Posts tagged with:happy

I had Office 2010 on my laptop for no good reason. All I needed to do was issue some invoices and do some presentations for the conferences I speak at. And Office always gave me trouble. Wanted to update all the time, lost file associations, crased and demanded the original disk to be inserted and […]

I got a lot of questions about this: what happened last year, how do you see things. where do we go from here? There are a few things that happened in the last 12 months worth mentioning: Some bloggers realized I am not a fool who wishes death on them (as the song goes), but […]

Ian Clifton makes a lot of good points about the superiority of Android over iOS. I agree with him on all counts, Android is a technologically better product. But… iOS does a very good job at keeping things simple and a lot of users want that. I don’t want a widget on my screen. I […]

A few days ago, the pirate scene rules have changed, changing video standards from .avi to .mp4 on the basis of using a better codec (x264) instead of the old one (xvid). Torrent users complain now (one, two) that their devices cannot play mp4 files and they ask the torrent uploaders to switch to good […]

“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. […]

is the concept that, no matter where you will go, you will have to deal with incompetent people. The type that suck the will to live from you and stop you from doing your job. And they are everywhere, and they are happy with their techniques of life-sucking.

For a few days now Egypt has had a revolution going. People took the street to protest against the government and the president, who has been in that chair since 1981. Basically, we have the beginning of a world hunger crisis. The people would be happy to have food and would not care if the […]

Let’s say your combined fortune ranks in about 2 billion Euros. You have several businesses that are doing ok. You are 59 years old and made all this fortune in Romania, a second world country. What would you do? Slow down? Enjoy life? Retire?  I asked this question on my primary blog (in Romanian) and […]

I am so relaxed. So peaceful. Because, basically, I have everything i ever wanted. And it’s pretty scary. I should not have bought that car.

Today at IFA I had the pleasure of listening to Robert Scoble speak in a panel about German and American Bloggers. It was weird somehobw, because he did not say nothing i did not knew and his presenting style is not so flashy (as oposed to Hugh McLeod, for example). I listened to some German […]