Life on Cristian Livadaru's Blog

Wasting Your Time

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:44:50 +0100

December 2023 I wrote a post Happiness is temporary; all scenarios lead to loss which was inspired after an episode of Rick and Morty. Little did I know that 2026 this will still be the most read post on my blog and it’s still getting traffic. I had no idea that day when I wrote it what the next chapter of my life will be, …

How I got into tech

Sun, 18 Jan 2026 12:44:27 +0100

One decision, one choice, it was the start of my tech journey. Still asking myself today, what if? What if I would have gotten that toy I wanted? Would I have done something different today? Would I work with wood instead of computers? Guess I will never know, but I do remember how I got here, and I am happy for that decision.

Traveling Through Time

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 13:49:31 +0100

When blogs started to pop up, I questioned the sense of it but did eventually gave into it. Now, over 20 years later, I am glad I did it and can now travel through time and rediscover my old self.

Coincidences

Sun, 28 Dec 2025 09:07:57 +0100

Many things in life start based on a coincidence. Some might say it’s destiny, faith, universes bigger plan. In the end it doesn’t matter, coincidence or not. I won’t be the one clarifying this mystery. But the stories these coincidences started are worth sharing.

We're heading towards a dark future

Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:16:28 +0100

Current political events are bringing up too many memories that shouldn’t be brought back. We’re heading towards a dark future, and if we continue down this path we will end up in a place I never thought would be possible again.

Wonderwall

Sat, 30 Nov 2024 19:14:50 +0100

Songs, they have this magic abbility to reappear after multiple years when they do, they bring a backpack full of memories with them. Sometimes, our encounter with an old fammiliar song might come from an unexpected place.

Happiness is temporary; all scenarios lead to loss

Sat, 30 Dec 2023 20:41:42 +0200

If you could be really happy but knew from the start it would end in sadness, would you choose that happiness or would you avoid it?

Wish you were here

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

A wonderful book, a story of someone leaving on a life-changing trip caused by the lockdown. Leaving for a short break, accepting the unknown caused by the lockdown, and getting your life turned upside down, all plans vanished in thin air. Realizing, that everything you planned is all a sham and you were just living that plan but living your life.

The always-connected generation

Sun, 20 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

A scurity issue here, an IT emergency there, some “critical infrastructure” going now and needs to be dealt with right now. We keep taking or accepting more and more responsibilities and duties which works out fine in the beginning but at some point we realise we’ve dug ourselves into a hole which is hard to get out of or don’t notice at all that we are in a hole until it’s much to late.

The beauty of film

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

There are some movies which are more then just movies. Pulling you in, taking you on a journey through time, a journey through emotions, raising questions but not giving answers, leaving you to piece it all together and give it some meaning.

Immortality

Sun, 02 Oct 2022 12:29:00 +0000

There are all kind of ways to become imortal, you can build something great, you can be a massive tyranic asshole, or do some small things and become imortal through your children.

Death

Thu, 23 Jun 2022 18:29:20 +0000

It’s a hard to talk about subject, but the earlier we talk about it, the easier it gets since we will have to deal with it at some point. It might get easier, but it always will remain a hard to talk about subject.

The end of an era

Sun, 30 Jan 2022 19:12:11 +0000

Everything has to come to an end at some point, the retirement and with that the end of my parents restaurant made me remember some old stories …

I’m sorry

Sun, 25 Jul 2021 14:50:29 +0000

This is the usual answer I get when I mention the fact that I’m divorced. Then there is the “failed marriage” thing I hear and read everywhere. I have to disagree with both things.

Smile on demand

Sat, 19 Jun 2021 16:52:12 +0000

Put your phone down and observe your surroundings …

But you can work at night

Sat, 20 Feb 2021 15:01:49 +0000

It’s interesting seeing the way people without children think about how life is with kids but also how people think about work and spare time. I don’t blame them, I’ve been on both sides, so I’ll give my unasked opinion on this subject.

Why are you whistling again?

