I was searching for a file on my computer and I stumbled upon this image:

How many times were you seen as a "triangle"?

I think I made this when I got a small Wacom tablet for my birthday and I played around with it. Anyway, the thing is: how many times were you seen as a “triangle” among “circles”? I am pretty curious about this thing so please let me know: were you seen as a triangle in a positive or negative way?

P.S: I’m sure you appreciate that I’m such a talented person. (I’m joking, of course!)

A few days ago I read something really interesting on Seth Godin’s blog, an idea that’s been buzzing me a lot lately. The Internet is full. And Mr. Godin is not talking about physical storage, which is continuously growing. He’s talking about us, the Internet users. WE are full. For example, I am feeling full of all the social media/social networks/keeping in touch with friends, reading blogs, etc. And it seems that I don’t find anything new on the Internet lately.

I had an account on most of the popular social networks, including Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Because I felt overwhelmed by them, I started quitting my accounts one by one. At this moment, I am using Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin with their usage exactly in this specific order. The “super-duper” trio.

Theoretically, if we would stop using the Internet for a couple of years, leaving behind everything that’s online and web related, the enthusiasm might return and some really cool apps would be created after this “hibernation”. Although the technology gives us the possibility to create the most interesting things we are “getting used to” the old things and not looking to create some advanced web apps.

Although I was making fun of the “New Year’s Resolution” trend, I decided to give this thing a try and post my resolution.  I have a list of five most important aspects of my life that need to change/improve/add and will be changed/improved/added in 2009. Here they are:

1. Living healthy and leaving behind all my depressive moods that were too many this year. “Healthy” includes food, exercise and why not? a healthy spirit too.
2. I will get involved – much more than I used to – in the open source community and in organizing different events that will take place in Romania.
3. Get back to writing. And I’m not talking about blog posts. I’m talking about “offline writing”. This includes lyrics, too.
4. Really show appreciation to those who helped me in 2008 and will still be there for me in the next years. I was pretty selfish and didn’t show gratitude to those who deserve it.
5. Become completely independent. I want to do this to prove myself that I can do everything on my own, without help from my family or friends.

I hope you will have a lot of accomplishments in 2009 and complete all the tasks you’ve proposed to do for the forthcoming year. What are you going to do in 2009?

Serviciul de marketing afiliat 2Parale

Radu Spineanu a anuntat astazi lansarea serviciului de affiliate marketing 2Parale, tinut in private beta din luna iulie a acestui an.

Prin affiliate marketing se permite monetizarea continutul de calitate specific unei nise. Astfel, advertiserii vor plati pentru actiuni masurabile pe serviciile lor si nu se va mai face plata pentru obtinerea unei audiente.

Am avut ocazia sa testez 2Parale de prin august fiind inscris cu proiectul UnseenRomania in acest program. As putea spune ca am vazut proiectul crescand si modelandu-se dupa feedbackul primit de la utilizatorii din private beta. S-a dezvoltat intr-un timp foarte scurt intr-un proiect promitator ce cu siguranta isi va atrage utilizatori intr-un timp si mai scurt. Partea de administrare a campaniilor e foarte intuitiva astfel incat va veti putea concentra pe ceea ce aveti de facut, nefiind nevoiti sa pierdeti timp sa invatati panoul.

Imi cer scuze ca nu am putut da prea multe detalii dar iata aici cateva linkuri de pe blogul 2Parale care ar putea clarifica posibilele nelamuriri cu legatura la affiliate marketing si 2Parale:

De ce marketing afiliat?

Cum functioneaza marketingul afiliat

Pot sa fiu un afiliat?

Succes celor din spatele proiectului si utilizatorilor!

Today the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced that it has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Cisco. It seems that Cisco violated the licenses of GCC, binutils, and the GNU C Library through its Linksys brand. All of them are released under GPL and LGPL, so basically everyone had the right to modify and share Cisco’s stuff but the company denied this right to the users.

