tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52754729434681033602024-03-13T15:23:31.924+01:00My Only BlogRomulus Grigorashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019065106987077890noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275472943468103360.post-42416238819959483272015-03-02T08:20:00.002+01:002015-03-02T08:22:15.010+01:00Life of a Frequent TravellerA very true argument: I agree with every word of it!
"This is not a glamorous life: Waking up in the middle of the night and forgetting where you are, watching the weather forecasts intently, sprinting to make your connection, and don't get me started on the bureaucratic rules that big companies set for their staff (one of the reasons I love working at a startups)." <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/million-milers-tips-cut-business-travel-burnout-bob-gilbreath">Read here</a>Romulus Grigorashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019065106987077890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275472943468103360.post-46259976526745813352012-05-25T13:30:00.003+02:002012-05-25T13:31:58.884+02:00Effective Point&Shoot Urinals ?It seems like the Dutch are really concerned about the cleanliness of their toilets, in a country where beer consumption is not very low ...
They've come out with a god idea to help men better "focus" while they're urinating: <a href="http://nudges.wordpress.com/the-amsterdam-urinals/">a black fly etched into the urinals</a>Romulus Grigorashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019065106987077890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275472943468103360.post-12316615487300693112012-01-27T09:30:00.003+01:002012-01-28T22:08:59.699+01:00Welsh 3-digit PhoneHere is my (important) contribution: silly things you can find around the world: a 3-digit (1-2-3) emergency phone on which you're supposed to dial 999 to ask for help ;)<br />
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In case you want to check it by yourself, it is at Worm's Head (GPS coordinates are +51° 33' 48.26", -4° 18' 15.88" (51.563406, -4.304411)).<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-s6oekX8rawY/TyJg4mLNVcI/AAAAAAAAFMM/PhJEtV9ipd0/s1600/3digitphone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="211" width="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-s6oekX8rawY/TyJg4mLNVcI/AAAAAAAAFMM/PhJEtV9ipd0/s320/3digitphone.jpg" /></a></div>Romulus Grigorashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019065106987077890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275472943468103360.post-78262312398286603562012-01-11T13:46:00.000+01:002012-01-11T13:46:01.221+01:00Deux culottesVu de l'extérieur, on semble bien s'amuser à la police: une <a href="http://prdchroniques.blog.lemonde.fr/2012/01/10/une-enquete-sur-le-fil-a-linge/">enquête sur le vol de deux culottes</a> !Romulus Grigorashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019065106987077890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275472943468103360.post-58539480366912845002011-05-24T18:10:00.002+02:002011-05-24T18:17:15.326+02:00Real Women Don't Write Programs !Just found this humorous scientific <a href="http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1383647">paper</a> written by Carol (a woman who apparently can program) ! Excerpts:<br />
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3. SOME SOCIAL BARRIERS TO FEMALE<br />
PARTICIPATION IN COMPUTER SCIENCE<br />
COURSES<br />
3.1 Real Women Don’ t Date Computer Geeks<br />
Real women don’t change tyres, mow lawns, or date<br />
computer geeks.<br />
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4.1 Real Women Don’ t Write Programs<br />
Real women don’t pump gas, like mathematics, or write<br />
programs.<br />
4.2 Most Women Can’t Program<br />
An employer explained to me why he had not interviewed<br />
any of my female students for a graduate IT position in his<br />
company. “Most women” he said, clearly and slowly,<br />
“can’t program.”<br />
Of course, he is absolutely correct. Most women can’t<br />
program. Most men can’ t program either. What most men<br />
and real women have in common is that they are<br />
unembarrassed by their lack of programming ability.Romulus Grigorashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019065106987077890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275472943468103360.post-14665031774985920362010-10-10T19:32:00.000+02:002010-10-10T19:36:16.104+02:00Towards Experiential ComputingIt has been a few years since I've been looking for a clever system able to capture rich media experiences. I've been attending large conferences, where I desperately felt the need to capture, in a rich and meaningful way, diverse experiences: talks, random or prepared meetings, ephemeral chats, sightseeings etc.<br />