Wed, 11 Nov 2020 19:58:26 +0000

“Dad, why are you whistling again?” asked my big daughter.I haven’t even noticed that I have stopped whistling. I didn’t notice that I stopped and didn’t notice that I have started again, but yes, here I am, whistling, …

Oh the irony

Tue, 06 Oct 2020 17:34:24 +0000

This story needs a bit of a background from my time at high school for it to make any sense why this one little phone call made my day.

Taking a walk through hell

Tue, 25 Aug 2020 18:00:00 +0000

Lyrics from the Song „I don’t listen much“ from Junior. I’ve been playing this song several times since I found it on Spotify. Sometimes I find it uplifting, some times it just drags me down.

Time to pull the emergency brake

Fri, 19 Jun 2020 10:43:59 +0000

Starting a business is easy, running it and not getting torn apart is the hard part and most often we tend to dig a hole all by our self and notice it much too late. Here is my story on this matter.

Perfect Sunday?

Sun, 10 May 2020 16:17:51 +0000

It’s a warm and windy day, not the bad Vienna kind of windy day where the wind will rip your head off, it’s a slight breeze, not cold but stilling cooling and refreshing from the suns heat.Everything is silent, the streets are almost deserted, much more so then usually on Sundays. This is perfect for riding the bike to the playground, something I have wanted to do for a long time. Riding the bike with the kids. I kept finding excuses, too busy, too tired, the little one doesn’t ride a bike yet, too late to buy a child seat for the little one…

Skyeurope nu mai zboara la Timisoara

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

O veste proasta pentru toti care sau bucurat de zborurile ieftine Timisoara – Viena – Timisoara. Acu cateva zile am primit mail de la Skyeurope ca biletele mele, incepand din 19. Decembrie, au fost toate anulate. Mailu care mi la trimis Skyeurope nu zice nimica despre motivele. Dupa putine discutii prin mail am putut doar sa aflu ca Skyeurope nu va mai zbura spre Timisoara din 23. Decembrie. Dece mi-au anulat si biletu de pe Data de 19. Decembrie inca nu mia raspuns nimeni. Pacat … “It was fun while it lasted”. Se pare ca iara trebe sa bag kilometri cu masina

Bomb alarm in US embassy in Vienna

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Today a man wanted to enter the US embassy in Vienna with a back pack which initiated an alarm while passing the metal detector. The man fled the scene and dumped the back pack on the street. The back pack was filled with explosive and nails which would have caused some damage. The man was captured and is now being interrogated by the police.

Corruption Perceptions Index 2007, well done Basescu!

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Transparency International has release the Corruption Perceptions Index for 2007 on the radio they where mostly talking about Austria being 15th this year. More interesting for me was where Romania is … but before I tell you this here some other highlights.

Taiwan … is rank 34, but no sign of Romania … Botswana – 38, still no sign of Romania, Namibia – 57 … and you guessed, no sign of Romania, Kuweit – 60 and believe it or not, still no sign of Romania, Bulgaria – 64, Colombia – 68 and finally Romania – 69 ! What a great achievement to be more corrupt the Colombia!

US to attack Iran out of Romania, Hungary and Germany?

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

According to tomorrows release of the Romanian newspaper “Ziua” the US is planing to attack Iran out of Romania, Hungary and Germany. Not so sure how good this source is the only fact that is sure is that the CIA boss, Michael Hayden, was on a unannounced trip to Romania, this can also be read in “Jurnalul National“

I can only hope that Romania will not get involved into this, but as the past has shown, Romania is very good at kissing USA’s ass.

Where do our tomatoes come from?

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Ever wondered where our Tomatoes come from? Well, here you go

You can also see it on maps.google.com Get the movie “We feed the world” to see more. It’s the kind of movie that makes you ask yourself, how stupid can we be?

