i don't have time to post as often as i'd like, but this time, i got extremely pissed off regarding national's council for audio-visual (cna) reaction towards an extremely well made add intended to draw people's attention on the incoming local elections. here's the clip, below you'll find more comments. let's watch:
cultural references:
- the building that can be seen is the formerly people's house (today: palace of the parliament), the most noticeable symbol of the late communist era;
- on the wall of the chamber it can be seen the last four post wwII romanian presidents: nicolae ceausescu (former communist leader, killed on december 25th, 1989 at the end of the romanian revolution), ion iliescu (marked as neo-communist, lead romania for 10 years), emil constantinescu (president between 1996-2000), traian basescu (the president in charge, 2004-2009)
about cna:
- it's a public institution entitled to protect citizens rights regarding audio-visual programs;
about the situation:
- cna consideres the movie "antisocial". it goes like this. some smart-ass, dan pavel, decides to create a post-apocalyptic sci-fi vision of the future romania, criticizing the flock-instinct as a chronic disease of the romanian society. of course this is "antisocial", as it's against the building block of the today's romanian way. ([sarcasm]).
- cna, as other public institution, is politically biased. this movie proves "negativism" related to "romania's presidents"? of course, considering that the new player on the politically scene is using the current president's image to gain popularity.
- is this message to youthful to be presented on public television? is cna afraid that the youth cannot longer be bought with fancy student festivals and free tickets to theater, opera or by deputy positions in parliament and might open the eyes when confronted with a powerful message?
- cna considers that the movie incites to not going to vote. yap, it's true. the number decreases as the people who understand the message will end up building healthy romanian communities beyond romania's borders.
i'm not trying to get involved with politics. it sucks. and it's not for me. but censoring a clip that made me open my eyes and say "is this romanian?" it's a little bit outrageous. well, as long as 8 out of 10 romanians consider gigi becali an example to be followed, it's understandable..
to be continued..
p.s: alegeti stapanii cu grija (ro) = choose well (wise) your masters (en) =
cultural references:
- the building that can be seen is the formerly people's house (today: palace of the parliament), the most noticeable symbol of the late communist era;
- on the wall of the chamber it can be seen the last four post wwII romanian presidents: nicolae ceausescu (former communist leader, killed on december 25th, 1989 at the end of the romanian revolution), ion iliescu (marked as neo-communist, lead romania for 10 years), emil constantinescu (president between 1996-2000), traian basescu (the president in charge, 2004-2009)
about cna:
- it's a public institution entitled to protect citizens rights regarding audio-visual programs;
about the situation:
- cna consideres the movie "antisocial". it goes like this. some smart-ass, dan pavel, decides to create a post-apocalyptic sci-fi vision of the future romania, criticizing the flock-instinct as a chronic disease of the romanian society. of course this is "antisocial", as it's against the building block of the today's romanian way. ([sarcasm]).
- cna, as other public institution, is politically biased. this movie proves "negativism" related to "romania's presidents"? of course, considering that the new player on the politically scene is using the current president's image to gain popularity.
- is this message to youthful to be presented on public television? is cna afraid that the youth cannot longer be bought with fancy student festivals and free tickets to theater, opera or by deputy positions in parliament and might open the eyes when confronted with a powerful message?
- cna considers that the movie incites to not going to vote. yap, it's true. the number decreases as the people who understand the message will end up building healthy romanian communities beyond romania's borders.
i'm not trying to get involved with politics. it sucks. and it's not for me. but censoring a clip that made me open my eyes and say "is this romanian?" it's a little bit outrageous. well, as long as 8 out of 10 romanians consider gigi becali an example to be followed, it's understandable..
to be continued..
p.s: alegeti stapanii cu grija (ro) = choose well (wise) your masters (en) =
first i need to apologize to my constant reader(s) as i didn't post anything for quite a while. what i'm posting now is just a technical post, in which i would like to present (in a better way) the results a friend of mine found out (click here). after reading his post, take a look at the below graphs to make a better idea of what was that all about:
the average download speed is 1865 kbps (ro-ro), 1940.18kbps (ro-de), 1981,16 (ro-us). the highest download speed is: ro-ro (evolva telecom ltd. with 3047.8 kbps), ro-de and ro-us (izo group networks, for 4787.5 kbps and 4497.2 kbps).
