Awesome is spelled with The Planet in the middle
I wrote about the issues at The Planet right at the end of my first month with them. Back then I was wondering what kind of compensation will I get for the downtime. Well, this morning I found the support...
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Where the Hell is Matt?
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo. You might know that I'm not the one to post funny videos or generally embed stuff I haven't created myself into this blog. Except when it's worth it....
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Firefox 3 day
So, today is the big day! The day we'll hopefully set a record... Keep your eyes peeled at the getfirefox.com page. And while waiting for the great download frenzy to start go pledge if you haven't already. I feel that...
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Geosurprises and CDNs
A few days ago, out of sheer geek / webmaster / wannabe server administrator curiosity I installed the Flagfox add-on for Firefox which shows the flag of the country where the server that's hosting the displayed site is located....
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Honey, someone tore our car
BMW's GINA has definitively been the news of the day. I'm still trying to collect my jaw... The way it's "eyes" open near the end of the video gave me some serious goosebumps....
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Keynote frenzy passed
I missed the first hour or so because despite my morning promise I went to a bar to watch that total EPIC FAIL of a match between Romania and France. Boooring. But it seems I haven't lost anything of the...
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Keynote frenzy ahead
Eff the match between Romania and France! It's liveblog refreshing time tonight at 20:00 PM EET when Steve will get on the stage and announce the toys that will get tons of people excited in the coming months. Hey, what...
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Time to cash in
Big time. I've just discovered the following mail in my Junk folder. How could I have missed it!? Such a stellar opportunity! Hi, We've seen your website at http://www.rusiczki.net/blog/... and we love it! We see that your traffic rank is...
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Boom!
Just my luck. One month after I get a dedicated server the data center that's hosting it goes boom. To be more precise: Sunday evening at 4:55 in our H1 data center, electrical gear shorted, creating an explosion and fire...
Short URL of the year
Snipurl just spit out a funny shortened URL: http://snurl.com/2bleh. To bleh... Short URL-s are kind of like CAPTCHA-s, you stumble upon them frequently and once in a while an amusing one comes along. Or to be technically correct: an amusing...
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Baia Sprie from satellite
What you see above is the result of two and a half hours of precise and tiring work. Check it out in original size. But be warned it's 18.5 megabytes and 5000 x 3526 pixels in resolution. The story...
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Winter favorite
Probably one of my favorite photos from the past winter. I remember arriving there late in the afternoon (around 8 PM) and then having a great nightly run on the Icoana slopes....
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Moved. Yes, again...
This time to my own server. And the conclusion is that I'm thinking about ditching Movable Type. Sorry, but yes, I'll have to admit it: it's slow as Hell and it was a real pain installing it - I had...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The end of a (hosting) era
Just got this by e-mail: Hello, This is just an email verification for you that we've now closed your Account as you just requested via our web panel. You will no longer receive any bills from us (unless you kept...
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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...
Easter trip through Maramures
Will return with details and more photos. The one above was shot by Ioana....
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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....
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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...
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Central Europe Rally 2008
Hey, look what we had in Baia Mare. Or around Baia Mare. The Dakar Rally gang racing around... Did anyone knew about it? No. No media attention. Why? Because it was organized by Hungarians, it was held in Maramures...
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The real Balea story - Illustrated!
OK, you've read about us in the newspaper, but now, a week after the whole thing happened and past my birthday, it's time to tell the full uncensored story. Here we go. Hold on, it's going to be a...
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The sad, the bare and the muddy
Told you so. It's so hard to believe that a winter that started at the begining of November and lasted until the end of March actually ended. But we'll have to learn to live with the thought of no...
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29
No. This isn't entry number 29. Neither is the 29th day. Not even 29 months. It's 29 years. Since I'm on this planet. Yey. Happy birthday to me! Update: The Mac-Forums made sure I get their wishes. Btw, it's...
RIP Kurt Vonnegut
I just found out via the eReader newsletter (which I still receive although I don't exactly know why, since I definitely don't have time to read fiction anymore) that Kurt Vonnegut passed away last April. Rather sad news. What can...
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Getting friskier
friskySubscription++; myPayPalBalance--; Even if my PayPal account is in minor pain, I'm looking forward for a summer filled with great music. Mmm, already thinking about those afternoon trips to Bodi Lake. Last year's experience confirms that a chilly swimming session...
