Online auctions at the APEH · 5 April 2008 by Alex Beregszaszi
The APEH (literally: Tax and Financial Controlling Office), the hungarian tax office has set up an online auction site, where it tries to sell everything it occupied from non paying taxpayers.
Antonov An-225 at Ferihegy, Budapest · 18 January 2008 by Alex Beregszaszi
Today one of the worlds biggest aircraft, the An-225 landed at Ferihegy (Budapest Airport) and will leave tomorrow. For this special occassion, the airport opened some view decks at the terminal for the interested parties. It is said that tomorrow it will carry some kind of earthquake equipment to a destination in Asia.
A complete itiner at detailed description is available in Hungarian at Airportal.
Roof tile merchandise from Mátyás Templom · 17 January 2008 by Alex Beregszaszi
The Budavári Mátyás Templom (~Matthias Chruch of Buda) has artistitc pottery tiles on the roof which are renovated right now.
According to this news entry from Index (Hungarian only), the parish is going to sell the tiles as merchandise for approximately $20 each. Great idea, I am going to buy one :)
LinuxBIOS presentation follow up · 22 November 2007 by Alex Beregszaszi
The origanizers just made the recorded video and the slides of the presentation is available. Both is in Hungarian though.
LinuxBIOS @ Budapest NewTech Meetup · 2 November 2007 by Alex Beregszaszi
The Budapest New Technology Meetup (look at the group number) is a monthly event, each time with about five 5 minute presentations.
Really interesting themes are presented. In August we had a long introduction to Gomboc.
Now at the next event on wednesday, the 7th november I will talk about LinuxBIOS and BIOSes alltogether. As much as one can fit into a 5 minutes talk plus a 5 minutes QA session.
Hungarian web culture · 26 July 2006 by Alex Beregszaszi
Warning, this will be a rude rant!
The hungarian web culture is at least 5 years behind today. Tables are still mandatory, XHTML-CSS design is mostly unknown and 1pixel spacers are widely used. Funny, isn’t it?
Today I have seen an ad of the SZTE-BMI – a university faculty with media related classes. They are offering specialization in what they call mediainformatics and explain as webdesign. Just look at their kickin old school website. And they are going to teach such awesome design skills and culture.