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Ice town is being built
The ice town in the central square of Yekaterinburg is being built. The builders work very fast, they have little time left. They could not start earlier due to the weather. December in the Urals has...
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Banned by Microsoft for no reason
Live Search by Microsoft (also known as MSN) has banned Convert-me.com. I learned it only when I was browsing the stats and saw the number of site visitors from MSN dropped to zero. Before the ban...
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Problems with the car
Yesterday morning my car refused to start. Actually it tried, the engine ran for couple of seconds and then stopped. When I tried to start it again (and than again), it did not.What a pity to stay...
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Everyone Respects Christmas and New Year
Do you know what real loneliness is? It is when you open you mailbox and there is nothing there. Not even a SPAM.I guess convert-me.com should have been filling lonely lately. Not only the number of...
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Units Conversion Gadget
I noticed Google gadgets some time ago and immediately thought about creating one for instant units conversion. I even put a note about it to my "to do" list. However at first glance the task seemed...
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Alphabetical List of Units
The list of units has been in out plans for ages. Finally it's ready and I'm excited about it. The list appeared to be very long, I was a bit surprised.In fact a long list of units is not a convenient...
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Weight to Volume Conversion
That was probably one of the most popular questions on conversion forum. People wanted to know how to convert grams to milliliters, pounds to gallons, etc. It was pretty hard to explain the simple fact...
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Paris, je t'aime
We watched this movie "Paris, je t'aime" and loved it. I can't remember when I last time liked a film so much. It was wonderful. All 18 short stories were different, but they all were very interesting...
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mithqal unit from Baha'i Faith
A new exotic unit has been added today to weight conversion page. It is called mithqal and it was suggested by our site visitor. The unit is mentioned in Baha'i Faith texts.I thought this unit deserves...
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Going to Prague
Our decision to go to Prague came just out of the blue. First of all our close friends Khorobrykhs told us they were going to visit Prague for a week in the middle of February. They asked if we wanted...
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Congratulations to Eugene
My friend Eugene who lives in the United States with his family for over 6 years yesterday got his green card. My congratulations! Now it'll be much easier for him to live there, in particular moving...
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Acceleration conversion added
I've just added acceleration conversion to convert-me.com. There are not too many units there, but some of them are pretty interesting. For example, I did not know there was a unit named after Galileo...
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Car bumpers tested
In January I happened to test both my car bumpers. Surprisingly enough they both proved to be very good.First time I managed to run over the car in front of me. We were crossing the road in a lane when...
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Off to Prague!
We got our visas, flight tickets and hotel reservation from the agency. Our flight takes off in 11 hours. The things aren't yet packed, my wife has not yet come home from her office. But in any case...
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Holidays were good, but short. Back to work!
Our holidays in Prague were very good, but too short. We walked around Prague, consumed lots of meat and very good beer, listened to jazz music, visited Karlovy Vary and enjoyed our 5 days in Czech...
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The first week after vacation
Someone wise once said: "nobody needs rest so badly as the one who just returned from vacation". That's exactly true.After 5 wonderful days in Prague full of beautiful sightseeing, good time with...
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The winter goes to its end, ice town is being destroyed
This winter was very strange. At first it could not start, the temperature kept unusually high in December and January. They built the ice town in the center of Yekaterinburg as always, and tried very...
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Listed in Live Search again
In December 2006 our units conversion site was banned and unlisted from Microsoft Live Search (also known as MSN). The reason for being unlisted remained unclear for me. Our site simply silently...
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Trip to Tyumen
Last weekend we traveled to Tyumen. There are hot natural springs that are said to be funny to visit in winter. It was funny indeed. The weather was not very cold, but it was still pretty exciting to...
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New Phone
I've changed my old Ubiquam U-300 mobile phone to the brand new U-520. The new phone looks pretty good, but I'll need time to get used to it. The new phone is pretty slim and light, has MP3 player,...
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Explaining what 3G is
Today I had to explain in written what was 3G and how it was different with 2G. The new interest in mobile network generations is due to the fact the 3 big Russian GSM operators finally got their 3G...
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Saratov and Volga river
It's been a long time since the last post -- over 3 moths. I almost quit, but now I'm trying to return to blogging.Last week I was on a business trip to Saratov. It is a town on Volga river. We had a...
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Back to blogging and fighting spam
Yes, I'm back to blogging today. Started with spam fighting. Got tired early with hundreds of spam comments still there. Why aren't there any way to mark all spam comments and delete them with one...
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A year (almost) later
One more year passed. Having children indeed keeps one too busy for regular blogging. I'm not going to give any more promises and not going to say I'm back here. Just being in a mood to write a short...
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Started twittering for convert-me.com
Twitter seems best to post unit conversion news. So I created convert-me.com twitter account. Let's see if I'm able to post there regularly.
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