Three and a half years ago while playing with maps on my then new Nokia 5800 I marked McDonald’s somewhere on another side of the planet. Last month I ate double quarter pounder there, it wasn’t that far after all.
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Installed CyanogenMod onto my HTC Desire. It feels like a new phone now, and it takes less memory, so I was able to install some additional applications. The only problem so far is that I have lost handwritten Chinese input, which is a great feature of HTC.
Just uploaded RedisDB-1.03 to CPAN. In this version I extracted parser code into a separate module and cleaned it up a bit, I have in plans writing XS version of the parser. Another significant change is that I dropped Module::Install and switched to plain ExtUtils::MakeMaker. The size of the distribution almost halved as a result.
As practice shows, it takes about a week to deliver letter in Singapore. Today I got long awaited one from ICA — about half an hour on bus from my home, don’t know why it took it so long. Yellow envelope with “PLEASE DO NOT BEND” written in big bold letters on the front side. And it is bent.
Got my IELTS result today. Overall 7.5 which is not bad, though I got just 5.5 for speaking. I think I could do speaking better, but it was next day after my wife gave birth to our son, so I didn’t concentrate much on the test. Maybe I will take it again a couple of months later.
Last week my wife gave birth to our son. We’ve named him Yan.
I am Pavel Shaydo and here is my blog.