the average difference between ro-de download speed and ro-ro download speed is +3.9%, and between ro-us download speed and ro-ro download speed +8.32%. the biggest differences is on orange's network ro-de: +100,14%, ro-us: +135,15%
the average download speed is 1865 kbps (ro-ro), 1940.18kbps (ro-de), 1981,16 (ro-us). the highest download speed is: ro-ro (evolva telecom ltd. with 3047.8 kbps), ro-de and ro-us (izo group networks, for 4787.5 kbps and 4497.2 kbps).
the average difference between ro-de download speed and ro-ro download speed is +3.9%, and between ro-us download speed and ro-ro download speed +8.32%. the biggest differences is on orange's network ro-de: +100,14%, ro-us: +135,15%
Toto @ good to know..
Great stuff!
* everything else is silence
long time no post. first you will notice that the "i'm shipping up to boston" from dropkick murphys was replaced with "dub the frequencies of love" by gogol bordello. you should listen the whole "super taranta!" album if you're interested in how to succesfully mix traditional gypsy music with punk rock.
about the post title. yesterday i was at the "restul e tacere" movie (directed by nae caramfil). first i had my doubts that this will be another "just before/after '89 revolution" movie. well, it wasn't. the action follows a young director (played wonderful by marius vizante) in his attempt to recreate the 1877 independence war, just a few years before first world war. trying not to spoil the pleasure of seeing the movie, i can tell that it was one of the few recent romanian movies which had all the ingredients to keep you in your seat (here it can be compared with the california dreamin' (unfinished), but not with the much too dramatic "4,3,2"): drama, love (and not that cheesy kind) and comic situations. job well done mister caramfil.
next movie i'd like to talk about (yes, i've seen many in the past two weeks) is "love in time of cholera" based on garcia marquez's homonym book. although my companions didn't enjoy it as much as i did (for dramatic purpose, the book emphasis was a little bit changed, but not the actions or the characters), i consider it one of the best movies for this year (much better than that oscar winning movie, full of killing and chasing, a characteristic of our current society) and only for it's vision on human relations. again not to spoil it, it's about florentino arriza, a young south-american boy who falls in love with fermina daza, the daughter of a "gigi becali" kind of business man (uff, i forgot, the story takes place between 1880 - 1930) and it's similar, up to some point, with "travesuras de la nina mala" of vargas llosa.
ok.. so i talked about two movies - ohh, yeap.. i saw also "10,000 bc" and "the moguls" but both were bad enough, i talked about gogol bordello.. i don't want to talk about my crappy job =).. yes.. i've remembered..
found one nice place to hang out and have a nice cup of coffee while discussing some business ideas: vivaldi. the place is a little bit fancy, has nice leather furniture (white for smokers, black for non-smokers), is quiet enough and has cute waitresses =). as you can see, i didn't say anything about food and neither about the drinks, not because they aren't worthy of being mentioned, but because they are less important when you're going to meet somebody. yes, and they have wi-fi. (address: 19 bibescu voda - behind the harp pub, phone: +40 317 11 00 66, prices around: 40 lei / two persons).
ok.. so webservice of the week: definitely photoshop express ( http://www.photoshop.com/express/ ). a neat online service that provides you with a variety of tools for (basic) image manipulation and 2 Gb of free album storage. i think is cool as it has a flash (probably flex) interface, and some cool features (like the pop-color, which works pretty well). following the google model, adobe made its service compatible with picasa, photobucket and facebook =) (i have some nice memories regarding.. well, never mind). take it for a spin before becoming a user. the interface is one of the greatest i've seen (although i'm not a flash fan because of the lack of gpl tools).
last, but not least, take a look at ruby on rails also as an alternative to already too common PHP. they have some cool demos on their website ( http://www.rubyonrails.org/screencasts ). oh, i don't have enough time now, but in a future post i promise to talk about orkut (google's social network) and the open social set of tools (maybe embed some of them in this phymacs platform).
persons to thank this week: josip & vlasta celan (for their easter message: "Sretan Uskrs uz obilje zdravlja u tijelu, srece u srcu i mira u duhu od Vlaste i Josipa"), pisi (for taking me out so many times and "caring" about my savings) and.. well, that's it for now =).
ta ta!..
to be continued =)..
p.s: the delay was caused of my work on phymacs' engine. soon i'll give you news about that.
