Holidays are coming. Yesterday I finished writing my Thesis – if all goes well, I’ll be having my diploma exam next Wednesday. That would surely be a good ending of a semetre.

Other things are going well too. QtCentre prospers and will hopefully continue its trend (although we had a minor shiver on the post trend line some time ago). More free time of mine can surely be converted to some improvements to the site.

End of June will reach me in Mikolajki, where I’ll be taking part in a sailing contest (we have beautiful lakes here in Poland – maybe not so beautiful as the ones in Finland, but still).

Enough of that for now. I’ll try to post more frequently in case anybody reads this blog 😉

Breslau photos

As promised, I give you some photos from my trip to Wroclaw.

Yesterday evening I returned from a short winter holidays, which I spent in Wroclaw (Breslau) – a city in Silesia (southwestern part of Poland) where I was born and used to live in for the first four years of my life.

Even before the train stopped at the station, I fell in love with the city… again. I sensed a different “scent” in the air and I don’t mean the smell of the air itself (I don’t want to investigate how clean or dirty the air there is). The city differs from Warsaw very much. It is much calmer and more pleasant.

During my short stay I managed to see the place where I used to live when I was little, place where my parents used to work and I found time to pay visit to my family in Wroclaw. I didn’t manage to see everything I wanted – frosty weather and a rising demand of my organism to rest a little caused that I didn’t see the zoo and I didn’t manage to take a closer look at the centre of the city.

Unfortunately because of bad weather conditions my journey home extended a little and I feel quite tired now (after spending 7 hours in a train).

Below I attach few photos of the city. Later I will post some photos taken during my trip to Wroclaw.

Today is a historical day for me. By the end of the year I resigned from my first computer-related job and today I’ve been there for the last time to return all the work related stuff I had and to introduce my successor to his working environment.

I worked there for over five years and my responsibility changed a few times during that period of time. I started as a DTP operator (I gained a lot of experience there) then switched to caring about a www page the company has, finally became a handyman, but this wasn’t a job for me, gave me no satisfaction and almost no money (but a lot of stress instead) so I resigned.

Now I have little more free time (the work there wasn’t very time consuming), and a lot less stress. So generally I am a happy man again After leaving the room for the last time (hopefully), I threw my hands in the air and laughed. My life changed a lot during the period of time I worked there, I learned not only things connected with computers and stuff but also how to cope with people and what to expect from them. I’m sure this experience won’t be wasted. Now I can focus on my Master’s Thesis…

Last Saturday we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Polish Praying Mantis Kung Fu Society. Many people came, including our brothers and sisters from Finland. We spent hours talking to each other and having fun. Shifu Slawomir Milczarek received a gift from his polish students — a brand new notebook computer. Looks like he didn’t expect it. The times when he was saying “It will not run on my computer” are over

The evening was great although people were scattered throughout many tables and three rooms instead of being all in one place like a community should do. Free beer and snacks ended very quickly and people were forced to buy drinks which were quite expensive for polish conditions. On the other hand we listened to a concert of the Pavulon Twist group which gathered all the people closer to the scene.

The time flies, 20 years passed, 16 of which I was fortunate to be part of. Happy birthday PPMKFS!

Today I added support for posting comments using Reblogger. The template still needs some adjustments, but the functionality is there. I already have one comment, which seems not bad, regarded that only a few people know about this site.

I never expected myself to start a blog, but I feel like exposing some of my thoughts to the Internet community.

Some time ago I found a nice piece of software called NanoBlogger, so I thought I’ll give it a try.

I don’t expect the blog to have many readers and probably not many new entries as well, as I have become quite a busy man lately. I’d like this journal to be mainly IT-oriented, but I’ll be writing about other things too. Any feedback from potential readers is welcome.

What’s in it for me? Well, first of all I’d like to have a place of my own where I can express my opinions on various subjects. Second of all, I’m hoping to give people some entertainment and maybe help resolve some of their problems too. Furthermore I expect my English to improve a little too