Speaking of user interfaces, I have found Apple’s secret sauce. They always give more then 100% when working on a product or program. The proof is in the attached screenshot.

/Irony.

I was trying to open all the history links from mobile.de, browsed Saturday. As a side note neither Mac OSX nor Firefox crashed after that, and I managed to visit those pages again (and close them again, one by one).

I’ve noticed that starting with a couple of days ago, the iMac doesn’t want to go to sleep anymore. If I go to Apple menu then Sleep, it tries to go to sleep, but after the hard disk stops spinning, it wakes up again.

After carefully inspecting the Console logs I’ve come up with the following messages:

Feb  8 20:32:17 ... kernel[0]: hibernate_write_image done(0)
Feb  8 20:32:17 ... kernel[0]: sleep
Feb  8 20:32:17 ... kernel[0]: Wake reason = 
Feb  8 20:32:17 ... kernel[0]: System Wake
Feb  8 20:32:17 ... kernel[0]: Previous Sleep Cause: 5

What’s particularly strange is the empty “Wake reason = ” message after sleep. Usually, there you can see different messages like “Wake reason = OHC1”, when you wake the Mac by pressing a key on the USB keyboard.

After removing some innocent Extensions (Remote Buddy and CoolBook2—this one ended up here when I’ve migrated the data from the laptop), I’ve found out the root cause.

In my case, it was the wireless network’s fault. I already have a regular network cable between the Time Capsule and the iMac, but I also have a wireless network for the mobile devices. For some reason, I’ve activated the wireless network on the iMac. This caused the computer to wake up from sleep immediately, but no “Wake reason” was given.

In case your computer doesn’t want to go to sleep too, try this.

New, smaller, computer requires new desk, which requires new cables setup. Different from the previous setup, I had to cut about 40cm of the board off, ditched the Western Digital MyBook external hard drive (which failed one month after the two years warranty expired). Also I took the opportunity to get rid of the second outlet set.

About 3 weeks ago I had to switch from Mac OS X (Leopard) to Windows (7 beta build 7100) at the company I work for. One of the reasons of the change was starting of a new project, that will be developed on Microsoft stack (C#, ASP.NET MVC and Microsoft SQL Server 2008). The project will have to be deployed on some Windows Servers, so no point in using C# Mono or PHP.

The first week, was spent getting used to the new platform and all the tools available on it. Installing pasteboard history (ClipX), an Orthodox File Manager (Nomad.NET), a proper editor (GVim for Windows) was something you had to do if you wanted to have a proper work environment.

The second week, I started to take a closer look at the IDE itself, as I already received the sources I was going to work from now on. For a change, it is nice to have code completion for about every namespace, class, method or function, but is annoying not to have word completion (for strange words you have to write inside string declarations like SQL keywords).

Beside the different change in layout, one of the other things that I noticed was the lack of attention to details in user interface and the general lack of polish. For example, in the above image you can see the subtle blue break point (enabled or disabled) in XCode versus the red break point from Visual Studio. I’d rather have 10 more pixels to fit one or two characters then to have 10% unused space in a window. Also see the subtle indicator for folding area, shades of gray in XCode and square with +/- sign in Visual Studio.

A much more visible differences in Visual Studio are the items from the menu item and the layout of the sub-windows that change when you go from Edit mode into Run/Debug mode and back. It is distracting to see shapes changing in background when you should concentrate on the front window. Better to keep everything fix and in place, and let you focus on the things you’re doing.

These are the touches that makes most of Mac OS X software much more enjoyable then most of the Windows software.

During my business trip to Munich I haven’t had much time to wonder around and visit bike shops (although I bumped into a big one near Theresienwiese U-Bahn station), that’s why I’ve ordered this nice bicycle teapot shaped bell from Amazon.de. I think that it’s nice form goes much better with my city bicycle then a regular one. I’m sure that the nice and shiny look will wear out pretty soon.

As many office workers, I got infected with the ‘productivity bug’.

I found myself using two types of software daily (or at least weekly) on Mac (that I didn’t use while I was using Linux).

The first type is task management, represented by OmniFocus, which helps me not to forget different task/errands.

For what I use OmniFocus?

• List of monthly rates I have to pay (car loan, assurance fees)
• List of important things (utilities) or less important (having a haircut) I have to pay from time to time
• List of things I’d like to buy in the new future (inline skates, shoes)
• List of things to do (home errands)

For what I don’t use it?

• Managing projects, although some projects are written down there, but I don’t work on them much.
• Grocery store lists. For that I use a small post it on the fridge, where I write what I should not forget to buy on the next trip to grocery store.

Also not to forget dates/meetings/events I use iCal, the build in calendaring software. I prefer this to OmniFocus because it syncs with my iPods and with my mobile phone. OmniFocus can sync some of it’s entries to iCal too. I’ve tried this feature once, but I think I put all my to-dos in one calendar and that it become littered with entries from OmniFocus. On a screencast I’ve seen that you should sync only one of your contexts (e.g. errands) with one of the calendars, not all the contexts with one calendar (as I did).

Famous Moleskines notebooks come to Timisoara, and other small Romanian cities, where you can find Carturesti bookstores. Until now, you couldn’t find this brand of notebooks in Romania, and Amazon didn’t ship anything besides books to non-Amazon countries.

I got the small one on my trip to Belgrade, in April 2008, and the medium one on my trip to San Francisco, in September 2008.

I didn’t use them much, though. Only the medium one has some notes, from a couple of conference presentations.

Going from Santa Clara to San Francisco, by public transport, gives you a lot of time to think, since you have to change 2 light trains (VTA, BART) and one regional train (Caltrain) you’ll need roughly 2 and half hours from one place to another. On the way to airport, I had some time to note a few things about my experience there and about ZendCon 2008.

Coming from a smallish country (population of 22 millions) and an even smallish city (population of 400 000) I was impressed by the big distances Americans in these area have to travel daily. If you’re not leaving 5 or 10 km closer to your office, and in a big city, your daily possibilities are limited and is not practical to use the public transport for everything, because you’ll have to spend lots of time commuting (for example this more then 2 hours trip by public transport could have be done in 40–50 minutes by car, there are 70km, after all). We (me and my Ciao colleagues) have lost this time when we had to go from Santa Clara to San Francisco, so didn’t manage to see much. We’ve seen some classic tourist stuff, Golden Gate, the Cable Train, Fisherman’s Wharf, and Mission Street, a Spanish neighborhood we’ve landed in by mistake. Still, it was surreal to see all the things you see in the movies, the exterior fire stairs, the American Police cars, the Transamerica Pyramid building and other landmarks from San Francisco.