p.p.s: soon it'll be my birthday. =) be prepared =).
long time no post. first you will notice that the "i'm shipping up to boston" from dropkick murphys was replaced with "dub the frequencies of love" by gogol bordello. you should listen the whole "super taranta!" album if you're interested in how to succesfully mix traditional gypsy music with punk rock.
about the post title. yesterday i was at the "restul e tacere" movie (directed by nae caramfil). first i had my doubts that this will be another "just before/after '89 revolution" movie. well, it wasn't. the action follows a young director (played wonderful by marius vizante) in his attempt to recreate the 1877 independence war, just a few years before first world war. trying not to spoil the pleasure of seeing the movie, i can tell that it was one of the few recent romanian movies which had all the ingredients to keep you in your seat (here it can be compared with the california dreamin' (unfinished), but not with the much too dramatic "4,3,2"): drama, love (and not that cheesy kind) and comic situations. job well done mister caramfil.
next movie i'd like to talk about (yes, i've seen many in the past two weeks) is "love in time of cholera" based on garcia marquez's homonym book. although my companions didn't enjoy it as much as i did (for dramatic purpose, the book emphasis was a little bit changed, but not the actions or the characters), i consider it one of the best movies for this year (much better than that oscar winning movie, full of killing and chasing, a characteristic of our current society) and only for it's vision on human relations. again not to spoil it, it's about florentino arriza, a young south-american boy who falls in love with fermina daza, the daughter of a "gigi becali" kind of business man (uff, i forgot, the story takes place between 1880 - 1930) and it's similar, up to some point, with "travesuras de la nina mala" of vargas llosa.
ok.. so i talked about two movies - ohh, yeap.. i saw also "10,000 bc" and "the moguls" but both were bad enough, i talked about gogol bordello.. i don't want to talk about my crappy job =).. yes.. i've remembered..
found one nice place to hang out and have a nice cup of coffee while discussing some business ideas: vivaldi. the place is a little bit fancy, has nice leather furniture (white for smokers, black for non-smokers), is quiet enough and has cute waitresses =). as you can see, i didn't say anything about food and neither about the drinks, not because they aren't worthy of being mentioned, but because they are less important when you're going to meet somebody. yes, and they have wi-fi. (address: 19 bibescu voda - behind the harp pub, phone: +40 317 11 00 66, prices around: 40 lei / two persons).
ok.. so webservice of the week: definitely photoshop express ( http://www.photoshop.com/express/ ). a neat online service that provides you with a variety of tools for (basic) image manipulation and 2 Gb of free album storage. i think is cool as it has a flash (probably flex) interface, and some cool features (like the pop-color, which works pretty well). following the google model, adobe made its service compatible with picasa, photobucket and facebook =) (i have some nice memories regarding.. well, never mind). take it for a spin before becoming a user. the interface is one of the greatest i've seen (although i'm not a flash fan because of the lack of gpl tools).
last, but not least, take a look at ruby on rails also as an alternative to already too common PHP. they have some cool demos on their website ( http://www.rubyonrails.org/screencasts ). oh, i don't have enough time now, but in a future post i promise to talk about orkut (google's social network) and the open social set of tools (maybe embed some of them in this phymacs platform).
persons to thank this week: josip & vlasta celan (for their easter message: "Sretan Uskrs uz obilje zdravlja u tijelu, srece u srcu i mira u duhu od Vlaste i Josipa"), pisi (for taking me out so many times and "caring" about my savings) and.. well, that's it for now =).
ta ta!..
to be continued =)..
p.s: the delay was caused of my work on phymacs' engine. soon i'll give you news about that.
p.p.s: soon it'll be my birthday. =) be prepared =).
i didn't write a thing in a while.. and i wasn't going to do it anytime sooner, but something came up..
it goes like this: i was sleeping. it was around 8 o'clock i think when i started to dream about getting a small furry cat, maybe orange or black, fluffy and playfull.. when suddenly, the silly phone rings.. barely opening my eyes, i stretch myself to pick up the phone and see what happened.. a small gift-box was sitting on the screen, yelling "oana, oana, oana.."..
wtf? then i realized =). today is oana's birthday. happy birthday oana =).
about oana.
