Vali Petcu blog

Look at how Michael Arrington worked for 5 years, until TechCrunch became a hit.

Reading this left me with a strange feeling. I knew the same idea was being implemented by a romanian company under the name AdCaptcher for some time. Could it be the same company? I asked around, and it turns out it isn’t. It’s just the same idea made public by an american company.

Last weekend, i had a high school meeting. It’s been 12 years since i finished it and 18 of us met to exchange memories and pleasant times. I was shocked to see one of the most beautiful girls from my class with her face half paralyzed. She had some complications with the birth of her […]

This is one of my favorite movie scenes. Some weeks ago, a company gave up the banner they had displayed on my site. Even thought they were selling through it, they said the price is too high for them. I said ok and we parted friends. Some time after, they came back, asking for their […]

“How to Web” is a new conference taking place in Bucharest sometime soon. Looking at the team in charge of the event, i couldn’t help notice some of the little lies. For example, Raluca Georgescu created “Raluk.ro, one of the most important local entertainment websites”. I never heard of it until yesterday, and i spend […]

In the begining there was Internet Explorer. The fact that all spyware was directed to it made Firefox gain 10-20% marketshare. Inserting the search box on the top right of the browser made Google the king of search.

It doesn’t. It’s just put back into its place. Bogdan Naumovici, famous advertising man, explained the reason the print and TV dies in one question: why pay 7 Euros for something that it’s not worth that much? Recent years has shown us the results can be the same with 10% of the money invested. So […]

I am a bit dissapointed by the technology around me. I was expecting a little bit more out of the gadgets i own. my car cd-player broke down, after bumping in a hole in the road. roads in Romania are faulty and my cd-player jumps every time i find a rough spot in the road. […]

Edit version.php in wp-includes $wp_version = ‘2.9.3’; $wp_version = ‘3.0.1’; This way it will not display that annoying announcement asking for updates. And don’t forget never to update to 3.0. Wait for 3.0.1 or 3.1.

This is basically what is going on in Romania right now. Nobody knows what to do, so they raised the VAT with 5% (now it’s 24), because this measure will, of course, bring more money to the state budget. But it won’t. What will do is make us poorer. I am still amazed that nobody […]