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  • Sponsored Radio stream

    I decided to sponsor my favourite radio station Swiss groove.They are an internet-only radio station, which plays various kind of music and they operate without commercials. Their musical genre is between jazz/funk/soul/rnb . If you have a chance tune in to my radio stream, paste this link to your radio client. The stream is hosted…

  • Goa’s surgery

    Goa was feeling bad for the first week in April. She was drinking enormous amount of water, didn’t have any apettite, no energy, and was totally dehidrated. I took her to the vet, they diagnosed her with Pyometra. Pyometra is a deadly disease for animals, if not treated in time. She had a surgery on…

  • Project Gutenberg

    Today, I have read about the Project Gutenberg in Delo daily newspaper. It explains how Michael S. Hart started to contribute book translations to the project more than 30 years ago in the computer center, when the internet was only working on a few nodes. He is/was a visionary at that time and had a…

  • Budapest

    Ines & I had a trip to Budapest from 20th – 24th of April. It was Ines’s second time to Budapest and my first time. We were lucky with the weather, so we did a lot of sightseeing. We walked around the city districts (Budim & Pesta), seen the Parliament on the inside, Hungarian national…

  • Logical volume manager

    LVM (Logical Volume Manager) is a thing in Linux, that makes your Linux drive to better manage the partitions. For example, that you have 3 drives, each with a Partition of 100 Gb, LVM allows you to cluster these partitions together and have one partition with the size of 300 Gb. It can also do…

  • Eusebio

    Today Ines & I woke up early in the morning. We made a contact with people who raise “Jazbečar” dogs in Croatia. We were about to meet at 10 o’clock in Brežice. When we were about to head to the highway with ur car, we spotted a dog who was about to cross it. I…

  • Second visit to the Vet

    I went to the Vet today after work. My dog Goa was quite calm in the start, when we arrived. When the Vet called us in the room, I had put her on the table. She had 5 stiches on her skin and a round baloon around her neck for anti-scratching in the last 10…

  • Piran flooded with water

    The city of Piran was flooded with water, after 48 years, the water level in the city square exceeded 50 cm. The stores and the city library were flooded also many cars in the city were put to rescue. With global warming they predict that Piran will dissapear under water in the years following, when…

  • Jean Michel Jarre concert

    Ines & I went to the concert of Jean Michel Jarre . He is the French pioneer of electronic music and it was his first time, that he held a concert in Slovenia. It was one of the concerts in his Oxygene tour. He and his 3 musical colleagues were playing live with all that…

  • All my life for sale

    I have ordered a book “All my life for sale” which is about a person from the USA who sold all his property and possesions over EBAY. He sold over 600 items, reaching the final price of 5000 USD. Later he visited most of his buyers and wrote this book. Soon there were others doing…

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