I love public transport in Vienna

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

People who know me know that I really hate going with public transport in Vienna. Why? By car I need about 25 min. to work, with the great public transport I need over an hour, up to one and a half hours to get from home to work and the same way back again. Thats a difference of about one hour, and now multiply this with 9 years that I work at SGI, I would have wasted a whole lot of my life in public transports. The next thing I hate is when in summer some people thing there is no need to take a shower as log as not everybody from the tram will trough up their guts. I would really use the public transport if there would be a fast way to get at work. I would agree with 30 mins, but over an hour compared to 25 mins by car is really a bad argument for the public transport. Oh and why did all of this happen? Two cars and still I have to go by public transport. Well on the Passat the Air Condition is gone so I brought the car to fix that problem and the golf has no valid verification (you have to do this once a year in Austria for older cars) I could bring the car to get my sticker that it passed the verification, but then I would have to do it again in september so I will just wait a bit and then have that also done.

FT.com / World - Europeans see USA as threat to peace

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Yes, you can count me in

FT.com / World – Europeans see US as threat to peace

Floridita

Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday I was in Floridita, a cuban dace bar in Vienna. If you visit their website and know what song it is that’s playing please tell me So where was I, yes, yesterday in Floridita with Ovidiu. As usual in Floridita it’s great. Nice atmosphere great music, great drinks and of course a cigar Going there by public transport wasn’t that easy. It’s quite a while since I went somewhere by public transport, but to get to floridita should be pretty easy, if the tram is going where it should. Unfortunately yesterday was love parade in Vienna, which I found out as we almost arrived floridita. Anyway the tram brought us near Prater instead of the first district, but that wasn’t to bad, U1 goes to the first district and after over an hour we finally arrived. Well there is nothing more to say, I can hardly describe the good mojito or the ron de cuba with a good cigar

Krapfenwaldlbad - Swinming with a great view over vienna

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Where can you go cool down when it’s hot in Vienna? Well there are a lot of places, but one that you should visit is Krapfenwaldlbad The swimming pools are not really great, but the view will compensate for that. Anyway, I wouldn’t go to often there since it’s to crowded in the small pool. But look at the photos and decide for your self.

Weather gone crazy

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday we had “a bit” of a thunderstorm in Vienna. Winds up do 120km/h killed 2 people and ripped trees apart within some minutes. Luckily I came home just as the wind started it’s action.

read more in derStandard (Austrian newspaper, also with a small video)

More blogs on this issue:

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog…

What happened on the 20th May?

Mon, 21 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

May 20, 1293 Earthquake strikes Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed
May 20, 1310 Shoes were made for both right and left feet
May 20, 1498 Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calcutta India   
1506 Christopher Columbus died in poverty in Spain.
May 20, 1799 Honore de Balzac, France, novelist, Pere Goriot, Human Comedy   
1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
May 20, 1892 Triple Alliance between Germany, Italy and Austria forms   
1902 The United States ended its occupation of Cuba. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the first President of Cuba.
May 20, 1902 Cuba gains independence from Spain   **
1927 Charles Lindbergh took off for Paris from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.  
1932 Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland for Ireland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.  
1939 Regular trans-Atlantic air service began as a Pan American Airways plane took off from Port Washington, N.Y., bound for Europe.   1969 U.S. and South Vietnamese forces captured Apbia Mountain, referred to as Hamburger Hill by the Americans, following one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.  
1970 Some 100,000 people demonstrated in New York’s Wall Street district in support of U.S. policy in Vietnam and Cambodia.
May 20, 1985 U.S. began broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Marti
May 20, 1989 China declares martial law in Beijing
1990 – The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.
May 20, 1990 Hubble Space Telescope sends 1st photograph’s from space
May 20, 1991 Soviet parliament approves law allowing citizens to travel abroad   
1993 An estimated 93 million people tuned in for the final first-run episode of ”Cheers” on NBC.
1994 May 20, 1994 Miss India (Sushmita Sen) selected Miss Universe   
1996 The Supreme Court struck down a Colorado measure banning laws that protect homosexuals from discrimination. The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of homosexuals.   
2002 East Timor became an independent nation.
  2003 The United States banned beef imports from Canada after a case of mad cow disease was discovered in Canada’s cattle country. 
1979: I was born

