Vali Petcu blog

Three years ago, on the “How To Web” conference website, Raluca Georgescu, a former secretary and beauty editor for a local women’s’ site, was presented as the creator of “one of the most important local entertainment websites”, an obvious lie to anyone who knew the Romanian internet. After I published that on my blog, they […]

Turkish authorities have in recent weeks asked Google to block the videos from YouTube’s Turkish website, the people familiar with the matter said. But amid a national scandal over corruption allegations, Google refused to comply because it believes the requests to be legally invalid, the people added. It’s nice to transform yourself into a judge. […]

The goodbye letter from Popcorn Time is a tear-jerker. Building a business on top of stolen content really brings the best in us.  

WordPress has a function that allows a theme to set how many sizes and how many thumbnails a image should have, other that the thumb set in Settings » Media. And, upon upload, thumbs are created. I understand why the theme needs to make some thumbnails, for better design. I do not understand, however, why […]

Yoast SEO plugin does a good job at cleaning out garbage added at the end of urls. You know, the kind of garbage Facebook and Feedburner spit out: http://dorinlazar.ro/orice-hirtie-cere-statul-plus/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FlyOnTheWindscreen-Full+%28Fly+on+the+Windscreen+All+blog+posts%29 The problem is not the ugly url, but the fact that sometimes it breaks twitter or ym or other service I try to send the link […]

…for exercises. Well, at least it’s what they say. But America cannot appear to look weak, even thought it is. Putin is in the same situation. So we got ourselves a standoff and a show off.   

Russia invaded, sort of, Crimea. A peninsula it belonged to so many empires nobody ever owned it. The reason for this is Sevastopol, a city Russia has stationed a large portion of it’s naval army. They were not gonna let the new Ukraine government to take over that. So they just moved in. Problems ensured […]

It’s nice to have an unregulated currency. It’s nice to try and evade the banks and the authorities. That is, until someone steals all your Bitcoin, because then you have no one to cry to.

So Sony is selling its Vaio division to some investment fund, because it’s loosing so much money and Sony wants to cut costs. Vaio is a good line of laptops, too bad it is so bad. What I would do is instate a bonus system for people working at Vaio: if you come up with […]

One of my biggest annoyances is that Gmail has not one font to use in the email body. People write with black, with blue, with Sans Serif, with Tahoma, with Arial, and the emails are looking bad all the time. Uniformity would be good in this case. It really would. I searched userscripts.org for a […]