These tourist stuff happened on Saturday and Sunday, the first two days I spent here. For the rest of the week, I’ve attended ZendConf in Santa Clara.

More about the conference, in another post.

Just a couple of days before Greenfield Online announced that they will be bough by a private invest firm (hint: google for SRVY and follow the news), Ciao Romania had the new office opening party “Ciao – Open for business”. The party that celebrated the move in the best office spaces a company can buy in this town (City Business Center Timisoara) was celebrated at the Aquarium Restaurant from building’s 6th floor. Along with mere mortals from Timisoara office, were present representatives from Munich office, members of local students organizations and company’s collaborators.

Pictures from this, small for other but important for the company, event can be seen in the Ciao Open for Business album.

Forced by a small bump I passed with my bicycle last week, today I bought the last item left on the to buy list. From the first rides, I can say that riding this bicycle will be more comfortable than the previous one. That’s good, because I’d like to enjoy as much as I can the last things that can be considered workout.

Though, it has a small annoyance. When I start to pedal, there are some hickups. Probably some loose sprockets inside the rear hub. I’ll take a look one evening to see if I can fix it.

As my sweetheart said, real impressions about Sziget should be written 2 weeks after the festival ended.

Really really nice concerts (The Chemical Brothers, Hooverphonic, Manu Chao, Fanfara Ciocarlia) and really nice people (our Romanian neighbours, Alexandra, Cristi, Simi, Dog and their friends, our French neighbours, group 1 (the hot guys) and group 2 (Francois and friends), the Australian Paula and friends) is what I’ll remember with a smile on my face from this year’s Sziget.

This year I’ve noticed that there are many Romanians attending this festival. They are split in two big groups: cool guys (and girls) and “leave me alone, I’m too busy to talk with you, because I’m from Bucharest/Timisoara and you’re not, and you are not as cool as I am” groups. I’ve met people from both of them.

What I didn’t like this year was the weather and the fact that almost all the things were more expensive this year. The taste of money is sweet. :(

Evolution of ticket entrance price from 2003 to 2007:

• 2003 Daily 12 Eur, Weekly 75 Eur
• 2004 Daily 15 Eur, Weekly 80 Eur
• 2005 Daily 20 Eur, Weekly 100 Eur
• 2006 Daily 25 Eur, Weekly 120 Eur
• 2007 Daily 30 Eur, Weekly 150 Eur

More pictures from Sziget here: Sziget Festival 2007 Pictures or on Sziget Festival 2007 Budapest group from Flickr.

While dreaming at a new Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 for my home computer, I’ve taken the time to clean up the keyboard I use at my current workplace. Since I’ve used the first MS Natural Keyboards, a couple of years back, I preffered them to normal format keyboards.

It looked so dirty because I didn’t clean it since I have bought it 4 years ago.

One of the conditions for the new company I’ve wanted to work was to let me bring in my keyboard. The other one was to let me use my OS of choice (Slackware at that time, Gentoo now).

Many thanks goes to our colleague from Wroclaw, Hubert, for sending us two new hacky sacks.

We’ve been infected by this virus 2 months ago when the Wroclaw team gifted one hacky sack to Timisoara team through Sergiu. This was the only thing that managed to involve the whole programmers’ room.

It’s magic. When one of us want to play, almost always, everyone will stop working for 15 minutes and will join. It happens 2 times a day, once before lunch and once after. These are the joy moments of the day. That’s why we are waiting for more 4 sacks to arrive from Munich this week.

Long live hacky sacks.

Update: Using a much nicer picture made with Alex’s new camera.

This was the image that I sent to a random person in Unirii Square on Saturday evening. Luckyly that person was sitting right next to me, and I could see his reaction. It was a forty something years old guy with his wife. Judging by their face expression, they didn’t know much about Bluejacking (sending unsolicited messages over Bluetooth to other Bluetooth-enabled devices like phones, laptops or PDAs).

I’ve wanted to try bluejacking since a couple of years ago, when I’ve read about it on internet, but my previous phone didn’t have bluetooth. Luckyly, my borther gave me his Nokia 6260 which I can use for that (and as a playground for Python on S60 series).

Munich Blade Night takes place every Monday evening from 6–7-8–9, starting from Wredestrasse . Usually lots of people attend this skate. The maximum number of people reached in 2001, 37000. 2006’s average was 11000 (they blamed it on the European Soccer/Football Worldcup).

Also, as seen in the picture, Munich has a slalom scene too. They meet in the Olympia Park, near the tower. I was impressed by their skills.

At last, my teeth are free again, (without braces that is). This means I can eat everything I want (peanuts, chewing gum, coco nuts, carrots, cabbage, apples) and many more, I don’t have to worry about what kind of food is appropriate to eat while having lunch or dinner out.

I wore it since 15th of October 2003. That’s 1238 days which translates to approx 3 years 4 months and 23 days. (Is it coincidence that is older then my blog/domain?) Initially, I thought that I have to wore it for one year. Then, after a year and a half there were some complications and I had to have a molar pulled out, and another molar moved a couple of mm to the front teeth. This part extended the time I had to wear it with more then one year.

Do I see any improvements, yes, some. My upper teeth are straighter, but I don’t see any improvements to my profile or to my lower teeth. Perhaps there are any, but not so visible with the naked eye. It is true that meanwhile I gained more then 10kg, and my profile looks kind of different.

Would I recommend to wear braces to anyone who needs it? Yes, but not more then 2 years. Although you get use to them after the first 3 months.

Later edit: the duration of the treatment was longer than the initial estimated period because of the molar complication (which is related to another doctor, not my orthodontist).

I got this puzzle for my birthday a couple of years ago. I started to make it then but after I matched around a quarter it grown too large for my home desk, so I had to pack it back. In November I took it to S’s place and gave it another try. Unfortunately, she had to pack it for the Christmas general clean up. This Sunday we started to make it for the third time. I strongly hope that was the last time when I started it.

Inspired from serpentineroad I baked some pancakes. The spark was in a thread about Pancake Day, a holiday celebrated on 20th of February in the Anglo-Saxon countries (but not limited to). It is the last day before the Easter Lent when you can eat anything you want. Technicaly speaking, now we should be fasting, but this didn’t stop me to fill them with Nutella.