Life is not fair

Sat, 12 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Looking around I see a lot of friends getting married, children are on the way, everything looks fine. But there are a lot of people that don’t want kids. What could be the reason ? There is this one thing, that when you have kids, some might think their life is over, no “freedom” anymore … Then there are concerns about money, kids are expensive, well not the kids, but the products for kids. Clothes for kids are more expensive then for adults. But there is one last thing that some of us might be afraid of. What if the are problems? What if the child will be handicapped? Will you think of abortion? I think by now, if anyone reads this, there will be a lot of people thinking, oh no, abortion is bad. I agree with you. But do you know what it means to have a disabled child? That will always depend on someone to help them, what will be when you are no longer there? Do you know what it means to go from one doctor to a other and nobody really can help? Do you know what it means to go with your child from one operation to the next one, from one treatment to the next one? And what if you child one day says, “Next week I will have a operation and after this I will be able to walk like all other kids” can you look in their little eyes and tell them that this will never happen? Or look in their disappointed eyes after the operation when they will notice that nothing got better? Now, still anybody that thinks life is fair? What problems do we fight with? Oh, my iPod is to small, oh, my car is not shiny enough. All my cousin wanted was to walk … something that most of us don’t even appreciate. I have been through this, I have seen how hard my aunt and uncle tried everything for my little cousin, how every stupid idiot came up with some miracle and pulled the money out of their wallet. I don’t think I managed to capture my feelings in this blog about this subject. It has passed a long time since my little cousin died, but I will never forget that one day she said those words “I will walk like every other kid” that is all she wanted.

long time, no blog

Sat, 12 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

It’s has been quite a while since my last blog. I was quite busy since I came back from berlin. Had to finish a server, was sick, server made some problems, experimented with UCS and Scalix, started to hate stupid WindowsNT Policy files … and so on. I initially wanted to document my work on the PDC I installed and the troubles I had but having a bad cold at the same time and a lot of stress I didn’t really get to it and now it wouldn’t be any help since I forgot the most of it. So, to not get bored and maintain the stress level, I started to set up a new XEN VPS on which I installed Debian Etch, here I will move my current lcx server. There are several things that piss me of at the moment in the actual installation and I though it would be a good time to do it now and also upgrade to Debian 4.0, Apache2, PHP5, MySql5 … Well I hope I will finish it today, or at least this weekend.

Fanfare Ciocărlia in Berlin

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Last week I was at the Fanfare Ciocărlia concert in “Kesselhaus” Berlin and I also purchased the new album. It was a very nice concert and it is nice to see that there still are some people out there that keep on to tradition and culture and didn’t choose the easy way making money by playing crap music, like manele.

Thank you Fanfare Ciocărlia for your great music!

Finally I have a photo bag

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday I went to the Crumpler store in Berlin to check out some photo bags. I also took my equipment with me, including my laptop to see how my stuff fits in the bag. Well, no I am a happy owner of the Crumpler Match Maker.

several thoughts

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

don’t really have a topic to blog about, or to many things but not in the mood for collecting my thoughts and put them in a blog. Just sitting in front of my monitor, with a cold beer, and in a (2b || !2b) mood. let’s see how many will figure out what on earth I mean by this anyway … sitting here, listening to some cuban music over pandora.com and trying to switch of. This is one of the days where a lot of things go trough my head like memories from the past. Oh yeah … the so called “good old times” I bet everyone has heard of them. I’m not complaining about the actual situation, and I don’t think I would change something, but still, there is this “good old time” thing coming up from time to time … maybe this comes from my inner voice, trying to remind me of some mistakes I did in the past, or rather, just a single one that I regret! All mistakes have it’s learning effect somehow, but there is just this one thing that will no leave me alone, this one think I think I will never forget and never forgive (no, it has got nothing to do with love or things like this). A different plausible explication why we have this “good old times” feeling as we get older, is because we get “wiser” as we get older. As we where “younger” we where more “stupid” and “naive” and as we get older we see how sick everything around as is. How money can change people and that the world we think we live in, is just something that exists in books and movies. If you look around, corruption, crime, lies, brothers fighting each other, hate, war … all because of money. Most of the people don’t give a fuck about what will happen in the future or how the decision, a politician takes, will effect the feature. Here I would like to post a little excerpt of “The Poverty of philosophy” by Immortal Technique:

