Dan Alexandru

Serbians in Europe

Saturday, December 19, 2009 1:38:18 PM

Since December 19, 2009, citizens of Serbia with biometric passports can travel without visas to most European countries.

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In the unlikely event of a water landing

Saturday, January 17, 2009 7:57:14 AM

Drawing of the US Airways Flight 1549 forced landing in New York City's Hudson river

This interactive infographic by The New York Times is very well done, I think.

In related news:

The captain's last words to air-traffic control
We're going to be in the Hudson
The passenger on 17F said
It was a mess, but it was incredibly orderly
The passenger on 23F said
I think one person tried to grab their computer out of the rack, but nobody else went off to do that
a Google search for ‘hudson crash video’ still includes malware on the first page of results

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White Christmas, too

Thursday, December 25, 2008 9:30:30 AM

holiday, Timişoara

Last night was cold enough that we got our first snow. There's a 2008 movie on the interwebs I'm planning to watch to make the experience better

Also last evening, we got a few kids coming over to sing carols. When asked if they want sweets or money, they sheepishly said "money". What kind of question is that, indeed. Oh well, more gummy jellies for us.

Merry Christmas!

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Pending

Thursday, September 4, 2008 5:42:31 AM

trivia

I have some pending

newsfeeds: 500 unread + 73 labeled pending + 47 labeled pendingX
bookmarks: 55
books: 16 analog + 17 digital
videos: 32
notes (+todo.txt): 12
pet projects: 10
browser sessions: 2

And somehow no unread MyO subscriptions.

Better get started.

EDIT: Now that the computer broke down, I'm back to square one.

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Yeah, no

Monday, May 12, 2008 8:10:17 PM

US, Internet

NBC.com sure has a sense of humour. This is what their player showed me after watching a SNL clip, instead of some Sandler movie trailer:

Yeah, no, I think I'll keep the URL filter on.

PS: The clip, with the ads.

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Tragedy minus time equals happily ever after

Sunday, February 11, 2007 9:36:04 AM

listen, Heisenberg, theory, phd

So there's this guy, and he has a very simple problem: he wants to see his dead father again.

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en·gaged (ĕn-gājd') adj.

Friday, January 5, 2007 10:23:00 AM

Employed, occupied, or busy.
Committed, as to a cause.
Involved in conflict or battle.

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Blog-Tagged

Friday, December 22, 2006 9:27:09 AM

tag, tagged, it, imitation ...

Once "it", the game rules say I have to "give 5 unknown facts about yourself (in a blog post), and tag five other members, with a short explanation in the post on why you chose to tag them." Of course, the rules have mutated over time, see my lineage

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