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> <channel><title>Liviu Tudor &#187; Random Thoughts</title> <atom:link href="http://liviutudor.com/category/random-thoughts/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://liviutudor.com</link> <description>I&#039;m a nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I&#039;m perfect.</description> <lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:07:38 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>3,000+ Page Views a Month!</title><link>http://liviutudor.com/2012/02/03/3000-page-views-a-month/</link> <comments>http://liviutudor.com/2012/02/03/3000-page-views-a-month/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:22:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Liv</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Blogroll]]></category> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Random Thoughts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[graph]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LinkedIn]]></category> <category><![CDATA[page views]]></category> <category><![CDATA[stats]]></category> <category><![CDATA[traffic]]></category> <category><![CDATA[visitor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wassup]]></category> <category><![CDATA[web]]></category> <category><![CDATA[web analytics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[web stats]]></category> <category><![CDATA[web traffic]]></category> <category><![CDATA[website]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wordpress plugin]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://liviutudor.com/?p=1530</guid> <description><![CDATA[In case you haven&#8217;t guessed it, yup, I&#8217;m talking about this very blog hitting a new milestone and hitting over 3,000 page views a month! I know this doesn&#8217;t sound like much for a &#8220;serious&#8221; website, but for something like this blog it IS a lot! Even more so as a lot more of the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://liviutudor.com/2012/02/03/3000-page-views-a-month/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Joke of the Day: Julius Caesar</title><link>http://liviutudor.com/2012/01/26/joke-of-the-day-julius-caesar/</link> <comments>http://liviutudor.com/2012/01/26/joke-of-the-day-julius-caesar/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:43:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Liv</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Blogroll]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fun Time]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Random Thoughts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[a guy walks into a bar]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bar]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bartender]]></category> <category><![CDATA[joke]]></category> <category><![CDATA[julius caesar]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://liviutudor.com/?p=1506</guid> <description><![CDATA[Julius Caesar walks into a bar. &#8220;I&#8217;ll have a Martinus&#8221; he asks the bartender. The bartender looks at him puzzled: &#8220;Do you mean Martini???&#8221; &#8220;Look&#8221;, says Julius Caesar pissed off, &#8220;if I wanted a double, I would have asked for it!&#8221; &#160; &#160;]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://liviutudor.com/2012/01/26/joke-of-the-day-julius-caesar/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Get Your Geek &#8212; Funny Advertising</title><link>http://liviutudor.com/2012/01/24/get-your-geek-funny-advertising/</link> <comments>http://liviutudor.com/2012/01/24/get-your-geek-funny-advertising/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:22:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Liv</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Blogroll]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fun Time]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Random Thoughts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dating]]></category> <category><![CDATA[funny]]></category> <category><![CDATA[funny ads]]></category> <category><![CDATA[geek]]></category> <category><![CDATA[online dating]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://liviutudor.com/?p=1503</guid> <description><![CDATA[I know that by posting this I am in fact providing free advertising to this site, which I saw advertised recently on the net, but had to share this screenshot as I thought it&#8217;s hilarious! I heard previously of &#8220;specialized dating&#8221; &#8212; from married people seeking extra-marital affairs (ahem!) to &#8220;positive dating&#8221; (no comment) and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://liviutudor.com/2012/01/24/get-your-geek-funny-advertising/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Advertising or Information?</title><link>http://liviutudor.com/2012/01/17/advertising-or-information/</link> <comments>http://liviutudor.com/2012/01/17/advertising-or-information/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:52:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Liv</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Blogroll]]></category> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Random Thoughts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ad unit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cloud]]></category> <category><![CDATA[google]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ibm]]></category> <category><![CDATA[intellitxt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[internet]]></category> <category><![CDATA[internet advertising]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LinkedIn]]></category> <category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category> <category><![CDATA[vibrant media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[web]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://liviutudor.com/?p=1485</guid> <description><![CDATA[This goes out to all you ad skeptics out there who bang on about how useless the internet advertising is and how it should be banned / destroyed / 101&#8242;d etc: it is sad that not often advertising is delivered as a complement to the content being viewed, and as such it doesn&#8217;t come across [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://liviutudor.com/2012/01/17/advertising-or-information/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Sad State of Banking</title><link>http://liviutudor.com/2012/01/11/the-sad-state-of-banking/</link> <comments>http://liviutudor.com/2012/01/11/the-sad-state-of-banking/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:33:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Liv</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Blogroll]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fun Time]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Random Thoughts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[banking]]></category> <category><![CDATA[job]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LinkedIn]]></category> <category><![CDATA[plugin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[search engine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[search keyword]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wassup]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wordpress]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://liviutudor.com/?p=1480</guid> <description><![CDATA[OK, I&#8217;ll give you the fact that this is a pretty bold title! I&#8217;m not going to talk about the state of banks per se though, why are they struggling in the current climate and/or falling over &#8212; I am simply going to talk about the way the banks employees feel about working there (I [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://liviutudor.com/2012/01/11/the-sad-state-of-banking/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Groovy Scripting at the Power of Commons