Vali Petcu blog

Inspired by Budget Savy’s Traveler trip to Brasov, i have decided to write a small guide to the city. First thing is first: every other Romanian under 40 speaks good English, and every 1 in 5 over 40 speaks german. If you need directions, just ask, most of the times people are happy to help and […]

They were in Brașov last week and loved the city. They had some rain and some problems with the buses, but overall were spot on the city. Their four videos on Brașov are listed below and their trip to Romania is ongoing, so watch the channel: Ep. 45: Why is THIS famous again? Rope Street, […]

I was cleaning my bookmarks and found a folder with saved articles from when i started blogging. Most of them are still valid after 10 years and a lot of changes in this medium. Top 10 mistakes bloggers make, june 2007 Buzz kill, 2010 What are you doing at 3am, march 2007 5 elements of […]

Other than spam, there are quite a few legitimate advertising inquiries regarding my Romanian blog, zoso.ro, by international advertisers. And there are problems: the broken english. not a good impression on a first email when your wording and writing are poorer than mine. screams bad professionalism. lack of minimal research 1. because Romania is a poor […]

It’s so weird. WordPress is already a mature product, but it misses a couple things. I’d love it if they would make my plugin, Ro Slugs, useless, by allowing me to set a number of characters in my slug and/or set to remove words shorter than 3 letters. But the real problem i don’t see fixed […]

20 dead and 40 wounded in the last attack, in Florida. One guy did that. Just one. To the rest of the world, this is not as shocking as the complete refusal to consider some sense. Just a little bit. Just the semiautomatic. We understand, it’s a vast country, you need a gun to feel safe and […]

A too often discussion: – Dude, i know you, you cannot afford starbucks as often as you post online – Yea, it’s the same cup. – And you dont run and dont go on hikes. – Yea, i know. – Why keep posting this untrue stuff? – For the ladies and the haters, man! – […]

A policeman stops you on your way home from a party. He asks you if you have been drinking. You put your game face on and say “no”. He is convinced and lets you go. The next day, another policeman, another party, another lie. You get accustomed to lie all the time, and it’s fine, […]

Liudmila Climoc will be CEO of Orange Romania and she will soon find out something funny about her company: all the mentions about who is number one in the telecom game, regarding subscribers, will mention Orange, but will also mention the numbers are not true. Kinda odd, right? And then she will find out that, […]

One or two visitor tracking/conversion scripts? How about five? FIVE!!! Cause u really need to know about them visitors, fam! Sorry Avandor and Marketizator, i know you are good guys, but this is too much. Talk about timing: i’ve wrote this article hours before reading Marketizator received 1 million investment from 3TS.