Alisher Usmonov April 26, 2008
Alisher Usmonov — an ethnic Uzbek appeared at top ten list of Britain’s richest men according to Sunday Times article:
Alisher Usmanov, a former prosecutor in Uzbekistan, who appears at number five, built his £5,726m fortune through steel and ore mines.
What’s interesting is that he used to be our neighbour and his father still lives in [...]
Toblerone April 26, 2008
Whenever I, my parents or family members (uncles, aunts etc) go abroad, we always bring a bar or two of Toblerone — a swiss chocolate. It is kind of a tradition in our family. I thought it was only in our family until I saw the episode of Friends, when Emily, Ross’es British girlfriend also [...]
Skin cancer in Australia April 16, 2008
Did you know that 50% of Australians have skin cancer?
Terrible.
Gym April 10, 2008
I started going to a gym every other day. Now my arms hurt, legs hurt, back hurts. And I am tired to death those days. I hope it is all for good.
My video on YouTube April 8, 2008
The video about Tashkent (the capital of Uzbekistan) which was made by me was viewed over 40 000 times and has more than 100 comments, most of which are very positive and thankful.
Very nice :-)
Windows Vista source code revealed April 7, 2008
Downgrading to Windows XP April 3, 2008
I decided to downgrade to Windows XP Professional from Vista Ultimate, because Vista was a resource hog and sluggish.
I tried to install XP to disk D: in parallel with Vista (on disk C:), but I couldn’t. XP passes the DOS-based file copying part of the installation, reboots and says “Error loading operating system” and that’s [...]