Archive for August, 2008

Priceless: We’re not cool enough

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

If you want to try-out Microsoft’s new Photosynth technology on a Mac you are up for a nice surprise:

Unfortunately, we’re not cool enough to run on your OS yet. We really wish we had a version of Photosynth that worked cross platform, but for now it only runs on Windows.

Trust us, as soon as we have a Mac version ready, it will be up and available on our site.

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Hug a developer!

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

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Smochine Orlando

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Orlando’s Figs, originally uploaded by Chewbacka.

foarte bune, mai ales la munte cand e nevoie de un boost glucidic anti-oboseala

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10.000km

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

4months / 10.000 km
4 months and 10.000km with our new friend Hawkeye

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Keep up the enthusiasm

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

I saw the job request ad below and I remembered that I had a rough week trying to prepare my most important pitch so far. It was for the job interview at MPI and I had to do a market analysis on a segment and then based on it to propose a new business in this segment and develop the business plan, forecasts, competition study, marketing plan, etc.

Initially I thought that this task was to hard for me/my experience and that I would never manage to come up with something remarkable. But, driven by the desire to get this job and to do something better for my career, I received an enthusiasm overdose and managed to see the light with my project. Presenting it was something very confusing - I didn’t know whether I was doing it right or not, I had cold feet and thought I was terrible. Everything was lightning fast (at least that’s how i felt it) and only after a couple of hours, a text message from my current boss cleared out the fog from my head - “it was excellent!”. I managed to sell myself, and I did it good.

So - important moment - high enthusiasm - over achieve - performance & success. What about the daily tasks, the moments that don’t seem that important? How do we keep up the enthusiasm? How do you stay driven everyday? How do you manage to be motivated in daily repetitive tasks and dealing with difficult clients? Always seeing the big picture? Enjoying every single thing that you do?

This guy certainty knows how to sell himself, how to make all those bad things from his past work in his advantage:

Former Marijuana Smuggler

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Hate somenthing, change something

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

“Hate something, change something” is a very powerful message and I wish I could remember it everyday and apply it accordingly in business and personal life.

But it’s also the motto for a multi-awarded Wieden+Kennedy Honda ad that has a very nice story - Kenichi Nagahiro a Honda designer - hated with all his guts the diesel engines:

How did Honda react?
It was a memorable presentation. It’s a great thing taking in a guitar. In fact, my advice is, always take in a guitar. Even if you’re not presenting a song. People can’t help being nice to people with guitars. We sang live as we flipped through our doodled storyboards. When we’d finished, Honda said ‘Make it just like you’ve presented it.’ The following five months was about trying to capture the spirit of that presentation. It was pretty much the only direction Honda gave us until we delivered the finished ad. They understood our vision was all in our heads and they encouraged us to make it happen. A truly amazing client.

Via Dragos Bucurenci

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Off to the mountains

Sunday, August 17th, 2008


IMG_1698, originally uploaded by altrix.

I can no longer stand the heat in Bucharest and decided to go for a breath of fresh air. I will be gone next week - in the mountains, Rodnei mountains. It’s been 11 years since my last visit there - I hope Ioji, the self-taught bodybuilder mountain rescuer is still there so I can have a drink with him and remember the old times.

600km away from Bucharest, in northern Romania - probably we will also reach Maramures - famous for the incredible scenery and wooden churches.

I scheduled some posts for Tuesday and Wednesday. See ya soon.

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Russia vs Georgia

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

russia vs geogia, originally uploaded by Chewbacka.

In case you don’t have time to read the news, here’s the short, but debatable version. Via Dailywebb.

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Scottish Apartments

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Teenage Sex doll, originally uploaded by Chewbacka.

UGC gone bad - Moderator on vacation or maybe just something left out on purpose to generate some additional traffic? :)

Just click on the upper right image with the bedroom on this page. Apparently the nice bedroom comes with an inflatable teenage sex doll :)

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Metallica’s “Death Magnetic” coming on September 12th

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Metallica Announcement
Death Magnetic
Good news for fans - Metallica’s new album will be released worldwide on September 12th and as the band stated in some recent interviews this new album is more in the old style (Re-Load) of Metallica rather than being similar with St. Anger. Here is the official tracklist:

  • That Was Just Your Life
  • The End Of The Line
  • Broken, Beat & Scarred
  • The Day That Never Comes
  • All Nightmare Long
  • Cyanide
  • The Unforgiven III
  • The Judas Kiss
  • Suicide & Redemption
  • My Apocalypse

One title immediately jumps out: “The Unforgiven III,” following the Metallica’s “The Unforgiven” and roughly 11 years after ReLoad’s “The Unforgiven II.” The rest of the song titles are packed with common Metallica-esque themes of nightmares, suicides and the apocalypse.

More about this album in RollingStone magazine.

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