Flying a camera drone and creating videos of nature from the bird's perspective became the newest addition to my hobbies. I discovered that operating the controls while watching an attached (phone) screen was rather challenging, especially in sunlight. Soon I added virtual reality goggles that permit me to feel like "being there" in the sky (and simultaneously blocking the pesky sun), but for the price of looking rather strange: a guy somewhere in the woods or on a hill wearing a black goggle mask, ostensibly to block out the beautiful vistas surrounding him.

Yes, I sometimes code for fun, but mostly to cover own software needs without having to pay for and put up with someone else's solution.
Here is a small collection of utilities that came handy over the years.

The life of our family, as seen through the most relevant eyes — those of my wife. It started as a shared record of our new experiences together, for all our friends and family, bombarding us (then) with questions. Instead of emailing each of them separately, they received a link to our journal. Although many of our early audience lost interest/patience/track, we have been recording both noteworthy and mundane events for 25 years now.

At first, we were content with having enough pictures to illustrate our journals and occasional other articles. Yet soon we amassed more photographs than was feasible to fit next to our stories. Thus, we created galleries simply ordered by time passing by, and we still keep adding to them, as the rate with which we take pictures does not abate.

As you would expect of parents who's hobby is, among others, taking lots of pictures, we have those of our chidren's as well. A separate collection made sense for their younger years, but later they simply merged into our journal and picture galleries of the whole family.

This is how our family and our early web pages began. Yes, wedding pictures are also included.

Back in the days, I used to write essays reflecting my mood of the times.

Making friends in America is hard. Seeing by the eyes of someone who has grown up in a culture where friends were one of the most precious things you could have (material joys being typically out of reach), majority of those who could have become friends here remained just colleagues and associates, choosing to stay shallow and indifferent.

Toward the end of the 1990's, in my first decade in America, every year represented new horizons. I was already used to travel the Western states, but getting a new and reliable car made things a lot more enjoyable, daring farther and longer. A new technology emerged — digital cameras — recording pictures on a floppy disk! (should you wonder about the low resolution).

I discovered my affinity for long road trips and travel in general, mostly to places of natural beauty and majestic landscapes, of which the western United States has plenty. The internet allowed me to share my impressions with friends and family I left behind in Europe.

In 1991, 18 months after the Iron Curtain fell, about a dozen of fresh-out-of-college Czech youngsters put together a used camper truck and embarked on a wild ride to the northern tip of Europe, hoping to find temporary work that would pay for the sightseeing part of the voyage. It became the most formative summer of my life.

Our new vacation trip to Norway (in 2025) refreshed many memories and motivated me to modernize the linked pages from 1997's HTML.