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Could not find anything. I discovered some research work such as <a href="http://www.cdvp.dcu.ie/SenseCam/publications.html">LifeLog</a> or <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/mylifebits/">MyLifeBits</a>. And now I see a bit more clearly into the problem, thanks to Ramesh Jain. Life=Experiences (Events) . Laptops and phones are not computers, they are experiential devices. They enable us to capture and share experiences, and consequently create knowledge. Watch the talk <a href="http://royalsociety.tv/dpx_royalsociety/dpx.php?cmd=autoplay&type=solo&pres=507&dpxuser=dpx_v12">here</a>.Romulus Grigorashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019065106987077890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275472943468103360.post-19703212882754329352010-10-04T23:13:00.000+02:002010-10-10T19:35:26.057+02:00Another Sync NightmareEvery now and then, honest people, using modern technology, spend hours, late in the night, crawling through the forums,looking for a tiny piece of wisdom that would help them do very simple things: synchronize emails, calendars ...<br />
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I hate blogging about this, but I have to admit that it is a big relief when you find the magic cure. So, if you're the happy owner of an iPhone 4 and you want to synchronize with multiple Google calendars, this is the info you may desperately look for : <a href="https://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect">https://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect</a> once you're logged in.<br />
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All other details (why ? how ? where ? etc) are useless.<br />
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Good luck !Romulus Grigorashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019065106987077890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275472943468103360.post-27108798740567590932010-04-02T09:51:00.000+02:002010-10-10T19:36:00.798+02:00Cute Theories : The Hemline IndexReading around J2EE technology articles, I ran into a <a href="http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Lessons-Learned-from-Java-EE">presentation</a> given by a "respectable" Java architect that extrapolated (s49) the famous hemline index to complexity of the Java enterprise platform. The original, 1926 Hemline index <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/34787/The-Hemline-Economy">stated </a> that woman's skirts are short when the economy is booming, and they grow longer during an economic downturn. This applied to Java gives: companies are accepting more complex software platforms when the economy is doing well.<br />
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Let me try to provide an extrapolation of the hemline index: well thought, thoroughly tested and validated through extensive field studies : high alcohol consumption is strongly related to economic woes ...Romulus Grigorashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019065106987077890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275472943468103360.post-70611344828410824702009-11-29T15:44:00.000+01:002010-10-10T19:36:42.668+02:00Identity questions : make people busy arguing and forget about real problemsRecently the French governement (namely the Minister of Immigration ... and National Identity) have launched nation-wide debates about national identity or, more precisely, about French identity. <br />
At first, I thought : "cool, it's gonna spur debates and let's see what people, collectively, come up with". I am myself only a few years old as an official French citizen.<br />
But my second impression was amazement. The timing seems strange. It is a time when Europe is challenged with reforms that would make it more effective and therefore meaningful, with expansion (and celebration of the expansion) to the East etc. Europe has just (compromizingly) designated its president and its foreign affairs representative. Worldwide, countries are still struggling to get out of the financial crisis. Fighting hunger or various large-scale diseases, fighting global warming have increased the consciousness of citizens all over the world.<br />
At this particular time, the French do not ask themselves "what is a European", nor "what is a good world citizen". No. They are busy debating about "what defines a French" ...<br />
I also tried to ask myself these difficult questions. My family and friends are spread all over the world: my parents continue to live in Romania, my sister lives in Britain, one brother-in-law lives in Cyprus, another in Canada ... Do we all share something anything else than blood ties ?<br />
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On many media, journalists, experts very often mention that common values, such as those formalized in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, are what define Frenchship. While it is true that the French were the first to formalize them in the form of a declaration, then as a the 1791 Constitution, these values have become universally accepted by democratic countries.<br />
