this post.
Also it can be very funny sometimes.

For example - for name Xiangming i got the following suggestions :

charmingest
charming
warming's
warming
farming's :D

Have a nice day, wherever you are !

Gettting close to 40 %

I am certain everyone has heard of a browser called firefox. It's a free, opensource browser, claimed to have better security than internet explorer.

Yesterday a version 2.0 was released with many new features and enhancements.

What i didn't know about was that according to this study Slovenia has the highest firefox usage in Europe and most probably one of the highest in the world.


In Slovenia Firefox's share is already sitting very high at 39%, growth is appereantly not decreasing with its market share.

Something in my country to be proud about.

You can read more about it here, but i am warning you, it's in French. Use Google translate to help yourself

Have a nice day !

Zorbing

The classes have started again. I mean that's OK. Most of them seem pretty interesting for the time being and it's nice to learn something new.

Classes obviously cannot possibly be a reason for the good stuff in life to keep on happening. The last weekend we went for zorbing..
If you don't know what that is, don't worry, practically nobody does. As always use Google / Wikipedia combination to retrieve required information.

The guys claim(their webpage does) they have the only track in Europe featuring a turn. That's supposed to be exciting. In reality the track is about 120m long, but that results only in a couple of seconds. Regardless of it's shortness it's definetly a must-try.

I liked Aerotrip way more. You just keep on turning, turning, turning and turning.. Then you get a little bit dizzy and continue turning.. It can be a challenge if you try to push it by yourself since you never know in which direction you are gonna turn ( left, right, down ? ) the next turn.

You can see a video of me attemting to do it here
Video is 2:24 long.

I think it would be interesting to try to do it with some home made stuff. ( but not in anytime now, so you don't need to start worrying just yet)

In other news, the uwc site has gotten some rework. Defintely looks & feels better, so cudos to the people who made it. Annoying is that i am waiting for this confirmation mail for more than 45 minutes and still nothing. I blame my email for this. It seems it started acquiring some lag. I check my mail at 5 pm, empty. 6pm - empty. 7 pm -empty ( yes i know - too much time behind the computer - yes it's sad, get over it.. ) Finally at about 9pm i get the email. It says i recieved it at 4:47 pm ... WTF ?

If it keeps on doing this stuff to me, i might consider switching to Gmail completely..