the written word remains

Today I finally finished listening to the Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen" opera (CD recording only alas). The complete Ring Cycle took me exactly four days to finish listening but I don't regret of any single hour spent! Only now I think I can understand Nietzsche's "The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music" better. Indeed when Dionysian and Apollonian origins join they form something that is equally solemn (the music) and tragical (the epic) but leaves you anyway exhilarated.

I'm still sitting here, humming Hojotoho! ;) and reading more about Nibelung. Honestly, these days I discovered a previously unknown to me Norse mythology and epic. I didn't think of such rich mythical worlds existed outside the Greece. Obviously, I need to learn more (just ordered a book with West European epics collection, it will be a nice addon to my collection of Greek, Roman and Slavonic mythology).

...these guys!!! Tough play, steel nerves and luck - they demonstrated everything today :) I'm proud!

By the way, this is IIRC the best result ex-USSR football team ever showed since 1970 when USSR entered the quarterfinals. Hurray to our team!!!

Today Ukrainian football team finally fulfilled my expectations! They will be playing in 1/8 final! They did it not without trouble especially thanks to Trabelsi from Tunisia's team. Even his name reminds of troubles ;) He was the best player today probably.

Now that was the real football game. 4:0 is what I wanted to see from Ukrainians today and they did it :) Keep going! Let us enjoy our first world championship!

It does look like I've finally reached the state where my job became my passion. You doubt it's possible? I have a counter-evidence :)

From this very moment Pluron company is starting sponsoring me to work on KDevelop. I'm allowed now to spend part of my work time on KDevelop! That's so increadibly cool! We'll make the announcement soon, but I can't wait to tell about that ;)

In Pluron we develop Ruby/Rails project and of course use KDevelop as our IDE, so my primary target would probably be to make KDevelop4 shine as a Ruby IDE but of course I'll continue my work on UI and other things. This is a good chance to make all the difference ;)

Thanks to Pluron and special thanks to Gleb Arshinov, company founder and great open source supporter who made this possible!

PS: this is a shameless plug, but if you live in Ukraine, passionate about open source, ruby and/or ruby on rails or just look for a cool place to work, consider joining us ;)

Today promised to be a good day but to my surprise it was not. Oh! Ukrainian football team did not make this day any better too. Catastrophic gameplay plus one unfair penalty made them lose with an awful score! Ok, they will have at least two another opportunities to win ;)