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So, I have realised what my 5-year plan is.
1. Buy a new car. A Volvo S40 or V50. Or maybe a Subaru.
2. Settle to a country in Western Europe.
A good plan, right?

This is a popular topic these days. Everybody seems to have an idea about it, except the newspaper managers.
One I hear on a daily basis is “newspapers need to reinvent themselves”. No, they do not. They need to look at what they are not doing anymore, but used to do 2-3-5 years ago. Reporting. [...]

Yesterday, while I was driving from Cluj to Debrecen, I spotted a little cabin, somehow resembling the one in the picture on the right, in a little hill village. Some windows, a little lawn, a big orchard in the back of the house. There was a banner on the cabin, saying “for rent/for sale”.
I [...]

Blog20.ro was a project i started in October 2007. Wasn’t too successful, because I was focusing on zoso.ro more. In February Bobby Voicu, freshly departed from Yahoo, took over the reins and change it to CAPSLOCK.ro.
I don’t know if it’s because of him (I have a pretty controversial/bad/ugly image in the .ro internet) or because [...]

So, i bought a Creative Vado HD camcorder a few days ago.
I wasn’t expecting much, because I paid for it under 200€. But the thing is great. Very light, shoots 2 hours of 720p video footage, charges from USB.
Yes, the Sony TG3 i initially wanted had more features (stabilizer, 1080p, changeable storage, face [...]