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Monthly Archive November, 2015

A Tour of Parties, Organizing and the Climate – November 16 to 29 in Bucharest

The date range in the title may start from November 16, but the first event I’m specifically aware of was another “Colectiv Unplugged” concert, on November 20. Same as the first time, it took place near the University Square fountain and those who gathered were given sheets of paper with the lyrics of the songs […]

Switching Again to Kaspersky and Wondering About Blog or ISP Issues

Since this second trial of Emsisoft Anti-Malware finished Tuesday night, I’m now on the second day of the third trial of Kaspersky Anti-Virus, and it may actually not be an abuse because the first was on the old computer and the second, while started when I reinstalled Windows on the new one, was still of […]

Tropico 4, Farmers’ Markets and Two More Runs

I have to start this with the fact that this Wednesday I was just given Tropico 4, including the Complete DLC Pack, on GOG.com. Seems that The Community Giveaway was “revived” and I got nominated to receive this, so I found myself simply staring at a message letting me know and including the code, not […]

Moving to the Next Phase, If We Can – November 9 to 15 in Bucharest

A third open discussion was planned for Monday and, while the known activists had no part in it, one was attempted by someone who brought a speaker and a microphone. After only a few people, however, that small sound system seemed to run out of power and everything became a shouting match for a while, […]

"Colectiv!" – November 6 to 8 in Bucharest

November 6 continued the mess among activists, as 20 “representatives”, selected according to criteria that were not made public but which supposedly took the over 5500 e-mails sent the previous evening into account in some way, took part in consultations with the President while other groups vehemently opposed doing so. The list that was presented […]