Vali Petcu blog

I like to do things manually on my blogs and use as little plugins i can. If i can use a plugin for two things it’s great. A good example is Auto feature Image plugin i am using for display on the front page of my blog, rss thumbnail and Facebook thumbnail (details here). Here […]

I’ve been involved in the Romanian Internet for over 6 years and during this time I’ve accumulated a lot of information. The least of my favorite part is the personal gossip. People fail to understand that a blogger writing about business decisions is not interested about who is leaving his wife for the secretary and […]

Some of the people I know had misfortunes in the last couple of years: divorce, bankruptcy, company shrinkage, other disappointments. Others  were just fed up with trying to stay in a corrupt and mediocre industry. They choose the safe ground of a job i can’t blame them. I can, whoever, judge what company they decided […]

I consider Dragoş Novac a guy I can learn a lot from, even though he is stubborn and antisocial, two qualities i hold dear. To my disappointment with the Romanian online industry, he told me life has a lot of grey and wisdom comes with age. Maybe i am too young, but i consider respect […]

All of my domains have the same NameServers: ns1.bule.org, ns2.bule.org… Bule.org is a domain name I registered in 2006, along bule.ro just because i liked how it sounds. I sold bule.ro to Orlando some time later, but kept the .org. And moving from one hosting to another (dreamhost, imountain, mediatemple, synco and others), i found […]

…i built a small business having only my father’s name as a door opener and a few hundred dollars. I wanted to prove myself, and to him, i could do it. I sold it to him and his partner two years later and moved on to other things i wanted to do. I read all […]

  Some months ago, a friend asked me what did i think about setting up a small office in Brasov, the city i currently live. He was an online company manager wanting to escape the large costs of having to pay large salaries and rents to employees. And i remembered how Sergiu Biris, the CEO […]

I have some video files that MediaPlayer, my player of choice, does not like. It does not play AC3, he does not like some mov or some xvid files. I’ve tried CineXPlayer and ACEPlayer and they are even dumber. CineXPLayer shuts down when i click on a movie instead of playing it. ACEPlayer freezes when […]

Some time ago i found myself talking with heads of a investment fund looking for opportunities to invest in the Romanian internet. Aside my legendary gloom and discomfort with the way things are going in this industry, we tried to find unconquered niches to exploit (please remember this was a 2010 discussion, some things may […]

“Why do you clean the sidewalk? Why are you working like a chump for others?” It’s not the first time I’ve heard these words. I used to get out in the morning in the winter when i was young and clean the snow from the sidewalk for the flat i was living with my parents. […]