Category Archives: Personal

New York City is not exepnsive, and other stories

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Slava

A few years ago I met people behind many-eyes visualization project from IBM. Today, inspired by other things I have seen in the labs I decided to see what their site (http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com) has been up to. Always consumed by price … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal, Software & Team, Web | Tagged , | Leave a comment

like this photo

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Slava

«лапложд» на Фото.Сайте

Posted in Personal, Photography | Tagged | Leave a comment

Notes on Margins

Posted on December 30, 2008 by Slava

Fred Wilson wrote: It’s gotten to the point that if I can’t interact with content, I don’t want to consume it. When I read books, I underline certain passages so I can blog about them later. If I were reading … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal, Web | Tagged , | 4 Comments

LinkedIn application for WordPress

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Slava

I like the simplicity, and surprising utitliy of LinkedIn applications. I was surprised to see a blog post from one of my connections, and within a few clicks configured LinkedIn to show my own blog posts. Continue reading →

Posted in Personal, Web | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Copenhagen

Posted on December 9, 2008 by Slava

I visited amazon.com today and saw that it picked Copenhagen (PBS Hollywood Presents) as a recommendation. I remember seeing the play in NY and being totally transfixed. So now I am just trying to figure out who I know  that … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal | Tagged , | Leave a comment

[A]/Nonymous

Posted on September 29, 2008 by Slava

I have always been scared to blog under my name. This fear had a few components. I did notice, recently, that most of the blogs I follow are actually not anonymous. I used to read a lot of anonymous blogs, … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal, Web | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Bad wording

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Slava

From an alumni newsletter I get this line: xxx is a passionate advocate for HIV/AIDS  I have no doubt that the person being honored is not enamored of HIV/AIDS and does not wish to spread it far and wide. In … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal | Leave a comment

upgrading the iPhone

Posted on July 14, 2008 by Slava

to 2.0 software. Pretty neat… It is amazing to me how fast we forgive and forget. It is taking Apple a week to undo over a year of hurt in not having an SDK and normal applications on the iPhone. … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal | Tagged | Leave a comment

Posting from OneNote 2007

Posted on July 11, 2008 by Slava

I have been using MindManager from MindJet for a few years (3? 4?) now. Today, I decided to give OneNote 2007 a chance. On one hand, it is a very impressive tool. On another… What I value in MindManager is … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal | Leave a comment

That could be interesting

Posted on October 12, 2007 by Slava

“Beginning Oct. 15, a monthlong discussion of “War and Peace” will appear in the online edition of The Times. The panelists will include Bill Keller, the executive editor of The Times; Stephen Kotkin, the director of Russian and Eurasian studies … Continue reading →

Posted in Link Dump, Personal | Leave a comment