| 12.08.23 |
There are many castles and lakes in Belarus! |
| 07.11.22 |
And again we have spent some time in Kaliningrad (now it was more sunny) |
| 01.08.22 |
Spent vacations on the trip to Kazan and Saint-Petersburg (4000km by car and 160km on foot) |
| 10.05.22 |
We continue to visit nearby (in day distance) towns such as Serpuhov, Lipetsk and Elec. |
| 07.11.21 |
Have spent some time in Kaliningrad. |
| 05.08.21 |
Returned from the trip to the lake Beloe and Vologda. New car is ideal for long road trips. |
| 13.06.21 |
After many years of great service I sold my old Opel Zafira B and bought the new Haval F7 (much bigger
inside). |
| 21.03.21 |
Have upgraded my home computer to the modern components (e.g. nVidia RTX 3070) and fancy "glass box" case. |
| 03.11.20 |
Another November, another trip with daughters. Now spent a week in Sochi (Russia). Sea and mountains are
great! |
| 11.11.19 |
Took another daughter to Côte d'Azur (France) |
| 01.07.19 |
Took my daughter to Paris for her birthday (see
France
photos) |
| 23.08.18 |
Returned from another trip to the Switzerland
(see Switzerland
photos) |
| 04.08.17 |
For a change, instead of the foreign trips took a raid around Moscow - see my
instagram. |
| 04.11.16 |
Another trip! Now to the Greece (Athens, Delphi). |
| 28.06.16 |
Have returned from the family trip to the Finland |
| 10.04.15 |
Have returned from the trip to the Japan |
| 01.01.15 |
Happy New 2015 Year
and Merry Christmas! |
| 07.11.14 |
Have returned from the trip to the Italy (Rome/Florence). |
| 01.06.14 |
To take good shot of birds one needs large photo lens. My choice is Sigma 150-500mm F5-6.3 APO DG DS. |
| 01.01.14 |
Happy New 2014 Year and Merry Christmas!
There are race between "cloud storages" in Russia: yandex - 200GB, mail.ru - 1TB! |
| 15.07.13 |
Returned from the trip to the Switzerland. Google+ is good tool to keep and share photo albums:
Switzerland. |
| 26.02.13 |
Have visited Venice for 4 days. In spite of cold and gloom weather Venice (and especially Burano) is
beautiful! |
| 01.01.12 |
Happy New 2012 Year
and Merry Christmas! |
| 01.09.11 |
Returned from the annual leave.
Sventoji
is still wonderful. Also auto trip
Lithuania->Poland->Germany->Czech->Slovenia->Poland->Belarus shows many
spectacular towns. |
| 25.04.11 |
Due to leak from the water cooling system had to upgrade
computer to Intel i5-2400 CPU on P67 based motherboard. |
| 01.01.11 |
Happy New 2011 Year
and Merry Christmas!
Computer upgrade: nVIDIA 465 GTX with water cooling (very cool!), Samsung CLP-325
color laser printer (very small!). |
| 20.10.10 |
Birthday present: new digital camera Sony α55. |
| 14.08.10 |
Returned from the annual leave. At this time we were at
first in Lithuania in
Šventoji
near Palanga and then in
Peno near Seliger lakes. |
| 28.02.10 |
At this day Udzimen
wushu school will celebrate Chinese New Year. |
| 10.01.10 |
Spent holydays in
Berezichy. |
| 01.01.10 |
Happy New 2010 year! |
| 30.12.09 |
As TN LCD monitors and photo processing are incompatible -
have bought 24" IPS monitor Dell U2410. |
| 14.12.09 |
Finally get replaced broken WD 1.5TB HDD. Now, with water
cooling system, my computer almost inaudible!
Also I have started to make site work with quirks mode off. |
| 01.04.09 |
Have bought for my daughter Asus
EEE PC 901 (but use myself :) and WiFi router
DLink DIR-655 (and attach HDD to it), so now
I can work anytime anywhere in my flat.
Microsoft made Office SharePoint Designer free! So from now I return to
author this site with it. |
| 01.01.09 |
Happy New 2009 year!
|
| 20.10.08 |
Got for my birthday GPS navigator Nexx
NNS-4300 (rus) and pen tablet Wacom Bamboo. |
| 30.06.08 |
Bought at last brand new car to fit all my family - Opel
Zafira. |
| 25.06.08 |
Yet another daughter has been born. Total number:
daughters: 3, sons: 1. |
| 23.02.08 |
Take a look at my
photos from Udzimen school New
Year 2008. |
| 03.02.08 |
To watch movie on my PC have bought widescreen 22" LCD
monitor Asus VW222u and keep my old 19" CRT to process
digital photo. |
|
24.01.08 | Now I
use only "geniune" software. Microsoft
Office gone and replaced with OpenOffice.
