Andrei Neculau

The title is a little joke around the way Romanians from Trasilvania (Ardeal) nickname the Bucharest people. While the first word, with the accent on the first syllable, means mythical, the later has a connotation of small, rude and disgraceful. Anyone knows the origin?! I’d assume the origin is still mythical but in an ironic [...]

*updated 2008-06-05: new clips - București & Oradea 2008 & Constanța 2007
Dan Puric (Famous Why?)
Book: Cine suntem by Dan Puric, Bucharest, May 2008

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* update 2008-05-31: added more videos (clips)
The transition from Communism to Capitalism is always going to give birth to some monsters.
And there will always be a majority that gains nothing in the short-term out of this transition. Needless to say, some will loose. Well-being is something that is mostly transferable and only rarely created.
The majority [...]

I go on with my Pidgin setup, regarding the graphics that I use (as of 2008-05-30):

Neat Protocols 0.1, thanks to me
Download Neat Protocols
- it’s a personal collection of protocol icons, from many packs
- includes Skype, Tlen, Facebook Chat, and a gTalk icon, if you want to replace the Jabber one
- How to install? Just grab [...]

Here I go and reveal my active Pidgin plugins (as of 2008-05-30):

Skype
Protocol plugin, thanks to Eion Robb (Download)
- doesn’t have Call and Send SMS options yet
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Facebook Chat
“Protocol” plugin, thanks to Eion Robb (Download)
- it’s a very basic/experimental thing so far, but it’s still super-duper
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Tlen
Protocol plugin, thanks to Aleksander Piotrowski (Download)
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Two years ago (May 2006), I was writing the following about the Future of web browsers:
I don’t know if I’m simply day-dreaming, but I guess that future browsers will offer full support for updatable JS libraries.
Thus, no more SCRIPT tag for loading Prototype and other AJAX / Effects libraries.
Why? Because web concepts are exploding quite [...]

*updated 2008-05-30: added videos
June 1st, 2008 will be the 5th time when Romanians will go to vote to choose their county mayorship after the ‘90 Revolution. Explanation for Romanian Mayorship: the Mayor and the General Council will share their duties in the most horrible way.
So here we are, 18 years away from the communist regime.
The [...]

A friend of mine, with a neat way of writing and setting a perspective on things, tried to get a job at.. what many would say.. a respected Romanian daily.
The path from point A - found a job, trying to get it - to point B - got accepted/rejected - seems quite natural and, all [...]

I was quite a happy owner of a HP Pavilion dv6054ea. I almost still am.
But HP’s support seems to fail even the tiniest hope that I have left.
This laptop was bought on 2006-08-19 at 9.33 GMT Since then it was repaired in August 2007 (replaced items: motherboard) and February 2008 (replaced items: motherboard, wireless, [...]

I’ve always had a divergent view on a matter that makes many uncomfortable or confused.
In Romanian we have a group of pronouns that show politeness - dumneavoastră (you), dumnealor (they), dumneaei (she), dumnealui (he), etc. There are also the informal options - tu (you), ei (they), ea (she), el (he), etc.
Generally, even nowadays it is [...]