April 30, 2005
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 bloggin' from Baia Sprie (even more God forsaken). And now, look! There are a myriad of weblogs based in Baia Mare (and powered by Blogger) and as I understand there was even a conference and a workshop held one of these weeks at UBM (North University of Baia Mare) about blogging. The (main) speaker was Gabriela Avram of Prinsea, RoBlogs and Gabrielia fame and the organizer was professor Mircea Lobontiu. It looks like this world is truly small, but I'm still sad I heard / read nothing about the event before it actually happened and as such I couldn't attend. Well, that's what happens when you ignore the FeedDemon icon on your desktop for weeks...
Anyway: go, go, go Baia Mare!
April 29, 2005
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 sharing an appartment with a mad man. And when I say 'mad' I mean proper mad, with the "red stripe" and everything. The author has a really nice writing style that reminds me of, well, Ion Creanga and reading the .doc entertained me for almost a whole afternoon. I Googled text parts and everything but found nothing and I'm intrigued because maybe he posted new chapters as in the last message / chapter he says something about the year's end...
I found the .doc browsing the RLUG's (Romanian Linux Users Group) humor list archives.
UPDATE Thanks to Vlad (Bits of Reality) I now have the URL of the original forum thread where the stories contained in the .doc were posted and so I can keep an eye out for any new "episodes". Muchos gracias!