CyberProdigy

There is something that is driving me nuts about Google webmaster? It's that i can not change the interface language to English. No really, I’ve tried like a zillion times, but somehow I just can’t figure it out. In Google products I always set English as my default language. I’ve even set that I live in U.K. so that Google do not dare to offer me Latvian. But somehow webmaster is different. It knows me. It knows me deep inside. It even scares me ;D. The reason why I prefer English over Latvian is pretty simple though – when the specific words are being translated into Latvian, in most cases text become unreadable, and I constantly need to think – now what's that word would be in English. Some examples include: Noildze – delay; Rādītājs - index; Iesūtne - inbox; Rāpuļprogramma - crawler; Not only words are confusing, but in many cases translation is ambiguous too. It can easily be seen, that translator did not take context into account. And today I was exceptionally upset, be...

This morning i was making a tea. I heated up the water, till it started to boil. Usually instead of filling full cup with very hot water, i fill only half, because the rest i fill with cold water, so the tea is not so hot. At the moment, when hot water was poured into the cup, i decided to go to check my email. And then suddenly curious question popped up into my mind. Curious question: In which case the tea will be hotter? If I add a cold water and go for 5 minutes to check my mail or If I go and check my mail for 5 minutes, and when returned, add a cold water The answer is not obvious. Because in first case difference between hot tea and room air is greater, and thus energy will flow faster away from the cup. And on the other hand, in the second case the surface between tea and air is greater, so again it means that energy flows faster away. I did a few calculations to find the answer. It turns out that it is very important what shape is your cup is in. And also the temperature of co...

Today i discovered an excelent google tech talk presentation made by  Dr. Michael Merzenich . The title of presentation was " Think faster focus better and remember more. Rewiring our brain to stay younger... ". He himself is 66, and not showing any of mental regress (:. Especially i liked the presentation, and the way he got himself out in situation where the slides were missing (:. Yea.. however. The numbers and diagrams he showed about the results of methodology he presented was just outstanding. I always was concern that when you get older, body as well as mind will loose the grip. But he prooved the opposite. As we live in information technology era which is changing very rapidly, i was kind of woried about my living when i will be 60. Will i be able to follow? And the answer is - yes. Brain is very adaptive. And actually today's and future's information technology, wide information availability and the way we do information processing, is excelent for keeping o...