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Our 15 minutes of (in)fame
Romanian knowledge is a must. Full of incorrect info and made up quotes, but, well, we're in the newspaper. Joy! Here's a screenshot of the article for eternity. Update: The three photos Ioana took right after the event: one...
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Nikon D60 User's Manual PDF
The User's Manual and the Quick Start Guide, both in English. Because I found the two PDFs after lots of digging I thought I'll make the whole process much easier for other Googlers. Waiting for the cease and desist e-mails...
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Back. Alive.
Actually I'm back since yesterday night but I was waaay too tired to post an update. And now I'm at work, basically burried in stuff to do. If you're really interested you should keep an eye on my Flickr photostream...
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Champagne please
Entry number 500. FIVE HUNDRED. Whoohoo, hurray me! Kitsched! - The worthless yekkings of János Rusiczki - Getting on your nerves since December 2002... I would like to thank my family, my dogs & cats... You know. PS. This milestone...
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Online routable map of Romania
Here it is. Triple wow! First of all I had no idea such a thing existed. Then after the great discovery I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the site / service which is very good. Now I have...
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The end of the local winter season
Webcam image of the the base of the Roata slopes at Cavnic captured a few minutes ago: Depressing. It looks that I was right when I titled the Flickr set containing pictures from last week's Saturday snowboarding session as "Winter...
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Monday morning LCD menace
How do you know it's going to be a great week? The first thing your boss says to you just as you enter the company's door is: "you have a new LCD just unpack it and replace your faulty one"....
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Spam fight reloaded
Got so much stuff to blog about but my energy level is painfully low... Just wanted to note that I was getting tired of all the spam comment notifications that were landing in my mailbox so I installed MT-Akismet. For...
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Moving again - Completed
Tadaaa! Hailing from TotalChoice where everything is nice and zippy fast. Just as I expected. Fully satisfied, thank you. On a side note: is it me or DNS propagation has gotten significantly faster over time? I remember waiting for days...
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Moving again - Update
A follow up to my last entry: I made the payment over at TotalChoice and I changed the nameservers to point to the new host. The DNS propagation waiting game begins... Funnily now that I'm in the process of moving...
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Moving again
I'm on a blogging frenzy! But I'm fed up with Movable Type's sluggishness... And I know without any shadow of doubt that the culprit is not MT, but Dreamhost and their hosting which is anything but dreamy. Nightmarish maybe, but...
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Firefox 3
... is incredibly fast. It looks like the thousand dollar "investment" in this Intel Core 2 Duo rig last February wasn't in vain after all. I can finally browse around without strange second long hangs during which my CPU would...
All WAS well in Spamland
Just a few weeks ago I was bragging about how spamless my blog was. Seriously, MT-Keystrokes kept everything miraculously clean, in the 3 years since I installed it I received a total of maybe 5 spam comment notification e-mails. These...
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Desktop news aggregators > web based news aggregators
I noticed that lately I started preferring desktop feed readers to web based ones. First I discovered that FeedDemon is nowadays free. Then I discovered that NetNewsWire is also free nowadays. Then I discovered that since they're owned by the...
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The automotive pleasures of life
Hey, I have to share this. I just LOVE driving up to my parents house in Baia Sprie after work. I like being alone in the car with my music and my thoughts. I just hope I won't smash into...
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Construction site timelapse
My video. Let me show you it. OK, lolcat language over. :-) First of all I hope my boss won't spank me for revealing sensitive company stuff. As all you see above is happening behind a high fence. And...
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OOXML is now an ISO standard
Bad news of the day. Actually bad news of the yesterday when I found the link on Techmeme, but I couldn't write about it as my blog has been experiencing technical difficulties. You might remember that I touched the issue...
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Hello world 4.1
After some adventures which included almost 24 hours of my individual post pages being offline I managed to upgrade my blog's engine to Movable Type 4.1. Judging from what I saw from the admin up until now it really is...
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Soul. Sold.
I just sold a bunch of text ads scattered through the more popular posts of this blog. 7 posts. $70. My PayPal account will feel better soon but I felt like a fool while pasting the snippets I got in...
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All is well in Spamland
39730 entries. And I delete them periodically! What else can I say than thanks MT-Keystrokes!...
