21.05.13

49ers Levi’s Strauss Stadium

Posted in Fun Time, News, Photos at 1:49 am by Liv

I’m a bit late with this post, granted, as this is a overdue by a couple of weeks, however, having just returned back from London, had quite a few things to catch up on, and as such I’m surely an exception can be made in this case. Special thanks go to Meg for getting me the signed poster by Kayley and Alexa — and of course to the girls themselves!

Just to shed some light into this, you would have probably seen the big launch announcement in the press:

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03.05.13

My Niece Learned to Ride a Bike

Posted in Blogroll, Fun Time, Photos, Romania at 3:45 pm by Liv

Was time it seems to get Ilinca “upgraded” from a tricycle — and she got the hang of it pretty soon:

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08.04.13

First Californian Car

Posted in Blogroll, Fun Time, News, Photos at 1:17 pm by Liv

Well I guess it had to happen after all this time — went and got myself my first car in California:

And this is how much this piece of rubble cost 

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06.03.13

Goodbye Palo Alto, Hello San Mateo!

Posted in Blogroll, Fun Time, News, Photos at 3:29 pm by Liv

From Cognitive Match‘s new offices in San Mateo:

We say goodbye to our old ones in Palo Alto:

Check out the view from the new office:

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06.02.13

melovesvideos Goes Live!

Posted in Blogroll, Fun Time, News, Tech at 9:35 pm by Liv

About 2 weeks or so ago, Amazon launched their Elastic Transcoder and at the time this has captured my attention right away — to the point where I had to go and add it to my AWS account and try it for myself. Regardless of anything else, that is an amazing tool and Amazon did a good job of creating such a simple API for such a complex task.

If you ever attempted to transfer a movie from your say mobile device to your video handset, you will find yourself quite often in movie format conversion hell — while things are getting a bit more standardized nowadays, it is still occasionally the case that some manufacturers force you to use their software / firmware / drivers to get a movie from some obscure format onto your computer and be able to play it properly. (God forbid you made the mistake of tilting the camera so you get a panoramic view — as you will find yourself watching the movie on your computer screen with your head tilted in the opposite direction, trying to make sense of it!) Or vice versa, you have a powerful handheld device that can play anything you throw at it — and your “Transformers” BluRay you just bought comes preloaded with a HD MPEG version of the movie which you can download onto your phone; however, the damn thing “weighs” about 2Gb which seems a bit too much bearing in mind you’re watching it on a 480 x 320 screen! And there’s nothing out there to help you downsize the original for a more suitable format (and size) for your handheld…

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