National Museum

World-class museum

After years, we finally decided to visit our most famous museum, drawn mainly by the Wonders of Evolution exhibition. Since we were already there, we didn't skip Czech Press Photo 2021 or the other exhibitions either. As on our previous visit when we went to see the mummies, ele...

12th Feb 2022

Bone Marrow Donor

Registration

During my next blood donation I decided to sign up for the bone marrow donor registry. It's not complicated — the questionnaire is quite similar to the one for blood donation. You need a blood sample taken, which is no problem during a blood donation — just one extra vial. It's worth...

9th Feb 2022
LED Lights

LED Lights

Shooting with continuous light

I wanted to try shooting with LED lights and the opportunity came up quickly. Tomáš uses them and offered to show me the ropes.

I'd never shot with continuous light before — it was always flash. Continuous is much more comfortable because you see the result strai...

7th Feb 2022

Property Tax

The experience of filing a property tax return

Property tax returns have to be filed by the end of January. So I started filling mine in via the much-promoted Moje daně portal. Disappointment came quickly — it launched the ePO module. I followed the wizard and filled in the individual details. Eve...

2nd Feb 2022

Selling an Apartment

Doesn't take a week

We inherited a flat — but what to do with it when we don't want to live in our home town? Sell it! That would give us a foundation for our own place, assuming the market doesn't go mad. We knew our neighbour had once been interested in a bigger flat, so we approached her first....

15th Jan 2022

iPhone 12

I switched phones

I had to decide whether to wait for the iPhone 13 or swap my iPhone 8 for a 12 straight away. Since the 13 was quite hard to come by, I went ahead with the swap. Thanks to iCloud backup it's fairly painless — but there's a catch with apps that manage the second factor, especially...

10th Jan 2022

2021

2021 in review

What were the highlights of this year?

OS: Windows 10 — unfortunately I don't get a choice at work, so I suffer through Windows.

HW: watch, Garmin Instinct Tactical — GPS/GALILEO and GLONASS, supports MGRS — what more could you ask for.

Podcast: Kecy a politika, the comm...

31st Dec 2021

Booster

Moderna

Like everyone else, I was waiting for my chance to get the booster. Being among the first vaccinated put me in a tricky spot — five months from my vaccination was up in mid-December. But technically nobody could give it to me before six months… That changed, fortunately, and on 27 December...

30th Dec 2021

Migrace z

CentOS to RHEL

Last year Red Hat announced the end of classic CentOS, shortening support for v8 — see here. If your system runs v8, you have until 2024, though the situation with the final version isn't very cheerful. One option is migrating to CentOS Stream. Where I see the catch is a higher de...

20th Nov 2021