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Free email for all Sneaker Pimps fans
As my new plan of action is to get all my domains under GoDaddy's wing I started out by transferring a client's domain there and extending it by 5 years while I was at it. The good news was that...
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Back on Twitter!
Hey kids, you can follow me again on Twitter. I even update from my mobile phone! Romanian knowledge is a plus....
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Merry Christmas!
And a Happy New Year!...
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The weekend was absolutely amazing
Oh boy, what a weekend it was! I can only wish to have half the fun I've had during this weekend in the weekends that will follow and I promise that I'll be completely satisfied. Saturday we hit "The...
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The weekend is looking good!
Some recent photos from Cavnic. Let's hope it'll last through the weekend. It'll be the first time our C3 will transport the boards and since we didn't yet had the money to get a proper snowboard rack over the car...
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MacAdSensePlus - An AdSense monitoring widget for your Mac's Dashboard
I just released the second public version of this widget which includes a bug fix related to incorrect reporting for weeks spanning 2 months and a debug mode which is turned on by default... But let's start at the...
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Early boarding?
Woohoo, early snow usually means early snowboarding action. And judging by the forecast displayed by the screenshot above it certainly seems like we'll get some action this coming weekend. What can I say? I'm counting the remaining seconds! :)...
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Hello from Africa!
Oh come on, update those databases already! I've been seeing this for months since my provider changed my IP. Since then, according to this widget I keep bumping into on tons of MySpace profiles and some blogs, I've moved...
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Yahoo! Mail booboo
Never - ever saw Yahoo! Mail having an outage before. That's why I marked the occasion with a screenshot. Plus two funny bonuses picked up from the intranet: Study finds working at work improves productivity and 10 types of...
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I still remember the day...
... when my blog used to have PageRank 5. It now stands at a shameful 3. Apparently there are no reasons to panic. And what to do with all the money gained from selling those Google shares? Invest in Apple!...
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Techno Viking FTW!
Oh boy, our (as in Ioana's and mine) tummies still hurt for all that laughing. So I thought I'd share... If you've ever been to a rave or have seen a techno parade passing by do check out the Techno...
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The Mac update #1
Hopefully this will be the first of a series written by a recent switcher... :) I've installed the Perian extension for movies right after I reinstalled OSX but the sound was desynchronized in several movies so I got rid of...
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Time for a switch?
Since last Thursday (that's exactly one week ago) I'm the proud (half) owner of a 13" white MacBook. I know the above declaration will make some people reading this blog "proud" of me but believe me, I'm really proud of...
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Good (PayPal) news everyone!
Cristi Mezei (who's domain seems to have expired) sent me an IM notice yesterday containing some great news, namely that one can now receive and withdraw payments to / from a PayPal account opened from Romania. Withdrawal only works with...
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Help me grow a (virtual) forest
By clicking this link... Update: Close to 100 leaves now. Help me make it! Clickity click click! :)...
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Romania does it again
Just read this on Lucian Savluc's blog: I just found from one of the ROSI members (Laurentiu Buzdugan), that Romanian Standard Association (ASRO) was one of the few countries representatives who approved without any comments the Microsoft OOXML proposal! (For...
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Follow me
I had an idea and I took a bunch of pictures on my way to work. Here's the result. Don't expect anything artsy. What you should expect is a virtual walk through Baia Mare. Just like being there. Oh,...
Pownce invites
Want Pownce? Leave a comment providing a valid e-mail where you want the invitation to be sent....
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Act fast!
Yeah, I bet the domain sharks are stepping on each others toes to grab this easy to remember domain name. How could they have missed it? In other news: I just renewed this domain. You won't be getting rid...
Experimenting with cliches
My first pseudo-lomo experiment. I liked this photo since the moment I shot it sometime in 2005 but somehow something was missing. Now I feel that I replaced that missing something in Photoshop. I know it's a cheap and...
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Is there an F3 button in life?
I can't find my brand new 4 gig SanDisk flash drive and I'm desperately searching for it for a few days now. I'm quite upset because I don't usually loose stuff but it looks like this time I did it....
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Spam from the future
The fight for the top spot of my Bulk folder rages on! Hilarious!...
