Area51, here be raliens

It's been a while since I promised myself I would describe the image labeling tool that my colleagues and I have developed about a month ago. Several people asked, it's better to describe it once rather than repeat myself every time one's curiosity… more »

I definitely recommend it, you should watch it. It covers some interesting ideas about the (ir)reversibility of our actions, free will, time, cause and effect, etc. It has something in common with 'Minority Report', it also shares some elements with the… more »

UTM, dragostea mea. In curind nu voi mai fi acolo, si deja ma apuca nostalgia. De fapt, am inceput sa observ asta inca anul trecut, c'est la vie. Oamenii se ataseaza nu doar de alti oameni. Oricum, iata ce am gasit in unul din laboratoare :-) Se vede ca… more »

Don’t call me every hour, Don’t buy me every flower. Don’t turn my whim into your goal Don’t let me take over your soul! Don’t get a tattoo of my name. That I am yours – do not proclaim. Don’t beg me for a date. When I am gone, don’t ever wait. Don’t… more »

All of us have been there at one point in time, many of us might not have noticed it though. Have you ever found yourself in the situation in which you had to express an idea about someone doing something, referring to them as 'he' or 'she'? Some write… more »

Labirint Încerc să fiu eu însumi, În măşti mă rătăcesc Eu mi-am pierdut esenţa, Nu pot s-o regăsesc. O umbră fără formă Răsare în oglindă... Ecou fără de sunet... Privire… more »

Patriotii din Banca de Economii si din Deeplace si-au amintit de vremurile de glorie a Romei antice :-) more »

BlogDesk is my latest greatest discovery. I've tried multiple blog clients, among them - Windows Live Writer, w.bloggar, dotPost, and maybe a couple of others. BlogDesk is definitely the nicest of them all. It didn't work out of the box, for some… more »

A friend of mine describes a wicked situation which is very familiar to me. As a man, I must agree that it sucks to be there. Well, the bright side is that a technical background and some basic math-skills enable me to analyze the problem from a… more »

I've decided that I've had enough of my 21" CRT Monitor. It is great, it does everything I need, and I love it. The only drawback is that it takes a tremendous amount of space on my desktop, and it is time to change it to something slimmer. I hate it… more »

At times, the things I write turn into (relatively) larger projects. Each item in the list points to the project's page, where you can read more, and leave your comments. Reverse engineering corruption - An essay that examines corruption and the… more »

Ghicitoarea#1 Paraşuta s-a deschis Sunetul a orbit milioane, Oameni ca frunzele cad. Au făcut-o americanii. Ghicitoarea#2 Paraşuta nu s-a dechis, Sunetul unui bec stricat. O lumină s-a stins, Noaptea s-a lăsat. Ghicitoarea#3 Pe… more »

Taci Atingerea ta E una divină, De viaţă mă umplu Ţinînd a ta mînă Pământul îmi fuge De sub picioare, Prin haine aripi Încet se strecoară. Brusc, explodez! La viteza luminii Mă îndepărtez, Sorbind… more »

We’ve done a cool $50 million of R & D on the Apple Human Interface. We discovered, among other things, two pertinent facts: Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing. The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster… more »

Untitled_Text_045 (help me) În noaptea asta iarăşi Mă văd în vis zburînd, Cum vîntul mă ajută Ancora s-o desprind... Gustat-am fericirea, Cu aştrii am vorbit... Dar am pierdut aripa Şi jos m-am prăbuşit… more »

2007 is here, and 2006 is 'there'. I'd like to wish everyone a happy and productive year. But guys, keep in mind that my wishing this has no real effect on what actually goes on in your lives. If I chew a bubble gum, the effect is the same ;-) In other… more »

For the past 2 weeks I've been experiencing a very annoying problem with my computer - it became painfully slow. Alt+tabbing between windows, or minimizing a window would 'choke' the audio player; It took ages to go into hibernate, it would take longer… more »