Things I’d like to do in 2007:

• Go on holiday with Snej to Prague (most likely)
• Go to Sziget for a couple of days (pretty doable)
• Visit London and attend 3 city skates: Wednesday Night Skate, Friday Night Skate and Sunday Stroll (not so likely to happen, because more important things need the money I’d use for London)

These are different then the New Year’s Resolutions, since those are goals, and these are countable items. I hope I can cross them until Autumn 2007. :)

Following serpentineroad’s (and Bridget Jones’) model here are mine:

• Get fitter
• Skate more
• Use the bicycle more
• Be more positive (in attitude and behavior)

Two of my friends (Ciprian and Szonyi) thought to buy me, for my birthday, a miniature railway set. Unfortunately, I don’t have the necessary time to set it up now, neither until 22nd of December. I’ll start counting the days until I’ll be back from the Christmas Holiday. A very big thank you from me.

BTW. Did you know that I’ve graduated the Railway Highschool from Timisoara? :)

Thank you again.

PS. AMR until Chrismas two weeks holiday: 3 days.

Yesterday went to British Library to pick up my results (and diploma) for the IELTS General Training Exam I took on 30th of November.

I needed an overall 6, I was hoping for an 7, but when I saw the diploma I couldn’t belive my eyes :D.

On the tests I took at Babel Center, I never had a perfect Reading test (on the IELTS band scale, 9 is maximum). I was expecting to have the smallest grade on Writing, although I didn’t expect to have it so small on Speaking too.

Having these said, here are the results:

• Listening 8.5
• Reading 9
• Writing 7
• Speaking 7

I’ve made a round through Bega and bought presents for mine and Snej’s parents. It goes much faster when you know what to buy apriori. Three more presents to buy :).

Also, many many thanks to Snej for her nice surprise.

I found pictures of this bicycle I like on flickr. I’d love to have one of these, to make long rides, on sunny Sundays. I don’t do any rides (exept dayly commuting) these days, so I’ll wait a bit.

This bicycle belongs to Moment of Inertia user.

Since I’ve got the industrial piercing in my left year, my friends, colleagues and other people who new me had different reactions to it, on the whole range, from positive to negative.

Today, I’ve seen the ‘negativest’ one, from Bogdan. His first instinct almost was: ‘you are fired’, except that he is not my superior, nor he is affiliated with my employer. I was amazed how against piercings and tattoos he was. I was expecting such a reaction from his father, not from him, Although, his father didn’t say a thing. Maybe he was polite, or more open, or didn’t care.

Anyway, I don’t care much what he says. Just that I didn’t know he is not very open minded.

Weekend at Cheile Nerei. Pictures to follow.

Tasha is the newest member of our family.

If weather permits, tomorrow, together with Sergiu and a couple of other friends I’ll attend the second edition of Critical Mass Timisoara.

*Note to self:
– pack camera
– bicycle check
– 17:00 be at the Orthodox Cathedral :)

**I think I’ve added to my obsessions list one more: Dub Incorporation – See Di Youth.

Do yourself a favor. Backup. Often. Configuration files, databases, documents, anything you might cry after one day…

From the what a read person I am series, I finished Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 yesterday. I didn’t find it as interesting as 1984.

As is stated on wikipedia, Equilibrium movie was heavily inspired from this book, so I already had an image in my mind.

Next, I would like to read Ender’s Game or Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy.

1st day at IELTS preparation course held by Moni went pretty smooth. I made too many mistakes at the test we had in the class, to be satisfied of my level. Unfortunately my current colegues don’t have an advance level, so my language progress will be pretty slow :(. I hope that those I’ll meet Tuesday at the speaking/listening course will have a higher level of English.

Q: Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
A:

Happy Birthday to Daniel.

Bad Joke:

Q: What present can you get for a new born?
A: A pack of condoms for his mom.

I have to brag. This screenshot is from my home peecee.

Later edit: I didn’t use OS X as much as I planned initially. After I’ve installed the M$ Natural Keyboard drivers, and rebooted (wtf?), the keyboard didn’t work. After that, Cipi needed a spare hdd, to carry stuff around, and I lent him that harddisk. He had to remove the mac install.

Musicmania:

DJ Shadow ft Mos Def – Six Days Mix – from Tokyo Drift Soundtrack
Dub Incorporation – Diversite, See Di Youth, Holy Mount – from Diversite album.

Music to get:

Mos Def – Black on Both Sides
Mos Def – The New Danger

Dj Shadow – In Tune and On Time
Dj Shadow – Endtroducing…

I finished “Neither here nor there” by Bill Bryson. It was a great read. :)

I remeber the day when S told me that she said no to Alex. Today was my turn to do the same thing, say no to my Alex. I’m sorry that someone has to lose (and suffer), and someone to win. I’m sorry, R.

srecan rodjendan, sedam meseci

renewcommand{labelitemi}{$heartsuit$} – this is the LaTex command you use to change the bullets from default to hearts. I used it when I wrote my graduation diploma.

:)

23 minutes. That’s the time I spent today on the running machine. I ran around 2km. A short distance in a long-ish period of time, compared with last time results.

I really should practice more.

First things first: Happy Birthday to Ciprian (bucatzel.ro).

Second:
If you are into Open Source and Linux programming, an interesting podcast that you might like is FLOSS Weekly. There are interviews and nice stories with different Open Source personalities like Rasmus Lerdorf (the guy that invented PHP), Guido van Rossum (creator of Python), Randal L. Schwartz (Perl author and developer) and many more.

Their latest show was published August 11th. I hope it’s not their last one.

Snej’s favourite water fountain from Timisoara. Located in Dacia Square, in a small park, near the new church.

Back to work. :(

more pictures from Sziget here:
Sziget Festival 2006 Pictures

Suggestions from Sziget:

Zebda
Dub Incorporation – Diversite
dEUS
Tiken Jah Fakoly

And from Smaranda: Noir Desir – Le vent nous portera

Budapest minitour by bike. We had time to see:

- Margit Island. It’s a park that looks like Hyde Park/London – Central Park/New York. Big, with smooth pavements and lots of green spaces, with jogging tracks and spa/swimming pools. If I had something like this in Timisoara, that is the place where the skaters would gather.

- The Buda Castle (again) – with the fort and the churches.

- The Vaci Utca – aka the main street from Budapest (only one end, because you have to walk it by foot).

We met 4 Polish guys from Cracow. The were going by bike, from Cracow to Transylvania (Brasov/ Sibiu/ Sighisoara/ Cluj). That’s about 750 km. They were planning to go around 100km/day.

I took the wrong way 2 times. The first time, instead of going to the Nyugatyi Railway Station, I got to the Kelety one. (Pretty big difference). Second time, instead of going left on the Arpad Bridge, I went strait ahead. This time was simpler to follow the correct route.