And this site now composed with
KompoZer. |
|
16.01.08 | Happy
New 2008 year!
My daughter have broke my keyboard with
glass of compote, so I have bought a new
one: Microsoft USB Natural Ergonomic
Keyboard 4000. |
|
22.10.07 | At my
birthday got new mobile phone and videocard... |
|
28.08.07 | As soon
as I have decide to switch Internet provider
- it increased connection speed from 10 to
100Mb. They do it all only for me? |
|
13.07.07 | Came
back from the trip around Scandinavia. It
was great! |
|
12.05.07 | Found
t-ring to convert telescope into the photo
lens - 1100mm f/5 is grate but huge thing... |
| 08.04.07 |
Yesterday have bought the first shareware program :)
(it is Reget
which I use for almost 7 years). |
| 25.03.07 |
Installed and worked some time on modern Windows Vista.
No bad as described. The major problem is drivers (there are still none
for some of my devices!). |
| 01.03.07 |
A
few photos from the 24.02.2007 MIEM meeting. |
| 14.02.07 |
Computer come to the final upgrade... It has now fast
CPU, but very slow graphics :( |
| 02.01.07 |
Happy New 2007 Year!
My present to myself is partial computer upgrade (new stylish case and
HDD), but relatives have exceeded themselves and presented to us
real big telescope! |
| 23.10.06 |
10 years of this homepage on the Internet. My internet
access speed increased from 14400 to 1200000 bps, but design not changed
much. The content of news was almost only departures, hardware purchases
and new years only.
To celebrate this event I've added sidebars to brush some dust from the
look of the site :) |
| 23.10.06 |
Got many useful and anticipated gifts on my birthday:
new videocard (GeForce
7600GS) and travel zoom lens (Tamron
AF18-200). |
| 23.08.06 |
We are back in Moscow. May be I will write something
about the trip and in a while publish photos. |
| 11.08.06 |
Mary have returned from Monino and we all have gone to
Urmala (Latvia). |
| 12.05.06 |
My long way to the real digital SLR camera is finished.
Now I am proud owner of late Konica-Minolta
Dynax 5D and couple of great lenses. |
| 03.02.06 |
After many events while Internet Explorer was
completely unable to display the simple web-page, I've decide to start
to use FireFox. Its really
fine. |
| 01.01.06 |
Some site statistics: drivers
are most popular pages (5 hits/day), people search for Intel Extreme
Graphics 2 driver (try www.intel.com,
although it is not easy to find anyone there :) and Hitachi CM751ET info
(Hitachi seems forget about their own products); most used browsers are
Internet Explorer (75%) and FireFox 1.x (15%). |
| 28.11.05 |
Another daughter has been born. |
| 25.11.05 |
Bought used telephoto converter for my digital camera
to take better shots of squirrels. |
| 19.11.05 |
In spite of the first unsuccessful attempt to upgrade
firmware on my digital camera (a year ago), resulted in 2 months of
repair I just have repeated it and this time all was fine.
There a lot of snow in the Moscow now and to cheer you up sing a
Finnegan's Wake! |
| 01.11.05 |
Yearly trip to Almaty finished. Not for so long as
usual, but my birthday I have met there, and of course get some shots of
animals. |
| 29.09.05 |
For a month I am puzzled by behavior of my local
network connection: after running eDonkey I am unable to use HTTP (mail
and other work fine!) until I reboot into Windows 98 and back to Windows
XP :( |
| 16.09.05 |
Have got drive license. On 9th try... |
| 11.06.05 |
Gone to Prague... |
| 09.05.05 |
Report (photo) on 1st days of May in Karabanovo travel
uploaded here. |
| 05.03.05 |
Instead of vain looking for replace of my pinking
mobile - Siemens SL45 (excellent model!) I've
just repaired it myself :)
To continue repairing week have just repaired broken pins on compact
flash connector of Canon A75 and fixed my refrigerator. |
| 07.02.05 |
Hurray! Got back my new digital camera repaired (just a
month pass). Minolta has very annoying service in Russia :(
Started to use eDonkey network. It seems it is really useful
thing, unfortunately there are many fake files and it is very slow. |
| 26.12.04 |
Changed my digital photo camera
Minolta Z2 on
Minolta A1 (high-end of non SLR) with
additional flash, now I was glad for a while. But after a week it died
:( |
| 15.12.04 |
Have tried to make shots in portrait style with my
camera - result are encouraging. Put some photos on
photosight.ru. |
| 14.11.04 |
Have returned from Almaty, brought a lot of squirrel
photos and received more gifts for birthday. |
| 26.09.04 |
For a while size of the swap file on my computer was
independent on settings and was equal to 1.5G! But now it decided to
became the size I've specified. What was the reason I do not know. And
seems I loose the understanding of computer software behavior :(
And I'm again going to Almaty. |
| 27.08.04 |
Finally have
meet with Eugeney, who was kind to see me on his very rear trip to
Moscow... |
| 16.07.04 |
Masha gone to spend her vacation in the country. Meanwhile I bought
DVD±RW :) |
| 11.06.04 |
Have spent vacation on Seliger lake - beautiful place! Made shots of
scenery, nestlings and insects (x10 optical zoom - rulez!) |
| 21.05.04 |
Photo-mania continues: I have bought another digital camera -
Minolta DiMAGE Z2, now its
semi-professional model with whooping 10x zoom and rapid AF. |
| 16.05.04 |
Have finally processed shots made in the last year in Almaty, you
can look at them
here. |
| 25.04.04 |
Returned from another business-trip to Almaty. There is already the
spring in full strength, not like here in Moscow, so I get to meet two
springs in the same year.
