Prague News

This was the final reason why I voted for his party: P.S: This is real, not photoshopped!

(Dedicated to Andrei Tarkovsky)

My dear Jitushka decided she wants to be even more beautiful and enrolled herself into a competition where she will enter a sophisticated (and expensive) fitness program to get in shape. All of it will be documented by idnes.cz news server. Continue Reading »

Watch Vie Guide to Liberia documentary and be glad that you live where you live. Powerful stuff.

This is a follow-up to Albert's previous appearance.

Albert imitating Jim Carrey: From today's frolicking in the snow...

We spent the New Year's Eve in scary cottage near the Austrian border and we visited a bizarre complex called Excalibur City.Excalibur City is located exactly at the border of Austria and Czech Republic, the reason probably being that you can pay smaller taxes here, no duties or whatever.It looks like some demented hellish post-apocalyptic nighmarish version of Disneyland / U.S. mega mall. See my Continue Reading »

I recently bought this MP3 player which boasts "70 hours of battery life" and other interesting features for rather nice price (I bought 8 GB version). The reason was that I needed some player for my father to listen to classical music in his bed and I figured I could give him my older Sansa Clip and I'll keep EM270 for myself (because it seemed to be slightly more advanced).Pluses: The packaging Continue Reading »

I purchased Buzz! Quiz World game for PS3. This is a TV-Show style quiz game which has the distinction of being fully localized to Czech language. Not only translated, but there are also many questions about Czech TV shows, Czech sports etc! There are supposed to be over 5000 questions in total, some with audio and / or images.I only played one game so far and it was excellent fun although I only Continue Reading »

This is Albert, the Zen master:I bought myself Panasonic Lumix GF1 camera (with small pancake lens) which - at least to me - is a breakthrough piece of hardware. It shoots almost as well as DSLR, however it's very compact (slightly larger than Canon Powershot G series including the lens). That means I can carry it with me fairly easily in the belt pouch wherever I go and use it for Continue Reading »

Even the Japanese are powerless agains the mighty power of Windows 7. I guess I'll stay with Ubuntu, thank you...Even after they get it to work, it feels definitely unresponsive and sluggish, considering this is carefully prepared one-time demo on "optimal hardware": Continue Reading »

This sounds like some bizarre joke from Mike Judge or Sacha Baron Cohen but it's real. Today, on the Wenceslas Square (the most frequented place in the center of Prague), I saw diggers working. If I was racist and elitist, I'd probably say they were "illiterate minimum wage Gypsy diggers". And most of them wore bright yellow shirt with the slogan "Měl jsem se líp učit", meaning "I should've Continue Reading »

Probably just a coincidence but...Bonus video:

I always liked amusement park attractions and I had some rather disturbing memories of Budapest's "Vidam Park" which I visited when I was very small (about 10 years old).Last week, I visited it again, and it was even more bizarre than I remembered it.There are some rather recent rides, well known from European amusement parks. But let's forget about these and get nostalgic:There is an operational Continue Reading »

I am posting this chiefly so that other people with the same problem can find the easy solution here: Continue Reading »

Today, I went to look at the another attempt to evict squatters from the Milada squat in Holesovice, Prague.When I was taking pictures, one of them, a young girl in black tank top, rather nice except the large amount of facial hair, approached me:Suspected Terrorist: "Can you please don't take photo?" (sic!)Me: "I'm in a public place, and I am not photographing you personally."Suspected Terrorist Continue Reading »

My friend bought T-Mobile G1 Android mobile phone from T-Mobile Czech Republic (i.e. standard, non-rooted, white version).My friend had problems with the phone. It locked up without reason, repeatedly. He went back to T-Mobile and the phone (still under warranty) was sent to the repair shop.After one day in the repair shop, it was back, supposedly "repaired", with the following priceless Continue Reading »