Since the Budapest by bike trip got postponed, we have had time to see several bands that wasn’t in the initial schedule:

- Gentleman – very nice show, the attendies got very involved. (though not so many people attended at).
– 17 Hippies – pretty nice, like everything at the the world pannon stage.

Just have seen The Rasmus. :D Pitty that Shalala didn’t want to come to Sziget. She would have enjoyed it. Don’t know about Snej, though.

That’s all for now.

PS: my health is improving.

I’ve seen/done half of the stuff I planned. I missed most of the tai chi stuff, and some concerts from the first day.

I have bought a new pair of rollerblades (yay!!)

For now, weather sucks. Let’s hope that it will improve in the next days…

That’s all.

I arrived at Sziget.

We set up our tent near Pannon World Stage, where Dan and Emilia first set up their tent.

Difference since the last year: more toilets, more food stands. There are some special places to set up you tent (guarded, and have access only if you have the right bracelet).

Last night we found 4 french people that studied a few months in Cluj. We were amazed that there are French people who speak Romanian.

This is my To see at Sziget list. I’m curios how I’ll manage to be at different concerts at the same time. :)

Wednesday:
10:00 Thai Chi (Pesti Est Stage)
18:00 Therapy? (Main Stage)
19:45 Boban Markovic (Pannon World Music)
21:30 Franz Ferdinand (Main Stage)
21:30 Robert Plant (Pannon World Music)

Tuesday:
10:00 Thai Chi (Pesti Est Stage)
16:30 Ill Nino (Main Stage)
21:30 Goran Bregovic (Pannon World Music)
21:30 Jovanotti (Main Stage)

Friday:
10:00 Thai Chi (Pesti Est Stage)
18:00 Gomez (Main Stage)
21:30 Enzo Avitabile (Pannon World Music)

Saturday:
10:00 Thai Chi (Pesti Est Stage)
17:30 dEUS (Main Stage)
21:00 Radiohead (Main Stage)

Sunday:
10:00 Thai Chi (Pesti Est Stage)
21:30 The Rasmus (Main Stage)

Monday:
10:00 Thai Chi (Pesti Est Stage)
21:30 Placebo (Main Stage)

Tuesday:
10:00 Thai Chi (Pesti Est Stage)
19:45 Anima Sound System (Main Stage)
21:30 Prodigy (Main Stage)
21:30 Afro Celt Sound System (Pannon World Music)
23:00 Gogol Bordelo (Wan2)

Sometimes we rely on technology too much. For example, let’s take the ‘credit/debit card’ fever.

Now, almost all Romanian companies pay their employees using this system. They say it’s good because they don’t have to carry a large amount of money once a month to the company’s address (and that amount it’s quite big for the large companies, with 1000–2000 people). It’s much cleaner using ‘electronic’ methods. Also, the employee doesn’t have to be extra careful because of the ‘large’ sum of money he has to carry it home.

Now what are the disadvantages? For each time you interrogate your card, you pay a small amount of money. (You don’t pay this amount when you ‘interrogate’ your wallet). Although a lot of people have credit/debit cards, you can’t use them in all the shops (though, the situation has improved in the past years). Also, you are too tight to the ‘electronics’.

Today, for example, I wanted to buy a train ticket to Budapest. It didn’t cost too much, but I had only half of the money. I said, don’t worry, you have your debit card. You can get the rest from the ATM, or in the worst case, you can used it to make the payment. Well… I was wrong. The first ATM I tried, rejected my card. Don’t know why. Second ATM I tried was out of order. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to check the next ATM, and didn’t remember a closer one, so I said, I’ll pay with the card. Well… tough luck, their POS was out of service also.

Luckily, I could borrow some money from a friend.

Cum sa ajungi la Sziget 2006

Cum vom ajunge acolo?
– plecare 8 august 2006 din gara Timisoara Nord la ora 16:22.
Ajungem la Budapest-Keleti la ora 20:12
– in Budapesta luam metroul/autobuzul + hev-ul pana la insula

Si apoi?
– (ne cumparam bilete,) schimbam biletul pe bratara
– instalam cortul si incepem sa ‘socializam’

De ce trebuie sa platim bilet separat pentru ziua de 8?
– oficial, festivalul incepe in data de 9. Ziua de 8 nu (cred ca)
este considerata zi a festivalului.

Cat costa biletele?
– festival – toata perioada (7 zile) – 120EUR
– festival – o zi – 24EUR
– tren Timisoara-Budapesta-Timisoara – ~130RON
– tren – loc Budapesta-Timisoara ~15RON

Nu vreau sa vin toata saptamana. Eu sunt interesat doar de
Rasmus/Radiohead/Prodigy/...
– poti veni cate zile vrei. Biletul pe zi e 24EUR.

Ce hartoage trebuie sa avem la noi?
– pasaport
– bilet Sziget 2006 (sau cumparam pe loc)
– bani de cheltuiala acolo

Forinti sau euro?
– eu as opta direct pentru forinti (evit schimbul lei-eur-forint).
Din cate stiu eu, legea spune ca trebuie sa ai bani sa te
intretii pentru cate zile stai. Nu stiu sa fie specificat sa fie
obligatoriu EUR.

Bine, dar daca vreau sa merg cu EUR?
– e OK. Poti schimba in Budapesta. Totusi alege o casa de schimb
unde raportul vanzare/cumparare pentru un EUR nu e f. departe
de 1. (Anul trecut in gara era o casa de schimb care avea rata
205/250, iar la 5 minute de gara, o casa cu rata 240/250).
– rata de schimb din gara e cea mai mica (~200HUF pt 1 EUR),
urmata de rata de schimb de pe insula (~220HUF), apoi magazinele
gen Mall (Mammoth, Westend ~230HUF), casa de schimb de langa
gara (~240HUF).

Cata mancare sa ne luam de acasa?
– nu recomand sa mergi cu conservele de acasa decat daca esti
atasat de conserva de ton produsa la Tulcea sau vrei sa faci
conditie fizica. Conservele (si mancarea rece, in general) mai
bine o cumparam din Budapesta, e mai ieftina decat aici.
– poti cumpara si direct de pe insula. Preturile sunt putin mai
mari decat afara.
– daca esti extrem de lenes si ai bani, poti cumpara ‘junk food’
de pe insula.

Dar bautura?
– cat sa nu murim de sete pana la Sziget. Pentru ca nu este
permis accesul pe insula cu nici un fel de bauturi, riscam sa le
lasam la poarta. Gasim tot felul de bauturi pe insula.

Si ‘leacurile’?
– nu recomand accessul cu ‘leacuri’ pe insula. Ca si cu bautura,
gasesti acolo.