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After Borat, the flood
I'm afraid to embed because as we all know video sites passionately delete music videos but you can search Daily Motion, YouTube or even the big G for Simian Mobile Disco's song "I believe". And I happen to think that...
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Countries of the world
At least according to Apple... Bring on the inferiority complex for more than half of the planet....
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Twit... Beeeep
I just deleted my Twitter account. It was getting on my nerves....
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Today is a day for celebration
Paypal is finally available in Romania. While this is great news for all those wannabe eBay users, those who wanted a Pro account on Flickr and many others, there's a down side: PayPal accounts opened in this country or region...
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Yes, I'm alive
Mostly busy. When I'm not, "I'm going places"© with Ioana....
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Even more speeeeeed!
I haven't really gotten used to the 1 Mbps goodness available all day and would you look at that! Yesterday after a friend's hint I reset my modem and when it rebooted there I was, riding my shiny new...
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The Knife - Pass This On
If you're a reader of this blog you might have noticed that I'm not the one to post copy-paste videos. But when I happen to stumble upon something this cool I just can't help myself. As a side note:...
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PlayStation2 network adapter wanted
Anyone got one for sale? I can't find any (and I've looked and searched hard) and "experts" told me they're nearly impossible to get by now. I still have some hope though. My PS2 has been laying uselessly for...
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The masterpiece is (almost) complete!
I haven't written any updates about the hardware situation around here. Although a lot has changed. But it's never too late... To make it short at the beginning of February I received the missing puzzle pieces from my new...
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The great Dreamhost bandwidth test
My last post is kind of an experiment as that one image made an absolutely huge traffic back on Deea's blog before we took it down in a hurry fearing the huge extra bandwidth usage bill from Media Temple that...
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O RLY?
Animated GIF version. 81 frames of classic owl fun. Credits belong to the original author(s). Want more?...
roblogfest 2007
In a nutshell: I shamelessly nominated myself for two categories, didn't vote for self, actually didn't vote at all, came in 60th for the most informative blog with one negligible vote and 26th for the best designed blog with 7...
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How to find the username associated with a given UID
In Unix based systems, obviously... I was curious one day to find where do some of the queued e-mail messages on a server originate from and since qmail only outputs something like "qmail x invoked by uid y" (where x...
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Code Monkey not crazy, just proud
I found this song by listening to net@nite (with Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur) and I must say it's one good dose of fun. Not to mention how catchy the tune and true the lyrics are. I quickly passed it...
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They can't complain now
Luci gives spammers a chance to express themselves. But there's a funny catch. So funny that I didn't get it at first... :)...
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(Snowboard) movie time
This was yesterday. And yes, I know still own you a bunch of snowboard reports......
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More news from the RDS planet
It looks like upload is now 512 kbps. That's double the old limit of 256 kbps. A much welcomed change as I don't have to wait AGES to send something to somebody or to upload a site or whatnot. Wow,...
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Offering 1 (one) Joost invite
Leave a comment. I need need your first and last name plus e-mail. First come, first served. Hurry! Oh, and don't bother asking if you don't have at least a 1 megabit broadband connection. Update: And we have a winner....
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Seb - February 2007 Promo Mix
Shake your ass to this: Tracklist (for my image blind friend, Google): 01. Phonique - What I Fake (Sleeper Thief Remix) [Souvenir Music] 02. Thomas schumacher - Take Me Out [Spiel-Zeug Schallplatten] 03. Sono - Whatever (Martinez Remix) [PIAS] 04....
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Snow(board) report for the first weekend of February 2007
Yeah - yeah, I know it's already Thursday but better later than never, right? Plus, it looks like I won't be reporting about anything this weekend because sadly it's been raining almost constantly since yesterday. And it melted away...
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Adieu Snap previews
I silently sneaked them in a while ago but they turned out to be more of an annoyance than a feature. So they're out. I just hope I deleted the relevant JavaScript snippet from all my templates. If you're annoyed...
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Romania's most retarded spam
I wanted to post about this at one time and then forgot all about it, but it looks like it's too late now as Marius beat me to it. And what's more, he offers an in depth analysis of the...
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Cavnic - 3 years later
As yesterday night I barely had the energy to upload a few photos to Flickr (one of which you can see above) the promised review for this season's real opener was postponed for today. Here it comes... I first...
