Whis week
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This week was crazy. Terrible shooting incident in local hospital at
Tuesday (a presumably mad person shot nine patients). It is very
unusual here. Police works almost perfectly, they secured large area of
the hospital and of the university in minutes and were obviously
prepared for any possible development (and were very helpful). Local
media (including the state-owned TV) performed terribly, however.
The Logout's Czech news channel [1] have proven to be very useful in
that day, I accessed it from my Tungsten W (I have accidentally had a
N900 with me, too but its battery was dry is to short time).
We had a small party planned for the same day but it was of course
cancelled.
At Wednesday I visited my colleagues at the University of Pardubice. It
was supposed to be a very nice meeting but after that Tuesday I was
mood was very dark. It seems that the TV and other media make us too
inert - some of my colleagues were not able to understand why I was so
shocked. They have seen a lot of killing and murders in TV news too
often so they saw nothing special in this case. But it is somewhat
different experience if someone killed several persons just 200 meters
from my house. And many of the victims were friends or relatives of my
co-workers.
At least the "new" laptop for my wife arrived at Friday (the 13th). It
is not too new (and it only returned from repair): it is the Lenovo
Thinkpad R500 (there is a ~2GHz Celeron and 4GB of RAM, nothing
spectacular). My wife likes old IBM Thinkpad keyboards (I thing that
she loves old good Thinpads look and feel, not just the keyboards) and
this machine is still relatively close to them (her favourite machine,
the R51 died before some time).
References:
[1]
gopher://i-logout.cz/1/cz/zpravy/