Got rid of the previous digital camera, so now I got the next model -
DiMAGE Xt. |
| 21.03.04 |
Links were cleaned up, also banners are gone. |
| 21.02.04 |
Upgrade forever :) I have bought new
CPU and got troubles with RAM. |
| 11.01.04 |
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
By the way, new year
we have meet in Crimea... |
| 12.12.03 |
I have returned back to Moscow. Hope in some time will prepare
photos... |
| 17.10.03 |
I am again going to Almaty, but for a long time.
Animals photo
gallery for you. |
| 24.08.03 |
Some people say that read this news! ;) So I'll try to write them
more often.
To all exCorvus team that managed to gather self - see yourself
here. |
| 25.07.03 |
There are many movies stored on local network, to download most of
them I had to upgrade hard disk on computer to 120GB (some movies are
DVD copies so they takes up to 7G!). To play my favorite game IL2FF
smooth I had to increase the size of RAM up to 1G. |
| 22.06.03 |
Have just returned from the small business-trip to Almaty
(Kazakhstan), it is very nice green city. My digital camera unable to
take shots thru the glass of airplane, lost many excellent views :( |
| 14.05.03 |
We have returned from trip on Crimea. It was very nice there...
To match my color photo printer I have bought Epson Perfection 2400
Photo scanner. |
| 03.04.03 |
Bought second-hand Siemens SL45i, so my mobile came back to me.
Have connected my computer to the "local network", now I have very fast
internet and access to huge collection of soft, music and soft for
free... |
| 26.03.03 |
My mobile phone was stolen :(. To rejoice myself I have bought
super-compact digital photo camera -
Minolta DiMAGE X. |
| 02.02.03 |
Many events have happened since new year started... I have changed
work. Upgraded
computer, bought printer. Watched Lord
of the Rings - Two Towers and Notre Dam d'Paris. |
| 14.12.02 |
I am back to Moscow! It was nice in Baku... |
| 15.09.02 |
I have gone on business trip to Azerbaijan, so no updates for some
months. |
| 06.06.02 |
Now I am working on another company due to collapse of my previous
one. Now I am 'expert', it is good as I am very tired of automation
department.
Unfortunately with the old firm also collapsed my FTP server, so some
files in drivers section will be unavailable for sometime until I will
transfer them all to the public http server. |
| 31.03.02 |
One more good (or rather excellent) movie I recommend you to watch -
Amelie.
In the second time I have problem with
Intel busmastering and CDROM... |
| 20.02.02 |
What's the amazingly symmetric date today - 20.02.2002 (USA visitors
probably will not understand it :).
Movie The Lord Of The Ring
(Fellowship Of The Ring) come to the Moscow. Movie RULEZ! (Yes, I know
that it does not reproduce the atmosphere and characters of the original
book, but I think that director made the best possible variant of this
movie). |
| 09.02.02 |
Bought a new toy for myself -
Siemens SL45 mobile phone
(also MP3 player, organizer, dictaphone, ...). |
| 03.12.01 |
Have a lot of fun for last week. Visited the Old Moscow Circus - it
has an excellent program. And saw Shrek movie - I have a good laugh on
it. |
| 12.09.01 |
Just have migrated on Windows XP Pro... It is Windows 2000 + very
cool interface and many really useful improvements. I recommend it. |
| 11.07.01 |
I am back to Moscow.
