by Ciprian Jichici
26. January 2008 13:41
Just when I was thinking I've seen about everything one can see in terms of stupidity, a new story caught my attention. About a month earlier, one of Tarom's planes (Tarom is the national air transport company from Romania) crashed near the runway while trying to take off from Bucharest's Henri Coanda airport. By some unbelievable miracle and a lucky twist of faith, all the passengers got away, only a few of them having some minor injuries. The cause of the accident? Well...that's an interesting one: while accelerating on the runway in foggy conditions, it hit a car (would you believe that ??!!!) left there by a couple of guys clearing the runway beacons. Just to show this isn't stupid enough, almost one month after the incident, it turns out they forgot about yet another thing: the plane itself.
This image is just incredible. You can see normal airport operations going on around the crashed plane, a few hundred meters from the runway. And just to add to the stupidity of the situation, the reaction of one official from the company was: "who's bothered by that plane" ?
Well, all this sort of changed a bit my "stupidity top 100 list" quite a bit :) It may be because I'm passing by that "monument" at least 5-6 times a week, and I hear some interesting reactions from passengers every time.
by Ciprian Jichici
19. January 2008 00:08
It seems that BEA is going to accept the improved bid from Oracle (around 8.5 billion USD). This marks a new step in the consolidation of application platforms throughout the industry. While being standalone, BEA was in my opinion one of the most powerfull and credible competitors to Microsoft's application platform. Despite some see Oracle's move as a bold and necessary one, I think they're going to have serious issues integrating BEA's stuff into their own platform. Not to mention the confusion they've already created among their customers. Anyway, it certainly seems that the clash of the application platforms is getting closer and closer to an all-out war aimed to conquer the data centers of large enterprises.
by Ciprian Jichici
18. January 2008 23:24
Here's a very funny and rather special blog entry... Why special? Because it comes from a machine rather than a human. And it's not any machine, but the last Windows Server 2003 at microsoft.com.
by Ciprian Jichici
12. January 2008 18:59
If you're interested to work with cutting-edge Microsoft technologies, face (and solve :)) a lot of technical challenges, and of course improve the level of your technical readiness, I have news for you. My company, Genisoft, decided recently to add new members to our team. If you're interested, just drop us a CV at
hr@genisoft.eu or register online at
http://www.bestjobs.ro (use the keyword Genisoft).
by Ciprian Jichici
7. January 2008 17:26
This year's keynote at CES was a blast. Perhaps the most funny part of it what this part where Bill Gates plays Bill Gates during his last day @ Microsoft:
Leaving the funny side apart, this is a major step for Microsoft which has to start living without its founder being a full-time employee. It's going to be really interesting to watch the Redmond giant move on.