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The weather as it should be
At least as it should be around this time of the year. Ioana said that everybody was talking about the TV showing that it snowed a lot up on the slopes at Cavnic and people invaded the one track...
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5 things you didn't know about me
Here we go: I figured out how cars' direction works when I was around 6. And this without actually seeing one. A true technical prodigy, hehe.First "serious" girlfriend at 25. We're still together and we have no plans of breaking...
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Still going fast
As an update to yesterday's entry, I should report that it looks like the speed is stable. And that means that I'm really getting what I've been paying for since half a year or so. My CableLink connection really works...
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Speeed!
Hey! What is this? What's happening!? Am I really downloading with one megabit per second? And it's not 6 PM! It's not even the weekend! The service is working as advertised! I am actually getting what I'm paying for! Wow!!!...
SQL Dump File Splitter
Scenario: You are a conscious user and you back up your site's database every once in a while. And you sit smiling and content knowing that your precious data is safe. Just to discover after disaster strikes that you can't...
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Need for hardware upgrade painfully felt...
My computer's performance lately strongly reminds me of the first generation Pentium days when viewing more than one web page at once was something that closely resembled a kamikaze mission. Actually if I give it a second thought it wasn't...
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Languages and questions
Reading the first blog entries I wrote back in 2001 (wow, it really seems that was centuries ago) I realized that my English level was basically the same back then as it is now. And that brought up the question:...
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Ego search this!
I mean this (click on the image for the bigger version): It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside to know that in Google's opinion I'm the 6th János on the planet. As in János the Hungarian equivalent of...
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El grande year end recap
OK, so if you read this blog you might wonder what the hell happened after I posted that entry saying that I'm going after my Mum in my first longer driving session... It was fun going there, at least the...
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Beatport's support department sucks ass
I sent them an e-mail complaining that none of my debit cards are accepted for payment on December the 7th, they replied requesting some data about the card and the bank that issued it, which I quickly provided and since...
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Merry Christmas!
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Hospitals and surprise travels
Tuesday morning I went with my Mum to Cluj for a planned hospitalization. Heart problems. I'm obviously not too good with medical terms but to make the long story short she had a "quiet" heart attack this summer. Quiet because...
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EARTHQUAKE!!!
Wow, I don't really want to feel this again. Ever. In my life....
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A shitty week ahead
5:41 AM says this entry's time stamp... And I'm getting ready to go to Cluj-Napoca with my mum. Reason: she needs heart surgery. I'm staying until tomorrow and then I'm going back to get her home on Friday. What joyful...
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Flickr goodness
Just a quick note: I've uploaded a bunch of photos taken yesterday and today to my Flickr page. Check them out. It's been an exhausting day and for the moment I'm too tired to write anything else. I'll be...
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Check disk headaches
"Inserting an index entry into index $0 of file 25" - the message I feared for a week... I don't know what happened but my storage drive (a 400 Gig Western Digital formatted as NTFS) attached via USB came up...
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Borat - On location
Pro TV revisits the "set" of Borat, a poor village in Dambovita county. Hilarity ensues. Again. Check out the news piece and the unedited web exclusives. Of course, knowing Romanian will help a lot... :-) Update: The plot thickens. If...
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Kids these days...
Visiting Alex's blog to leave a comment on his recent skiing adventures (or lack of) I noticed the header which currently looks something like this: OK. Challenge accepted. Done! :-)...
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First snow = First snowboarding trip
Yesterday night while we were drinking a cool beer or two in the recently reconditioned Scottish Pub it started snowing outside. And when I say it started snowing, I mean heavily. When we got out of the pub we...
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What? Offline Google Talk messages?
Wow, it's actually becoming usable. Well, that's a bit of an exaggerated statement because to be honest this was the only feature I was missing (badly). So now even if I shut down Yahoo! Messenger I can still sit around...
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Finally!
I succeeded. I took my driver's license today! (Insert applause here.) And it was about time considering that I started the school sometime in the second half of August. I still can't believe it's over! It looks like all that...
Keep those fingers crossed
Yep. Stage 2. The driving test itself....
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How familiar
Nagy Zsolt, Romania's Communications and Information Technology minister starts a personal blog (you know, as in a personal blog where you plan to talk about what you're doing, the places you've visited and what's your son's opinion about all this)...
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One small step for man...
