Mark's thoughts

Tell me what you read and I will tell you who you are

2007-02-20T13:29:00.000+01:00

Today, my friend Brittany published an interesting post, which started with these instructions:

1.] grab the nearest book.
2.] open the book to page 23.
3.] find the fifth sentence.
4.] post the text of the next three sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5.] don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! i know you were thinking about it! just pick up whatever is closest.
6.] tag five other people to do the same.

Ok, then. Here is an excerpt from my closest book:

"What is ORM? In nutshell, object/relational mapping is the automated (and transparent) persistence of objects in Java application to the tables in a relational database, using metadata that describes the mapping between the objects and the database. ORM, in essence, works by (reversibly) transforming data from one representation to another."

The excerpt is from Hibernate in Action by Christian Bauer and Gavin King. This book has been on my desk for a year and it will probably stay there for some time as I use it for my work. I have to look in it every once in a while to find some information regarding to a tool we use in our application. It is an excellent reads, but if you aren't a software developer, you won't enjoy it too much.

I like the excerpt from Brittany's book, so take a look at her goethewannabe's Xanga site. And of course, don't forget to publish 3 sentences from your book!

My pictures

2006-02-01T05:38:00.000+01:00

As you can see here, I don't blog for too long. But for some time I collect and maintain my photo albums online, something like my "photo diary". You can find these albums on a server that hosts my domain - radonsky.com. It sometimes contains pictures that I don't consider "good", but they are included in my gallery just to give some additional point of view. As you know, nobody wants to delete a picture after it was taken, even if it's bad! I'm just not strong enough.

Let me know what do you think about my galleries.

Thx, M.

Another blog - Changes Abroad

2006-02-01T04:55:00.000+01:00

Last time I wrote you about my friend J.R.'s and his blog. It looks like he has problems with connectivity in Ecuador, so his blog is getting old. But that's understandable as he has probably a lot of other things to do than to write an "internet diary" for all of us, who just lazily yawn in front of our computer screens.
Today, I want to tell you about a blog of my other two friends - Brooke and Brett. They also left United States and decided to spend a year in New Zealand. You can read about their adventures here in the blog called Changes Abroad.
These young Americans decided to leave comfort of their home and spend some time in a foreign country. I think that it will be a great experience for them and they will return as different people, with much better understanding of the world. (I know what I'm saying as I'm experiencing something similar right now.) I think that such experience enriches everybody and so it should be mandatory for every young person, to go abroad and spend there at a couple of months (instead of going to a military service, for example). If everybody did that, there would be no wars. Don't you agree?

J.R.'s new blog

2006-01-24T06:18:00.000+01:00

It has been a while since I wrote my first post to this blog - almost two years. Since then, many things changed. I've moved from Prague, Czech Republic to Raleigh, North Carolina, where I do something like a professional career training. My friend J.R. returned from South America, spent more than a year in Raleigh and now he is back again in Cuenca, Ecuador. He has a new blog and whole new web at http://www.gedanken-experiment.com/ so I recommend you to check it out.
That's it for today as I'm really, really tired.
M.

First thoughts...

2004-06-11T00:33:00.000+02:00

Hello everybody! (or nobody?)

For those of you who know me it's probably not surprising that I started to write something like this - personal log - published on the web. Although English is not my native language, I decided to use it to allow my friends from all over the world to read it. I hope that my knowledge of the language will be enough for this writing and for them (for you) to understand.

It was my friend J.R. who showed me that blogs can be useful and fun not just for their authors, but also for anybody who watches and reads them. He is now traveling in South America and I spent hours by reading the posts from his journey. So I recommend you to see his blog at http://club.telepolis.com/jrguitar21/blog/.

I think that blogs are great especially for travelers (and backpackers), because it allows them to share adventures and impressions with anybody, who's interested. That's why I recommended blogging to my other friend - Ales, who is now going to spend summer in US. I hope, that he will also create his own blog, 'cause I can't wait to hear about his adventures.

I think this is enough for my first post, so please be patient, some smart thoughts will come next time (maybe).