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Romania from the balcony

Posted by Strainu | Filed under Cool Webpages, Personal

I found an interesting project asking for pictures of Romania from your balcony. So, here is my picture (from Crangasi, Bucharest):

Tag: RomaniaDinBalcon

PR Update

Posted by Strainu | Filed under Cool Webpages, My Projects, Personal

We’ve had a Google PR update these days, Strainu onLine is now at PR4. We’ll soon be over me previous site, strainu.3x.ro The blog and energreen both have PR3. The articles section has made a jump to PR2.

Superhero

Posted by Strainu | Filed under Cool Webpages, Geeks, Jokes&Fun, Personal

Because I’m on vacation and I don’t really feel like doing my homework, i decided to take any quiz I could find on the internet The funniest was the super-hero quizz. The results?

I am Spider-Man

Spider-Man 70% Hulk 65% Iron Man 65% Green Lantern 55% Superman 50% Robin 47% Catwoman 45% Supergirl 45% The Flash 30% Wonder Woman 25% Batman 25%

I am intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.

Yeah right!

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.

Blogs roundup

Posted by Strainu | Filed under Cool Webpages, Gadgets, Geeks, School

Well, since Andressa seems to have a good time in Poland and she doesn’t bother with the blog any more, we all have to find alternate sources of fun Here are my nominations:

• Entering the IT industry from Tudor Damian – some common sense pieces of advice for the future IT professionals
• Bash tricks: comparing floating point numbers by Petre – an somewhat old post about BASH. Interesting because that’s one of the problems in my homework for the Operating Systems course
• Yahoo! fights messenger spam by evolve – fact or just messenger trouble? We’ll see…
• Metro etiquette by Just me – an excellent idea! There is a good reason for the yellow footsteps on the Bucharest metro’s escalators. Ever wondered what’s that reason?

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

Hacked?

Posted by Strainu | Filed under Cool Webpages, Jokes&Fun

Somebody forgot to secure the server…

UPDATE: It seems he’s just on a break…. LOL

Tags: Hacked, Zoso

Blogvertising

Posted by Strainu | Filed under Gadgets, My Projects, Web stuff

The publicty on blogs idea seems to have a name now: blogvertising. There are now 50 blogs on the list and growing.

To have an indea of how big (or small) this thing will get, I made a simple program to follow the trafic.ro stats of the registered sites. Only about a third of all sites have the trafic.ro tracker, but it still gives a pretty good idea of how many users are we talking about.

Pub on blogs

Posted by Strainu | Filed under Geeks, Web stuff

Razvan Varabiescu has the excellent idea of a publicity system for the romanian blogs. I strongly support this idea, as it would probably allow to pay for the hosting (and maybe the domains) for my blogs and my website. He wants to gather 300 blogs, so if you’re a blogger and you haven’t signed up yet, hurry up

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!

Image source: Radu Ceuca

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