Oh boy... Phew! For those of you who were holding their breaths after the suspenseful ending of my last post I have announcement to make: I have half of my driving license. Damn! When I left the room I thought...
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Fingers crossed
The big day is here. October the 30th 2007, 11:30 is when my driver's license test starts. Please wish me luck and keep your fingers crossed....
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Band of the week
Ladies and gentlemen: Shiny Toy Guns. I first heard "Don't Cry Out" in a snowboard video a while ago but without knowing what I'm listening to. So, yesterday when Ioana was browsing MySpace (but sssh!, don't tell anyone, because MySpace...
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YouBoring
I wanted to put up a joke post a few days ago when YouTube was down for maintainance with something like: "Hey look, they're deleting yet more videos". But it turns out it wouldn't have been a joke at all...
Hike of the summer
I've just uploaded a bunch of photos shot during the most enjoyable hike of the summer when we (je, Ioana and 2 friends who you'll see climbing) visited a nearby rock formation - the Rooster's Crest. Although it was...
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Fudge - Bipolar EP
I rarely write about music lately but this time I just have to. I first heard this tune in a Traxsource mix by John Cutler back in August, and almost instantly I fell in love with it and the craving...
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Today's originality award...
... is awarded to Spatiul Meu. For my occasional non-Romanian readers that means (literally!) My Space. Yet another original Romanian product to be proud of. Not....
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Banning the Turkish spammers from your Aardvark Topsites
I knew something weird was going on when my client's dedicated server slowed down considerably and a rather large forum he was hosting on it started throwing MySQL errors that were landing frequently in my Yahoo! inbox. So I headed...
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From the blue frog to the micro
Yep. This morning after reading a review on Wired I gave in and installed µTorrent. My old friend, Azureus remains installed but from the looks of it not for long. Because after ignoring my work colleague's continuing raving recommendations and...
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Maximum frustration
Since I moved back home my computer suddenly started acting strangely. First of all there are the random resets while writing CDs / DVDs which yield lots of (almost) blanks thrown directly in the garbage - not too pleasant for...
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Not so happy with DreamHost nowadays
You might remember that I've been raving about DreamHost right after I was kicked out from Total Choice but my enthusiasm dimmed a lot lately. The features and their pricing are indeed nice and attractive, however... What I noticed besides...
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Where the fun lies
Techno Tuesday on the Fabrica Blog. Warning! High geekness level required to understand all the jokes. Hmmm, I sure had a lot of fun even if I missed the meaning of one or two. And I'll subscribe right now. To...
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Nokia 6070 - USB infrared dongle - Now best buddies
I surprised Ioana today with a shiny new Nokia 6070. Yep, I'm a nice guy... :-) Obviously one of the first things I tried after putting my paws on the phone (hehe - there was a new gadget in...
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Google Double-U-Tee-Ef
I did a site: search on Google for my wooden products trading site to see what's the indexed page count and look what the great G showed me. Can anyone explain? And as of writing this it's a reproductible "thing"....
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The last day...
For me as an employee at SoftZone. This means cookies and soda for everyone there and yup folks, I'm moving back home to be a 1337 freelancer again. Actually not so elite and not so freelancer but please don't be...
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Stairs from a blue lake
Yesterday, right after work I went up to Baia Sprie and after fetching some food I took a short walk in the woods on the hill above my house. The walk turned out truly refreshing, and check out what...
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VOB to MPG - The easiest method
After wasting a few precious hours wading through forums and worthless shareware sites (all promoting the same 4 or 5 applications) I finally found the easiest method to convert VOBs recorded by a DVD camera into MPGs that are recognized...
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Busy bee
This entry's title could explain the lack of posts lately. I'm on overdrive mode at work, working at home on private projects, trying to squeeze in some sleep and a little PS2......
Rally photos (again)
Been to the Siromex Rally yesterday, shoot a bunch of pictures and here's a "best of" selected and cropped just for you, my faithful readers (and for the rest of the Internet for that matter). This is a funny...
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The wonders of the Universe
Why is the catering company that brings food to my workplace every day called 'Aramis Games'? 'Aramis' the musketeer may pass, but 'games'? Are they playing games with our food? I sure hope they aren't! But this is Baia Mare,...
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Almost exclusive!