Ce preturi sunt acolo?
– 0.5l cola/fanta/... ~ 250HUF
– 0.5 bere ~ 300–350HUF
– un burger ~ 800–1300HUF
– portie mancare chinezeasca/indiana – 1100–1500HUF
– tigari ~ nu stiu (?)

Daca nu pot veni din data de 8 august si ajung in 9 (10,11,12)?
– trimite un mesaj unuia dintre noi, si iti vom stabili o ora
si un loc de intalnire

Si daca nu am telefon mobil?
– e OK. Vom incerca sa trecem aici un punct de reper unde ne
poti gasi. Intri pe insula, faci rost de un pliant al
evenimentului, gasesti cortul de internet, intri aici si
gasesti punctul de reper. Apoi te rogi sa vezi pe unul din noi
acolo sau sa ne gasesti cortul. Mult success. :)

Cine vine?
– eu (Marius), Dan, Emilia, Zsuzsi, Gabriela, Dan-Radu…

Pot veni si eu?
– sigur, hai in 8 august in gara. Sa ai pregatiti banii si
rucsacul.

Ce sa-mi pun in rucsac?
– pasaport
– bani
– bilet Sziget (optional)
– bilet tren dus-intors
– cort
– sac de dormit
– izolir (neopren)
– prosop
– slip
– crema de plaja
– ochelari de soare
– sapun
– spuma + aparat de ras
– sosete
– lenjerie intima
– tricouri
– pantaloni
– bluze
– geaca de ploaie (sa speram ca nu o vom folosi)
– incaltaminte de schimb (daca nu vrei sa porti o singura
pereche toata saptamana)
– tacamuri (cutit/lingura/farfurie)
– cana
– sfoara
– tigari
– lanterna
– aparat foto

Daca uit ceva din lista de mai sus?
– nu-i bai. Cumperi de acolo. Daca ai chef de plimbari, din
Budapesta, daca esti mai lenes, de pe insula.

Cine te-a facut pe tine sef?
– nu sunt seful nimanui. Aceasta lista e planul meu pentru
Sziget 2006. Daca vrei, il poti urma impreuna cu mine.

Bine, bine, daca tot esti sef, ma culegi si pe mine din boscheti
dupa ce beau o bere prea mult?
– nu.

My books from Amazon arrived today. I’ll pick them up after my English class. Yay!!! :D

From the “It’s a small world” series.

Today I’ll write about two colleagues (girls) from work with whom I have 3 different acquaintances, a girl I fancied some time ago and one of my best friends and a guy I sort of know because we have mutual friends.

Adela’s best friend is Ruxi, a girl I met when I was in the second year of University. We actually haven’t gone out together then. It was more a cat (me) and mouse (she) game :).

One of Claudia’s friends is Lacramioara. She went to a New Years Eve several years ago with Daniel. Claudia knows Daniel also.

Claudia also knows Edi (he is Dan’s and Alin’s friend). Claudia and Adela are friends :).

Also, I have to mention Sergiu’s friend (Silviu) who is dating Simona Ungur’s roommate. :)

So, it’s a small small world, after all…

Yesterday I had a spectacular evening with Snej and Cipi. He wanted to scout the salsa school he found out about on Thursday, so I and Snej were companions. I wasn’t impressed by their dancing skills, but he will give them a chance and will attend their classes at Gen. 22. Around 1 o’clock we headed home via Unirii. Neither of us didn’t remember that at that hour we won’t found any terrace open there. If we had thought a bit about this before leaving Yacht Club, the Campus would have became our destination. So after wondering through Unirii Square from terrace to terrace, we had to give up and take a sit on the stone bench. After a few minutes me and Snej went home. Bought a 1l vanilla-caramel ice cream and had a little snack before going to sleep.

Other matter I would like to mention is that Snej cooked an excellent lunch. She made turkey soup for the first dish, turkey roast with potatoes for the second and strawberries as a desert. It was delicious, I tell you.

In the evening, Snej stayed home to learn for her exam and I went to skate. I started around half past twenty and returned home around half past one. A notable thing is that I had lots of energy despise the hot evening it was here. Probably because of the tasty lunch. I made around ten-twenty km at the stadium and ten or twenty in the city. This time, we were seven that started the tour and finished only five. Dana left after we had hit the Campus and Pavel before midnight. Pity that some of us didn’t have very good skates and we were a bit slow. I would like to note that my ex girlfriend, Carmen goes out with Seba. I’m not affected or anything, just to wish them a happy friendship. Another notable thing is that I felt and teared my trousers. If I hadn’t had the earphones in the right pocket, that part wouldn’t be broken now. Though, my earphones are OK, just a little scratch. Except that, I sweated a lot, like at a good sauna, it wasn’t concentrated in fifteen-twenty minutes thought, but over 5 hours…

Today, I spent my evening on skates, like yesterday. We were a few at Dan Paltinisan Stadium, but only two went to do a Saturday Night Skate. Me and Rudi did an ‘old time’ route: Stadion – Complex Studentesc (Campus) – Piata Victoriei – Piata Maria – Piata Sinaia – Gara de Nord – Bv Republicii – Skate Park – Piata Victoriei – Complex – Stadion.

We remembered the last years, when the new skaters came with us on this route, no matter how good they were. Usualy, we stayed at the Stadium one or two hours and then went to that route in 2 or 3 hours (with more then one hour pause at skating park). Nowadays, we only stay at the Stadium and don’t do any routes. Even the shortest one, Stadion – Complex, it’s less and less practiced. We should start convincing the new guys and girls to come with us on this routes. It’s fun!

Skating baby, skating!!

Books I ordered from Amazon:

Lofts books:
Lofts: New Designs for Urban Living by Felicia Eisenberg Molnar
Lofts: Good Ideas (Good Ideas Series) by Aurora Cuito
Lofts DesignSource (DesignSource) by Ana G. Canizares

Geeky books:
Programming Python by Mark Lutz
Python Cookbook by Alex Martelli

Bill Bryson Books:
In a Sunburned Country
Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words : A Writer’s Guide to Getting It Right
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

They should arrive in one month though :(.

Today it’s the 3rd day I commuted to work by bike. This time not from my apartment (15 minutes to walk, 7 minutes by bike at a slow pace), but from Snej’s. That’s 15 minutes by bike, riding faster.

Still have to go to the English course (~10 minutes) and to Real/Selgros/Metro.

I’m thinking to ride to work everyday, even it takes only a few minutes. Though, I have to find a more appropriate way to carry different stuff (notebooks for English class) instead of the actual backpack. I could buy a basket and mount it in the front of the bike or use a smallish messenger bag.

