A Good Year

An English broker inherits a vineyard estate after his uncle. He is his only known relative. In his youth he spent much great time by him, playing tennis, swimming in his pool, playing chess and exploring the country. He loved it. But after he has grown he did not make the contact for more then ten years.
He became a very good broker and enjoyed his work. When he finds out that he has inherit an estate he had to fly to France to sign the papers.
At first he wanned to get rid of everything. However he had changed his mind after some pleasant moments. He had to stay in France longer then he anticipated. He met a woman that he felt in love with and everything has flipped around.

At the end everything runs well and everybody is happy.
Nice relaxing romance.

The Subtle Knife

Second book from trilogy The Dark Materials from Philip Pullman (you can find the post of the first one here) is great sequel of the story.
The young Lyra has just stepped through into the other world. And meanwhile in the third world a young boy Will is trying to solve the problem that is bothering him for some time now. After his father disappeared (he was a baby then) his mother estranged from the real world. At first he thought that she is playing, but soon he realized that she is not and starred to take things in his own hands.
So he learned very young how to take care for him and his mother. And protect her from many people.
They did not have peace, because two men were visiting them and wanted to know many things. And one day Will took action and engaged them. By accident he killed one of them and ran away. He went to Oxford and accidentally discovered the window into the new world. He went through and realized that in this world there are no adults. For a few hundred years there were strange beings that attacked them and killed them. Only the children were left alone.
It was in this world that he met Lyra and they became best friends. He took her into his world to help her find out what Dust is. She did find a scientist that helped her and explained her what she knew.

This just a opened beginning of a story and you really should read it all. There is the third part as well.

Perfume - The Story Of A Murderer

Do you know why some people are serial killers?
Well in this movie you can find out one of many reasons. The Perfume shows us how a man named Jean-Baptiste becomes a serial killer in France.
He was born to a poor fish seller who wanted him dead. But as it shows he wanted to live and because of this incident her mother was hung. He was given to orphanage and when he was five he was sold to a merchant where he had to work really hard. But there was something different about this boy. Hes nose was so sensitive that he could smell so many different things that no other man.
When he grows older he gets obsessed with the smell. He wants to smell every possible smell in the world. And that is when he unintentionally kills a women. He adores her smell.
Later on he gets educated by a perfume maker and learns hoe important a collection of smells is to a true worshiper.
This is reason why he is going on the killing spree. He is making a collection of woman smells and wants to create a unique smell.

The conclusion is queer. But the movie it self is really good.

Open Seasson

Great animated movie. It is about a grizzle bear that was raised and trained by park keeper. She took care of him trained him to do do many things. He was living in her garage and he had everything he wanted.
One day he rescues annoying deer and after that people do not feel safe around him anymore.
This when she decides that is best for everyone that he is sent to the wild.
Grizzle wakes up in the wild and does not have a clue about what is going on. He wants to go back to the city - to his home and his friend. All this happened only few days before the open season. This is the very bad time for all the animals in the forest because the raid of crazy hunters its on the killing spree. And nobody can stop them from killing everything they come across.
Great movie, and fun watching.

Adventure Race Slovenia 2006 - The conclusion

Yes it is truth. The ARS team (I am part of it) has concluded the 2006 . We have finished all the tasks about the 2006 competitions and are preparing for the 2007 season. There are all new episodes of:
Winter adventure
City adventures (Celje and Maribor)
Adventure race Slovenia

More about all of this competitions you can find out here.
There are also some photos from the event at the right.

