March 26th, 2007
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Heey!
Yep, I haven’t had any revelations lately :), so it’s going to be a short update about what I’m still up to:
Well firstly, I’ve been last weekend to Bucharest to the “IBM Academic Days”. It’s been supposed to be a very informative conference about how IBM can cooperate with the Academic institutions in Romania. Well … it was ahem … bullshit. I was expecting far more from IBM than offering cool coffee breaks and good dinners at Hilton hotel. I was amazed to see how some of the speakers (sales men) were laking basic presentation skills. The content wasn’t customized for the academic market at all … it was like selling sessions for a big company, also the agenda was delayed by 1,5 hours on the first day. I’m aware that they presented also their educational cooperations and programs but they manged to present it in an almost unintelligible form. I think 2 of the ~8 sessions were really worth watching. As I said before, an university doesn’t need to “manage it’s business processes”, it has none :D, we live in Romania and you need to adapt your presentations to this particular market.
August 3rd, 2006
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I’m still working at my old workplace at the university. It’s been 4 years since I first walked in this office, it’s like a lifetime and I think I will remember it as one the coolest jobs I had. No schedule, funny colleagues, very cool boss, nights spent over when something was not working, first steps in understanding design-web-computer networks.
Lot’s of memories bind me to this place and people with all good and bad times, bonds almost as strong as my AIESEC experience. A part of me is literally in every piece of this office: in the paint on the walls, the boards of the floor, the equipments, the folders in the other room, every piece of web code and databases, every configuration file and scripts on the servers, and mostly in the people here. The team of five that made it all possible. Trust me, we did achieve the impossible together. Although I try to postpone the moment as long as I can as each day passes I realize that it’s time to it’s time to spread my wings and fly away. For me there’s nothing more to learn, nothing more to experience, nothing more to develop, to grow to create … Not here.
