Moskovsky Park Pobedy (Victory Park) is a one of the largest parks in St Petersburg. Located near the subway station with the same name, the park spans between Moskovsky and Gagarin avenues, right between National Public Library and hotel Russia and St Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex.

Very beautiful active Russian Orthodox Christian church built to commemorate victory over Turkish forces in Chesme Bay. The official church name is Church of Saint John the Baptist at Chesme Palace.

The Chesma Church is located pretty far from the regular tourist places, between the Moskovskaya and Park Pobedi (Victory Park) subway stations, in a middle of residential neighborhood in St Petersburg, Russia.

Just researched a curious issue with DotNetNuke. It all started with a public page rarely visited by users but quite often visited by crawlers - Pingdom bot and Googlebot.

The page is pretty DB intensive and with no caching it takes around 3 seconds to load. With all modules cached to disk for an hour, page load time goes down to 0.3s. And it all worked well during my test from the browser - I noticed that every second and subsequent visits to the page within one hour were blazingly fast, so I thought I am done and can move on.

Nicolas Roerich was an unusual many-sided person. He lived a very interesting life rich with everything - family, politics, intrigues, religion and mysticism, richness and bankruptcy, fame, traveling and of course arts.

Born in St Petersburg, he received education in Empire Russia, but spent his life all across the globe - lived in Europe and United States, for years traveled and lived in Asia, met the most famous people of his time - country leaders and politicians, scientists and artists.

The situation around using multiple accounts with Google is turning into a real hell!

I have several Google apps accounts in addition to regular @gmail account and having signed into gmail and other applications is a real mess, I am having extremely hard time dealing with Google applications - signing in to Adwords kicks me out of all gmail tabs, I literally can't get to Analytics, some applications have an option to switch account and some do not; and it doesn't matter what applications I open and in what order - it all ends up with one result - being logged off from all tabs!

I am living in a pretty poorly constructed building where you can hear everything - neighbors from above walking upstairs as they have squeaky hardwood floor and you can hear their every step as loud as if they were in my apartment.

At the same time, you can easily hear neighbors from below - not just when they are playing stereo or TV loudly, but even when they are talking! You can even hear separate words if they talk loudly and you can hear them loud and clear if you listen the floor itself.

I decided to change that. Neighbors from below are the most annoying as they have parties till the early morning. Reading on the internet I found out about the Green Glue and how great it is supposed to be. So I executed two projects.

Just encountered a problem consuming Magento webservices from .Net:

The content type text/xml; charset=utf-8,text/xml; charset=UTF-8 of the response message does not match the content type of the binding (text/xml; charset=utf-8).

The Spring is here, Central Park is full of life. All the tones of rainbow are in flowers coloring our world after several months of cold Winter.