“Our licenses are designed to ensure that everyone who uses the software can change it,” said Richard Stallman, president and founder of the FSF. “In order to exercise that right, people need the source code, and that’s why our licenses require distributors to provide it. We are enforcing our licenses to protect the rights that everyone should have with all software: to use it, share it, and modify it as they see fit.”

These are parts from a press release I got today, with a few modifications.  I’m wondering what will be Cisco’s next move. Will they open up their stuff according to the General Public License and LGPL or will they try to prove they’re “innocent”?

Hello world. I’m testing Zoho Writer, an online platform that allows you to write anything, from anywhere. You can also post to your blog, like I’m doing right now.

I like the way it looks, if you’ve used an offline office suite, you will get used to it in a very short time. There are some issues, though. For example, I am using  Firefox 3.0.4 on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. There’s some sort of lag, as the characters appear delayed. The fonts look a little bit unaligned and there’s a horizonal ruler that appears halfed.

I will try it on Windows XP and Mac OS X pretty soon.

Two days after the official launch of Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex, I took the decision to upgrade my 8.04 to 8.10. Everything went fine until it gave a message telling me something like there’s no supported driver for my video card. I stopped the upgrade because the last time I got a message like that I had a hard time editing files from the command line.

Although Ubuntu 8.04 is an LTS distribution, sites and software developers that provide .deb packages are slowly stopping the offering of packages for Hardy Heron. I don’t think this is a clever move, because there are still many users who preffer Hardy Heron and will not upgrade to 8.10 Intrepid Ibex pretty soon. By doing this, the users who want to have the latest versions of their favorite apps will have to compile them from source which might create some problems in time if the process doesn’t go the right way.

These are my 2 cents on the “forced” upgrade issue. Keep in mind that this is just my opinion, maybe I’m paranoid, maybe I’m right… You decide:).

Sa zicem ca sunt ignorant si nu ma intereseaza politica. Sa zicem ca mai sunt destui ca mine, care sunt dezgustati de politicienii romani si nu mai au incredere in nici macar unul din ei.

Vin alegerile astea ciudate. Din simpla mea curiozitate, la fel de ciudata ca alegerile, as vrea sa stiu cam cate lucruri cunosc oamenii despre candidati. Ce au facut ei pana acum? Au fost copii cuminti si au facut fapte bune, astfel incat sa primeasca un vot in plus sau doar au tras mata de coada si nimic altceva?

Voi ii cunoasteti pe cei pe care ii veti alege (sau pe care ii veti ignora)?

Update: I took Amber from mydaysof.com. The old theme was too dark.

A few minutes ago I felt the urge to create another blog on Typepad. I don’t know why, but I felt that. After creating the user name and all the rest I said: “Hey, what am I doing? I already have a blog and I don’t even post on that one too often. Why would I need another one?”

That’s why I decided to stop making blogs (I have a few others besides this one, on which I haven’t posted in ages!) and concentrate on {function:geekesque}. So, here I am once more, ranting and hopefully writing something interesting pretty soon.

P.S: I think I’m gonna steal Mihai Dragan’s theme, Amber, pretty soon.

Astazi, in drum spre casa, mai exact la statia de metrou Unirii, am vazut pe “minunatele televizoare” o stire care s-a derulat destul de rapid: angajatii Metrorex si nu mai stiu ce firma vor dona sange. Sa inceapa sa prinda chestia cu CSR-ul si asta sa fie o manevra de a arata ce baieti de treaba sunt sau chiar vor sa faca ceva okay pt oameni?

Partea care mi s-a parut interesanta a fost cea in care au aratat cateva imagini cu donatori. Desigur, acei donatori erau tot din angajatii de rand, nu am vazut pe nimeni care sa para a lucra intr-o pozitie de conducere in Metrorex.

In orice caz, ramane de vazut daca au intentii bune si cei din conducerea Metrorex si nu doar ii arunca la inaintare pe conductori si pe vanzatoarele de la casa de bilete pentru a arata ca-s responsabili din punct de vedere social.