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a bit about Free software, a bit about graphics, a bit about design, a bit about photography, a bit about gadgets, a bit about life and many more

30 September 2009

pwn3d again

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Yesterday was a full media day for me: after filming for television, in the evening I joined the boys from Ceata for an interview with a j...

My own Windows 7 Party

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I was amused too by the Windows 7 Party video , which made me think I must have my own event. How? I think I can delay a couple of weeks i...
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29 September 2009

pwn3d

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For the fifth FLOSS part filmed for the Romanian television the plan was to talk together with Bogdan Manolea about Creative Commons licens...
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24 September 2009

Get well tatica

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Those used with a daily dose from tatica 's photo marathon are surely missing the 14th instalment. She is missing in actionL no IRC, no...
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Early drafts

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Lately I do my sketching directly in Inkscape using a mouse (I have a tablet but like the mouse more) so it wak pretty much like a return to...
23 September 2009

Take 4: programming

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For the fourth part in the FLOSS series for the Romanian television, I was joined by Laurentiu , he talked about Eclipse and I covered a dif...
22 September 2009

Choose!

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More or less in a reply to the Romanian Fii Destept (Be Smart) campaign where Microsoft and some of their blogging friends are trying to ma...
18 September 2009

729/65535

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Is Friday afternoon, and I don't feel like working, not even writing the Design beat for FWN , where I think I will wait a couple more d...
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17 September 2009

Be smart? I think I can use some money, thanks!

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Microsoft started a campaign called "Fii Destept" ("Be Smart") to promote buying computers with genuine Windows preinst...

485/65535

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Sorry, I couldn't resist:
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16 September 2009

Take 3: games

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The third session of recording for the national television was centered on games and educational software. Tibi joined me and we talked a...
15 September 2009

Data Liberation

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After I got burned with Yahoo, I appreciate the move by Google about data liberation (quote: "Users own the data they store in any of...
14 September 2009

ONGFest 2009

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The last week-end, the old city was the host of the first edition of ONGFest, a national festival for non-governmental organizations, so I w...
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11 September 2009

Safety nets or the status of F12 artwork

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The last weeks were supposed to bring blog posts about the evolution of the F12 artwork , those are even listed as scheduled tasks but inst...

+1 for Amazon

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I know everyone is blaming Amazon for deleting electronic books, but my recent experience with purchasing a dead tree paper book (a photog...
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10 September 2009

There is no silver bullet, not even for photo editing

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I acknowledged of being an ass in the past and I am ready to do it again: I have no problem being labeled as such after this story. So I g...
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08 September 2009

Me multitasking bad

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Today I went to the TV station to record the second piece about Linux, this time focusing on some applications. It wasn't so smooth lik...
07 September 2009

Fear my camera... d'oh

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So there was this big event with free entrance with concerts and stuff organized in a park by a beer brand of Danish origin. At the entranc...
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02 September 2009

Bringing Linux and Fedora into stardom... on the national television

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Today was the day we went to the national television to record a Linux segment on a weekly IT show. It went quite well, both me and Lucian ...
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28 August 2009

Masterpieces

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I am in total awe seeing what a great artist can do with Inkscape: Yes, is vector drawing, not a photo and is not easy to create something ...
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27 August 2009

The downside of using hosted services

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I strongly believe publishing something on the web involves commitment: you put the content online and have to stand by it, do not ever del...
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26 August 2009

F12 Alpha and demoing Live media

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Next week, together with an Ubuntu guy, I am going to a national television ( TVR ), we will be filming some general stuff about Linux which...
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20 August 2009

A new tentative personal photo galley

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For quite a while I was searching for a self-hosted solution for my photo gallery, willing to move away from Flickr (which I still think is...
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19 August 2009

Those damn group photos ... to be a photographer

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My camera was put to take 10 frames, I found the result funny and sharing-worthy: is a challenge when you take a group photo and want to get...
18 August 2009

GIMP and bullshitometers

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I can be sympathetic with someone arguing GIMP is not good enough for him due to the lack of CMYK support (I was bitten recently when except...
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