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Monthly Archive August, 2013

Why Are We Protesting on September 1?

As I already said, tomorrow I’ll be attending what I sure hope will be a reasonably large protest and only one of the many scheduled to take place that day. At the time I’m writing this, the official list, which is in Romanian but should be usable for those who don’t know the language as […]

Quick Review: Sorabol

Picked this up for free and I’m rather sorry I did. A fair amount of work seems to have gone into it, but I couldn’t even tell you precisely what it wants to be, and the writing style and the approach, not to mention the rushed ending pulled out of a hat, certainly ruin any […]

Another Computer Issue, Reading, Writing, OkCupid and the Next Protest

Despite the long title, this will be as quick as I can make it, so let me start with the fact that last night marked the first time I was unable to reboot since switching to Windows 7. Under Vista, this happened if some Internet Explorer processes failed to close properly, though I was sometimes […]

How Can Chemical Weapons Bring Peace to Syria?

Saw a BBC analysis today claiming that the recent use of chemical weapons, which is now accepted as fact even by the Syrian regime and its Russian and Iranian allies, lifted the crisis to such a high level that all sides, and the USA and Russia in particular, should be far more likely to put […]

Blades of Heaven and Chainsaws of Hell

The first part of the title refers to the fact that I quite randomly stumbled into the game at the end of last week and decided to install and start playing it yesterday. Definitely not playing The Witcher anymore, since I’m obviously too afraid of messing everything up after noticing how easy it seems to […]