Just finished reading Isaac Asimov's "Foundation". Nothing short of epic, I can tell you. The scale of the story is astonishing.

For curious, it starts off like this.
Distant future. Humankind has conquered the Galaxy. The Galactic Empire has been around for thousands of years and eveything seems just fine...
But a man called Hari Seldon, a ( Read more... )

For half of this semester we had a course called 'Microprocessors and embedded systems'. To date -- this was the most interesting course we had, such a pity that it's so short.

During the course, I kinda got a chance to look at computers from a slightly different angle -- from the angle of the computer system architect as opposed to a computer ( Read more... )

Как вы знаете или не знаете, я поклонник Намиэ Амуро (安室奈美恵 Amuro Namie), японской поп- а теперь уже r&b/hip-hop-певицы.
Захотелось узнать про нее побольше (да и про японскую поп-музыку и культуру вцелом), 2 дня просидел на всяких википедиях, инфо-сайтах, ютубах. И все равно еще много чего надо прочитать, узнать.

Из ее биографии:

• На 3/4 японка ( ( Read more... )