azamat karbayev

I got e-mail today, its subject started with “Your invited to”.

Come on people! I don’t care about this kind of mistakes in instant messaging conversations, but they rub me the wrong way when I see them in e-mails or blog posts. I know people don’t always proofread (I don’t), but these mistakes are not just typos. I think these are result of people not knowing differences between such words or phrases.

Other examples:

• then ≠ than
• there ≠ their ≠ they’re
• its ≠ it’s
• sail ≠ sale
• to ≠ too
• could have ≠ could of
• …

Another thing I don’t like is when people do not distinguish between “good” and “well”. One is an adverb and the other is an adjective.

Proofread people! Otherwise you look like a fool. At least with blog posts you can edit them and correct the “typos”.

I r is a genius!

I just had a few minutes where I didn’t know what to do, in other words I had some time to kill. Usually what I do in such cases I just open up my web browser and go to one of my usual sites that I like to kill time at. But then I thought why not do something different and tell you about the sites I like. Read the rest of this entry »

Happy New Year everyone! I wish you a great 2008, tons of smiles and wishes coming true.

You might have noticed new blog here. Drupal was too much for what I’m doing with the blog, so WordPress it is. You might need to update your RSS bookmarks.

Last time I updated my blog was almost a year ago, just after my birthday. Obviously lots of things happened since then, but I wouldn’t be able to tell you most of them. So instead I decided to start from scratch.

For this year I did not make any resolutions. In the past I found that after making resolutions people try very hard to do it during January and maybe February, but eventually burn out. So instead I’ll just go with the flow, I have my goals and I will try to achieve them. One of these goals is to write more blog posts.