I'm not a huge fan of self-portraits, but while browsing some old photographs, I've came across this one. It was taken around February 2007, when I was experimenting a bit with a Zenit 11. It's quite the classic shot, I've seen dozens of these on Flickr, yet they're always interesting - it's the same scene, but a different person or camera.
A wrinkled man, with a funny hat and long beard, shouts - "Step in, don't be afraid - the first ride is always free." Rising his eyes in attention, the boy runs to the man and demands a free ride.
"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."
~ Vladimir Nabokov
When working with large log files, a very common requirement is to extract a piece of log that's interesting. Most log files are actually text files, therefore it should be quite easy to do this, as long as you know the start line and the end line.
The following bash script will print to the standard output the content of the given text file, from the given start line to the end line.
A few months ago, as I was browsing a book shop, I noticed this book, with a cheesy cover and weird title - "The Ground beneath Her Feet", by Salman Rushdie. The title really reminded me of a personal experience and when I've started reading the description from the back cover, I was even more convinced that I know this story.
