3+ weeks in Portugal

i’ve been thinking about working remotely for a few weeks from some warm[er] country for quite some time. finally i’ve tried – i’ve spent 3+weeks in Portugal while taking just 2 days of holidays. all went surprisingly well.

surge 2012

talks that were interesting to me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72QBJOc1RSw – Mike Nolet ~ From Zero to 500k QPS in Three Years: Scaling AppNexus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHN_rDj6z-M – Andrew Miklas ~ Ensuring the Call Goes Out – Everytime – ha/failover headaches http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCfuKZUyTko – Tom Daly ~ The Architecture Behind Super Fast DNS – Routing, Redundancy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym96Z-sThZU – Surge 2012 ~ ... Read More

[pl] gry wojenne

gry wojenne – dokument o kuklinskim http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA6buQEk9KY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTtqkX1iMrs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D31P5n-c-KQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1iRFubiKbk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4_wd4srjAY

balkans – again

so i’ve hit the road again – packed my trusted 8-10yo travel bag, took laptop, camera + 3 lenses, kindle with 400+documents waiting to be read or deleted, mp3 player, gps, two mobile phones, earplugs, some old clothes and nothing more. i’ve even left intentionally at home travel guides borrowed from the local library – ... Read More

[pl] janecki o stanie panstwa polskiego

Stanislaw Janecki – niepraktykujacy fizyk kwantowy, dziennikarz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhWHUGFlv6o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SerkqEr0Jg4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdarquz7u28 zazwyczaj siedzi dosc cicho na spotkaniach w klubie ronina; a jak sie odezwie – dobrze mowi.

porn

[the results of] TEDxGlasgow – Gary Wilson – The Great Porn Experiment – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF82AwSDiU Philip Zimbardo: The demise of guys? – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMJgZ4s2E3w

letter from poland

mariusz pilis – letter from poland : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6bqHONRMc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iK2LQ5quSM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u68eXju_2A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp-jmpBLht4 mariusz pilis – list z polski [ polskie napisy ]: https://vimeo.com/17753419

[pl] Kursk – w mętnych wodach

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFCJX0ayUcE – pierwszorzędni specjaliści prowadzą śledztwo dot. zatonięcia okrętu podwodnego Kursk

pingy sites

mostly to save myself time googling those again: checking latency to your host from multiple locations around the world: https://ping.pe/ http://lowendping.nikkii.us/ http://www.just-ping.com/index.php?vh=kudzia.eu http://www.bgp4.as/looking-glasses https://www.site24x7.com/ping-test.html http://ping.ms/ https://tools.keycdn.com/ipv6-ping https://tools.keycdn.com/ping https://www.hostvirtual.com/lg/ https://mtr.sh/ map of the transocean fibers can come handy as well: http://www.submarinecablemap.com/ http://www.cablemap.info/ checking the page load performance time from multiple locations: http://www.webpagetest.org/ http://www.watchmouse.com/en/checkit.php testing dns: https://www.dnsinspect.com/ ... Read More

fiddle sites

cool online tools for quickly running js / sql code http://sqlfiddle.com/ http://jsfiddle.com/

HOPE09

http://www.hopenumbernine.net/schedule/ talks i found to be most interesting: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4 Twitter Revolution Meets Surveillance State: Now What – http://www.hopenumbernine.net/schedule/#twitter IPv6 Now! What Does This Mean? – http://www.hopenumbernine.net/schedule/#ipv6 Keynote Address – William Binney – mass surveillance in us, political and technical part – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqN59beaFMI privacy a postmorten – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NObTjstI6f4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6B5kgBNL74 I’m Not ... Read More

the code

some pop math from bbc – the code: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUp5ciynQzk [last ~15 min are missing] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lov-AjxA7kI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnI2yR1Nh5Y

[pl] 20 rocznica “nocnej zmiany”

Wyszkowski, Cenckiewicz o 4tym czerwca 1992 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb5t_Q6mCZ4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij6dLKvUc_U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Djx4sg_ss http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gaPvyFtEAo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JsDCExwum8