Not so recent Jon Hicks’ “Geekend2” post made me thinking about what are people i virtualy meet over the Internet like in real life. I mean, we are reading each other’s thoughts and thinkings, and we are being influenced by other people writings in many ways. And depending on that—in fact pretty superficial social interaction—we are creating a certain image of that person in our minds. Continue reading ›

I was recently in searching for some very simple fonts which usualy come with MS Office, or other Microsoft software which i don’t have installed, as for my needs OpenOffice.org is quite suitable (and it has PDF export plug-in, too).

I have a fresh XP installation for a few weeks now, but i haven’t backup some of the most usual fonts (assuming they are installed with OS by default), for example “Arial Narrow". So i went to Microsoft pages to download Continue reading ›

I promised you long time ago some handy JavaScripts, wasn’t i? Promises have to be kept, especialy when they are so teasty and usefull. I’ve implemented this same script in this website’s comment form, so you can see it in action right here. Continue reading ›

Some of my visitors had minor problems with display of the page. Basic design has three different static layers with transparent .PNG’s as background-images brought for the pleasure of Mozilla/Opera/Safari users. Internet Explorer don’t have this feature. It seems that older display adapters have some difficulties with rendering this kind of styling. ATI Radeon 9000 and above shouldn’t have any problems.

So now you have one more alternative—make yourself at home and play with the options placed at the top right section of each page, or just try it here:

• no shadow and scrolling background image
• no shadow, scrolling background image and the text color is black
• resets to default styling with all shadows and fixed background image

Here is another solution how to get some time when your kid needs your attention, but you have some other work waiting. I’ve name it “Virtual flower with a smell”.

Luka is not drawing recognizable objects yet, but he has an affinity for visual arts—at least he likes reading comics. Almost every day we spend about thirty minutes behind my drawing table, playing with those thick wooden color sticks especialy made for kids’ safety. Usually someone must be near him, otherwise he looses interest. Continue reading ›

I like reading blogs, sharing oppinions and this whole trend of internet and how it helps people from different parts of the world to get to know each other in some level. But do these all individuals have a life beyond blogging around? What’s the center of their world? Is it their own blog or…? What’s the center of mine? Thanks for asking.

Intro

This little handsome on your left is the center of our world (my wife’s and mine). I didn’t want it to be that way, but it just happened. It is that way from the first moment i saw him in a hospital (i was there near my wife during deliverance). He occupies our time a lot, but we still can manage to do some activities, besides feeding, cleaning after him and playing.

Some secondary level activites (besides our jobs and internet) are going to a movie teather, having a good time spending evening with our friends drinking red wine or beer, eating enormous amounts of chinese food and different sorts of other spicy meals, walking and playing with our dog, …

Why writing a blog?

Lately, there have been a few posts discussing about how to achieve popularity of your blog and how to become world known blogger: 1, 2 and 3. I read those posts, but felt no need to join the race (not that i think bad of someone who did, on contrary).

“maratz.com” blog’s purpose is to be some kind of my public journal. It is my public journal and honestly if someone doesn’t find its’ content interesting, probably it’s a person i wouldn’t meet in the real world neither. On the other hand, a few of you who are actualy reading it, i guess we have some similar oppinions and i’m pleased to know someone of my kind.

A few less known, but my usuals are Dexlo, Moments and Cody Lindley (no particular order).

Sharing Tips

The coding tips i’m bringing once in a while are here for the sake of my moral obligation to return something to community. If you like it—use it. If you don’t like it—that’s your loss. If you know better—share it. If you know better, but don’t want to share—get out of here, i don’t need you.

Phew! Two hours of enjoyment this evening! I’m sucker for Spidey.

Before i watched the first movie i suppose i set too high expectations and i was quite disappointed at that time. I mean i love all those super-heroes, but this great idea to put a comic story to a movie fell all down with previous episode. So, today i went with nothing but an empty space in my mind and went to a movie teather just to stay… well… informed.

Fortunately — and it’s also very rare — this second sequel is by my personal oppinion much better then first in many aspects. The action scenes were great, especialy the camera — boy, am i like those wierd perspectives! There was also a fine dose of humour. Regarding the bad guy (Doctor Four Four), one could find his artificialy intelligent robotic arms very simmilar to those of the Matrix’s squidges (is that the correct word?). Matrix is a good movie, s0 it’s not a minus for Spiderman scenarists (or whoever came to this idea) for being inspired by it.

On the negative side, those endless (boring, self-repeating undecisive) romantic scenes slightly broke movie’s flow. But i guess we all had to completely understand that Peter Parker cannot make up his mind about his purpose in this world, blah, blah… If i was a female, probably i would like it.

My recommendations.

Finally i’ve upgraded this whole darn thing to the latest WordPress build and also decided to add “The Wolf’s” (nick by Mike Davidson) ShortStat script, which is so addicting, that now i understand how others became junkies. I’ll be probably watching mine for the next few days all the time, : p !

He’s maybe not among top 10 most influential bloggers, but his site is surely under my 80/20 bookmarks. It’s there ever since that great No. 57 of “my precious” CZG.

Oh, well, i gotta-go to check my stats!