Some 2026 minor changes to the website:

• Since there are no more notes, people interested in my movie watching and possible reviews can check out this page, which is constantly updated. Favorite films have a separate page.
• I’ve put up a basic page for Umber, which is the custom software that’s powering up the Café. Speaking of the Café, there is a Request invite page now (powered by Umber’s framework), which can be used to … request invites, so don’t e-mail me about invites anymore.
• The notes tagged with #ideas have been migrated into this page, which is constantly updated too.
• The guestbook is now read-only because someone considered it fun to pump 500 spam messages into it, daily, and while messages were not public and required manual approval, this was something I didn’t want to do for the rest of my life. Spam always wins.
• I’ve removed the contact information from the about page, people who want to speak to me know where to find me. And how.

If you happen to run into an Apple iPhone 3GS that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg, and you want to upgrade it to the last iOS version available (6.1.6), and jailbreak it so you can install applications and tweaks via Cydia, this article will help you. A lot.

For prerequisites, if on Windows you will need the last version of iTunes installed, so download it from Apple and run the installer. You will obviously need an iPhone 3GS running any iOS version, provided you want to upgrade it to a version between 6.0 and 6.1.6.

The last version of iOS that’s supported on the iPhone 3GS smartphone is 6.1.6, so if you have an older version and you want to update it, download the 6.1.6 IPSW from Apple’s website and restore it on your phone using iTunes. Keep in mind that Aquila jailbreakes all iOS versions between 6.0 and 6.1.6, so if you want to preserve your older iOS version you will need another jailbreak tool, like blackra1n, purplera1n or redsn0w.

Breaking the holiday silence for a short article on how to use your old MSN Messenger client to connect to escargot.chat’s infrastructure, using OS X (Leopard, maybe even Tiger), regardless of current year: basically you need an escargot.chat account, a computer running OS X (doh) and a MSN Messenger client.

The account part can be solved for free using the services provided by escargot.chat: register for an account on their website, make a note of the username you selected, and the password, and you’re good to go.

I know I said the last article is the last article of 2025, but it’s not like everyday your favorite Russian singer launches her newest acoustic album, on her birthday nevertheless.

Friend, it’s real, even if it ends. I’ve had people who left me or who I left, some hate me now, some I’ll still say hello to, once in a blue moon. These people are no longer actively in my life, but the time spent with them is still important to me. I carry them around with me, reminding me that at some point in my life that person cared. That there was a brief moment in time where I wasn’t insufferably alone. It’s comforting.

I’ve also had a lot of deaths happen in my life too. It kind of feels like that. Remembering people for the wonderful lives they had and lived, the time I had with them before they passed. I cherish it. That’s what losing someone is like. Most people feed so much on the end result, the messy break-up, the hate for someone who was once important to you, the bridge of friendship burning as bright as the sun. But important are the times before that, the times when you valued another human life with more conviction than your own self.

It’s a beautiful thing.

You know about The Café’s Quake 2 Thunderdome by now, but the images don’t satisfy you? Well, in this case I got your back, here is a video to enjoy: the original demo was recorded on an iMac G5 (I played Quake 2 on it), converted into a movie by recording it in OBS on a MacBook Air, edited in Final Cut Pro on the same iMac G5 and transcoded into mp4 using Handbrake. The beginning is missing for a simple reason: in the heat of the moment, I forgot to start recording. Sorry about that :(

The end result is 13 minutes of blood and carnage. Enjoy.