Cav's Place

Over a year ago, I saw an article in a newspaper which mentioned that a committee had identified the greatest engineering challenges of the century ahead and had set up a site where people could rank them and offer their solutions. They admitted that it’s mainly a “public relations” move, meant to bridge the gap […]

A new law has been put up for public debate by the Bucharest City Council. Don’t take the fact that it’s been put up for debate as a good thing in itself. It’s a requirement to put laws up for debate, but not to pay any attention to what people are saying, so they usually […]

Like a good part of the world, a few days ago I was watching Obama’s inauguration, which I keep meaning to call coronation since that’s what it looked like. I found myself rather annoyed by how pompous everything was. True, he wasn’t ostentatious himself and you can’t say there was a significant overall display of […]

I went to the CNN site today and noticed an ad on the right side asking me to take a survey about electronics. (It’s actually just about Nikon, especially their advertisements on CNN.) I like surveys, so I clicked it and saw that it says they’ll donate €2 if you’re from Europe or $2 if […]

Since it apparently ranked as the number three viral video of 2008, I guess most people who’d somehow end up reading this already know it. But I didn’t and I think it’s a story truly worth sharing, even if it happened nearly 40 years ago. I’m talking about this video about Christian the lion. Watch […]