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The more I think about it the more I have the feeling that this debate over French identity is a buzz. A clever buzz, spread by the government in order to get people distracted from real problems (economy is shrinking, unemployement is bad, politics is as dirty as ever etc). Our hyper-prezident can relax a bit: we're all busy brainstorming about national identity. Unofortunately, this has a more vicious effect : some of us are incidentally blaming not-so-good French, citizens of unhealthy origin, as the cause of many of our problems. Demonization, nationalism, they're only a few steps away.Romulus Grigorashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019065106987077890noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275472943468103360.post-81536461283687303152009-10-11T19:26:00.000+02:002010-10-10T19:37:08.150+02:00My Third Toast to SiberiaA week ago I came back from Krasnoyarsk. My first trip ever to Russia, my fir<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jjySTMfnR-A/StInSMIY9BI/AAAAAAAAEoQ/lb-6YR0GW-s/s1600-h/siblandscape.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jjySTMfnR-A/StInSMIY9BI/AAAAAAAAEoQ/lb-6YR0GW-s/s320/siblandscape.jpg" alt="Taiga seen from Stolby Heights" id="Taiga seen from Stolby Heights" border="0" /></a>st trip to the mythical Siberia. While traveling back, I had an undistinctive feeling of loss. It's like after a party, very early in the morning. The party goers are all tired, lying on the sofas, the music is dim, and you can hear the new day cracking. You can feel the nice, subtle warmness of the subsequent layers of alcohol in your blood. You've made new friends out of complete strangers, and with some of them you got really close: nice, deep discussions made you get so close, that it was like you've been knowing each other since childhood. You've explored together ideas and feelings, you've traveled together through extraordinary stories. And once of a sudden, you realize that you have to get back to the real world. The party is over.<br />
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It was a trip full of excitement. My positive expectations were pushed further. Beautiful, wide landscapes. Impressive infrastructures. Nice, charming people. Warm layers of vodka, soft blankets against the imminent cold weather and effective catalyzers for human links. And before each layer of vodka, a toast. Every participant has his/her turn. A surprising custom that provides the act of drinking with a real social importance: you are really together via a story, a dedication or some witty or nice words. I was told that the third toast is the most important, and it's usually said by a man: the toast for love.<br />
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This is my modest, third toast to Siberia.Romulus Grigorashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019065106987077890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275472943468103360.post-66670578075944306342009-04-28T00:04:00.000+02:002010-10-10T19:37:30.744+02:00Laboratory for the incubation of hectic thoughtsPotential future blogs ...<br />
<ul><li>the web of thought : how to manage the quasi-chaotic emergence of interlinked ideas</li>
<li>what are the catalysts of this process ? Dialogging with a physical person, remarkable events, chemical stimuli (alcohol, smoke, sexmotions=sexually-linked emotions) ? Blogging, as a way of dialogging with unknown, virtully passive passive or in a loosly-coupled two-way dialogue ? The stochastic, semi-guided emergence of thoughts and emotions ?</li>
<li>mastering the power of emotions in the workplace</li>
<li>emotionally-lubricated professional relationship (The Pope, codoms and emotions)</li>
<li>Mathematics of weddings</li>
</ul>Romulus Grigorashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019065106987077890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275472943468103360.post-6912162174610507782009-04-27T23:51:00.000+02:002010-10-10T19:37:58.575+02:00Men Crying(This is a post written a month ago, forgotten in a file somewhere)<br />
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Emotions. According to a recent study (unable to state the source, I heard this on the radio a few weeks ago), kids have difficulties in understanding the way adults react to dramatic events showed on TV news. Does this mean that people become increasingly unnafected by world's disasters? Is it because they have grown up next to parents who apparently have been unable to express emotions and therefore "teaching" them flat, blank psychological reactions ?<br />
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More generally, why do adults try hard to hide their emotions ? Be able not to show that you are distressed, angry, unhappy or joyfull, why is this considered as a psychological strength or an evidence of self-control, highly praised as an important professional skill ? Is it really right to force most emotions out of the workplace, and negative emotions out of the personal relations sphere ? How can emotions streamline human communication (for example, use the power of joy to help motivate the others, use the "back-to-reality" energy of dissaproval or worryness for getting something done right ) ?<br />
