My childhood

My latest task is to provide you with a picture from my childhood and a brief description of it, so here it goes:


Okay, so this is me sitting with my mom. It’s hard to say how old I was when this photo was taken; I was probably about 4, but I’m not sure. My brother said that I look here like some kind of a ‘little prince’ but ‘Dennis the Menace’ would be far more appropriate a description, I think. Besides, I look a bit grim and mad, just as if I was angry with the whole world. I guess I’ve already had this black metal blood in veins back then. This would probably explain how such an innocent kid has evolved into a full-grown evil creature looking this way at the age of 17:

Encyclopaedia Metallum

Our next task is to recommend you a website fufilling three conditions:
1. It should be in English
2. It should be updated on quite a regular basis
3. It shouldn't promote violence.
I was thinking for quite a while about a site I visit regularly and which meets all three points. The fact is most sites I visit are in Polish, so choosing one that'd be in English was not so easy for me. Finally I made up my mind and choosed to recommend you the Encyclopaedia Metallum, which is the biggest source of information about the metal bands in the net. What the very name suggests, it's an encyclopedia of the black art, it provides you with everything a true metalhead should know. To give you an example of what you can find there, I'll copy a part of the profile of the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem:



So what do you think? Is it a recommendation enough?

Komputronik egzistenz

I, just as every other person in my group, was asked to write a couple of senteces about my computer experiences and post it on the blog just to let anybody interested read it, so here we go.

I don't know when exactly computers made their first appearance in my life but what I am sure of is that it was well before I started school. Usually it was my friends with their Ataris, Amigas, and Commodores who were responsible for my first encounters with computers but I remember pretty well that also my Dad had a PC at work and my brother and I used to go there just to play games and basically have fun. It was the era of Wolfenstein 3D, a precursor of all the first person perspective games which were bound to dominate the world later on. From that moment I wanted to have my own 'game machine' because this is what computers were about for me then - playing games.

But it wasn't until my brother bought a Pegasus that I finally had the opportunity to play video games at home. Pegasus was something extraordinary at the time; it was the first console to appear in Poland and it got itself almost a cult-like status very quickly. My brother and I were made slaves, but I'm too tough to complain about it.

Somewhere to the end of the second grade of my elementary school my parents said a computer was necessary for our further education, and as they said, so they did, and this is how our first 486 appeared in my brother's room, and changed our lives completely. How could they be so naive to think it would help us learn? From the perspective of time I can say it did something completely opposite. Yes, I admit it.

Since that time, we've modernized our computer a couple of times, and now it rots in my room, where it's hardly ever used by my parents. My brother and I use it only when we get back home, which doesn't happen to often. I don't miss it because now I've got my own brand new laptop which totally pleases my computer needs. What do I do with it? Lots of various things - listen to music, watch movies with my friends, browse the net, write essays and my diploma paper, and play games, just to name a few. Maybe it'll sound a bit ridiculous but it's become an essential part of my life. All in all, how could I update my blog without it?