Manuel's Blog

[en] Black

Monday, January 4th, 2010 - homo urbanus

While I was cleaning the home desktop the other day I stumbled upon lots of old documents, photos and videos that I had made. Among those was this poem I wrote on 21 of September 2006 at 23 hours:
I tried to listen to music, but it was all hard rock.
I went for a walk and [...]

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[en] The devilish 2000 with a tail

The devilish 2000 with a tail

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010 - homo urbanus

The post you are about to read was intended to be finished and published a few minutes before 1 Jan 2010. I have not succeed in that matter.
As the time approaches 24 hours I will succumb to the social tradition of reviewing my doings in this year and think of what I want to do [...]

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[en] New old things

star-trek

Friday, December 18th, 2009 - GEEK, homo urbanus

Since I’ve been back home I’ve discovered (and redescovered) lots of things. One of those things is a paper I wrote on Star Trek last year. I think I tried to post it on my blog some other time, but anywho, I’ve uploaded it to slideshare so you can find it at: http://www.slideshare.net/manuelciosici/short-introduction-into-the-star-trek-universe-2745359

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[en] Using php on your Ubuntu to get the TED talks

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 - GEEK

Intro
Anyone who knows me a little knows I’m a big fan of the presentations on TED.com. I watch them, adore them, I learn from them and I try to imitate the techniques of good speakers there. My Google Reader is subscribed to the RSS feed of ted.com and I download almost every presentation from their [...]

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[en] Danish branded water

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 - Blogosphere

I’ve noticed something interesting in this country: people like to brand water. Although it seems a little stupid in the beginning, I think it’s a good marketing trick. I’ve seen branded water at banks, at the Student House, at a museum and at my school.

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[en] The things I hate about fronter

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 - Blogosphere, GEEK

I keep having problems when I try to use my school’s Virtual Learning System based on fronter, so I thought instead of getting pissed off all the time I might just write all my non likes in here. Maybe, a very distant maybe, some fronter developer stumbles upon them and decides they’re worthy to take [...]

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[en] Ubuntu 9.10

Sunday, November 8th, 2009 - GEEK

The new version of Ubuntu was released a bit over a week ago. I’ve been running it since

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[en] Videos from around

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 - Video Logs, homo urbanus

I finally managed to upload to Toutube all the videos I shot since I’ve been here.

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[RO] Începutul școlii și altele

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 - Blogosphere, homo urbanus

Într-adevăr nu am prea avut timp / energie să mai povestesc ce se întâmplă pe aici. Așa că acum o să încerc să mă revanșez față de cei cărora le-am promis niște detalii pe blog.

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[RO] Imagini de pe drum și de prin zonă

Friday, August 21st, 2009 - Blogosphere, homo urbanus

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