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... Some time ago, I interviewed a male student who was obviously very frustrated for trying to get a scholarship, a few times, unsuccessfully. He nearly burst into tears, as he did not understand what went wrong, nor why he got so emotional, that only worsened his distress ...Romulus Grigorashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019065106987077890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275472943468103360.post-74432044448579435882009-03-01T09:17:00.000+01:002010-10-10T19:38:36.134+02:00In a Western Plane Heading Back from EastBack from a business trip to Romania, in the plane, I was reading a newspaper article about the risk of mixing up toghether the countries in Eastern Europe when it comes to describing their struggle with the current financial crisis. Or their faltering currencies.<br />
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I'm a Romanian-born people working in academia in southern France. I also represent my university in eastern european countries. Or at least this is how I introduce myself.<br />
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Seen from Toulouse and other places in the western world that might still be called the oldworld, heights of culture and civilisation, countries of eastern Europe look very much the same. Truly but sadly, these countries are best known as places where western companies delocalise to make more profit and bolster unemployment at home, where old Europe has invested a lot of money to help the poor cousins rise their heads after the dark communist era. The place where beautiful girls come from.<br />
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Ten to twenty years ago Romanians used to speak about the west. Going west, at that time, was a fine per se. Many people went west, no matter where, just to escape the hunting image of communism followed by wild capitalism and lack of a healthy civil society. Those times have gone by now. Romanians choose to go to Italy or Spain for work or tourism because they know they<br />
can learn the language more easily. They go to France because they know a lot about its culinary art or interesting places tourism-wise. Now that they can freely travel and almost freely work around Europe, now that information travels easily, hardly anyone speaks about "the west" anymore.<br />
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And in the west ? Well, we continue to consider the ex-communist, eastern european countries as a block. Apart from the annoingly (for Romanians and Hungarians) mistake when intermingling phonetically Budapest and Bucharest, it is quite easy to appreciate each country's special characteristics: the painted monasteries of northern Romania, the vibrant, beautiful city<br />
of Budapest, the oriental charm of Bucharest, the neatness, old bricks of Prague. Each country's uniqueness is even more apparent when it comes to food: despite the common assumptions, there are hardly any eastern Europe restaurants. Tourist may choose to eat Hungarian, Romanian or Serb or else Italian or French. But never eastern European.<br />
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You may still not be convinced by my argument and I honestly think it's not that easy. Eastern Europe people have a lot in common, apart from a tough common history. I feel that we/they all share a strong will to succeed, a natural taste for strong alcohols and unhealthy food, and "a lot of compassion for their poorly-minded, geography-agnostic" western cousins.Romulus Grigorashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019065106987077890noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275472943468103360.post-55081333686139729902008-04-14T09:57:00.000+02:002010-10-10T19:39:00.102+02:00Review of April Fool's day TransactionsIn our private life, some people (including myself) try to cheer up by making fun of whatever happens. Profesionally, this is a lot trickier, for obvious reasons.<br />
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I can only applaud this initiative that gives scientists a "decent", respectable way of having a scientific delirium : the <a href="http://exmo.inrialpes.fr/%7Ezimmer/afd2008.html">Review of April Fool's day Transactions</a> stresses the importance<br />
and necessity to study needless, pointless and useless topics but with scientific rigour.<br />