The Northern Lights

One of three in trilogy The Dark Materials from Philip Pullman. It is great stuff.
It all starts in another world, it is very similar to ours, but quite different as well. The one thing is that every human has daemon. Daemon is creature that is bounded to his master and until the child is mature enough it is shifting shape. When child is mature enough, his daemon is "frozen" in same shape. Master and his daemon are bounded so hard that no daemon can go very far from his master.
In this world there are also witches and bears that also has consciousness and can communicate with each other.
The story is telling us about life of a young girl named Lyra. She does not know who her father and mother are. She was told that they both died. And she is living in the university where she is educated by scientists and personnel. She is living enjoyable life with her friends.
One day The chancellor gives her away to a beautiful and smart lady to be her assistant and that she could learn from her. At that time she did not know that she is really her mother.
Meanwhile there were many mysterious disappearing of young children all over the country. Nobody really knows what they are all about.
While Lyra lives by her mother she realizes that she is deeply evolved in this and that is when she escapes.
She came across traveling people that took her under their protection. They told her about her father and mother. One of theirs was her wet nurse. They decide that they will save the missing children and that is when they start traveling north.
In the north they meet bear that was exiled from his kind. He helps them. There are many battles and obstacles in front of their goal. But they reach it.
One of the girls goals was to rescue her father. When she is so far she realizes that her father also wants a child to complete his experiment.
Al the experiments were about Dust, a new kind of elemental particles that are sent to this world from a parallel universe through the Aurora Borealis (northern lights). The scientists believe that one could build the bridge that would lead right to the other universe.
In the end her father goes through and after him Lyra runs as well.

There is so much more about this book and story but too much to write it all here. Just can't wait to finish whole trilogy.

John Tucker Must Die

Very easy movie that shows the life of a guy that has more girlfriends at the same time. He is the most wanted guy on school and all the girls want him.
But when one day a teacher is absent all three of his girlfriends meet. And when they find out that they are all dating the same guy they almost kill each other. At that time another girl suggests to take revenge and teach John a lesson.
All the girls come together and make John fall for THE girl. He is trying really hard to get her and makes fool of him self many times. But he gets away many times until finally at his birthday party she tells him the truth.
And he realizes what he is doing and never lies to a girl again.
Fairytale, but fun to watch.

An Inconvenient Truth

Al Gore, the man who should be the next president of USA instead of Bush, was, and still is a great anti-pollution fighter. Since he was not elected for the president he is giving the lectures about global warming.
The documentary is about the latest scientific results about what could and will happen if we do not take any actions at all. It is also about why the USA is world greatest producer of green house gases.
He tells us how stupid the American politicians and how they are all payed by the biggest CO2 producers. He also shows how the scientific opinions can be bought and altered.
It is great movie that opens your eyes and shows how far we are in polluting our atmosphere and how much higher are the CO2 and Temperature rates in comparison to many many thousands of years (about 600 .000). The rates are twice as high as they were ever in Earths history.
I recommend everyone to watch this movie to see what are we doing to our planet and to realize what must we do to make it all better again.

The concert of Siddharta

Last Friday there was a bigger concert in Velenje again after a long while. It was a concert of very popular Slovenian group Siddharta.
The fore group was Naio Ssaion a metal group from Velenje. It all took place in Red Hall, the standard place for bigger events in Velenje. Even thou we in Slovenia have laws that prohibits smoking in closed public places there were too many people who did not obey that law. I really don't know why they all get away without consequences.
I really hate smoking. It's awful and disgusting.
The concert was great, really great but too short. It was all over before midnight.

I still have 7 exams left. And yes that means I was not lucky by the last one.

Eragon

Great book from Christopher Paolini. It has great plot and it describes the world of Alagaësia very precise.
The story is happening in a fantasy world, where young boy at age of 15 finds a dragon egg. Since there were no dragons around for several hundred years it is very odd that he has one. But not just that he found it, the dragon was born in his room and was bound with him.
The only other known dragon was in kings possession. He was from the Riders - people who took care for other people in the land and watched out for those who couldn't defend them selves. However he was one of few that fell on the dark side that has betrayed the elves, dwarfs and all other people. They wanted power and they wanted it only for themselves. And some time ago, they have got it.
Luckily for boy - Eragon there as old storyteller living in their village that was really a Rider. He was teaching Eragon how to become a Rider himself. He thought him how to craft magic, how to fight with a sword and even how to read. Eragon's uncle was slaughtered by two of kings most dreadful creatures. He wanted a revenge and that is when Broom and he went into the world. They have traveled a great part of Alagaësia and they fell into many bad situations. One was so bad that Broom lost his life int it.
That is when Eragon gets to know a guy that was very much like him, Murtagh. One great difference was that he was not farmer boy, but was from the king's castle.
In a mean time dragon Saphira also grown. She was quite the fighter herself.
Later in the story Eragon meets dwarfs and humans that were fighting against the tyrant.

