Cav's Place

As you most probably know by now, another school shooting has taken place yesterday in the United States, claiming the lives of 20 children and 7 adults, including the shooter, who appears to have also killed his mother before driving to the school. The result of this is, as always, an emotional reaction demanding stricter […]

I’ll start from a summary I found on Realitatea of an article from Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Actually, you can find both this summary in an article about international press reactions to the results and another article with some direct quotes from the original piece, so I’ll try to put the two together while still removing […]

After almost making it a rule for a long time, I ended up not writing personal posts on Sunday for the past three weeks. Unfortunately, the reason for that wasn’t that I managed to write two non-personal posts per week and therefore such updates became unnecessary, but quite the contrary, that I couldn’t get myself […]

The situation in Egypt had been boiling over for the past several days and today, being Friday, will probably mark another major episode. But, of course, this is nothing if not entirely expected, and not merely because of who won the elections there. That’s an important factor and it definitely shouldn’t have been allowed to […]

Since I mentioned my ISP issues and the fact that I want to stay with a LAN instead of being switched over to a major “proper” ISP, I thought this would be a good opportunity to explain how this actually works here in Romania, starting from the beginning. Don’t treat this as an exhaustive or […]