Three wonderful ways to spend your money...

Hey there. I mentioned I started using eBay in my last post. Well...finally the stuff I ordered started coming. And I got my Tomtom One 3rd Edition Global Positioning System. The device, as they say, is "affordable navigation". That means it has limited functionality, internal memory and battery lifetime, but it still is a lovely little unit.

I backed up all the original data first and then replaced the original USA/Canada map with Eastern Europe one. The device can lead the way to almost any little village, street or gas station you want. It is controlled by touchscreen, is very intuitive and lets you choose between many interface languages (including Lithuanian). It also gives vocal directions in selected voice as you drive, alerts about selected POIs (Points of Interest) etc.

But, besides that, I had to go to the custom yesterday and pay some 21,5% of taxes to get it. And what's even worse they calculated that percent including shipping and handling fees. So it came to 90Lt and the device costs 500Lt after all.

Today I got a crappy little USB hub from china to connect all those USB devices to my computer at the same time.

And, finally, I got 2 electronic tickets to Heineken Open'er festival!!! There's no turning back now. My Tomtom is gonna have quite a trip to plan in couple of weeks... :)

That's it. I'm ~1120lt poorer but much much happier than before I spent it. Now all I have to do is wait 12 more days till my holiday and that trip to Gdynia.

Well, maybe we'll think of something else before that since we have 4 day-offs this weekend.

Take care of yourselves and have a wonderful shortest night of the year.

Making history...and other things

Hey, It's been a while since my last post, but today there's a special reason to brake that pause once and for all :)

Did you hear that Mozilla Firefox 3 browser was released and they're trying to make a world record of most downloads in 24 hours. If you read this before 17:00 UTC June 18 you can still be one of those record breakers. Just like me :)

Didn't notice many improvements so far, but they claim this should be a new resource saving product with brand new core and completely new user experience in many aspects.

Anyway...about my recent activities. I finally got my first credit card and started using eBay. The first impression is very very positive. I already got my very first item. It is 250GB 5400rpm 2.5" external USB Hard Disk Drive. And tomtom GPS system, USB HUB and a couple of kites are still on their ways. :)

Besides all that I made myself a solar worm-baloon (Rokas and Chyrka from 108 kites club gave me the idea). I didn't have an opportunity to try it out yet, but I hope to do that soon. The thing should be about 14 meters long and 1 meter in diameter. It all came to something about 30Lt and 4 hours of work. Here are some pics from THE process (low quality, because I used a phone since I broke my camera). Enjoy