The story is very well written, especially if you know that it was written by a 15 years old boy. It is a must read for all fiction lovers. And one more thing, there will be a movie after this book very soon (here).

Paper for course RECS

At last, I have completed the paper for course Reliability and evaluation of computer systems, titled Comparison of free and trial virtual machines for Windows running Ubuntu Linux Server distribution.
I have tested six different products and came to the answer that I will use VMware Server. It is free powerful, platform independent and easy to use. I have used this product for quite a time and I must say I am pleased with it. It runs great, it does not crash and has many parameters to set that man would like to have to set his virtual machine.
You can find the pdf here. But I must warn you that it is written in Slovene so all you may want to look at are graphs near the end and resources.

Brave New World

I must say this quite popular book in Slovenia for last couple of years form Aldous Huxley. I must also say that it is very good.
It talks about a new social order of civilization. People are separated in more casts (from Alpha to Epsilon). People from different cast have different capabilities. Let’s tell for start that all people are grown in artificial process in laboratories. Because the new order requires people to do different stuff but they still want all to be happy they determine hw the specific subject will evolve. They are intentionally making some people less developed and mentally inferior. From “birth” on they are teaching different people different stuff so they are prepared for their cast when they grow up.
The story tells us about an untouched part of the world where an old civilization is living. Well they don’t call it civilization really. They are Indians that have preserved their way of living and habits. And here the people are still born the natural way. Some time in past a woman from new world is lost here and over the years she gets a son. Some years later she is brought back to the new world, all old (the people in new world didn’t age by sight) and dirty. She was called whore by the Indians, because she was having more guys just like it was natural in new world. There was no marriage or other bonds in new world. Anybody could have anyone if they were both willing.
The main stuff that keeps the new world running is a drug called “soma”. This is the stuff that keeps people from desperation, anger, strong emotions and other things that would harm the system. And this is also the stuff that makes all people so happy.
Book faces you with a very different order where anyone can find a place for himself. If he can’t than there are many islands for people for his kind.

Quantum Reality (Beyond The New Phisics)

An Excursion into metaphysics...
... and the meaning of reality.

What is quantum reality? How do different people see the world? What is quantum theory all about? …and many many more.
The book tells us about eight (yes 8) different views of quantum reality and how different groups of people are interpreting the world. Can anything travel faster than light? Are all the objects in the universe interconnected? What is particle entanglement and how does it work?
In here we find many answers to questions like this and many facts about quantum reality. We find out why there are so many different interpretations of same theory and why they are so different and yet so connected and based on same presumptions.
Nick Herbert explains the purpose of this quest in search for final answer to the question how the world really looks like and how shall we see or not.
It was quite hard reading for me since it was my first scientific book that I read in English. That was the reason why I needed quite more time to get through it and to understand what it says.
The book is great and if you are interested in quantum theory and you have some physics knowledge you should read it. It opens some new windows to look through.

Trip to Trenta

Yesterday I went on a trip with my girl's family. We went to Trenta valley, a really beautiful place in Julijske Alpe. We went from Velenje to Kranjska Gora, over the Vršič (we made short walk up there), to Mlinarščica and Soča beds. We also visit some gorge (really beautiful). The weather was great and there were not a lot of people there.
It was really beautiful. You can look the photos in my gallery (on the right).