I just have been to Art Cafe for a Saturday night party. It is sort of Hush 2. The DJs are present (Horatiu and Craciun), part of the people are present (Andreea and Teodora, Punk Alina). Even the entrance fee had been the same as it was in Hush (30.000 now).

It was nice to see some familiar faces again, listen to some brit pop music and dance a bit. Had a great time with Przemek and Zsuzsi.

When I came home (around 5 in the morning) the sky have been starting to turn blue.

Also, as a small, note, beside the London like weather (with lots of rains and 15 Celsius degrees), I took a small ride with my bike. Damn it feels good.

I had a lovely time with Przemek, Nicolas and Ciprian at the weekly conversation club held by examplus at the exit bar.

My skates broke :(. Actually, they had broken friday, when I was skating to “Universitatea de Vest”. The ‘smart’, Total Fit System (TFS) closure system, from my Rollerblade’s Aero yielded. The kevlar thread gave up after 2 years of medium-intensive usage.

I could try to replace it with some cotton/silk thread, but I couldn’t be bothered to do it. Instead I’ll buy a new pair of skates.

I have seen a pair of Fila, a few weeks ago at a sport shop near the Botanic Park. I’ll check them this weekend.

Last week I sent a mail to The Shebang’s team from TripleM Brisbane and told them that I’m from Romania, listen to their show and a few more things. Today I got a reply from they telling that my email was mentioned on their show,last Friday. In that mail there was a mp3 with the part of the show when they have read my email.

OK, if you listen to it, you’ll laugh a bit, because just as this blog, is full of grammar mistakes. But let’s forget about this thing and think of the following fact: they actually sent me a record of the part of their show, when I was expecting an generated email saying: Thank you for your feedback, we read them all, bla bla…

It looks like I picked the right country where I want to leave in.

how to rename components in trac:

use trac-admin /path/to/trac/ component list
use trac-admin /path/to/trac/ component rename component1 design
...

How to test your Apache for mod_deflate:

$ telnet server 80 #at command prompt
GET / HTTP/1.0 #after you get Escape character is ’^]’.
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Host: server
#and too enters after the lat command.

If what you get is plain text, you have to keep digging. If the output is "messed up", it works.

(Found on google groups)

3rd place at a small local inline skating contest.

Today I spent more then 7 hours on skate (though efective skating was around 4–5 hours). The previous record was ~6 hours.

Slowly, the skating season begins… Old friends reunite, new friendships are formed. Let’s hope for the best.

Din ciclul de ce vreau sa plec de aici.

Faza, azi la stadion. Un grup de minoritati vindeau seminte in fata intrarii la meci. Un grup de jandarmi se apropie de ei si le cer sa plece. Un ‘domn’ care trecea pe langa ei zice: lasa-i domnle sa traiasca si ei…

No comment.

I found out Bill Bryson – Neither here nor there audiobook. Unfortunately it wasn’t the full version. Just some fragments. I’ll buy the book.

Also I found out that it would be cheaper to buy online books from diverta (versus directly from diverta bookstore).

Ice Age 2 is worth seeing. I liked it as much as the first one. :)

Happy Birthday to Marcel!

Congratulation to Mihai and Mihaela for their kid, Cristian.

i had software issue with my ipod nano. after i played with speed normal/fast when an audiobook was playing (press middle button several times to get there), i got stuck with “speed normal” on menu all the times. when i pressed the middle button, it switched between “speed normal” (a few times per cycle) and audiobook/song picture. i tried a menu reset,connected it to itunes, but it did’t worked. doing a hard reset solved this problem.

to do a hard reset on ipod nano:
1. Toggle hold on.
2. Toggle hold off.
3. Hold down the menu and middle button for a few seconds.
4. The iPod nano should then “reboot” and voila!

Daniel recommended me Rich dad, poor dad by Robert Kiyosaki,Susan Lechter.

It was v. nice to skate on ice, though.

I prefer inline skating to ice skating.

It’s a small small world (again). I met Tiponut Seba’s cousin, Smaranda. She is at the same faculty, in the same year as Brigitte Golban, and her boyfriend was Radu Colibasanu (Horia Colibasanu’s little brother).She skated with Zsuzsi.
Also, I met Laura, from Braila. She studies Geography. She’s a second year student.
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For me, iceskating is not as interesting as inline skating.

UPC baby, UPC!! :)

today i had a great time skating. i’m eager see the skating season starting in march/april.

Do you know how can you have songs with artwork on your iPod nano (or any type of iPod that supports pictures upload) if you are using Linux?

The images displayed when the songs plays are actually stored in song’s id3 tag. Basicly all you have to do is edit mp3s’ tag with easytag and store the desired image in the special field. You can find album artworks on amazon’s site.

Pretty simple, huh?

(Late) Happy New Year!

Happy Birthday! (to me)

last time i drank more then 2 beers was on a Ciao Company’s party, in september (i think). It was last time when Nicolas came to Romania. (I’m talking about September’s visit, when he was representing content team, not now, as a Manager of Interface and Features team. BTW I think he is the younger team member (born in 1980).

talking about “it’s a small world”... today i met Tania, she is a friend of Ioana, both studing Farmacy stuff.

things you can do in a nice, worm autumn day: go to Romanesti Cave to see the concert it is held there every year; go to skate; make a ride with your bike (or bicycle); have a talk with a nice girl sittin on a pile of dead leafs on the side of the road.(?); go out and enjoy the weather, it won’t last.

just had a nice evening with Dan and his friends. It begun in a crowded D’arc and continued in Papillon.

This month inventory: did a lot of work, had to few moments to do things my self (running, repairing my bike, learning new stuff, go to pubs). i discovered a very nice puzzle game – sudoku.

Long time, no see… Most important thins that happened last month: 4 days @ Sziget Festival (Budapest).

i forgot to mention Ornela, a collegue of Simona. :)

made a test with my bike. we made 70km with 2l of gas. it’s a improvement since the last time i estimated a medium consume (~9l/100km). the down part it’s that now the bike doesn’t start so easy.

went to a motorbike festival (wasn’t as nice as i hoped).

Today I made 21 + 4 laps of 400m each in ~ 60 minutes. that’s 10km. a new personal record. I made 10 laps with Ioana (she is a v. sporty girl) and 8 with Maria (she will have her 18 birthday soon).

first thing i would like to brag about it’s the number of laps i did at politchnica’s atheltism stadion… 21×400m = 8.4km (2’30” each lap)

the second it’s a complain… about the small dick men with vw touareg: so now that you ruined my cups do you feal that your balls bigger? will you sleep better tonight? that guy really pissed me off… why do i have to live in such a fucked up country?

now.. about more pleasant things. ioana – resident dentist and floh (florina) student at computer science.

socialized with Alins sister (Ramona) and her friend (Claudia), Cristina and her friends (Alina – blonde cute girl and Andreea – small brunette girl), and Dan Radu Moldovan and Silviu. Oh.. I almost forgot about Silviana and Dana (from AC).

