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As promised, today I start showing you my factory works. I have a few pictures in my red room and plan to expose them to your judgment as they get dry. The comments are always welcome.

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Oh my, it’s been a long time since I wrote something in my blog last time. The last few weeks were the busiest time this year. At first, I had my laptop BIOS killed. Then it was successfully restored even though it required to unsolder it from the motherboard, reprogram and solder back. No, it was my father, the magician, who did all the job. Big thanks again, dad! Then there were some other minor troubles here and there taking all my focus and time.

To catch up with the news and, for a start, here’s a nice and magic service — San Francisco Cab Tracker. Never before had I seen anything like that as well as little did I know that it’s even possible to track the location of each specific cab in the area. Is that GPS-tricks?

Next time I promise to publish some cool photos from some factory in our Crimean mountains. It’s building was never finished, but what was built impresses.

Until next time!

Eric Bruno gives us his initial impressions about the latest feature-packed Java 6 Mustang beta release. I kind of agree that the list is particulary tasty and promissing. But I know that I’m not going to use it any soon. Why?

Well, it’s simple. Take our application — BlogBridge — as an example. It has a number of users even with Java 1.4 installed, we have to support them as they represent a significant segment of our user base. We don’t want to take any more maintenance load for having it run on 1.4, 1.5 and now 1.6. You might ask, what maintenance headaches? You might wonder, it all should be compatible!

Yes, it SHOULD, but unfortunately it’s NOT.

I’m not so pessimistic as I might appear from above. It’s just that I can’t taste its wonders fully yet what makes me a little bit worried.

In any case, nice release, guys!

Recently I’ve been working on improving my writing skills: reading articles, books and recommendations from all over the web. It’s essential for me to be able to communicate the ideas freely in a written form as writing is the only pipe between me and most of my friends. Apart of it, I simply like to write and doing it in a right and easy way brings much more excitement than desperate attempts to put thoughts into order. But this is a whole different story…

Today I stumbled across the Hints for Revising by Brian Marick which are a good collection of advices on how to make your writing clear, well-structured and deeply pleasurable. I suggest running through this article briefly even if you aren’t going to become the next Shakespear. Personally, I found several interesting tips and got the proof of that my post-writing reading technique works and works pretty well on behalf of the greatest minds out there. Oh, and I’m not the author of it of course. It’s just that I didn’t see it mentioned anywhere before, but regularily used it to revise my own creations.

Just willing to double the official announcement here to let my exclusive readers know. The new version of BlogBridge with lots of fun features is out and I encourage everyone to jump to it as it’s faster, understands badly formed feeds better, has smaller footprint and simply more fun to use.

The details you can find in the official announcement posted by me on our main product site. There’s also a bunch of links in it for your exploring pleasure. So don’t put it off until it’s too late… and new version is out. :)

Try it and let us know what you think. Your opinion always matters!

Hey, English Learners! I’ve just got another fascinating Macmillan English update letter (which is great by the way). Among all wonderful things they have there, here’s something I would love to share with all of you. It’s not a secret to anyone that to sound natural you have to know word collocations, fixed phrases and phrasal verbs equally well. The latest are of a special importance as they help you bring some bright colors to your nicely showering speech. That’s why I’m especially excited to share the link to this phrasal verbs crossword.

Oh yeah, and the answers are also available.

Have fun!

Hi, I just wished to let you know that I have a photostream in Flickr and it received several new items for your viewing pleasure. So, everyone is welcome to check it out and leave some comments. I would love to hear from you!

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