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London, here i come!
I’ve got a meeting in London on 20th-26th of May, and it seems that i’m the first one to arrive. I’ll be arriving on Sunday early morning, but the hotel will only accept me after 3PM.
Is there anyone who wants to spend half a day with me in London on 20th? 
Health issues :(
For the last few years i have some health problems with my right ear. Interestingly it always starts in about April-May and stops some time in September. My right ear starts to itch and my hearing worsens. I’ve tried going to the doctors before with no luck, but last year they found that i have some infection and healed it.
At least i thought so.
Now, it started again, but this time my ear started to hurt too! It makes me crazy, can’t sleep well and i’m feeling very uncomfortable. I’ll try to find some time to go to the doctors this week. Hope that pain goes away fast.
So don’t be surprised if you’re talking to me and i don’t hear you
Known workaround: yell while talking with me.
Note for the internet friends: Caps lock doesn’t work the same way as yelling.
Two new softwares – 1Password and Spotify
Recently I started to use two new softwares: 1Password and Spotify
1Password is a password storing software from AgileBits. I usually generate a random password for each service/website and store them encrypted on my own server. I have done this because i had to have access to it from different places (notebook, pc, work notebook). Last time i tried to find a similar software i couldn’t find one which would let me access it from different computers.
It has plugins for Firefox/Safari/Chrome which lets me access the passwords quickly, a ‘copy’ button to quickly copy the password (no more marking and cmd+c!), a password generator and a search tool. It also can store the password safely ‘in the cloud’.
I’m trying to move all my passwords to 1Password now while changing them during the move, but i’ve got really a lot of them so it takes time!
Second software is Spotify. I have heard of it many times before, but didn’t try it as Spotify isn’t friendly with Lithuania 
I’ve used a US proxy to register with them and boom, i’m using it now! I hope i find a way to get a premium account when my free trial finishes
Spotify is a music service which gives access to millions of songs. I like that i can listen almost to any song in a good quality, and legally. I could find almost all songs i like, except for russian songs. It has some of them, but definetly not enough.
Intro Video for Automattic
Today I’ve got to do a small intro video about myself for the company.
It’s a bit ugly, but who cares?
Isparduodu savo turtus!
WARNING: This post is in a strange language called Lithuanian
Kadangi atsinaujinau savo kompa, bei turiu keleta senu nenaudojamu dalyku, tai nutariau prasivalyti ir isparduoti ka turiu.
Siuo metu turiu nemazai dalyku pardavimui (up to date saraso versija rasite cia)
- LCD Monitorius Manta 24″ uz 250 lt
- Koloneles 5.1 Creative Inspire T5900 – siulykit kaina
- UPS Mustek PowerMust 400 USB uz 50 lt
- Notebookas HP ProBook 5320M uz 1500 lt
- MacBook 4,1 uz 1100 lt
- Blicas Nikonui “Nissin Speedlite Di622″ uz 250 lt
- Kompas stacionarus
- keleta SATA 250 GB disku po 80 lt
- Klaviaturos, peles
- Knygos – atiduodu nemokamai
- Switchas D-Link DES 2108 uz 100 lt
Jeigu kas nors domina – palikit komentara arba susisiekit kontaktais kuriuos rasite cia.
Recommendations from Barclays
It is really nice to get recommendations, and I’ve got quite a few when i left Barclays. I won’t hide – i asked people to give me a recommendation when i was leaving, but I didn’t expect to get so much of them!
You can find the recommendations in my Linkedin profile, but i want to quote them here!
These were left by my direct managers ( i have changed quite a few in my 2.5 years at Barclays):
“Both as a colleague in a team and later on his manager I have enjoyed working with Alexandr. He is a person with extraordinary skills in UNIX and Linux operating sytems. I could rely on him with every assigned task as he has never let me down. Very smart person thinking outside the box.”
Tomasz Zaustowicz
“Aleksandr was vital part of Barclays Technology Center Unix team for more than two years. By team members Alex is very valued as highly skilled tecnician and very supportive person. I‘m seeing that in his tasks he is always accurate and responisve even on high timelines pressure. His strong side is defintely creativity – everrywhere where possible he was constantly searchning optimization/improvement ways and he really masters implementation further.”
Martynas Nicajus
“More than once I have been amazed by Alex ability to think through technical designs and possible issues to be hit. His knowledge of area and attention to detail makes him a valuable asset to any organization.”
Henrik Jurevic
And these were left by my crazy co-workers:
“I have had pleasure to work with Aleksandr at the same team for about 3 years. Aleksandr has proven himself as a highly skilled technician. His passion to BSD and Unix systems in general was not measurable. Aleksandr is the person who knows not just how to use the system and services it provides, but also knows internals of it. He constantly maintains his knowledge and this allows to stay him on top across the board.”
Paulius Stakauskas
“Alexander is inventive and excellent UNIX administrator. Is able to quickly identify faults. Excellent scripts writer. He is friendly, communicative and have a great sense of humor. I am glad that I had the opportunity to work together.”
Petras Liumparas
“Alex is a professional team player and very skilled on a wide range of different projects. I found him to be a key person in demonstrating a willingness and technical understanding of the complex solutions he was faced. Also Alex has an eye for details and a thought process two steps ahead getting in the best solution. All that combined make him an intelligent person to work with.”
Antanas Vaskunas
“It was a pleasure to work with Aleks. Innovative and out-of-box thinking makes him an expert in an Unix area with ability to quick and efficient solve the given task.
Aleks never refused to provide help or guide. One of the best teammates I had a chance to work with.”Mindaugas Beniusis
“Second time already I have duty to report on Aleksandr’s capabilities
If I had a company to run, I would be glad to have such employee (but I don’t, so be warned).Good luck Alex
Paulius Bulotas
“Aleksandr is very skilled and technical person. Creatively approaches every problem and acts perfectly as a tutor while helping his colleagues. Has really deep knowledge in Unix-like operating systems.” October 17, 2011
Mantas Lazauskas
It was really a big pleasure to work with each of them and I’m glad I had an opportunity to meet them. I hope we will meet again as IT world isn’t that big. Thank you guys for the recommendations!