Adriana, nice curly brunette girl with blue eyes and hot lips. She choosed to run at Constructii after she runned 3 years at Stadion.

Angi, blue eyes, Dora – Colegiul Banatean, Andreea and Ioana – nice girls.

Arminda, student at psichology faculty, first year; Cristina, Looking for a job (she finished Foreign languages faculty; MarryAnn, the girl from Texas,US; Adela, the girl from Shakespeare HighSchool, colleague with Bogdan L; Adi, she lives in Dorobantilor. Had a great night, talked with a lot of people, exercised my english (a bit), seen Mihai Zota after 2 years. :)

Had a nice trip to Hateg/Retezat. Spent a weekend relaxing on a quiet place with a lot of green grass and barbeques.

Simona, 2nd sporty girl :)

Larisa :) V. sporty girl.

just had a wonderful night. it begun with a few glasses of wine at Edith, continued with a nice concert in Rozelor (Oranj, Bio, Implant pentru refuz, B.A.U). Drinks at Papillon (near Unirii) then v beautiful evening at Hush. Talked with some girls (Meri,Cristina(?),Ramona and Oana – who needs braces, but it’s to ashamed to wear).

had a v. nice afternoon/evening skating with Dan, Alin, E, Pavel & Corina, Dana and others. I met Brigitte again. (v. nice girl).

frist time on skates for this year. was only 2 hours but was a great evening. went with Pavel, Lavinia, Corina and Rudi on a short trip from Stadion to Complex and then to Operei. We met with Daniel, Seba and Calin. I’m happy that the rollerblading season begun. Yuppie.

happy birthday to sony!

no new girls today.. just talked 2 minutes with Teodora and wished happy birthday to his friend, Andreea (who looks like Gratiela).

it’s clean up time!! today i wrote all my stuff from work to dvd/cd. I had a lot of music (~8G) and some things i worked on (like my site). tomorrow i’ll go to cristi’s party.

i’m still recovering after my last visit to dentist when she had to extract one tooth.

Today i met 2 girls. Andreea (happy 18th birthday) and Toni from tion from gym from Anda’s group…

Some girls from Hush are under 18 years old… so you could have a surprise ala Trainspotting :-). be careful.

i met a new girl. her name is Teodora.

today i finished prince of persia warrior within. my oppinion is that is better then “sands of time”, but if you played the latest, it would be easier with this one.

Happy Brithday to Edith!

A new year. One month after my birthday I will start to keep a record of my actions here (short version). Today I saw a nice movie (Life is a miracle). It’s about the love. After movie I went straight home. Called 2 girls (Ioana and Sorina). Must call people often.

Happy birthday to me! :-).

Daria – nice and funny girl in Inca.
Rodica – the girl with nice hair. She stayed in 1 Medicina.
Raluca (Lulu) – studied ISE. we know eachother…

had a nice night. went to inca (with pavel), then to hush (with carmen, andy and oana) and darc.

So, as far as I remember now: first I went in Inca, i drank 2 beers (used the toilet once), then went to Hush, i drank 2 beers and on vodka + redbull (went to toilet 5 times).

I had a super-super-super-nice night.

Self note: Must tell to Mirel to add more toilets in Hush…

as someone said once: from time to time you have to stop, take a deep breath and say: “now I’m fucked”.

tonight I did that. i asked for a girl’s phone number and i didn’t got it. so from time to time, you have to take a cold shower. :-).

that’s life.

I spent to much money. Must resist. Must resist.

Just had a nice night. Was in ArtCafe with Dan, Alin, Klaus, Edi and Emilia. Klaus has a 5 years old boy. I want a son. Alin wants one too.
@ 3.30 we went to TMbase. There I met a new (Carmen) and old people (Alexandra, Carmen(ISE), Edith, Cris). Have to think if I’ll go tomorrow.

Parerea unui prieten despre soc.culture.romanian:

Subject: soc.culture.romanian.

> On Wednesday 29 September 2004 16:57, you wrote:

> > ?????????

> > stiam ca e un newsgroup de idioti.

> > E mai multa pula pe newsgroup-ul ala decit intr-un film porno

> 

> incepea cat de cat interesant thread-ul.. poate te 

> plictisesti si n-ai ce 

> face :-)

>


daca ma plictisesc in mod sigur nu citesc 

newsgroup-ul ala. Ca parca toti prostii din tara 

asta s-au strins pe newsgroup-ul ala. 

Cred ca nu este injuratura in limba romana pe care 

daca o cauti pe google sa nu-ti 

returneze si newsgroup-ul ala

today i had a bad day… i had some hot discussions @ work… need to think about them, and see what i have to do (or not).

just had the beeeest weekend of 2004. went to Herculane with Roxana.

don’t go in happy club (complex) (or gulliver)

Happy Birtday, Ciprian!

I bought Playboy Magazine. Raluca is hot :-).

Today I was with Pavel @ politehnica stadium to run. I made ~2km (1.2 + 0.8). I will try to run every day (this week, at least).

Consuela has a nice appartment. She is Sony’s newest neighbour.

I learnt to do powerslides.

I drank a beer (Carlsberg).

I’m interested (again) in migrating to Australia.

The night tour (with skates) it’s not so cool anymore… we are few people (me, Pavel, Manu…) and we are pretty borred. We want the old times back :(

I saw Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. It’s trully a shocking movie.

After 100 years I’ve been in a disco. I was in Still Disco (pretty nice), Guliver (sucks) and Happy Club (so and so).

Today I had the exam for Driving Licence. On the written exam I made 21 points (of 26). The minimum were 22, so I have to take the exam again on 13 July. :(. :(. Have to learn more until the next time…

After a month, I’m pretty satisfied about my MD. I recorded various music on discs and I listen to it when I’m going from one place to another.

—MARK—

I found an interesting site. http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/marrius/. I installed a plugin for xmms and now the name of the songs I listen are sent to this site. So you can see here what are the latest tunes I listened. :-) . Neat, isn’t it?

