The hardest game in the world!

Three days ago a friend of mine showed me this game. It is awesome! Be sure to have Flash plug-in installed. Enjoy!

My impressions from Internet Explorer 8 beta 1

A month ago I installed IE 8 beta 1 on my PC. I was full of expectations. And Microsoft didn't disappoint me. The good thing about IE8 is that I feel it works faster. Even though IE8 looks pretty much as its predecessor IE7 there are some differences. The URL in the address bar looks differently. It is easy now to see the main domain, because all the other part of the URL is faded. I noticed also one great idea from Microsoft, namely including smart tags. Every time you mark some text a smart tag appears whith some options for you to do with the marked text(like search for the text for example)
For those who miss IE7 there is an option to "emulate" IE7, which changes IE8appearance to IE7.

As bad things I can point that it is unsuitable for developing ASP.NET projects. I tried to work with it but it was crashing unexpectedly from time to time. Also I had some strange rendering effects with some websites, but it can be because those sites are not tested with IE8 beta 1.

Anyway as a conclusion I should say that Microsoft have done good job with this beta. Yes it crashes,yes it has unexpected behaviour but it is a beta version after all. I'm looking forward now for the official release of IE8. I hope MS develop the smart tag idea and make the menu that appears customizable. Maybe it would be nice to distinguish from IE7's design.

Internet Explorer 8 uninstallation is easy. If your OS is not Windows Vista, IE8 can be removed standartly from Control Panel - > Add or Remove Programs. If you run Vista IE8 beta 1 is treated as a Windows Update. So you should remove it from the list with all installed updates. To do so from "Control Panel" click on "Uninstall a Program" link and then click on "View installed updates". Find Internet Explorer 8 from the list and click uninstall. Then your system will rollback to your previous version of Internet Explorer after system reboot.

The eternal question - Which was first - chicken or egg?

Last time I installed ICQ 6 I noticed the question at the end of the installation - which was first - chicken or egg? I remembered then my hypothesis on this eternal question. I don't pretend of course that I'm the first ever person in the world to suppose this scenario.

So, really which was in the beginning? Answer - the egg of course.

Here is the explanation:
Let me introduce first some piece of terminology.
I mark chicken/egg as we know it nowadays with X (for example chicken^X,egg^X).
I mark cock^Z a cock, which was slightly different than cock^X and cock^Y
I mark chicken/egg which was slightly different than chicken^X and egg^X with Y (for example chicken^Y,egg^Y).
Note: X,Y and Z mark genes which are very close, but howsoever different.

Let's assume that chicken was first! Consequently it came from an egg^Y. If not then the first statement is false.

There are 2 scenarios for this to happen:

1)Chicken^X hatched from egg^Y. That means that chicken^Y genes mutated in the period between laying the egg^Y and the moment it hatched. Otherwise the chicken which hatched would be chicken^Y, not chicken^X. But as we know mutation and evolution of the species is a process lasted millions of years and a period of 3 weeks is far too small.

2)Chicken^X hatched as chicken^Y but later mutated before it's death. This case is also impossible because of the small period.

So here is what really happened:
Cock^Z mated hen^Y. Their genes were so close that this was possible. It is like poodle mating rottweiler(I know - it is awful even to imagine this). They have different exteriors but their genes are slightly different which makes mating possible.
The result of cock^Z mating hen^Y is egg^X. Consequently egg was first.

Check out this video, which supports the hypothesis that it is possible for cock^Z to mate hen^Y.

Watching Sports online

Today a colleague of mine asked me where can he watch online soccer matches.
THIS is the site I use to watch soccer and tennis. They have Live TV section too, but I haven't explore it yet. The software you need can be downloaded from the site or from their official sites. I use Sopcast now, but I've tried TVAnts too.
Sopcast works fine. I had problems with Vista, but now everything is just fine.
A year ago the streams were lower than 320Kb, but now there are very quality streams.
Enjoy!