ICQ presents a
new way to send SMS directly to ICQ users. Very useful! |
| 09.06.01 |
I am going to vacation to the Black Sea, so wish me to happy rest. |
| 06.05.01 |
As I started to work with video my 13G hard drive became very small,
so I bought the newest and the fastest IBM IC35L040 7200rpm 40G ... |
| 17.04.01 |
Successfully moved onto Windows 2000 Pro from Windows ME and can say
that it is best OS at present time for work and game.
Spend a week on experiments with capturing and encoding movies from VHS
onto CDR. All fine. DivX rules!
The most unbelievable thing for me happened - I earned some money with
banners on this site. Amount is outstanding - $0.16 for 3 months :) |
| 17.02.01 |
This have to be happens sometime - after many successful BIOS
updates the latest one failed. Fortunately friend of mine has the
similar motherboard on neighborhood so I was able to
recover my BIOS. Resume: do not touch the thing if it works! |
| 05.02.01 |
One more upgrade: Asus 7700 - GeForce2
GTS based. No very much improvements in speed compared to GeFORCE256 but
it cost me almost nothing as I found a man to by my old videocard. |
| 02.02.01 |
The results of the first month of money earning by banners on my
site:
Total banners shown: 1989, hits:
12, earn money: $0.00
It is awful. So if you have some positive experience in this field
please send me some
recommendations...
Time goes... I just have bought CDRW for only $100, who can even dream
of it some years ago. |
| 27.01.01 |
Trying to make Corel PhotoPaint and Adobe Photoshop stop crashing I
have spent last two days installing Win98SE and then restoring it back
as the cause of those crashes appeared to be plain vendor supplied HP
LaserJet driver :(. So if you have choice to install driver supplied
with your OS or by vendor think twice... |
| 04.01.01 |
With the newest WDM drivers for SB Live!
Value I at last can use the hibernate ability of Windows ME that is very
useful! |
| 25.12.00 |
I have set up new counters on my pages (SpyLog)
and found out that 90% of all visitors look for drivers, so I have
decide to make money of it! At first I will try CommissionJunction... |
| 30.09.00 |
What's sweat thing is upgrade. Now I work (and play) on AMD Duron
875 :) - see hardware section for details. |
| 23.07.00 |
For all of you who guess why your fresh-downloaded Internet Explorer
5.5 crashes at run - try to uninstall Reget!
Take a look at my first online certification attempt at
BrainBench. |
| 08.07.00 |
I got the final version of Windows ME, resume: nothing very
interesting, better to use Windows 98SE!
After many negative reviews of Diablo2 I hesitated to buy it, but by
the chance try it and now can tell you - in spite on all this is the
hit! |
| 29.06.00 |
My vacation has ended (I was washed out from Klyzma with rains). I
spent my time swimming, playing tennis, riding hydro-cycle, etc... |
| 05.05.00 |
I had many upgrades in the last month:
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer, mobile phone, headphones and boat
(canoe) travel experience. I hope to review it all sometime later... |
| 29.03.00 |
The acquisition of my provider GlasNet by
Teleross
(ex. Sovam) led to change of my e-mail address - now
tsw@online.ru
and move of this pages - now URL is
//webcenter.ru/~tsw. Also I have returned to edit this pages
with MS FrontPage 2000. |
| 25.03.00 |
My system left very long time without being reinstalled, so I decide
to install Windows ME (Millennium Edition) beta 2491. In spite of many
problems it works! But there almost none significant changes from
Windows 98 SE, even disappearance of MSDOS is only cosmetic. |
| 04.01.00 |
Our friend in USA asked for more photos, so
I put some more... As digital date script on GlasNet is Y2K incompatible
(it thinks now 04-01-100) I replaced it with javascript. People report
such errors almost on every site in Internet! |
| 31.12.99 |
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! |
| 24.12.99 |
And now GeFORCE will be with me! See short review in
hardware. |
| 12.12.99 |
Some minor improvements to site design. Many updates to
Mary's pages. |
| 26.10.99 |
Many cosmetic changes in long-awaited update to drivers for Creative
SoundBlaster Live! family -
LiveWare 3.0 in drivers.
JS-300
(my speakers) info in hardware added. |
| 01.09.99 |
"May GeFORCE be with you!"
I had problems with my account at internet provider GlasNet due to
some ghost connections for big money, but they fixed it and give me some
more credit! (Also it was their mistake and there were no excuses from
them.) Update: I have send them request twice and they have repaid twice
- easy money!
