May 15, 2008
Two spots for a mayor candidate
Oh and talking about professionalism... Watching the videos below (made for one of Baia Mare's mayor candidates) will make you hurt. I guarantee it.
The spots were created by an advertising agency from Cluj. I'm sorry but I refuse to link reta... Uhm, I mean, professionals.
I'm sure as hell not going to vote as I'm way too fed up with these leeches. It is my belief that it doesn't matter who gets in the chair, he'll be just as corrupt as the current one, he'll steal just as much and it'll be all the same for the average citizen. So, thanks but no thanks.
Update: I open Hotnews following some random link I've received via IM and what do I see? This. Heeelp! They're everywhere!
tinyurl.com became so tiny it's inaccessible
The professionals that provide us Internet at work, namely IPN, have some lame filters installed which went rogue and now deny access to random sites. My biggest gripe for the moment is the blockage of tinyurl.com which means twittering in the short breaks I have becomes rapidly frustrating as no links can be accessed. And no, they're not productivy boosting filters, as for a while Mozilla's download site was blocked too. That meant Firefox updates were performed by bringing the browser's setup file on a USB stick from home. Or transferring it via box.net. And that's how I know the filters are out of control, because obviously we called them about this issue and they said they're aware of it but have no idea what to do. Professionals, as I said.
May 12, 2008
Backup - Coming to a Mac near me
Good news day.
1. First and most important: I've got a raise. Whooo. A raise is always excellent news.
2. A replacement arrived for the 400 gig hard drive that flew away to the ethernal bit fields with most of my music archive on it a few months ago. Oh, how happy I was about that incident. Not. I tried to avoid thinking about it as much as I could but these weeks I was in the mood to listen to a specific style of which I had several gigs of MP3s on that drive. Bad luck.
Anyway, back to the good news: I'll have a spanking new hard drive ready for action! The plan is to put it into my desktop PC bringing the number of drives installed up to three. Hmmm, let's brag a bit. Desktop PC: 320 GB + 500 GB + 400 GB (the newcomer) = 1,12 TB! Wow. 500 GB Western Digital My Book World Edition that sits near my router tied into the network. Two 80 GB drives of which one is installed into my PlayStation 2 and one is in a portable USB enclosure. The one in the USB enclosure will be used for Time Machine backups from now on... 60 GB hard in my MacBook.
And I remember the moment in the autumn of 1998 when I decided to get a 4 GB hard drive thinking that it'll last me, like, forever.
May 11, 2008
Le Cafe and others
Plus lyrics for those (like me) who understand written French better.
Friday evening after a reminder and invitation from a friend we went and attended 'Très Court', a short film festival. "Movies" of up to 3 minutes (titles and credits did not count) were presented, most of them funny and some weird and / or artsy. The one above was probably my favorite of the 51 even though I voted for another clip in the respective section. The fest in it's whole was a lot of fun.
Here are some more favorite shorts I found over the Net: Duel by Antoine Revel-Mouroz, Things fall apart by R. Chiu / C. Hewitt (impressive sound design), My Mum the Wrestler by Mark Withers, Cat man do by Simon Tofield, Butterfly by Stéphane Levallois (very very nice) and Flash by Marco Cohen. Enjoy them while you can (until the video sites decide to pull them, that is).
Kings and princesses
I must confess. I'm among the growing fan base of pitzipoanca.org and cocalari.com. Emphasis on the first one (I've been genuinely sad when the blog got disabled on wordpress.com - hurray for the return on their own domain). Human stupidity and bad taste at their max can be a good source of daily laughs. Even if they more or less directly affect us. Discovered via the almighty zoso.
May 10, 2008
The end of a (hosting) era
Just got this by e-mail:
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You will no longer receive any bills from us (unless you kept an active domain _registration_ with us) nor other communications.
We're very sorry it didn't work out and maybe we'll see you again someday!
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The UnHappy DreamHost Goodbye Team
I'm over at The Planet on my shiny dedicate server. Which costs more per month than DreamHost cost per year, but the quality...
April 30, 2008
Mactop
After putting my paws on a Mini-DVI to VGA adapter today this is the first post edited using my 19" Samsung LCD as a display as well as an external keyboard and mouse. And it feels damn nice. My MacBook just turned into a desktop computer. Yey!
April 28, 2008
Easter trip through Maramures
Will return with details and more photos. The one above was shot by Ioana.
April 25, 2008
Album of the now
Album of the week even.
Portishead - Third.
You can stream the whole album for free on last.fm. Yeeey. I'm in the process of listening to it for the first time and I definitely like what I'm hearing. A lot.
Official release: April 28, 2008. Hmmm, might even order it as a CD.
Update: It seems that I've caught what were the last hours of the full streaming album. All you can listen now are 30 second samples. Too bad.
April 24, 2008
My very own one page site
Ladies and gentleman: clicktrackheart.com. Now with EPIC content!
Read about how I got the domain. And look how amazed I was when I saw one of these sites back in 2003. The link in that post is dead, by the way, it leads to some junk site.