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 breathe through me,
Don’t live only for my touch.
Don’t love me so much.
(by Vica++)
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 'he/she', others write 'he or she', others pick only 'he' or 'she'.
This can be annoying sometimes, especially when you're debating a problem with a group (with >=1 ladies in it). I've noticed that they prefer to use 'he', which is pretty uncool if the problem being debated is of a "men vs women" flavour... men are displayed in a bad light by default :-) Here's an example:
"Imagine that the user has accidentally deleted a file, he will not notice the disappearance immediately, and when he does, it can be too late."
Why he? Don't women delete files by accident?
Some try to remedy the problem by writing 'he/she' or 'he or she' - which bloats the text, making it longer and uglier. This is where they come into action.
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 fără ţintă...
Cuvintele mă lasă
Se-ascund adînc în zare...
In ceaţă se dizolvă,
Pamîntul sub picioare,
Albastrul este roşu,
Ce a fost sus - e jos,
Departele-i aproape,
Şi totul e pe dos...
Întinde a ta mînă
Şi cheamă-mă la tine,
Permite-mi să dezvălui
Ce-nsemni tu pentru mine.
Patriotii din Banca de Economii si din Deeplace si-au amintit de vremurile de glorie a Romei antice :-)
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 reason, b2evolution (the blog engine used on this site) is not included in the list of supported blogs (which is definitely a show stopper for the inexperienced end-user). Knowing that b2evo supports the MetaWeblog API, I knew that BlogDesk should work with it (this is the beauty of developing standards and then creating standards-compliant products).
Initially, it didn't. The problem was fixed easily, after I contacted the author of BlogDesk (and received an instant reply, wow!). The program's built-in logging mode allowed me to understand that out-of-the-box, b2evo's XMLRPC communication mechanism will also send some debugging information along with the reply to the requests that come from the blog client. That debugging information was not parsed correctly, resulting in an error - thus the inability to use the software.
If you've encountered the same problem, you should edit /xmlsrv/xmlrpc.php in b2evo's folder, and comment out all the calls to the xmlrpc_debugmsg function. Once you do that, everything should work.
Update: In b2evolution 2.x, the following file must be edited: /inc/xmlrpc/apis/_metaweblog.api.php
This is the first post I make using BlogDesk, I'll definitely stick to this program. I'd like to thank Johannes Oppermann, the program's author, for creating such a nice product and giving it away for free. I'm impressed.
P.S. So far I was unable to post entries that contain Russian or Romanian characters using this tool, I'm still working on that.
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 different point of view.
"I don't need luck, I've got science!"
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 when such decisions have to be made, because I am always getting attached to my gadgets and devices, I treat them with care and the thought that they may end up in bad hands is not comforting me.
Nevertheless, I need space, so there you go: 999.md/Board/Message.aspx?MsgID=100513 - 21" HP P1110 //Trinitron FD, 170$-delta. The price is quite high, you say? Well, pay attention to the delta variable, the value of which varies. If I find a person who seems nice, delta will be pretty large :-)
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 elements behind it. Various solutions are proposed as well; the solutions tend to be different from the classical approaches society has chosen so far, and in my opinion - the new methods can have a positive impact. The essay summarizes all its ideas in a nice chart, you can print it, set it as a wallpaper, or wear a T-shirt with it... Tattoos could be a good idea too!
Control Zed - mic volum de poezii, cu ilustratii facute de mine. Poezii de dragoste? Dezamagire? Auto-analiza? Vezi singur... si incearca sa gasesti referintele ascunse in text.
Intelligence grows on trees - An attempt to understand what is intelligence and how it can be measured. The story does not pretend to be one's comprehensive guide to intelligence, it is just a set of thoughts laid down on paper and accompanied by nice pictures.
Select++ - O incercare de a analiza relatiile interpersonale, ce sta la baza lor, cum evolueaza acestea, si cum se sfirsesc. Studiul este bazat pe un sondaj efectuat in citeva institutii de invatamint din Chisinau; obiectivul sondajului a fost de a determina care sunt calitatile pe care le cauta o fata intr-un baiat, si cum ar trebui sa fie o relatie perfecta in viziunea unei fete.
The inevitable return of the finger - A short love story, based on events that took place in the real world.
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 un picior,
Udată de ploaie...
Un copil vesel
Umbrela mi-a rupt.
Într-o seară m-am apucat să scriu un haiku. Desigur că mi-am dat seama că nu e uşor din prima oară, deoarece un haiku trebuie să respecte anumite specificaţii. În rezultat am obţinut altceva. Acest "altceva" mai apoi a fost modificat, şi am obţinut "altceva#2". În final, rezultatul a fost derivat încă o dată, şi am obţinut ceea ce a devenit a doua ghicitoare.
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 veşnicia.
În cîteva clipe
Cuprind universul,
Şi iarăşi cu tine
Mă văd ţinînd mersul.
Am revenit,
Încălzind a ta mînă,
Am înţeles
Că sunt cu o zînă…