We won't live for ever

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

We all know that, but I think nobody ever thinks about what will be when the end comes. The end of a life somebody close to you, or even your own life. I have been trough this more times then I wished (not that I wished to make any of these experiences ever). But then this things make you think … how fast time has passed, how suddenly bad things can happen. Yesterday you talked with a person and the next day it’s a matter of life and death and all you can do is just sit around and wait, not knowing what you will hear when the pone rings or the doctor comes to you. Some say “Time heal all wounds” but as someone who has made this experience I can say this is not true. You will never forget! There will always be some photos, some words, some memories that will remind you and will remind you of the pain. Especially if it’s someone young, very young. I mean, I can say hey, my grandfather was 85! He has had bad times in life and good times in life, but he has lived his life. But what can I say about my little cousin that was 9? … the list can be continued, but I won’t. Before I get any stupid questions, no noting happened in my family, but in the family of someone close to me. I won’t go in to further details. This just brought up some of my personal memories, some of my wounds that haven’t been healed by time, even after almost 20 years. And no I do not want to talk about it, so no questions please.

Some facts about Romania

Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

What’s with all these blogs about Romania ? No clue, but I just find some of the videos I saw quite interesting. The first one is about some facts of Romania what has been invented by romanians and I must admit I was quite surprised, didn’t know some of the things myself. So this blog I will not be criticizing Romania as usual, I think some might have noticed that since quite a while I am criticizing Romania quite a lot and some also might know what this started from, but … I said I won’t criticize in this blog. Ok here the video about the interesting facts ( in english!! ) ok and the second one is about tourism again but this commercial, I must admit, is very very good (I hope this one is NOT copied) I like the idea, this one brings the patriot in me back, at least for some minutes. so here we go, here is the next movie thanks for this one, this kind of makes me see things brighter again, and forget about some other things.

The power of music

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Music has a special power, at least for me it has. There are some songs, that put you in a state of meditation, where you start thinking of all kind of things. There is also this special power of older songs, songs you have associated with some period of time, not necessary that the song was actually from that period but somehow it brings up memories from that period of time. No mater how stupid the song is, you will like it if it reminds you of something. Let’s take for instance Culture Beat, now these are songs that are kind of stupid, but hey, it reminds me of when I was a kid, school time, vacations in Romania at the country … and things like that. Times where things seemed to be better, I don’t really think that things where better but not necessarily worse, but one always kind of remembers the good things. But there still is a kind of feeling “if I could turn back time” not necessarily changing something, just to live a moment, you have in memory, once again. Things change as time passes and so do people, but music stays the same and so do the memories you have and music is that little thing that manages to bring that up again. Music can change so much, just imagine how a horror movie would be without the right music? Imagine some children song to a horror scene … would you be afraid ? But put some frightening music to a trick film, what would you feel then? ok enough about this, iTunes just switched the music to drum ’n bass and this isn’t necessarily the right music for memories, although I must say that there is some part of my life associated with dnb, hardcore, gaba, electro and some other varieties of techno.

Cool down

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

It’s way to hot! Quite a long time ago since we had such a hot summer, I think the last one was in 2003! Anyway … what can you do on such a hot day … go for a swim and lay in the sun. I’m not really a fan of laying in the sun but if there is a pool, than it’s ok for me. My sister had the idea to go to the new “Badeschiff” (Bath ship or something like this). It’s a ship on the danube which has been transformed to a pool and there is also a second part where you can lay in the sun and also have a bar. Well all this sounds to good to be true for Vienna and I must admit I would not go a second time. The pool is ok, but everything else is so packed full, you feel like anchovies in the can, that’s not mine, but one could also sit at the bar, there at least you have shadow and don’t get a mad headache like I did. Well it’s worth visiting

I want to ride my bicycle

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

If there will be no blog this evening with some new photos, than this means I fell of my bike! God, I haven’t used my bike since .. ehmm… 5 years I think!

