tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91619732011-04-22T01:48:58.058+04:00«802.11 has won. Bluetooth is in full retreat from Moscow at the moment.» - Sean MaloneyCaseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14467420762604207228noreply@blogger.comBlogger251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9161973.post-64278933360358013782008-04-17T22:16:00.002+04:002008-04-17T22:24:08.938+04:00

This blog is officially retired. If you want to see anything new I write, I've started a new blog called A Trip Down The Styx which will feature my thoughts and observations as I strive toward finishing my first novel-length fiction manuscript in 2008.I hope some of you got as much out of it as I did. Thank you.

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I just recently switched to "Blogger Beta" and realized I had nine unmoderated comments that never got posted to blog entries from as far back as December! I turned moderation on when some brainiac decided to promote his "marriage service" site via comments to my blog entries and, well, never managed to allow another comment!I thought no one read it anymore since no comments had been posted, but

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Just a quick note for my legions of fans worldwide. I cleaned up the Gallery Page, creating a new album for the photos I shot at VDNKh (now the All-Russia Convention Center) in Moscow and moving the rest into a "Temporary" album, which will be renamed and split up if necessary later.I feel like I'm missing some photos from Moscow, but they're on one of my laptops if they're not in the gallery

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Those of you who know me personally have probably seen me already, as I've been home nearly three weeks. Plenty of stories and photos have not been shared yet, however, and I'll endeavor to get these posted in the coming weeks (considering I have nearly another three weeks until school starts again).I've added several hundred photos since mid-July covering my final days in Moscow and my time in

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Just a quick update for the start of my final month in Moscow. I've added 25 pictures of Red Square and surrounding sights (namely the Kutafya Tower, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and one of the urns containing earth from the Hero City of Stalingrad). Further photos from inside the State History Museum, inside the Kremlin walls, and from other museums and galleries throughout the city will

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After having spent a pleasant autumn and grueling winter here in the Russian capital already, it's hard (for me) to believe that it's May 8th already, the eve of one of the most important holidays on the Russian calendar - Victory Day. Sixty-one years ago the Soviet Union secured the surrender of Germany, with many of Germany's allies, such as Romania, Yugoslavia and other Eastern European states

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While of course I miss friends and family "back home," the real draw for Florida's balmier climes right now is just that - the weather. The biggest cold front in nearly a century is sweeping out of Siberia at the moment, dropping temperatures in the capital to a frigid -40C (-32F). The weather, which includes 50-yr. lows, is all over the news and three people died during the middle of last week

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A break from the normally serious bits I post here, since both CES and MacWorld Expo were in recent days. Don't worry, there'll be a politically-related tidbit at the end of this post.First, as another bit about the comparative lameness of Windows to Mac OS X I'll post up two hilarious new bits from YouTube (thanks to This Week In Tech for the link) that show just how "cutting edge" the new

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Don't get too excited because, as I say on the first page, there ain't much to see yet. But, the long-awaited www.caseyhendley.com is finally live. At press time it contained only a couple of images, links to this blog and my photo gallery, as well as some other links, such as Apple (because I've decided to step up my campaign to get people onboard with Apple).I've been working

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For those of you who haven't found them yet, most of my photos from the first four months in Moscow are online now. I've set up a gallery on my own website and, hopefully, I'll be migrating the whole blog there soon as well as creating a functional website around it. Plenty of ideas, not so much time.Moscow Photos - http://www.caseyhendley.com/gallery

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...but I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep." - Jack FrostWell, it's been over a month since my last update, and I apologize. Believe me, I've written at least three lengthy passages on my laptop in this time but, once again, my ignorance of reliable Wi-Fi access in Moscow has led to an impromptu update once again.After an unseasonably warm November in which the temperatures

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No, dear readers, I'm not reporting a monarchist revolution in sunny Moscow. Yesterday, 25 October, was the first snow here. It only snowed for about an hour and quickly melted away, but it signalled the arrival of something that many were wondering would come at all - winter.However, today is 26 October. It started snowing while I was waiting for the tram this morning, lightly. Then it snowed

