The week started as usual. I woke up on time, had a little breakfast and went to work. The good news is, that the backup script that I’ve being trying to fix for the last few days is now working very well. The problem was, that it kept backing up tons of empty directories and finaly I had to filter everything trough find. Now it is OK. We also put a 9GB SCSI drive on the machine and tomorrow I’l install slack on it. I also worked on my web page, but I’ll make it available once everything is complete.
I started learning chinese mandarin using Dr. Pimsleur’s Method. The lessons are about 30 minutes once a day. The method itself consists of learning of core words and phrases using a dialog with a native speaker and answering questions. To use the learning method you have to know english and you need 30 minutes of piece and quiet a day ( which is rare ). Every next lesson adds few more words with which you can form many more phrases that you might need on a daily basis if you go to the corresponding country. It is very interesting how in chinese you have to talk with specific intonation because one “word” spoken with different intonations can mean 4-5 totaly different meanings. The price of one of the three parts of chinese lessons is around 200 bucks but if you go to audible.com you can join for 3-4 bucks and you get a free credit to dowload one audio book and they have the first part for Mandarin Chinese. It consists of 8 lessons, so in about 2 weeks I’ll post here what is my progress on speaking ( writing is a totaly different thing ) Mandarin Chinese.
I couldn’t go to bed after I bloged, as I planned, but in the morning I woke up at 9 ( as plannet ). I made breakfast ( toast with bulgarian fetta ), and then I sent Dary to work and I started burning some DVDs with data like pictures from my hdd, because I had only 4GB left of my 100GB drive! I went to work around noon and I almost couldn’t manage to stay awake ( last night I fell asleep at around 4 am ). Just about 2 hours ago I came back from work and Eli had stopped by to chat with Dary and about 30 mins ago se left ( Eli ). Now I’m burning some more DVDs while I blog and than I’m going to bed.
I just came home from work and I decided to write a little in my blog. I was thinking that for a lot a time now I don’t blog as often as I used to. Now I blog once a week or so. Why is that? I don’t know. But the fact that I have to write it in two languages, has a little to do with it.
Since the beginning of this summer I’m trying to build a daily routine to do every little thing I like and to waste less time. The whole first month of this semester I’ve being waking up at 8:30 am regardless of the time I went to bed. I ate breakfast in the zone, I checked my email, read the news and I was ready to go to work. Now I wake up 20 mins before work and I don’t eat breakfast, I don’t have time to wake up and to be alert for the morning, I stay awake till 3-4 in the morning and almost all week I am sleepy during the day. I plan to start again tonight. After this post I’m going to bed and tomorow morning I’ll wake up at 9. ( I plan to sleed till 9am on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and till 8:30am the rest of the days ). I’ll go to bed at 1:00am the latest and I’ll take 15-20 mins before bed to blog. I also have an audio teacher in Chinese by Dr. Pimsleur and I have to listen to every lesson for 30 mins a day, every day in a time when I am alert and when I can listen to the entire lesson without anyone interrupting me. I thing, the time for this will be right after breakfast. Dary has the same lesson but for Spanish ( again dr. Pimsleur audio book) and I’ll ask her if she wants to do it during the same time, so that we don’t interrupt each other while we listen to it. I hope one day when I start a routine I will actually stick to it… Good night!
Yesterday, I switched to polyglot 2 ( a plugin that handles multiple languages in posts ) and it turned out that the change of locale option is broken. Fortunately one of the responses in the authors blog had the answer: add include(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/locale.php'); after load_default_textdomain(); in your polyglot.php and in locale.php of wordpress add global $weekday, $weekday_initial, $weekday_abbrev, $month, $month_abbrev; at the beginning of the file. After that, I had to change my WPLANG to “en” in order to work. Now everything should be working.
Well, after 9 months it happened. Here is the link to the paper. It is written in latex and I think I learned more about latex than about AAA 
This weekend was some jewish holiday and we even got the Monday off. The entire day we spent moving furniture around and cleaning. We started around noon and we finished around 7 p.m.. One of the desks we moved outside, and the coat hang we put on the other side of the door. I also mounted the router and the hawking antennae to the wall, and mounted a thing to the wall to put the printer on it. Later we started cooking and Rado stopped by for dinner. After that Vassal joined us and I started making tea ( they finished 6-7 teapots of tea… ). And there it was 1 am. At that point we just watched the latest episode of Survivor BG ( the one that Margarita was sent away ) and we went to bed around 3 a.m., if I’m not wrong. The other two days of the weekend, except work I installed Vista Beta 1 so that Dary can use AutoCAD. My fist impression is not very good. First the installation did not detect the cd/dvd device ( from which it loaded itself ) because it was primary master and it had to be slave. After that I had a problem with the partitions because none was “active”. After I managed to install it, there were no drivers for my integrated NIC, or my 3com nic, only for the netgear… No drivers for my printer nor for my scanner, and the most annoying thing is that it asks you 2-3-4 times for every thing you want to do. Otherwise they did a good job copying from os x. We will see in near future how good/bad the os is…