Phone calls are notoriously expensive in Czech Republic. Despite the former communication monopoly is officially gone, the company still owns the landlines and you pay them high fixed monthly fees and high call rates. Fortunately, VoIP started to expand here recently. I’ve already been using VoIP for some time, but only at the PC-to-PC level […]

Yesterday morning was -22°C cold here. This was the lowest temperature I can remember I’ve ever experienced. Cool. I’m old enough now to observe some changes in clime here. About 20 years ago summers often used to be dry and there wasn’t much snow in winters. Last years there is more snow and winters seem […]

There are simple facts which one should nevertheless repeat as often as needed. We are sometimes full of doubts about things we do. But if God gives us a task, there is a reason He did so and He doesn’t leave us without his help.

I was curious whether one can return to same basic math (calculus and linear algebra in this case) after several years of inactivity in those areas. I was positively surprised that while I forgot many things I was still able to refresh my knowledge quickly. And not only that, I was able to understand some […]

The following fortune made me LOL yesterday: Eat shit – billions of flies can’t be wrong.

I needed to get some very basic knowledge of economics principles, so I looked for introductory economics textbooks (in Czech). The classic Samuelson’s and Nordhaus’s book Economics was the most expensive one and its Czech edition was dated 1991. I wasn’t willing to pay such a big amount of money for an about 15 years […]

The famous Clint Eastwood’s movie Unforgiven went on Czech TV recently and I was pleased to watch it again. The classic Western themes of violence producing even more violence, guilt, pride, love, and seduction of money are performed here in an excellent way. Recommended.

Last week, Chinese prime minister visited Czech Republic. On the press meeting, apparent manipulation was used to disallow Czech journalists to ask real questions. Communists couldn’t do it better. Government of an E.U. country is afraid of its citizens to ask questions! Even worse, they are clearly afraid of questions related to human rights and […]

Today, I’ve received several pieces of spam from the web domain psychokineze.cz alias webovestudio.cz. Their IP apparently comes from the range allocated to Casablanca INT, s.r.o. This is not the first time I’ve received spam from Casablanca INT, s.r.o. Last time I complained to them, they refused to take any action to stop spamming by […]

When looking for something on the web, I’ve met the following thought: I’ve never in my years as a Catholic Christian heard a sermon on the Tenth Commandment. We can’t possibly preach on “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods” because Western society is based on that. It’s called capitalism. Mass advertising tells us we […]