I'm still alive

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Yes, I survived my short bicycle trip. Only made a few photos, I was to exhausted to make more photos. It took a while to get my bike out since it was covered with car tires, boxes and all sort of other junk. After I pushed the bike to the gas station to fill it with air, my adventure could begin …. god .. that was a strange feeling to ride a bike again. and a bad feeling in the muscles … this sure will hurt tomorrow.

Got time?

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

This was once again one of these days … it starts as a “oh, today I have nothing to do and a lot of free time” day end ends up as a day full of stress. It started with some kind of brunch at my parents, but with so much food that it was rather some kind of mix up between breakfast, lunch and supper … it then transforms to a usual chat session with my parents which can last some time. In the meanwhile my cousin from Paris calls, he is on his way to us so, new plan for the evening, not that I had any plan for the whole day except lunch a hang lazy around at home, but it looked like I could forget the lazy part. So, me with no plan for the day, my sister with the same plan, why not go in the city for an ice cream? Good idea, but as I asked for the bill, stupid me noticed that I forgot my wallet … thanks god only in the car and not home. so, back to the car to get the wallet and I must say, the car wasn’t that close … for someone that loves sport like I do Ok then the day continued with a photo edit session of Papulos his wedding photos ( which can be found here) in the meanwhile I kind of had to explain my cousin how to get here, his GPS didn’t have the details of vienna, so I had to do my best to tell him the way trough vienna. as if this wasn’t enough of things that are not working (including my memory) I got an message that new user registration doesn’t work on vwclub.ro, a quick check showed that there realy is a problem, but I have no time to fix it because in the meanwhile 3 hours have passed working on those bloody photos, ok so I hit the upload button, took my sister and of we went back to my parents. Meanwhile cousin was almost in vienna (130 km to go) so there wasn’t much time, and because I was afraid they will get lost, I told them how to get to a point that they can’t miss, the Mc Donald’s from Favoriten, the only bad thing about this is that it’s almost 20km from my parents. So one at my parents I managed to write a short note on VWclub about the problem and got a call that they only have 25km to go to Favoriten, so once again I jump in the car, and of I go to Favoriten. Don’t know if I was so fast there or they had more then 20km since I had to wait quite a while, not that I was in a hurry, I could just hang around being lazy in the car. Once arrived, back again to my parrents, more food, more chat, a beer etc. And guess what? I noticed that this time I left my wallet at home after working on Papulos his wedding photos, so I had no money and not a single document with me, good that I didn’t get in any police control. Well after a extended chat session between relatives and photo showing I managed to get back home and … not that I wouldn’t be tired, nooo not me … what do I do instead of sleeping, writing a blog. Well in short, I have done over 200km today and spent over 3 hours in the car ( according to the board computer ) excluding the time I waited for my cousin at Mc Donald’s. And the worst thing is, I can’t even sleep longer as usual because I have an appointment at work at 9 … so to get back to the title of this blog, got time? I am willing to buy a lot of it! so and now …. good night!

rain, finally it cools down

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

finally some rain … and it cools a bit down. today in the office we hit 32 deg. (sorry, cant find the deg. key on my Mac keyboard) but in my server room at home I still have 33 ,but thanks to xen I can shut down one of my servers, I only have to get some stuff copied to my file server, but since I don’t have NFS installed (don’t want to do it with ftp) I have to wait till tomorrow because I don’t have internet at home ( see ) ok so let’s see how cool it will get without this server