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I had spent two weeks desperately trying to get myself to realize that I was not, in fact, on vacation but had taken a new job of sorts. In the meantime I was figuratively smashing my face into various car windshields trying to come up with the next idea for a "story" to write for the people back home. My Russian remained (and remains) abysmal, but with definite progress, but without a working

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Well, of course, my second update isn't posted yet. The main problem is that I am having trouble finding a place with Wi-Fi access. I write all my lengthy posts "off-line" on my laptop and yet the vast majority of places with internet access require that you use their computers rather than your own. Problem, yes. Insurmountable, no.I finally got my passport back today, so I will have a working

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Hello everyone - just a quick update while I fiish writing the lengthier portions of what has happened between Warsaw and Moscow. I arrived safely and on time at Sheremetyevo airport on Monday 29 August at 1500 local (Moscow is eight hours ahead of Eastern time). The Aeroflot flight was the best flight so far. The seats were only two to each side, large, leather and everything was clean and

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Minutes after the train left Berlin Zoologischer Garten I began to gather up my luggage. I had boarded the train in Gotha looking like a refugee, with soomki (plastic bags) of water and food attached to my largest bag, a garment slung across one shoulder, my laptop case across the other, dragging my smaller bag on wheels behind me. During the journey I had "consolidated" my baggage, strapping the

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I had written about five pages concerning everything that happened from Orland to Hochheim, via Amsterdam and Frankfurt, but due to a browser error when I was posting it on Blogger.com I lost ALL OF IT. So, I'll pick up the trail in Hochheim, describe a few of the local characters, and then build up to Berlin and, finally, where I am now, Warsaw.Hochheim is a village of 600 people about 8km

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I finally found some video of the controversial interview of Chechen terrorist Shamil Basayev by well-known Russian journalist Andrei Babitsky. The interview was aired by ABC in late July creating a furor. Articles from The Moscow Times and MosNews describe the situation, which resulted in Sergei Ivanov, Russian Defense Minister, declaring the network persona non grata saying, "...no interview

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Things have changed substantially since my last post so long, long ago. I never did go back to work at that dreadful stone shop and I've been making enough money to get drunk and buy the occasional automat sandwich via eBay.I've been accepted to the University Preparatory Course program at Lomonosov Moscow State University, offered by the School for Russian and Asian Studies. I'm currently

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Scientists at the University of Florida have grown a rat brain in a petri dish and taught it to fly a fighter jet. Check this out at The Register.

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A woman has just sold a grilled cheese sandwich "bearing the image of the Virgin Mary" to an online casino, GoldenPalace.com via eBay(!) for, get this, US$28,000. It makes me wonder how many religious icons I've eaten, as I'm quite an afficianado of grilled cheese sandwiches. Toasted Icon Article

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I'm just now getting around to posting pictures I took of the damage from Hurricane Jeanne (9/25-9/26) on 26 September, the morning after the storm. Hurricane Charley, coming through just over a month previous, did little damage to the warehouse complex, but Jeanne tore through it like paper. This is the outside wall of the warehouse where my shop is located. Our shop remains operational, but

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After first thinking about Lynx compatibility after reading this article on WebPagesThatSuck.com I realized that I needed to make absolutely sure that Lynx, hence Google, found my pages readable. Heretofore, I could've cared less what minimalist dorks that use a text-only browser thought about my site. The article on WPTS shows exactly why you should care about Lynx, since Google does as well.

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This was on Blogger's front page, but I still found it amusing. Apparently the plot line of the latest episode of West Wing (I don't watch it, I work 2nd shift) revolved heavily around weblogs and even moblogging. Check it out - Jupiter Research Article

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Test post of BloggerBot using one of my favorite media personalities, the beautiful and talented Cat Schwartz.

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