CLI</title><link>http://liviutudor.com/2011/12/23/groovy-scripting-at-the-power-of-commons-cli/</link> <comments>http://liviutudor.com/2011/12/23/groovy-scripting-at-the-power-of-commons-cli/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:04:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Liv</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Blogroll]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Random Thoughts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[apache commons]]></category> <category><![CDATA[apache commons cli]]></category> <category><![CDATA[awk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[command line]]></category> <category><![CDATA[commons cli]]></category> <category><![CDATA[encoding]]></category> <category><![CDATA[file]]></category> <category><![CDATA[groovy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Java]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LinkedIn]]></category> <category><![CDATA[perl]]></category> <category><![CDATA[programming]]></category> <category><![CDATA[regex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[scripting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sed]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://liviutudor.com/?p=1464</guid> <description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve found myself more and more scripting stuff in Groovy &#8212; partly I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s cause of my Java background, partly because I&#8217;m probably not such a good bash/awk/perl/sed/etc script hacker Nevertheless, make no mistakes, Groovy is an awesome scripting tool! (I&#8217;m not going to praise its benefits in terms of building applications &#8212; they [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://liviutudor.com/2011/12/23/groovy-scripting-at-the-power-of-commons-cli/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Apache Commons Modeler &#8212; Simple/Sample Usage</title><link>http://liviutudor.com/2011/12/22/apache-commons-modeler-simplesample-usage/</link> <comments>http://liviutudor.com/2011/12/22/apache-commons-modeler-simplesample-usage/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:13:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Liv</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Blogroll]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Random Thoughts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[apache commons]]></category> <category><![CDATA[apache commons modeler]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Java]]></category> <category><![CDATA[jconsole]]></category> <category><![CDATA[JMX]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LinkedIn]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mbean]]></category> <category><![CDATA[modeler]]></category> <category><![CDATA[monitoring]]></category> <category><![CDATA[programming]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://liviutudor.com/?p=1455</guid> <description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve dealt in previous posts (here and on Cognitive Match&#8216;s blog) with JMX and various things around it &#8212; as this is an area I have found more than useful in the JDK. It is therefore no surprise that recently I have turned my eyes to Apache Commons Modeler. The project lacks documentation, granted, and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://liviutudor.com/2011/12/22/apache-commons-modeler-simplesample-usage/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>This Is Where It Began&#8230;</title><link>http://liviutudor.com/2011/12/11/this-is-where-it-began/</link> <comments>http://liviutudor.com/2011/12/11/this-is-where-it-began/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:03:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Liv</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Random Thoughts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[intellitxt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LinkedIn]]></category> <category><![CDATA[London]]></category> <category><![CDATA[office]]></category> <category><![CDATA[vibrant media]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://liviutudor.com/?p=1437</guid> <description><![CDATA[I tweeted this photo the other day as well but I thought it deserves a bit more than just a tweet &#8212; having just met up with some old ex-Vibrant Media colleagues, right in the neck of the woods where we all started from. For all of you ex-Vibrant Media (or still in Vibrant Media) [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://liviutudor.com/2011/12/11/this-is-where-it-began/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Eastern Europe to the Untrained (Read “Ignorant”) Eye</title><link>http://liviutudor.com/2011/10/14/eastern-europe-to-the-untrained-read-%e2%80%9cignorant%e2%80%9d-eye/</link> <comments>http://liviutudor.com/2011/10/14/eastern-europe-to-the-untrained-read-%e2%80%9cignorant%e2%80%9d-eye/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:17:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Liv</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Blogroll]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Random Thoughts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Romania]]></category> <category><![CDATA[austria]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bucharest]]></category> <category><![CDATA[budapest]]></category> <category><![CDATA[countries]]></category> <category><![CDATA[croatia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[eastern europe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[EU]]></category> <category><![CDATA[europe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[france]]></category> <category><![CDATA[geography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[greece]]></category> <category><![CDATA[hungary]]></category> <category><![CDATA[western europe]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://liviutudor.com/?p=1309</guid> <description><![CDATA[This morning on the way to Heathrow I couldn’t help overhearing a conversation going on in between 2 (what they thought they were) “proper Londoners” about the “invasion of Eastern Europe”. It went upon the lines of how these bloody Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Romanian came and took over London and that’s not right. Coincidentally, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://liviutudor.com/2011/10/14/eastern-europe-to-the-untrained-read-%e2%80%9cignorant%e2%80%9d-eye/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>I&#8217;m a Pretty Good Software Engineer, Me! :D</title><link>http://liviutudor.com/2011/10/11/im-a-pretty-good-software-engineer-me-d/</link> <comments>http://liviutudor.com/2011/10/11/im-a-pretty-good-software-engineer-me-d/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:20:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Liv</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fun Time]]></category> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Random Thoughts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cognitive match]]></category> <category><![CDATA[denis lowe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LinkedIn]]></category> <category><![CDATA[money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[rowan jacobson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[salary]]></category> <category><![CDATA[silicon valley]]></category> <category><![CDATA[software engineer]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://liviutudor.com/?p=1297</guid> <description><![CDATA[As some of you know it, there&#8217;s been recent discussion about my moving to Silicon Valley. I won&#8217;t bore you with the details of what and how and when, but 2 of my colleagues, Rowan Jacobson and Denis Lowe are in the same boat. So being the absolute ejits we are and not having a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://liviutudor.com/2011/10/11/im-a-pretty-good-software-engineer-me-d/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
