Category: Featured

Like I Ain’t Never Left »

I keep hearing bout how Riga Talk was awesome and I should blog more frequently. This is real inspiring, so.. Call it a come back.
Props to my die-hard readers, and you know I bounced back before. This time ain’t no different. Picture me bloggin’.
Since I’m down with Latvia’s Silicon Valley giants, Capital Inc., lots of [...]

1st Riga Twitter Meetup aka Tweetup Coming Up »

Riga, Latvia Twitterverse, get ready!! Right about next Friday, June 19th 2009, when the time hits 6 PM – the event will unfold.
Twitter users that happen to be in town are gonna gather up for an informal meetup at the one and only Pulkveža Brieža KID spot.
The Friday night was chosen after a pretty hot [...]

Shlesers for Mayor? Why not! »

Last week, I found a free newspaper called “New Riga” in my mailbox. The piece of paper turned out to be a political advertisement, a campaign of LPP/LC party. Run, of course, by Ainars “Who Else Could It Be” Shlesers.
The man is eying a chair of Riga Mayor, which prolly is a good thing. And [...]

Japanese Animation Festival In Riga »

I learned what’s anime not too long ago – after watching the legendary Cat Soup cartoon. It kinda had a dual impact on me, so I’d like to discover the world of globally renowned Japanese animation to the full.
Exclusive opportunity to do that on a big screen is offered by Japanese Animation Festival AnimeFest 6. [...]

Let’s Show The Planet Some Love. With Lights Off, Of Course.. »

As our lives tend to rotate more and more around Twitter, I can’t help but join the orbit – or.. ehm.. tworbit?.. (Yeah, everything His Twitterness touches, get a smooth lil’ tw prefix – it’s like Snoop’s izzle, you feel what I’m sizzle?)..
Anyway.The twaily twonderings around made me twumble upon such thing as an Earth [...]

Becoming a Godfather.. »

This BarCamp week-end has been much more spiritual for me than in some other way technical, geeky or otherwise. Some of y’all know from my tweets that I was about to become a Godparent on Saturday. Christened a new born baby boy by the beautiful Russian name of Gleb – a second son of a [...]

Riga riots were minor and ceased quickly »

Mayn, ain’t nothing real overwhelming happened last night actually.
Maybe I feel like that cause I was shooting hoops over in Pardaugava and missed some of the live action? TV, breaking news type of live action, I mean.

The reporters seemed like nearly enjoying this mess. I don’t know but to me, this whole riot thing doesn’t [...]

Snowstorm causes power outages throughout Riga »

The forecasters predicted this to be happening around last night. Major storm is gonna hit Riga, bla bla bla.. It was calm and not even windy at all yesterday. They just got the timing wrong.
Well, with a lil bit of delay, a snowstorm is taking over the area throughout Sunday. I just came over from [...]

Love In Fall »

It’s known around that Spring is the usual time to start off romantic relationships and ish like that. Kind of, plant the seed, see how it grows over the Summer.
But the thing is though, what you plant in Spring, is gonna be dead by Fall. You can then dry it and save it for your [...]

Things Being Done, RigaTalk Still The One »

Over the last few months I’ve been implementing the Getting Things Done system in my life. I’ve read the book by David Allen and all, tryna see where it takes me.
A couple words about it though – that’s a personal and business productivity management tool, sorta what I used to call time management. Only that [...]