Month: March 2006

Wiki-Cluj

Cum nu voi mai avea probabil timp deloc saptamana viitoare, un al treilea post pe astazi nu ar trebui sa fie considerat prea mult… De data asta despre Cluj…

Dan Anghel a avut acum cateva zile ideea excelenta de a aduna bloggerii clujeni (dupa modelul iesenilor, care ne-au luat-o se pare inainte- ei, nu-i bai, ardeleanu’ e mai lent de felul lui, dar treaba o face pefect) pe ceea ce ar trebui sa devina – categoric!-
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What’s new

… or rather not entirely new- objectively speaking- but recent impressions from my part, so to say. This time about classical music, economic research and some new scientific highlights…

I ran into an excellent resource of classical music online that has, among other things, short informative biographies of many composers and- particularly- complete librettos for a few hundreds of the most famous world operas.

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Basescu: “Wellll, let’s don’t be pessimistic, when we have ALL conditions to be optimistic…”

Luiza Ilie scrie in cateva articole despre jurnalistii straini aparent veniti in Romania sa prezinte doar senzationalul, ceea ce e iesit din comun in sens negativ, ca imagini generalizate ale Romaniei, chiar atunci cand subiectul respectiv nu caracterizeaza decat o infima parte din populatie – sau e in mare de domeniul trecutului.
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Peter van Bergeijk to publicly “criticise” me (in Dutch)

Seemingly some Dutch economists in Holland – who don’t necessarily know me- are suddenly very concerned about my spending too much time on the internet (TRUE- but nothing to do about this, I have to be in touch with what happens in the world) and particularly about my apparently doing everything (read: putting too much effort and energy to the expense of my research time) to promote my website in the top most visited pages within the category “economie-nederland” on webstats4u (WRONG- the fact that webstats4u does not have a mechanism to block your own visits is nothing to blame on me- I decided nonetheless not to use my webpage as browser homepage anylonger, just to satisfy these criticisms and to show that I could not care less if I were in the top of the most visited economics pages in the Netherlands or not…).
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