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Fuck them

Posted by Strainu | Filed under Personal, Society

Today I feel like expressing my sincere hate for:

• Quelle Romania – it took them 2 month to deliver a very simple order. I understand that the goods had to be shipped from Germany, but even if they brought them by boat, it’s still too long;
• The council of Giurgiu county – because of the pitiful state of DJ601 from Bolintin to Videle. The craters on the road can very easily destroy a small car – like mine. It seems that the guys that should worry about the roads in the county are more interested in getting rich.

So until I can say it in person, I’ll say it here: FUCK YOU!

Proiecte pe scurt

Posted by Strainu | Filed under Romana, Society

• Copacul de hârtie îşi propune să ajute companiile cu reciclarea hârtiei – ele strâng hârtia ÅŸi voluntarii o transportă la un centru de colectare. Din banii rezultaÅ£i se cumpără copaci. Simplu, nu?
• GandeÅŸte în stil metropolitan! este un proiect care vrea să facă cunoscute proiectele Bibliotecii metropolitane din BucureÅŸti. Voi ÅŸtiaÅ£i că există?:D

How to make a (illegal?) buck

Posted by Strainu | Filed under Cool Webpages, Geeks, Society

I was trying to check my account on an well-known global website specialised in freelance software developement. (Un)fortunately, when I wrote the address in Firefox, I wrote .ro instead of .com. Surprise! The domain is registered by a Ploieşti, România-based company, is active and it offers pretty much the same services as its US counterpart.

After my unfortunate experience with Piatadesoft.ro, I became extremely careful with Romanian software sites, so the first thing I did was to check for the owner’s data. All I could find was a contact form, but no offline contact method. There are no projects on that website just yet, and my sincere hope is that there will never by any. If you read this, I strongly advise you NOT to use their services if they ever become active.

The Red Cross

Posted by Strainu | Filed under Cool Webpages, Society

Remember about it? It’s the oldest multinational in the world, born in 1863 The romanian branch was created in 1874 and was oficially recognised by the International Red Cross Comitee on the 23rd of August 1876. It’s current activity is more than discrete, but they seem to have helped the victims of the 2006 floods. The TV stations choose to ignore them, prefering to show the donations of certain well-known politicians rather than the collective efforts of the red cross voluteers. They also have a collaboration with Petrom.

YOU can also help, by donating money or by volunteering. You can also spread the word or buy some of their products.
I decided to write this article because the Red Cross calendars was one of the few things offered by the professors that I acceped to spend money on in highschool. The CICR is a very well-known organisation and the Romanian Red Cross Society deserves a simmilar media coverage. Unfortunately this blog is not widely read, so if any of the popular bloggers would like to help spread the word, I would be most grateful

Use Google! campaign

Posted by Strainu | Filed under Cool Webpages, Society, The Simpsons

It sounds crazy, doesn’t it? I mean, everybody uses it, right? Riiiiight? Well, not quite

After seeing many discussions like this one on a romanian forum and lots of simple searches made for my friends, I decided to start a campaign that should teach the people that they SHOULD search Google before asking stupid questions.

For now, I only have a messenger status (Use Google before asking stupid questions!) and I try to teach my contacts to stop asking simple (a.k.a. dumb) questions.

If you want to help, just use this status:

Use Google befre asking stupid questions! http://blog.strainu.ro/cool-webpages/use-google/

In most IM networks this will send the visitors who click on your status to this page. If you have any ideas on how I could develop this campaign, please let me know.

Oh, by the way, even Bart Simpsons supports this campaign!

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