Dumitru Postoronca - Personal

Pictures taken in UK

nospam@example.com (Dumitru Postoronca) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:32:18 -0400

Pictures taken in La Ciotat, France

nospam@example.com (Dumitru Postoronca) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:37:00 -0400

now this is what I call bad luck

nospam@example.com (Dumitru Postoronca) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:40:05 -0400

After waiting for 2 days for a reply from SUN, this is what I get:

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at [mycompany].com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<[Somebody]@Sun.COM>: Sorry, I wasn't able to establish an SMTP connection. (#4.4.1) I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long.

Now what are the odds of either a) your web hosting company, that hosts almost 100k domains, has it's internet connection down for a few days or b) sun's mail servers are down ?!

Can it get any worse than that?

Issues with multilanguage sites

nospam@example.com (Dumitru Postoronca) — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:22:36 -0400

In the past few years I've noticed an increasing amount of sites that are being translated from English into other languages (specifically, Romanian). Even though I'm sure this will help those that don't know english that well, I find this transition to be disturbing for me:

I am used to reading stuff in english, even though I have to admit, my Firefox language preferences are: 1. Romanian, 2. English, 3. Russian. Stumbling upon a site that has been translated into romanian is ok, but what I hate is sites that are posting half-translations online, because at first glace you can't figure that the text is in multiple languages on the same page!

So, my mind starts "parsing" the text using english, then I get to some incomprehensible text, which after some time I figure that it's Romanian, now my mind has to "load" the Romanian dictionary to "parse" the following text, then it becomes incomprehensible again, this is the moment when I realize that the text is alternating: english, romanian, then english again.

Wtf? Stop messing with my head, just post the whole page in Romanian if you have it, or leave it in English!

An example of such a mess is that PHP Manual TOC:

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Trip to Bran / Moeciu

nospam@example.com (Dumitru Postoronca) — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 22:32:00 -0500

Rain in Bucharest (updated)

nospam@example.com (Dumitru Postoronca) — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:22:33 -0400

A little rain flooded the intersection in front of my apartment:

Update: Added two videos with the floating car:

Bucharest Architecture

nospam@example.com (Dumitru Postoronca) — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:36:28 -0400

Here are some interesting pictures took in the middle of Bucharest:

For those interested, it's between Universitate and Unirii :).

Trip to Brasov

nospam@example.com (Dumitru Postoronca) — Sun, 14 May 2006 21:03:50 -0400

About 3 weeks ago I went on a trip to Brasov. I thought I'd post some pictures during my trip through the woods :) to Poiana Brasov.