Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev.

The rain began.

Sunset

The Pacific Ocean today

As with our last trip through Germany, we decided to pop into Denmark for a day.

My phone number in California is +1(323) 307-1773 (till 2014-01-14). Feel free to contact me if needed. Please keep in mind the time zone (12h)

The girl on the right in the Brosko ad sits naturally with her bare bottom on the snow.

“And we have Christmas trees!”

My message history contains 82,611 messages, through which I communicated with 597 people from 20.08.2013 to 23.12.2014. I wrote 29,727 messages consisting of 189,066 words or 1,177 pages or 1,325,005 characters over 490 days (351 of which were workdays). That’s between 60 and 80 messages sent per day, or 385-538 words per day, or 2700-3700 characters per day. With my typing speed of 341 characters per minute (http://clip2net.com/s/39l5oVj) it amounts to about 8-10 minutes per day on Skype. On the other hand, those 60-80 messages a day. Assuming an average of 30 seconds per message for reading, crafting a response, and switching from the message back to core tasks, it totals an additional 30-40 minutes a day. Nearly an hour a day goes purely to Skype.

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By the way. Why does it occupy 288MB in memory? I loaded and reloaded it. 105 MB (went up to 127MB in 10 minutes). Skype itself takes up 23 MB in Program Files + 5 MB in Local Settings + 80 MB in Application Data, half of which is occupied by the database, and a third by chat history. I have 747 contacts, some groups continuously have ongoing conversations, so yes, the database does get cluttered. But why make a messenger this way?

Kitay-gorod Metro, unauthorized mass event

Is it possible now, while the interest rates on deposits are high, to open an account with a minimal deposit amount, and then later, once everything stabilizes, to replenish it with a larger amount (under the “old crisis rates”)? Assuming there will be funds to add, the bank won’t collapse, etc., etc.