Posts By: Liv

The aftermath

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Phantoms won yesterday! (well, by default alright 🙂 Nevertheless there were loads of drinks in the club as per usual — and our dear Todd had to finally gulp his birthday drink (I’d hate to think how many drinks were mixed in that pint)

Phantoms Game on Saturday, 26/Oct/2007

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And speaking of rugby, my team, The Phantoms are playing this Saturday at home at 3pm. As it happens, at the time they do so, I’m en route to San Francisco, so I can’t watch and support them, let alone play 🙁  Still, I’ll have my fingers crossed for you guys — GO PHANTOMS!!!

Rugby World Cup 2007

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I was supposed to publish these last week, but I completely forgotten — taken in the Henry J Bean pub in Chelsea, the night England could have won the Rugby World Cup second time in a row. The atmosphere was brilliant — even though the sorrow was deep at the end 🙂

Should Apple Learn from IBM?

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So Bill Gates had a go at Apple’s commercials — good on him, I’d say! What is the big deal about Windows “borrowing” from Mac OS-X? Or any other system for that purpose? Do guys in Apple think that every company should only stick to their own internal ideas? How would they envisage progress in […]

“Piracy Worked for Us”

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So, according to President Basescu piracy worked for Romania by helping the country grow a very vibrant technology industry. Being a Romanian myself and having “enjoyed” partially during my student years the “privilege” of pirate copies (mainly because there were no dedicated shops at the time where you could acquire a software with a license […]

Pluto — The Word of the Year 2006

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According to the American Dialect Society, Pluto is the word of the year 2006. According to them: To pluto is to demote or devalue someone or something, as happened to the former planet Pluto when the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union decided Pluto no longer met its definition of a planet. Read the […]

Pluto — “The Onion” Style

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So Pluto is no longer a “proper” planet for a while now. And what does NASA do about it? Well, apparently they’re sending a space probe to consolate the poor thing — aaahhh! 🙂 Check out this funny story on The Onion: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/56641.