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This is my first post in 2008, and I just can’t start it differently than remembering some things about the year that has just finished. 2007 was definitely the most intense and challenging year for me. It was a great year by all means, as this was the year when I’ve learned what it means to be a parent, with little Victor being born on 29 January 2007. Since then nothing was the same .

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As any big company that has a complex site, google makes it easy for us to find help topics on most of its pages. Still, if you will want to perform something specific you will probably find it not very easy and have to digg a little in their complex help system for the answer. Yesterday I was so annoyed by one spammer that was sending the same mail over and over, and since the broadcast email was sent using gmail servers, I tried to report the spammer to google. Since it was not so easy to find those links for this action I have documented them for future help in similar situations .

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Sunday we walked to the old city town to see how the European Capital of Culture is preparing for Christmas this year. We took our 10 months old baby with us hoping he will enjoy this too, but by the time we arrived in the center he was already sleeping . I took this opportunity to take some pictures along the way and post them for all my friends that are interested to see how Sibiu is looking these days. I am by no means a professional photographer and can’t say these are the best night shots I took, but still I think they are acceptable…

“Piata Mare”

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I must admit that I am a happy user of Akismet. I remember the times when I thought I can approve the comments posted on this blog manually and not have to use a software solution that I didn’t trust so much (how naive I was). Well, after a while I just realized that this was just impossible and I started using Akismet… the result? I practically forgot about the comment spam problem. I am just checking the akismet stats and I just see how much trouble it has saved me:

Akismet has caught 120,722 spam for you since you first installed it.
You have no spam currently in the queue. Must be your lucky day.
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I have just launched my personal online forum to help users of my blog find more information and/or share their expertise. I hope that this will be a useful addition to my blog and will give all users the liberty to ask questions on different topics than the posts of the blog, and also will allow others to share their expertise to help them out.

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It is time for a change… Hell, it has been a long time since I should have done this but I never had the time, so here it goes. Since I started this blog I have used the Regulus theme from Binary Moon. At that time it looked as the best choice I was able to find from hundreds of wp-themes I have seen. For sure it was not the worse, but it definitely had its limitations… During the time I have done many changes to the theme, a little one here, a little one there, and at the time I thought to change to a new theme it was no longer so simple. Still if I would have seen a wordpress theme that I liked completely I would have gone for it in notime. But this never happened (to see a theme that I would like completely)… and it was obvious that I had to dig into it and make some changes to modify it myself.

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During the last days I have seen a lot of buzz regarding the addition of my country, Romania to the list of available countries on PayPal. Heck, I know that I needed something like this years ago when I started to work as a freelancer and I had problems retrieving the money I was working for. Every client was saying: let’s use paypal… and I had to explain to them that unfortunately this is not available for me and my country. Obviously during all this time I have found alternatives to paypal, as I could not wait for this fabulous event we are seeing now. Still, when I’ve seen the buzz generated by this news, I rushed immediately to check it out.

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A while ago I have written about the problems I had with RegisterFly and how I was able to move away my domain from them. Since then, I have completely moved away all my domains (even the not important ones) to Godaddy, as I was afraid that once ICANN will deal with RegisterFly the move could be more complicated if they shutdown their business as it should happen imo. Since I already was an “expert” on moving my domains out of RegisterFly this happened without any problem. Still I had a couple of money in my RegisterFly account so I thought that I could use that for a domain renewal… I tried for a couple of times and it was just not working… It took the money but it was not renewing the domain. The money was already lost there in the RegisterFly account, so I completed my last domain move out.

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It has been a long time since I have posted any news on my blog. Why? Because I’ve been involved in another major “project”, by far the most important one I have ever been involved, but very time consuming. And now after 3 months have passed, I am slowly returning to my previous activities. As a picture says more than a thousand words here is the picture of little Victor and myself:

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