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I do not usually make negative wishes, but I just hope that the author of <a href="http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/%7Emiller/publications/miller02.pdf">Why I Will Never Have A Girlfriend</a> will prove himself to be wrong ... soon.Romulus Grigorashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019065106987077890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275472943468103360.post-31949186078801685562008-02-16T23:41:00.000+01:002010-10-10T19:39:46.747+02:00ActiveSync via BluetoothAfter many hours of trying, I've finally managed to sync using Bluetooth. The main, BIG problem I had, was that Nokia's PC suite program was running on the laptop and screwed Bluetooth config/accessibility.<br />
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Conclusion: in order to have it working, follow the HTC Wiki <a href="http://www.htcwiki.com/page/activesync+via+bluetooth?t=anon">page</a> and:<br />
<a href="http://www.htcwiki.com/page/activesync+via+bluetooth?t=anon"></a><ul><li>On the Bluetooth properties window, go to "COM Ports" tab and identify the incoming port(port entrant). On my machine this is COM10. If there isn't any, do a "Add port", wait for ages then you should have it.<br />
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<li>Mobile and PC are linked via the USB cable and ActiveSync works.</li>
<li>Goto to Active Sync's Connection parameters and tell it to use your incoming port (COM10 for me)</li>
<li>Unplug the USB cable, start active sync on the mobile, goto the menu Connection via Bluetooth, it will probably tell you the devices are not paired. Then pair them and look for the services offered by the PC (you should see ActiveSync) and check the corresponding box. This will automatically create an outcoming port and ...</li>
<li>You're up and running<br />
</li>
</ul>Romulus Grigorashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019065106987077890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275472943468103360.post-61545988148441430712008-02-16T21:57:00.001+01:002008-02-16T23:41:00.585+01:00Mobile Internet is trickyI finally managed to correctly configure my HTC 3600 (with an SFR contract, called SFR300+) to serve as a relay for my laptop connecting to Internet. I subscribed to Pass Surf 2.0 which gives me unlimited (under fair usage conditions for under 500MB/month) HTTP traffic for 9.90 euros/month via a WAP proxy FROM MY MOBILE. The usage I make (from my PC) is not allowed:), so be aware !<br /><br />Case 1 : Use the wap proxy of SFR.<ul><li>I needed to configure my browser (Firefox) to use another user agent string (Nokia Series60/3.1) and a proxy (195.115.25.129:8080). The connexion betwee, the PC and the mobile can be done either via</li><ul><li>USB : the easiest way</li><li>Bluetooth: you need to connect to the Bluetooth PAN (e.g. In Win XP, under Network Connections of the Control Panel)</li></ul><li>In both cases, on the phone, the bridge between the PC connection (USB or Bluetooth) and the mobile connexion (WAP) can be done using the small Internet Sharing program on the mobile (already installed as "Partage Internet" on my mobile). Detailed instructions found <a href="http://www.spawnrider.net/blogs/2008/01/22/sfr-la-3g-illimite-sur-son-ordinateur/">here</a> and for a Mac <a href="http://blogs.chollier.com/articles/2007/11/29/sfr-internet-illimite-sur-un-mac-pc-cest-possible">here</a>.</li><li>Thereafter anytime you want to connect you should:</li><ol><li>Prepare the web browser on the PC (user agent and proxy)<br /></li><li>Launch the Internet Sharing program on the mobile and click connect</li><li>Connect the Bluetooth PAN on the PC</li><li>Go web surfing !<br /></li></ol></ul>Case 2 : use a general data connection (WEB SFR GPRS)<br /><br /><ul><li>The WAP access allows you only to do HTTP via the proxy. If you want to use any other protocol (e.g. IMAP or POP3 for downloading emails) then you need to use WEB SFR (you pay for each connection, something like 1.5 euros/for the first MB, then 0.5 euros/MB)</li><li>The same procedure as for the WAP apply for connecting.<br /></li></ul>Romulus Grigorashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019065106987077890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275472943468103360.post-46521402801327976472008-01-20T21:18:00.000+01:002008-01-20T21:26:32.729+01:00My old laptop is dead<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_jjySTMfnR-A/R5OuXJzHKII/AAAAAAAACSU/neh51x59wTo/s1600-h/laptop.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_jjySTMfnR-A/R5OuXJzHKII/AAAAAAAACSU/neh51x59wTo/s320/laptop.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157657711059871874" border="0" /></a><br />It has been serving me for more than 6 years and it would have served me even more if I did not want to open it and have a look inside. I tried to take off the DVD-ROM player and after assembling it back again, the laptop could not wake anymore ... Pitty for this brave Medion 9580-A (aka Asus L8400) ! RIPRomulus Grigorashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019065106987077890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275472943468103360.post-44826833792000802262008-01-13T19:51:00.000+01:002010-10-10T19:40:22.516+02:00Europe in my pants : my longest label ever<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_jjySTMfnR-A/R4pebZzHKHI/AAAAAAAACSM/msqjzrISpJ8/s1600-h/longlabel.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_jjySTMfnR-A/R4pebZzHKHI/AAAAAAAACSM/msqjzrISpJ8/s320/longlabel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5155036548353697906" border="0" /></a><br />