Finaly ordered a new Humidor

Thu, 04 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Here it is, my new “Adorini Humidor Chianti medium” hope it will arrive until Monday. This will give enough space for the cigars I will bring back from Cuba. What a pity for all out of the US that can’t enjoy a real Cuban ciagr ( I’m not mean at all, am I?) This was once again one of that lessons … you try to save money and save on the wrong place, a tip for all of you that want a humidor, get a good one right from the beginning. Oh almost forgot to mention, I ordered it yesterday from Humidor Discount and guess what, they already sent out the package, yesterday … I’ll make some pics when I filled the Humidor

Name confusion

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Sometimes it’s nice to have a name that is also used in german but it written different then in german. Everybody writes my name with h ( Christian ) but in Romania Cristian is the correct way to write it. Well most of the time it really pisses me off when I see this, but today actually it was funny. I got a ticket for wrong parking, but the “officer” was to stupid to write the licence plate the correct way. Instead of CRIS he wrote CHRIS, and this means … no ticket for me since it’s a formal error.

Cohiba Siglo II

Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000

I have finaly found a simple way to start my Cigar rating, for this I will use my new WordPress blog and the “rate my stuff” plugin. So since the Cohiba Siglo ( I and II ) are my favorite cigars until now I will give them a rating of 4.5 stars! why not 5? Well there might be something better out there, so I will leave the rast of the half point open

Hurray Spring woke up ( finally )

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Winter is over! Oh how I waited for this day ( and many other people also ) Went outside for a walk, I was kind of forced to go outside, but didn’t regret it once I was out. The ice was melting, people where without winter jackets outside, and gues what … the sun was shining Now what could make this day even better ? Right … 6 doughnuts. This was also a good ocasion to take some pics while the shun is shining and here they are in my gallery

me and my big mouth

Tue, 07 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000

I hate it when this happens. Yesterday I said “I hope it won’t snow this week, since my Passat is in service and the Golf doesn’t have winter wheels” well and what was the answer the next day? A huge load of snow! I made it to the metro station with the Golf where I parked the car and then went with public transport to work. It was hard enough to get there, I would never managed to get up the big hill ( Bitterlichstrasse ) with so much snow on the road and summer wheels. Well thank god it rained in the afternoon and the snow was gone again. But this “big mouth” thing gives me an idea, “I hope I won’t win in lotto this week” Let’s see if this works.

Home sweet home

Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Finaly … my last day in Stuttgart, in about 3 hours my plane to Vienna will take of. Not that I don’t like Stuttgart, but in 2005 I have spent only 5 months at home and I think I need some time at home, visit some friends and stuff like this. So I will try not to do so many on site visits at customers this year to do a lot of things that still are on my to-do list but which I couldn’t do since I wasn’t at home. Ok enough of this for now, have to finish some things and then take a taxi to the airport. I wonder if the reservation of the car to pick me up worked, never received a confirmation from C&K.

Land, I've got land under my feet

Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Finaly back on the ground. This was one bad landing, the takeoff was perfect, the flight pleasent and without toubulance but as the plane started sinking for landing it was like a three dimensional rollercoaster. I felt my heart beating like I was on a 200km marathon, not even Moga’s mountain manages this, and I was sweating like I was in the sauna, but I have to say it was hot in the plain, realy ! Anyway, after leaving the plain I kind of fealt the necessity to knee down and kiss the floor, but I could control my self and save the other passengers from this entertaining moment. Oh how is it great to feel good solid ground under the feet !

New horizons on it's way to Pluto

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Nasa has started theis expedition to our farest planet, Pluto. Its 6 bilion (.mrd) km far away and only in 9 years it will reach Pluto. I find the speed of the spacecraft amazing, 50km PER SECOND. Well it will be a long time waiting for results, so get enough beer and pop corn. [Update 18. Jan. 2006] As I heard today morning in the News, the start has been delayed … well what’s one day more?

After more then one year, HOLIDAY

Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Finaly after more then one year I took some time of and went to Romania. Not the best place if you want to relax but I had to go and visit some relatives. With that ocasion I could also meet some friends, the few that I can still call friends, but this is a different story.Continue reading “After more then one year, HOLIDAY”