Friday, March 27, 2009

Books - the easy way

Hello. Did you know you can read books and travel or do any kind of activity (a non-requiring a lot of brain activity that is). It's easy all you need is :
1. An mp3 player (preferably portable)
2.An audio book (preferably more)
And there you go. You can read books on the way home (that is if you're not driving, although I'm not totally sure that wouldn't work) and spare yourself of minutes, perhaps even hours of boredom.
You can find a good collection of audio books here : audio books , all kinds of books, such as Don Quixote, Moby Dick or The art of war. Check it out.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

You can't fool adsense

I'm going to take the time to tell you that (as the title says:) you cannot fool Google Adsense. That is, to be more explicit, i would like to tell you a short story , actually it's not even going to be a story, it's more like a few sentences. I'm sure all of you (by that i mean all of you you ever heard of adsense) thought: "Sure, Adsense. I can make money with advertising on the web. It's simple, all you have to do is create a site and people will visit it and there you go, 1 million dollars." Actually it's not quite that simple even if you have read a few books on how to make money with Google Adsense(i read a bit myself). At this point you might have thought of the idea of copying content(for the more pirately readers) from other sites (Why not? everyone else does it) on you own site, that should keep the cash flowing. The problem is that .. (i speak from experience, i myself have tried this little scheme with a certain website, i won't tell you which one it is for obvious reasons) .. this whole scam thing, well .. it doesn't work. Google has an extremely well built search and indexing algorithm which will make no mistake, not any time soon anyway. The whole principle is that in order to earn something from this ad business you have to provide some service to the internet community. Your site will never get enough clicks for you to earn something unless it is of real use and people will visit it for the right reason. That is the solution to the problem, finding a problem and solving it:)
OK.. back to java..

There will be no food crisis(hopefully)


Hello, first of all i would like to state that i am hungry and that i will be writing this post for as long as my stomach manages to stay undigested (by itself). I just came back from school with my two roommates, Alex and Marius, and started checking out some new internship offers(I'm a student at the Faculty of Automation and Computers at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca). While i was making an effort to compose this one-sentence mail that had to include my CV to the HP company (See the offer) my colleague ( obsessive colleague i might add) started talking about the coming world crisis and reading an article that had a picture saying that a food crisis is coming. I don't know... it's a pretty big thing to talk about in just ..well i don't know how long i've been writing this post but..let's just say that i've heard plenty about the subject. The conclusion is .. i guess I'm tired of it.
So back to more important matters ..actually there are no important matters. I'm going to eat..

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Pablo Picasso naked


Yes I'm afraid this is going to be my first real post. an article about Pablo Picasso ..naked. I was reading from Thinking in Java 4th edition by Bruce Eckel (i have an internship interview coming up and I'm brushing up on my java) when one of my roommates, Alex(you will probably be hearing a bit about him) told me that google images has an impressive photo collection from Life magazine (i'm not sure, i think) and the first picture he stumbled upon was this, Pablo Picasso naked. I'm sorry i have to repeat that so often but it is quite disturbing:) (i have to mention that i will be using textual smileys due to my messenging habbits). So here's the link if you do want to check it out even though i don't advise you Picasso picture.
Ok... getting back to my reading, it's getting late..

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

A fresh start



Hello to all my faithful readers out there (joke) i am sadly announcing that this site will no longer contain photographic content. However the site's name and probably its layout will remain the same. The content will probably contain information that i fell like sharing, stuff like programming, school related issues and thoughts of a bored man(meaning me).
Ok..this is it for know. Thank you and ..come again.