Yesterday I did some shopping in a "high-street" shop called Lidl and bought a pair of running trousers. And there surprise: inside the pants I found the longest cloth label I've ever seen, for people speaking 20 languages...Romulus Grigorashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019065106987077890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275472943468103360.post-31918851974632574962008-01-03T22:12:00.000+01:002010-10-10T19:40:53.815+02:00Me and my mother-in-lawI sometimes make fun of my <span style="font-style: italic;">poor </span>self since I'm married. Well, I am lucky to have a good relation with my mother-in-law, the "oh, so feared mother-in-law". Yesterday I heard some funny sayings about it:<br />
<ul><li>Quand on achète une maison, on regarde les poutres et quand on "prend femme", on regarde sa mère. <span style="font-style: italic;">When you buy a house, you check the beams and when you get married, have a look at your fiancée's mother.</span></li>
<li>Le mariage n'est pas la mer à boire, c'est la belle-mère à avaler. Difficult to translate: <span style="font-style: italic;">Marriage is not as difficult as drinking the sea's water, but standing the mother-in-law</span>.<br />
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</ul>Romulus Grigorashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019065106987077890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275472943468103360.post-12379708110680191622007-12-09T17:18:00.000+01:002007-12-09T17:23:14.943+01:00Designing presentation slides in XHTML+CSSHanging around the web I ran into another package for making presentation slides<br /><br /><a href="http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/">S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System<br /></a><br />I gave it a quick try, it's not bad ... and especially lightweight. I think I'll use it for teaching Web technologies (XML, CSS, JavaScript).Romulus Grigorashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019065106987077890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275472943468103360.post-14899590839802965062007-12-01T12:13:00.000+01:002007-12-01T12:59:15.144+01:00Valeurs Mutualistes : le magazine des adhérents MGENJe reçois ce magazine de la <a href="http://www.mgen.fr/">MGEN</a> depuis plusieurs années, mais c'est pour la première fois que je l'ai lu presque en entier. Qqs articles qui mon bien plu:<br /><ul><li>Des sites d'information sur la santé : doctissimo.fr, e-sante.fr ou bien cismef.fr<br /></li><li>L'article sur les conflit du monde. En 2006 , 278 conflits et crises ont été recencés, contre 78 en 1945 et 210 en 1989. Aujourd'hui il y a 6 guerres ouvertes et 29 crises sévères (conflits avec violence). Le monde est en plein processus de fragmentation ...</li><li>L'article sur l'éthique biomédicale. La bioéthique de la valeur monétaire: achat de sang, de sperme, d'organes, la location d'utérus, le stockage de sang de cordon ombilical (en vue d'utiliser les cellules souches si l'enfant venat, adulte, à contracter une maladie grave) etc.</li><li>L'article sur la mémoire, cette machine inexacte.<br /></li><li>L'article sur le sport. Les différentes lésions possibles: la crampe, les courbatures, les contractures (lumbago,torticoli), les atteintes musculaires (élongations, claquage, déchirures et ruptures)<br /></li></ul>Romulus Grigorashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019065106987077890noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275472943468103360.post-34889732071493903512007-11-21T09:06:00.000+01:002008-01-03T22:23:56.146+01:00On my nameI know a little more about the origin of my name: the cave where Romulus and Remus are said to be fed/suckled by a wolf has been discovered on a hill in Roma (<a href="http://www.repubblica.it/2007/11/sezioni/spettacoli_e_cultura/romolo-e-remo/romolo-e-remo/romolo-e-remo.html">more</a>)Romulus Grigorashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019065106987077890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5275472943468103360.post-22553120869305900112007-05-20T18:25:00.000+02:002007-05-20T18:28:28.981+02:00My First Cry<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_jjySTMfnR-A/RlB3HNgUOOI/AAAAAAAAAAM/vUKlns0okjo/s1600-h/a1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_jjySTMfnR-A/RlB3HNgUOOI/AAAAAAAAAAM/vUKlns0okjo/s320/a1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066680546559801570" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A b c d</span><br />I learn the alphabet at Caillava<br /><ul><li>unu</li><li>doi</li><li>trei</li><li>patru</li></ul>Romulus Grigorashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019065106987077890noreply@blogger.com1