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Am zis sa fac putina reclama site-urilor pe care le vizitez mai des, asa ca iata feedurile pe care le am incarcate in Sage. Enjoy and happy surfing!

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CNET News.com
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Hockey Zombie
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IT

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a glimpse in the children’s world
gânduri de bine
la vie – reve d’enfants
how to taste an orange.
Sandossu
[memory dump]
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My own Photoblog.
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Veselie mare vineri seara la OTV. Initiatorii ‘marelui bilet’ in valoare de 137.000 de euro au scos din seif banii stransi de la cei 623 de romani care si-au pus sperantele in varianta de 23 de numere a lui Ogica. ‘Acestia sunt banii pe care ii vom juca duminica. Ii aratam tuturor, pentru ca asa suntem noi, transparenti, in tot ceea ce facem’, ne-a declarat bosul OTV, Dan Diaconescu. [Sursa: Libertatea]

Astfel, Stelian Ogica, pe banii romanilor prostilor, a ales urmatoarele variante:

Varianta A: 2, 3, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 29, 31, 33, 36, 38, 41,
Varianta B: 8, 17, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 37, 39, 48
Varianta C: 4, 5, 11, 19, 22, 24, 28, 29, 30, 39, 48.

Asta-seara, duminica, 26 august 2007, la tragerea loto 6/49 difuzata de TVR, stupoare, care mai departe vor fi transformata (cu siguranta) in tristete si ura fata de acest “guru” al loteriei: Numerele extrase au fost: 46, 35, 42, 1, 2, 34.

Concluzia e simpla. Din cele ‘jdemii de numere alese de Ogica si ceata lui a iesit doar 1 (unul!), iar banii romanilor care si-au pus sperantele in acestia au ingrosat balanta contabila a Loteriei Nationale la venituri cu inca 137.000 de euro.

Felicitari domnilor Stelian Ogica, Dan Diaconescu si amicilor lor, care au reusit sa traga in teapa mai multi oameni ca Vlad Ţepes!

Your Five Variable Love Profile

Propensity for Monogamy:
Your propensity for monogamy is low.
You see love as a gift that you should give to many.
It’s hard for you to imagine being with one person at at time…
Let alone one person for the rest of your life!

Experience Level:

Your experience level is high.
You’ve loved, lost, and loved again.
You have had a wide range of love experiences.
And when the real thing comes along, you know it!

Dominance:

Your dominance is low.
This doesn’t mean you’re a doormat, just balanced.
You know a relationship is not about getting your way.
And you love to give your sweetie a lot of freedom.

Cynicism:

Your cynicism is low.
You are an eternal optimist when it comes to love and romance.
No matter how many times you’ve been hurt – you’re never bitter.
You believe in one true love, your perfect soulmate.
And if you haven’t found true love yet, you know you will soon.

Independence:

Your independence is medium.
In relationships, you need both “me time” and “we time.”
You usually find it easy to be part of a couple.
But occasionally you start to feel a little smothered.

This is somehow a reply to Guy Kawasaki’s “By the Numbers: How I built a Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Citizen Journalism, Long-Tail, Social Media Site for $12,107.09“. I don’t want people to think that I have some issues or something with it. I’ve read a few months ago his post about the creation of Truemors.com. I liked the idea, wasn’t revolutionary, but it was a new approach to social bookmarking. Yesterday I tried to post a story from one of my websites and I was disappointed by the upload/post part of the website. It’s a ten-cent app that will upload your entries to a db, put them on the first page, until a “Truemorist” will delete it for no specific reason. Let’s take a closer look at the post form:

• It will ask for your name (no account!), and you can post as John Doe, Danny De Vito or even Arnold Schwarzenegger, no one will know for sure.
• Then you’ll need to fill in the e-mail and you could use johndoe@microsoft.com because it’s not gonna be used for confirmation or anything else.
• Worst categories list I’ve ever seen. I won’t even insist on that.
• The “Headline” … h e a d l i n e … wtf happened to “Title” ? 🙂
• and now… the hugest BS damn thing in this site: “Your Truemor”. Now this is the point where everything gets fucked-up. It’s just a simple textbox . So you type, you enter your story and then you click submit. And then… “AAAARRRGGGHHH !!! where are my links?” Exactly. To insert a link in truemors.com you need tot type the HTML code. Who the hell is still doing this when we have web2.0 apps, WYSIWYG editors, user-management platforms. It’s the damn 21st century.

So, Guy Kawasaki spent $12,107.09 on truemors.com, by doing this

1. $4,500. The total software development cost was $4,500. The guys at Electric Pulp did the work. Honestly, I wasn’t a believer in remote teams trying to work together on version 1 of a product, but Electric Pulp changed my mind.
2. $4,824.14. The total cost of the legal fees was $4,824.14. I could have used my uncle the divorce lawyer and saved a few bucks, but that would have been short sighted if Truemors ever becomes worth something.
3. $399. I paid LogoWorks $399 to design the logo. Of course, this was before HP bought the company. Not sure what it would charge now. 🙂
4. $1,115.05. I spent $1,115.05 registering domains. I could have used GoDaddy and done it a lot cheaper, but I was too stupid and lazy. [this is a little over $20 per domain]

when the real thing would go like this:

1. $0. WordPress (donate to the good guys there)
2. $0. WordPress Skin (a little donation to the theme creator would surely help)
3. $0. The logo that anyone can do in Photoshop/Illustrator/Gimp
4. $600. You could spend $600 or less on registering domains. [hey, you didn’t buy truemors.ro. it’s only $61 at rotld.ro and it’s a one-time fee. see? bargain :)]
5. $4824,14. I’m not into legal stuff, I’ll take Guy’s advice on this one, but I’m definitely sure that I could find something cheaper even in the US.
6. $190.8. Two-year “Crazy Domain Insane!” package at DreamHost, making me forget about problems like bandwidth or disk quota, downtime, hacking, etc.

A little math reveals it all: without the legal fees, my truemors would cost less than $790.8 and a little brain effort, while Guy Kawasaki’s truemors goes up to $7282.95, more than 9 times my expenses, but no brain activity was required.

As a conclusion: if you want to start your Internet business and you don’t have some active brain cells, then PLEASE start playing Lemonade Tycoon in real life. Sincerely, it’s not a cool thing to show off when you’re stupid, and it’s even crappy when you bring evidences. At the end, I want to congratulate Guy Kawasaki for showing one more time what you can do when you have lots of money, a stolen idea [remember digg?] and no fuckin’ brains.