If you have not notice it yet, but I keep
drivers
page regularly updated (+G200)! |
| 11.07.99 |
MP3s again removed :( Also cleaned up
some counters and banner exchange services. I am going to keep this site
clean from such garbage. |
| 17.06.99 |
In Moscow is very hot +30C, so I am swimming in warm waters of Klazma.
To keep this site updated I have filled up the counters collection with
HitBox. |
| 05.06.99 |
Some HTTP proxy servers cause errors
while displaying last update date for my pages, so I have removed
autodetection and place trivial text.
There are many updates on drivers page. |
| 13.05.99 |
We waited it for a long long time and now it is available to download
- LiveWare 2.0 for Sound Blaster Live! See
details in drivers... See LS-120 x2 info in
hardware. |
| 04.05.99 |
MP3 returns!
I was busy knocking out my armored front door, so people, think ahead
what you'll do when be locked on the n-th floor. |
| 30.03.99 |
At least spring in Moscow! I have installed MS Office 2000 and was
very impressed. Some aftermath of HTML editor transition fixed. |
| 01.03.99 |
No more MP3s here! Sorry... |
| 21.02.99 |
Got great web pages editor -
Macromedia
Dreamweaver 2, it
much more powerful and useful then
Microsoft
FrontPage 98. |
| 26.01.99 |
Russian pages began to be constructed, you can check them right
now.
I have begun to cooperate with iXBT
hardware/software site. This is a link to my first article there, or
read it right here
(Russian). |
| 22.01.99 |
Spelling checked. The first drivers and news in
drivers and software. |
| 08.01.99 |
Lets the new year begin. Some boys named it as
Y2K-1. And I want to thank all of you who visited my pages thru
the last year.
There are additions to the hardware
section:
TNT overclocking and
new drivers page.
Thanks to PollIt, you will be decide to
be MIDI background music or not to be. |
| 30.12.98 |
HAPPY NEW YEAR AND MERRY CHRISTMAS!
My favorite songs of Baccara have enMP3ed and are
ready. |
| 19.12.98 |
I have rearrange music page. Mary
updated
tips. |
| 10.12.98 |
And now you can look at our faces! |
| 06.12.98 |
The winter. I have one more upgrade. Now it is
Intel Celeron 450A. Some MP3s
added. |
| 26.11.98 |
Mary have visited BANYA (Bath-house). |
| 23.11.98 |
We have joined AU! Julio Iglesias song
added. |
| 22.11.98 |
Additions in Music texts section. Take a look at
Mad Cow Test! |
| 18.11.98 |
Mary has made great updates. Nikolas wrote some
SB Live! lines. |
| 13.11.98 |
Winter in Moscow! There are cold (-13°C)
and many snow. I and Mary have added
Rambler Top 100 counters to the our pages. |
| 05.11.98 |
My new purchase - SB Live! Value in
hardware. Quick jump updated. Removed page timer - provider
disappeared :(. A whole week I am keep trying to download
MS IE 5.0 beta 2. Microsoft made it very hard: they lose pages,
protect files with passwords, write wrong html, etc., but it seems all
is over - it just have begun to download! Oh, I've updated my
MP3 links! |
| 28.10.98 |
Many updates. Added songs texts
section with very addictive How Much Is A Fish. |
| 08.10.98 |
See my hardware section for RivaTNT
review. It is the best video card you can buy today! Read
this
please - I never wrote such long things :). I put this site
banner
near Mary section. |
| 05.10.98 |
Mary has changed some tables. First
MP3-files added. nVIDIA RIVA TNT in Moscow!
See hardware section. |
| 28.09.98 |
Hobbies section divided on
X-Files,
MP3 and RRT2. |
| 26.09.98 |
X-Files: Fight the Future
- movie. Now in the theaters of Moscow! |
| 24.09.98 |
Resume formatting completed. Mary has
updated her pages. Also I have inserted
almost all main pages into the quick jump dropdown. |
| 18.09.98 |
New banner submitted
to the LinkExchange system.
Rambler counter removed due to low
traffic :( |
| 31.08.98 |
My wife has made some pages for you to
read. Although only on Russian so far. |
| 30.08.98 |
Due to my laziness I write this news with three months lag... May, 25
a new member of my family was born: gender is male, name is Boris. News
section rearranged, rle moved down. |
| 30.04.98 |
Images sizes updated (was 32x32) - FrontPage bug :(, CSS added to
resume. |
| 27.04.98 |
Favorites updated, You can now see my Russian
language pages. |
| 23.04.98 |
Resume added. |
| 18.04.98 |
Got new "infinite" email.
Added this section. Added awards. |
