Cristian Livadaru's Blog

My personal view on things

Once again in Berlin

Here I am again, once again in Berlin, but this time I also have some minutes to write a blog and I also made some first fotos

and guess what! I also have internet and this already in the first week unbeleavable! T-Com was quite fast making the conection and the DSL itself I got from Manitu where I don’t have to make a one year contract. Well looks like winter is still present in Berlin, and I think I’m the only one around already with somer tires on the car, but hey …. no risk no fun


me and my big mouth

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

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

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

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?


Fighting with tinyMCE+iManager in S9y blog

I have been trying the whole weekend to get tinyMCE with iManager to work in s9y. I found a blog about this but not realy helpful, the first problem was that you have to get the tinyMCE compressor also which isn’t mentioned in the documentation, and then read the iManager doc carfully. Well I read the iManager doc 10 times but still the iManager didn’t load from the tinyMCE. For this you have to copy the mentioned files from the doc, but somehow it still didn’t work. Today finaly everything works but I don’t understand why. The problem was the Language !!! If you use a langauage that TinyMCE doesn’t support, it won’t work!


My Mac mini

Apple has always been for me the nice shiny thing that costs much more the a normal PC and doesn’t offer you the same software as it does on a pc. But then one day the mac mini apeared, it was smal, and at a good price and looking at the data, usb, firewire, WiFi, bluetooth, lan, modem, and a cd/dvd-writer that also suport double layer dvd …

mac mini
mac mini
that was motivation enough to give apple a try, and since it’s not that expensive as a G5 it was the risk worth to try it and if I didn’t like I wouldn’t have lost so much money, but that was not the case. After truning this little mac on and giving it a first try I was more then surprised, it’s the kind of feeling that you have wasted years with something you didn’t like and now you found what you have been looking for ages. The interface is great and all it’s nice features, the mac mini is so silent that I can leave it in my sleeping room without bothering me, it boots fast and the working speed is ok as long as I don’t have iPhoto open with over 10.000 Fotos. The software package that comes with Mac OSX is great, you have iPhoto for all your fotos and with a little plugin you can use iPhoto with Gallery2. iDVD is also great for creating dvd menu’s and slide shows of your fotos. So I could create a DVD of my holiday for everyone with all fotos and a nice menu for the ones that don’s realy know or want to look at the pc at the fotos. Well I can say I love this little mac mini, this is way the best thing I could buy except of my Canon EOS 350D :) Now I am looking forward to the MacBook Pro with the Intel Core Duo processor in February and then I will get rid of my Acer notebook.


After more then one year, HOLIDAY

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”


Christmas, the biggest punishment for every city

Oh how I love it every year … Trafic, a lot of people shopping like it would be their last day on earth, this can only mean christmas is coming … Continue reading “Christmas, the biggest punishment for every city”


Last Christmas, I gave ...

Oh no… another Christmas punishment, every fucking year this stupid morron from wham! gives his heart away and every year he want’s to give it to someone special.George Michel, didn’t you notice that we all hate you? Please stop giving your heart away, or at least don’t cry every fucking year about the fact that nobody likes you!