Vali Petcu blog

mobile.de, one of the most famous german auto market sites jsut had a facelift. From a simple site to a web2.0 design.

How do you tell an Englishman that you do not speak German on the streets of Berlin? In French, of course.

If you look at digg.com, you cannot overlook the amount of bullshit on the front page. So, hearing that it raised another millions for whatever is pointless. That is not news, it’s PR. Digg will be a story when they will sell the site. Otherwise, it’s just a stupid site with stupid voters (do I […]

Took me half an hour to rent a car. No sites, no usability, no English, no cars, no car details… How do you want to rent a car to foreigners if you do not have a website in English? And why do you send me the order details in German?

I like WLW. It’s among the few Microsoft products I really enjoy using (along with windows xp and movie maker). Recently, they’ve updated it. And not in a good way. I remember the times Microsoft office started. It was basic and easy to use. Now it resembles adobe acrobat reader, full of features and a […]

I hate it when websites detect my IP and display the site in German. A language I yet do not master. So I must look for the language changer and change it back to English. It was nice when i was back in Romania, most international sites did not have a Romanian version, so english […]

Stefan Iordache, one of the greatest Romanian actors died today. It’s sad that in the last years of his life, he did not enjoy a peaceful vacation, having to keep working in order to support himself.

I got some links with German bloggers linking to this post of mine about “Blogging in Germany and America”. I needed a translator to understand they agreed with me that the conference was not so nice. I got a feeling I was back home in Romania when i heard the guys on the stage saying […]

I’m in the middle of a media storm. I have defaced a poster for an antismoking campaign, and some tv producer took the picture  (which says the pretty tv star will give you a blowjob if you quit smoking) and broadcast it live on tv, claiming that it’s the official image of the campaign. And […]

I’ve been here 6 weeks and I haven’t learned any german. That sucks. First, i got some really bad books for learning. Truly bad. And second, it’s hard. When you speak English and know some french and Italian enough to get around, german is hard. It’s like English, but no so much.