Posts tagged with:stuff

NYT reports. There are two explanations, both of them simple as pie: As I have said before, people need stuff to consume, that is why all sorts of people buy all kinds of newspapers, in an attempt to keep them afloat. All of them remember the time the internet was dry of information: no Wikipedia, […]

XenForo is a forum software created by former VBulletin developers. If you have used Vbulletin 3.x and then upgraded to 4.x you know why there are a fair share of 3.x forums out there. XenForo is simple and better and is not trying to be more than a forum, as Vb does. Recently I’ve moved […]

First, two quotes from an article by Kirk Tuck: The vast majority of buyers of all cameras, DSLR’s, mirror less, high end compacts, etc. were hobbyists  and amateur photographers who, after years of pursuing some sort of competence in the craft have come to the conclusion that the whole art genre of photography is somewhat […]

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 […]

Steve Ballmer announced his retirement. People cheered. Stocks grew by 8%. Microsoft’s business model was simple so far: computer processors are getting speedier, let’s make Windows use more resources so people would buy new computers, new Windows and Office licenses. Pretty good plan. The love chain broke in 2008, because of Vista and the economic […]

This article is not new. But is very useful in pointing out how and what journalism has became. And in Romania also, don’t think we are special. We got AdPlayers.ro, an advertising blog, who charge 5.000€ a year for listing a company on their directory and bashes companies and people who do not subscribe. 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 […]

In teh past few days i’ve been approached by people asking or offering me easy jobs. Consulting or seo or other stuff like that. There is no challenge in optimisation. The real challenge is finding something new to write about. And doing it creatively and making people think and interact with your text.

The easiest thing a person can do is quote other people. That one said that, this one that, they are experts in their filed and their opinion is the only one that matter. True up to a point. The people who succeed in life beyond “i got a job and a wife and that is […]

I don’t like facebook very much, so i banned some of their buttons from loadind using AdBlock. So, i am on this site, and it does not load, because the buttons are on the upper right corner of the website, loading first. Remember when Facebook had some problems and buttons were keeping the site from […]