Digital Wanderer

We live as long as we fly

BlogJet

Решил опробовать блоговый клиент BlogJet, на вид прикольный и быстрый, тэги поддерживает, в отличие от wlw. Проверим, как оно в действии.
UPDATE: нет, тэги не поддерживает, значит мне не годится.

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Bike

There won't be anything about the US, I'm kinda sick of it. I'm reading all sorts of nonsense on Wikipedia and retelling it to you in Russian. Of course, this activity is more dignified than reading idiotic blogs on LJ, which are essentially no less dumb than fishki.net, but still. What's really cool to do on a summer evening is to be out in nature, which is exactly what I was doing today - riding my bike.

By the way, I replaced the rear sprockets (cassette) and chain on it - they were worn to trash from winter and lack of maintenance. The new stuff works pretty well, plus the manufacturer's name sounds funny to a Russian ear - SRAM. The cassette is simple, a PG-830, the chain is a slightly higher class - PG-880 or something like that. I don't know much about all this - the mechanic  at Trek said it's easier to get the simple ones and change them more often than buying expensive ones. The latter only make sense if you ride a lot and in harsh conditions - through mud and puddles. The prices, by the way, are normal - not much higher than the famous store ChainReactionCycles, where all the bike fetishists, I mean bike upgrade enthusiasts, shop. While I was at it, I also bought a universal bike tool, lube that's better than oil, patches with glue, and a chain cleaning machine. It lets you clean the chain without taking it off the bike. Very relevant for a lazybones like me. Although my laziness is so monstrous that up until now I haven't cleaned anything at all, except for relatively rarely washing the bike.

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European Health Insurance Card

Если вы житель ЕС и поедете в другие страны ЕС, рекомендую прочитать вот это, затем получить бесплатную страховую карту для ЕС - European Health Insurance Card.

Инфа с форума:
https://www.paintballer.lv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=8048&sid=9bced9daf195b22b94a9720317e17435

Официальная инфа на русском:
https://www.voava.lv/rus/ES/EVAKkarte/ka_iegut_evak/

Заказать карту бесплатно через интернет можно здесь:
https://www.voava.lv/lat/es/LV_iedzivotajiem/formas/?doc=252

Поробнее почитать можно здесь:
https://web.archive.org/web/20081023054501/https://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/healthcard/index_en.htm

Срок годности карты составляет 12 месяцев, делают её 15 дней.

Полезно смотреть euronews, как ни крути.

Предвосхищая главный вопрос: да, если вы едете в Европу надолго или знаете, что можете сильно заболеть, обычную платную страховку тоже имеет смысл сделать.

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