Wow, I'm kind of switching over to tabloid style but this time it's worth it... Yesterday I was working to set up Windows on my boss' new laptop (with all the headaches associated with the fact that there's no SATA...
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Pretyy, sexy, with music culture
Here's another fine tutorial and today's topic is: how to become the laughing stock of a respected dance music forum in a few easy steps. Performed by one of our fellow countrymen in the authentic Romanian way. Brainless Romanian way,...
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Comments fixed
My appologies to those who tried to comment since my grande return but it looks like I forgot to set some permissions right. I was a bit suspicious seeing that nothing is coming in but I was not suspicious enough...
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Good bye dear e-mail address
I just received an e-mail with the subject "REALITATEA TV SELECTS JUMPTV AS EXCLUSIVE INTERNET DISTRIBUTION PARTNER" (sorry for the caps, but this is exactly what I got) coming from pr8@kcsa.com (here's their site). Of course I never requested to...
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YAB
As in Yet Another Birthday. It came and went as it always does and here I am one year older. If it's the number you're curious about, check out the about page (at least my site will get some traffic...
I guess I'll be forced
I just discovered that I have no bottled water in the house. But just as I was about to start cursing I found a can of Stella in the fridge. Oh well, since I have no choice... Cheers!...
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Branding Romania
You might have asked yourself: "What is this Flickr site I heard of good for?" Well now you have the answer: it's perfect to show the world Romania's rich cultural heritage from a German perspective. Please do kill me now....
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I'm so back!
Thought you got rid of me? You were so wrong! :-) The story goes like this: I got myself a hosting at Total Choice a while ago right when I bought rusiczki.net. If I give it a thought and with...
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The LCD saga ends
[ Context: one and two. ] In fact it ended last Wednesday around noon but I had no time to post about it. Long story short: after a near nervous breakdown on Tuesday generated by one Ultra PRO employe's...
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Joke of the day
"A statistician, who refused to fly after reading of the alarmingly high probability that there will be a bomb on any given plane, realized that the probability of there being two bombs on any given flight is very low. Now,...
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Technically frustrated
Well, I decided which LCD to buy: the Samsung 913N. And I was intending to get it from eMag when a friend intercepted me and said: "Hey, why don't you buy it from the local Ultra PRO store at a...
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egoSurf
2931 and 3429 points. Check it out or read more about it. It's fun....
Latest site updates
Approximately at the time I did those Flickr compatibility tweaks I decided to mess up my so called "permanent links" after almost 2 years of, well, permanency. I was annoyed by the fact that my URLs ended in .php -...
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About podcasts and vidcasts
It's almost something usual and it's actually considered normal that after something (read: a trend) becomes outdated and boring elsewhere (read: mostly over the ocean) it catches on and gets overhyped in our beloved little country as something new...
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Kitsched dot com
You can now go to kitsched.com and you'll be redirected to my blog's index page. You may ask: but why János, why? Well, first of all Kitsched is a bit easier to remember than my last name and I just...
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LCD suggestions anyone?
My Hansol 710D is slowly waving its goodbyes. I bought it a few years ago following a friend's advice but I wasn't ever satisfied with this piece of hardware due to the audible noise it makes while displaying bright images...
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Layout updates
I finally had time to finish tweaking my blog's layout. The main goal was to make it fully Flickr compatible, and that means making the content column able to accomodate a "standard" Flickr photo. I actually accomplished this a while...
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Of course it's cheap
I think they've really rushed it back at the Profi offices this year and they did it! They've got the catalogue out in time. Unfortunately though, there was no time to proof read it. Now who's going to buy...
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Santa came early this year
Oh... and did I mention the fact that I'm happy!?...
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Orange doesn't want to sell
Yesterday morning after paying my electricity and gas bills I headed to the Orange shop because I intend to get my mother a new phone for Christmas. I was thinking about the Nokia 6030 (pictured here) because it's a...
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It's here!
(Can you spot the thin white coating on everything?) Even if it's probably just a "preview". Even if this round will go away and we'll have about a month of bone crunching pure cold without any snow. Must concentrate...
Days of silence
One of the earplugs of my trusty 4 year old Philips earphones gave in less than a week ago... Since then, no more iPod music... No more podcasts... No more relief during walking to and from my girlfriend or during...
