Archive for December, 2006

Why Is Russia So Weird?

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

Recently, when I submitted a story on Digg about amazing paintings in Ramenskoye city, one user asked me there: “Why is Russia so weird?”This question was always standing between Russia and Western civilization. Yes, it really was. West is not able to understand why Russia is so… weird. I’m Russian, I live and work in […]

Apple Mobile Phone Preview

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

This is how Apple Mobile Phone is going to look like. According to rumors, of course.
I’m not sure if it will hold “iPhone” name. Cisco Systems already launched iPhone product (Cisco IP Phone), so Apple, most probably, call this one myPhone, aPhone or ipodPhone something.
It seems, Apple was hoping to buy “iPhone” trademark from Cisco, […]

Should I switch to Apple?

Monday, December 11th, 2006

During past 11 years I bought at least 4 new PCs (in 1995 for $950, in 1999 for $2000, 2001: $2000, 2004: $1800; multiple upgrades: CPU, HDD, RAM, Video) and two notebooks (Sony VAIO 15″, $1800 in 2002 and Compaq 17″ in 2005, $1700). Today I realized , that my current PC (Intel Pentium 4, […]