Faster than my home ADSL connection.

PS. A soft unlock has been released for iPhone 3G by the Dev Team

PS. Congratulations to Obama! He deserved it.

First, I received a mail from a (supposedly) Dutchman, who is currently staying in Tashkent, my hometown. He said he saw the Polish Catholic church in my YouTube video about Tashkent and asked how he can reach the church and see it by himself. I gave him directions, and after 2 days I received a letter of thanks :-)

Second story is more complicated. As you might know, I have a photo gallery with photos of both Uzbekistan and Denmark. So, around two years ago I received an email from a Danish woman who used to live in Uzbekistan. Now, after two years, she found me in LinkedIn and asked how I and Uzbekistan were. It turned out that she studied Russian and worked as an English teacher in Tashkent. I asked why she chose Uzbekistan to study Russian, but not the motherland of the language. She said she liked Uzbekistan more than Russia. It is nice to hear this kind of stuff.

For example, in Uzbek the word “Are you stupid?” can be said in many different ways, the “correct” form of it being “Jinnimisan?”. But many people, at least in Tashkent, use “Qozoqmisan?” which literally means “Are you a Kazakh?” and which is the synonym of “Jinnimisan?”

You can not feel this rivalry in daily life, but the Uzbek language still resembles the old times.

Check out more magnificent photos taken from up above here

And by the way, Uzbekistan advanced to the next level of World Cup 2010 qualifiers. The next game will be against Australia on September 10 in Tashkent.

PS. Go Obama!