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Google dissappoints for the first time
Well, it's a bit far fetched to say that I'm dissappointed. But it's a well known fact that when Google launches something new web geeks and early adopters jump on it like it's pure gold or the sweetest candy...
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Chuky is getting better
Story: He was hit by a taxi which broke his leg right in front of my girlfriend's brother one night a while ago. They took him to the vet and since the original owner didn't show up they got...
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Yet another disappointment
As I was saying in an earlier post I was thinking about getting myself a Pro account on Flickr. Heck, I was even thinking about surprising a good friend who happens to be a big photo enthusiast by sponsoring him...
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Show me the money
You can find out your blog's value too. Via Deea....
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Make Flickr work with your Movable Type blog
I've been having problems getting Flickr to work with this blog (the 'Blog This' button in Flickr to be more precise) but I finally managed to solve the issue. This is for everybody who upgraded from an earlier version of...
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TM05Base around the corner
Yep, here it is ladies and gentlemen: the promo in high (3 MB) and low (900 kB) quality (QuickTime is a must). Take your pick. Plus there's the mini site dedicated to the festival which is choc full of...
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eBay buys Skype
Oh, the wonders of the Internet! I was digging through my stats and I saw a few hits coming from Cristi Streng's link page. Opening that page I saw two things: a link to my previous post marked with a...
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Tutorial - How to scam on eBay...
READ THIS FIRST: All you wannabe hackers / crackers / scammers / carders / whatever: in case you can't figure it out with that Einsteinian brain of yours this is an ANTI ARTICLE. And if you came here to actually...
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RDS still sucks
OK. So here's a fact: I'm an RDS subscriber and I'm paying for the highest possible subscription available for the grand public and that's the $19 priced "Unlimited" flavour as listed on their randomly online homepage. In fact lately all...
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I'm randomly alive
Stuff worth mentioning (in no particular order, as usual): This entry is being posted using the shiny new Movable Type 3.2 and the coluorful background of the site is now officially back after two months of mourning - hit refresh...
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Windows reinstall
After a almost 2 years... It was time for a fresh Windows install. Mostly because my svchost.exe would take on some power rides during which it would eat 99% of the CPU. And I can tell you that this is...
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Leila
August 5, 1994 - June 26, 2005. She will be dearly missed. RIP....
Romania from satellite
This is ultra cool! Google Maps now features satellite images for Romania! Here's Baia Mare and Baia Sprie. And that's just the start. Too bad I can't see the slopes at Mogosa because of the clouds... Wow wow wow! This...
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The trustable Romanian web
This morning we were rejoicing - - but a few hours later - Note that okazii.ro is the Romanian equivalent of Ebay....
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On social networking
Kit asked in his latest entry about his reader's opinions regarding social networking and I thought the subject was worth a post in my own blog. So here are my purely technical 2 cents. Wait! Wasn't this entry about social...
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RDS Baia Mare sucks
Yesterday I was home in my (extended) lunch break and as I was downloading something right before my eyes the speed went up to something around 90kB/s. What the!? It stayed there for a few minutes, the files were flowing...
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A unique entry
Notice that this entry was posted on 05-05-05 at 05:05:05. And notice that the calendars will show 05-05-05 again in exactly 100 years. Also notice that today is thursday which is the 5th day of the week. This combination will...
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A bit depressed
Yesterday I met with some ex-collegues from the company I worked at during the year of 2001 and I realized that everybody is in a better financial state than I am currently. I can only blame myself for this because...
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Biking around the town
Finally some activity today! I mean physical activity, because since the snow went away I haven't done anything that required muscles and actual physical effort. Ioana had a great ideea today: she pulled out two bikes (her's and her brother's)...
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Blogging in Baia Mare
Well, well, well... What do you know? For a while me, myself and I was the only one I knew (isn't that a bit selfish?) that was blogging from this God forsaken city. In fact for a while I was...
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Living with mad men
If anyone could trace or knows the forum where this guy initially posted these memories (in Romanian) and would share the URL with me I would be sooo glad! Basically it's a 34 page MS Word document with recollections about...
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Hey, look what I stepped on!
OK, I admit this was staged. But I think I'll print the "alternative campaign's" sticker soon and I might even post it in my window because this damn campaign is really starting to drive me nuts. I'm far fro