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March 20, 2005
Dahab - Sinai - Red Sea [ Travel World ]

Finally - New Year trip to Dahab! Не прошло и полгода!

Не хотелось начинать открытие Африки с заезженного Египетского тура. Да, западная Сахара и Тропик Рака! Да - кишащий крокодилами и гноящийся паразитами Нил, да - древний Луксор. Нет - глянцевые всесезонные гостиницы Хургады, чистенькие безобидные казино, переливающиеся неоном, нет полосатые топчаны вдоль парного моря. Это называется Африка? Это называется приключение? Стоит ли разменивать Килиманджаро, Лимпопо, Бантустан, полузабытые слова из детских снов на ширпотребовский трехзвездочный комфорт.


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We spent New Year holidays in Dahab, small Arab city on Sinai Peninsula. The city which used to be cheap hippies and psychеdelic Mecca in past is cozy and quiet. Be aware thought that it's quickly evolving into package tourist destination. In couple of years it will look the same as other standard egyptian Mega-resort filled with Scandinavian couples on endless vacations, aging German singles, and to add bit of spices, russian office ladies. Dahab is the great coral diving spot, which was the main reason for the trip.

March 18, 2005
Poland, Taiwan and more [ This Site ]

Just noticed that some of my travel photos are very difficult to find. To help with navigation in addition to my small Image Bank page I created top-level Travels Index. For now it's referencing Poland, Taiwan, Istanbul and new Egypt pages. And will expand.

Оказывается, фотоотчеты о некоторых поездках вообще не доступны на моем сайте. Чтобы облегчить навигацию я добавил оглавление к тем путешествиям, которые не входят в Банк Изображений.

March 16, 2005
62 images of Tokyo [ Life in Japan ]

It's time to publish selected photos from my last trip to Tokyo. I was away for more then a year. While staying in Moscow I realized how many things I missed in Japan. I photographed some of them. In this post I commented most of the photos. Since I met in Tokyo majority of my English-speaking friends, most of photos are obvious for you. That's why all the comments are in Russian. At least for the start.

shinjuku rush hourMeiji Jingu parkRoppongi Hillsimperial pines
sushi barallergy muzzletokyo towerstaircaseeleveator girlDepato food floor

Публикую избранные фотографии по следам недавней поездки в Токио. Прошло больше года с тех пор, как я вернулся. На этих фотографиях, многое из того чего мне не хватает в Москве. Все фотографии пронумерованы и откомментированы.

1. Багажная лента в Токийском аэропорту Нарита.
2,4 Школьный кросс вокруг императорского дворца. На заднем плане район Othemachi, сосредоточие банков и брокерских фирм, центр деловой жизни Токио. В одном из этих зданий, коричневой высотке третьей слева на фото 4., я проработал 5 лет.

March 08, 2005
Sound soup [ Life in Moscow ]

Industrial jazz concert in club Dom or literally Home. It's cozy and very cultural space dedicated to contemprorary music.

Музыку снимать радостно. На днях по приглашению друзей сходил на концерт индустриального джаза в "Дом". Выступали SPIES BOYS и ГОСПЛАН ТРИО. Ловил кайф и изредка давил на кнопку.
Натали - Жми сюда! drumsИ сюда! sax

March 07, 2005
buy cialis online [ This Site , Web Publishing ]

I have no idea what cialis is, but somehow I am getting around 20-40 comments with this suggestion posted on this blog daily. Blogspam - it is. Only casinos online overdid this mysterious substance.

To fight spam I simply configure my blog such that HTML is stripped out of comments. All spammers need is higher ratings on search engines. Since I strip HTML, they won't get any rating increase. This means that if spammers are technically savvy, they would leave me alone. Apparently they are not. That's why I have to remove tons of spam regularly to keep my site clean. IP-filtering not helping et all. Bastards change IP-addresses daily. I gave up when my list of forbidden addresses grew to almost 300.

Today I turned HTML on again. Do I want to help spammers to earn their difficult bread? Not quite. Major Blog builders together with major search engines came to a solution allowing to fight blogspam. The key is the rel="nofollow" attribute on all reference tags in comments. Blog software inserts this attribute automatically while search engines know to ignore such links in their ratings.

I don't think that spam will stop anytime soon, but smarter spammers and their customers will have to turn away from blogs to other solutions.