Today we made another inline skaing night trip. This time I wasn’t very happy…My authority was undermined :(. Maybe I’m a bad leader…

I have a MD recorder (sony nf810ck). I’m so happy… :)

This evening we made a new inline skating tour, from 20 evening until 22:30. We played 2 games of darts in Tequilla (Carmen won both). I went to Pavel in a park and had a one and a half hour disscutions about the skating group, life – in general and some unimportant things. Both agree that our group start looking like a soap opera. We need to do something to correct this.
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Today I talked a lot on the phone (over 2 hours).

Another night skating tour. Tonight we were 14–15 persons, Me, Pavel, Carmen, Manu, Cristi, Anda (?), Patrick, Alin, Dana, Iuliana, Roman, Cipi, Andrei, Andreea and Rudi.
The tour was: Stadion, Str Cluj,Lic Vidu, Fac Constructii, Maria, Sinaia, Lic. Ind. Constructii (10 minutes break Cristi and Anda left), Pompieri, Str Resita, Pod Fab Tigari, Gara de Nord, Skate Park (30 minutes break, Rudi left), Str Circumvalatiunii, Parcul Botanic, Libertatii, Pta Victoriei, Etc, Bv V Parvan, Complex(30 min pleskavica break), Stadion(Iuliana, Manu,Cipi, Dana, Patrick and Alin went home), Judetean (Pavel went home), Soarelui(Andreea, Andrei and Carmen went home). I went home with a taxi.
It was a very nice tour, because we were a large group and we had a lot of fun.

Last evening we found a new way to have fun. Little train made by rollers. About 8 persons were part of the train.

New night inline skating tour. Last evening we were 6 people. I, Pavel, Carmen, Andrei, Andreea and Cipi. A short tour Stadion – Complex – Termal – Modex – Pta Victoriei – Skate Park – Catedrala – Etc – Mecanica – Bv V Babes – Str Cluj – Casa Tineretului – Judetean (Pavel went home)- Billa – Soarelui (Carmen, Andrei, Andreea went home) – Billa – Stadion – Complex (Cipi went home) – Pestalozzi – My home.

I was @ vdv camp (http://www.vdvcamp.dap.ro). It was pretty nice. Could have been better or worse. I liked it, thou.

Last night skate tour: Me, Pavel, Carmen and Iuliana. From Stadion (21:30) to Complex – Strandul Termal – Pod – Modex – Centru – Club Cfr – Skate Park (30 minutes pause) – Catedrala – ETc Faculty – Mecanica – Bv V Babes – Str Cluj – Casa Tineretului (Iuliana went home) – Judetean (Pavel went home) – Billa – Soarelui (Carmen went home).
Maybe I’ll make a dedicated session to write night skates tours.

A 2 hours inline skating tour through the city. one of the best tours i ever made. we were 8 people (me, Pavel, Sandra, Alina, Cipi, Rudi, Tina and Manu). Later we met another group (Dana, Andrei, Alain, Patrick). The tour route was: Stadion (21:50) – Str Cluj – ETc Faculty – Pta Maria (22:20) (stayed 20 minutes there) – Gara de Nord (23:00) – Skate-Park (30 minutes pause) – Catedrala – ETc Faculty – Mecanica Fac. – Bv V Babes – Str Cluj – Stadion (00:10). I wish more moments like those I lived today. :)

I saw an intersting and sad movies – “Veronica Guerin” (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312549/). Also Torque (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0329691/) – fast bikes… and Attila (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259127/) – this is a good movie too, must see it.

I’m very exited about the trip I will made at Zizin. More info here: http://www.vdvcamp.dap.ro.

Huray! Back “inline” :). Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening I was on skates again.

I have some problems with the teeth. Next week I’ll be operated to have one of them removed.

I have new skates. Rollerblade Aero 7. Compared with the old ones (Roces Miami) are very fast and very confortable.

Last evening I was on skates :). Second (actually 3rd but the one from Sunday I don’t count it) time this year. It was a 3 hours tour (mostly around Stadion/Complex area).

I made a short a trip to Constanta. I had to talk with Roxana about our past relationship. I took some pictures of the city too.

Yesterday I saw 3 movies.
“Runaway jury ” – interesting movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0313542/);
“What dreams may come” – pretty nice (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120889/);
“Lost in translation” nice too, (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335266/).

If you don’t have plans for one evening, you can try one of this movies.

I saw yesterday evening an interesting Australian movie “Alexandra’s Prokect” (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338706/).
I bought a backpack for my brother. He is going to move (temporarily) to Barcelona.

So few records for the last months. In the winter I spend my time indoor, and I don’t do very special things. Last saw movie was “Sin noticias de Dios” (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284491/).

The changes I made had some effect. Now if you search for my full name on google I’m the first :) (at least i was yesterday).

I’ve visited Corina. It was nice to see (to talk to) her after more then 6 months.
Saturday I met with Lili. Last time I saw her was almost 2 years ago. I’m glad that she is so happy where it is now (Bucharest) and she is proud of herself.

I made some small modifications to my site. In have a few more things to add to site. I hope I’ll find soon some time to do it.

After a long search, I have new blue jeans. Hooray :)

Didn’t slept very much in the last nights, so last morning I wasn’t able to be up @ 7 in the morning. I was 2 hours late at dentist.

I saw LOTR-Return of the king. I liked the movie, but in the cinema room (capitol) was very cold… After the movie, I was at “Time Cafe” again. This time with Carmen. She liked it. Specially the piano, and the guys (the music) that played at piano and at guitar.

3rd day at work after a 2 week christmas holiday. it’s nice to be back.

first of all, merry christmas to all (including me). second happy birthday to me.
on 23 i had my 25th aniversary. i was in d’arc with some friends. it was very nice. once again, happy birthday to me. :)

Back to work after a 2 weeks of sick leave. I saw a lot of movies. And I played “Prince of persia – the sands of time” nice game. I liked it.
I saw “maria”. a nice romanian movies. it had been an appreciated movie.
Yesterday I have been to a coffe in “Time Cafe” (near Unirii). It’s a nice place. To bad that i don’t have a digital camera…

i saw a lot of movies. i recommend “sexo con amor” – spain, bravehart. dogma it’s cute. “freaky friday” it’s a nice comedy :).maybe for the next movies i’ll try to write some reviewes.

since friday i stayed home (i’ll stay 12 more days). i’m sick.

Allright. I’m pissed off. Why? Because there are countless webdesigners that makes webpages without any ideea of “human interface guidelines”. This are some simple rules to follow when you are doing something that you want to be used by people. If you don’t know where to find them try a search on google.com. Try to read one (you might be surprised). I’m not pissed off about the home user’s pages that are made to say “hello” and show his dog pictures, I’m pissed off on connex.ro or other “great” companies that should have better sites. That’s it. connex SUX.