Browsing the blog archives for October, 2009

Bills, bills, bills…

So, you know that cliche you see in some American movies: somebody is really angry when he gets a bill? Angry as in pulling his own hair out angry or beating the postman who brings the bills angry. Some might say that this is an exaggerated reaction. It’s almost like those people are irritated at [...]

Fragile Dreams

Anathema – Fragile Dreams

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Watermarking your photos, the free way

This started as looking for a easy way to watermark some photos that I was going to expose to the whole world. The first thing that came into my mind was that I could use a specialized photo editing software (like Photoshop for example) to apply the watermarks. This had the drawback that you actually [...]

The “I’m Better Than You” Syndrome

Have you ever had someone look down on you? Someone who only talks to you or stands your presence because it’s their job? I’m sure you have. You don’t have to admit it. Have you ever considered yourself better than other people? Of course you did. It’s human nature. Did you act like it? Like [...]

Success, careers and… losers

A talk that really touches some of the problems of current society. Enjoy:

Test publish automatically to twitter

Now, writing a blog post should automatically tweet a link to that post. Let’s see if it works.

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Modern Poverty

Here is a blog I came across by some sort of twitter magic: http://modernpoverty.wordpress.com/ Basically chilling stories about some poverty in today’s US. About what you have to put up if you’re unfortunate enough I hope that things turn up okay for the author.

Pictures from the Grand Canyon Trip :)

You can see a couple of pictures from the Grand Canyon trip we took this summer here: http://mircea.smugmug.com/Public/public02/9962365_tmrs7/1/680413660_LqazU You might also want to look into Pictures page on this blog.

The American Dream (George Carlin)

It’s called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it… Ahahaha

The Plan (Losing weight saga – 1)

As I was saying in the Prologue, I need to do something if I want to live past 30-40 years. Clearly doing something means loosing weight. And keeping it off. I say keeping it off, because I’ve tried dieting and working out in the past. It worked, on the short term, but in the long [...]