Vali Petcu blog

Laughed so hard on his interview with a local newspaper’s site on how he was so smart on selling and needing new challenges and now he inspires other people. The truth: he sold his business because it was losing money and he was not capable to take it further than good domain names took it. […]

A 17-year old coder is launching a chrome extension to filter out from my personal twitter stream all the references to my favorite shows, so I can’t see the spoilers in case I miss an episode. How it works is I write in the extensions all the tv shows I will probably miss and then […]

People working hard to make money to pay the hospital bills for health issues caused by their work

Never played any game on Facebook or Yahoo. Never liked a game page. And still, 90% of the ads Facebook shows me on my iPhone and iPad are of games. Because, if I never played anything I sure do want to. Flawless Logic.

Dustin Curtis looks back at two ideas he thought were stupid when he heard them and turned out to be great. Happens a lot. Right now a lot of people are thinking the same about Google Glass, but they are not saying it, because it might turn out to be a huge hit, despite being […]

Is what kills me every day. And I think a lot of people are scared of going on their own for the same reasons. Not having a stable salary, not working in a calm market, not working in a professional-filled market. Romanian online was robust for the first trimester, but the outlook is bleak. April […]

One o the things we Romanian lack is the spirit of criticism. In the communist era it was forbidden to criticize, at first the leader and then everybody. University professors were not allowed to express any opinion abut their colleagues academic papers. Factory workers were not allowed to criticize other workers. Firings were rare and […]

There are three important things to note in the past few days. Erich Schmidt from Google saying that by 2020 every human on the planet will be online. Sure, this is not going to happen, and people cited lack of water or electricity, but he is on to something: it is easier to be online […]

The 30s generation had the Great Depression. The 40s had the Second World War. The 50s had to rebuild. The 60s had Freedom and War. The 70s had Rock and Roll. The 80s had Disco and cocaine. The 90s and the 2000s had nothing. And grunge. We have smartphones.

SugarSync is a great tool for file backup and synchronization. Good speed,  multiple computers, 80$ for 60Gb per year. Great. It has its bugs, like the stupid method of "let’s check for a timestamp and upload the file again, before checking for size". And there is one feature I would like: iPhone Camera Roll sync […]