i've met her in the first year of college. the first person i saw when i walked in my assigned room was oana. she was ironing curtains. oana was my roommate's girlfriend, so a year passed and we spend quite sometime together. even when she broke up with alex for a short period. i was so angry on him then. =). i remember playing board games, or cards, staying up all night solving problems for some contest which name i forgot, studying for exams, discussing love problems (most of them were mine =)), going to paris (where i acted like a jerk, sorry).. well.. that's enough with the memories. in short, oana took care of me and for that she deserves that i say three words i swore not to tell again*: i love you oana-adriana! you'll alway be my "bucharest" mother. thank you. and be happy. =).
tsss.. don't expect to see any tears when i'll come tonight to give you the present. i already spilled those saved for you while writing this.
p.s: * technically, i didn't brake myswore oath as it's a different kind of love =). don't be carcotaşi (en. grumpy) =).
it goes like this: i was sleeping. it was around 8 o'clock i think when i started to dream about getting a small furry cat, maybe orange or black, fluffy and playfull.. when suddenly, the silly phone rings.. barely opening my eyes, i stretch myself to pick up the phone and see what happened.. a small gift-box was sitting on the screen, yelling "oana, oana, oana.."..
wtf? then i realized =). today is oana's birthday. happy birthday oana =).
about oana.
i've met her in the first year of college. the first person i saw when i walked in my assigned room was oana. she was ironing curtains. oana was my roommate's girlfriend, so a year passed and we spend quite sometime together. even when she broke up with alex for a short period. i was so angry on him then. =). i remember playing board games, or cards, staying up all night solving problems for some contest which name i forgot, studying for exams, discussing love problems (most of them were mine =)), going to paris (where i acted like a jerk, sorry).. well.. that's enough with the memories. in short, oana took care of me and for that she deserves that i say three words i swore not to tell again*: i love you oana-adriana! you'll alway be my "bucharest" mother. thank you. and be happy. =).
tsss.. don't expect to see any tears when i'll come tonight to give you the present. i already spilled those saved for you while writing this.
p.s: * technically, i didn't brake my
Sadwank @ oana's birthday
Cool, so do you save tears for *special* occasions?
And... is this english??
with the temperature dropping with about 20 degrees in only one night, i decided that it's time to get to the cool stuff.
first on the list is my visit at the orange iride center. to answer again a question i was asked today, no, i don't work and i'm not planning to work for orange in the immediate future, but i have some nice friends there from whom i will mention only Zzzz. from its office there, orange keeps the "classic" like of corporate environment placing it's (safe) bets on open spaces, people interaction and integrated facilities. the atmosphere sustained also by the lack of walls, is familiar. too bad that's at the end of the earth. and i mean at the end of the dirt and mud from pipera neighborhood.
second cool thing is my e65 nokia handset. small, with a robust slider and tons of nice functions and features, it outshines the samsung that i previously had. what i like? the 3g, the 2mp camera, the browser bundled with symbian, the office tools and last but not least, it's voice controls (being able to recognize my voice, although i'm a romanian, and to call everybody from my contact list without mistake). cool.
third cool thing is deezer.com. take a peek if you'd like to hear a song or embed it in your website. like me =)..
see ya..
p.s. check out the gallery, as there are some new pictures for which you'll have to excuse the quality. i blame the light. which was missing.
first on the list is my visit at the orange iride center. to answer again a question i was asked today, no, i don't work and i'm not planning to work for orange in the immediate future, but i have some nice friends there from whom i will mention only Zzzz. from its office there, orange keeps the "classic" like of corporate environment placing it's (safe) bets on open spaces, people interaction and integrated facilities. the atmosphere sustained also by the lack of walls, is familiar. too bad that's at the end of the earth. and i mean at the end of the dirt and mud from pipera neighborhood.
second cool thing is my e65 nokia handset. small, with a robust slider and tons of nice functions and features, it outshines the samsung that i previously had. what i like? the 3g, the 2mp camera, the browser bundled with symbian, the office tools and last but not least, it's voice controls (being able to recognize my voice, although i'm a romanian, and to call everybody from my contact list without mistake). cool.
third cool thing is deezer.com. take a peek if you'd like to hear a song or embed it in your website. like me =)..
see ya..
p.s. check out the gallery, as there are some new pictures for which you'll have to excuse the quality. i blame the light. which was missing.
Languages:
Navigator:
Search:
Links:
Some Random Picture:
