Stefan Nicolae

A few minutes ago, I wanted to download iTunes (coz I had to wipe my computer last week, thanks to a new Trojan Bit Defender didn’t knew about – so I need to gradually install all my software). I went to apple.com and what do I see??? Apple is launching a new great product. They called it iPad.

I’m quit busy today, so I just browsed through the keynote – damn, this video is longer than Sherlock Holmes – but I’ll definitely watch it tonight. Fortunately, they provide a short movie too, so if you have 7 minutes to spare, watch the iPad video and see the new little Apple wonder for yourself.

An e-reader device was on the list of this year’s “treats for myself”, the only impediment is there are no Romanian e-books on the market, but let’s not rush into conclusions, Humanitas seems to have started taking into consideration the new medias. Anyway, the iPad is more than an e-reader device, and I’m more than willing to spend $500 on a toy like this.

Darius, what do you think about this, dude?

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

After all the (online and offline) pressure we put on Velea, he finaly brought back our precious whiteboard!

Manny thanks to all the nice programmers, students, bank employees, little boys and girls who know how you feel when somebody takes your lolly-pop, grannies, kitties, doggies and aliens – in one word all the nice people – who supported us to get it back!

13th of August 2009.  This is the day I lost something precious, something I miss a lot. My whiteboard. Our whiteboard. Together with it’s markers and sponge.

A human being (if we can call this… this… this… heartless programmer, a human being) managed to trick me to lend it to him.It’s been abandoned on his terrace ever since. Every morning, when I come to work, I see a blank spot on the wall. Two nail holes are the cruel testimonial of the missing piece of my soul. Each and every morning I have to endure my 5 colleagues hoping-faces and the question you can read in their eyes: “Did he bring IT back?“. I can’t live like this!

Everybody knows I have a terrible memory. That’s very bad if you’re earning your living working as a web programmer. I need the whiteboard. I can’t create hundreds of interconnected database tables without drawing a few schemes on the WHITEBOARD. I can’t design nice UIs without sketching my ideas on the WHITEBOARD. I can’t code functions of hundreds and thousands of lines without the WHITEBOARD.

I’m crying in despair. I want it back! I need it back! All 6 of us do.

Velea, if you read this, I’m begging you, BRING THE WHITEBOARD BACK!

Update: I started writing on windows…

Using the window as a whiteboard

Update 2:The windows are NOT OK coz’ the cleaning lady thought they were dirty and had to clean them… I hope she won’t clean the back of my laptop too…

Using the back of my laptop as a whiteboard (actually a greyboard)

... this technique leaves marks on the laptop's case