So it’s been a while since I last put down anything in the blog …
In the past months I was kind of busy fiddling around with object oriented databases for my Diploma Project which finally concluded at the end of June 2008 (hence forth I am an … engineer – look here at Dilbert to see what I mean).

Having finished all my work load I started touring off the country on the soon to become traditional summer starting route: Sulina in the Danube Delta, Vama Veche as the last “sanctuary” on the Romanian Black See shore and the Fagaras Mountains as the highest spot in the country. All in all I spent around 2 weeks around the country, without any worries, under the perfect July weather. I collected some of the photos I took and placed them online:

• Sulina and the Danube Delta
• Vama Veche
• The Fagaras Mountains

Unfortunately my holiday came to a rather short stop after 2 weeks as I had to return to Cluj for a couple of days in order to sort out some administrative problems regarding my future (more about that to come) and to download the photos I took so far :)
After some days spent in my dear home town, we went to the Garana International Jazz Festival. I had heard about this festival before, but it had never actually caught my attention as much before. This year, as a spur of the moment we just jumped into a red car and drove all the way to Garana (close to Resita in the Semenic Mountains) to enjoy one evening of incredible jazz music and atmosphere out of the three nights of the festival. Camping by a small river close the Trei-Ape, the whole experience was incredible! Starting with this year Garana is on my to-do list each year!

For the time, I am still in Cluj until next week when I will start a short journey around Portugal and Spain. If you’re around Porto, Lisbon, Algarve, Cadiz or Sevilla in the next weeks, drop a line!

Note:
1. On the technical side of this blog entry I have ended up using w.bloggar as the favorite tool of trade. I set it up on my USB key (it’s portable, and fully feature packed) and managed to write the entire post before Windows Live Writer installed on my machine (my ex-favorite tool of trade). It was incredibly slow for no apparent reason.

2. Still on the technical side, I received a Beta invite from DropBox - a new online storage and sync service. For the time they offer 2GB free space during beta, sync-ing between any number of PCs computers (as Mac is also supported), automatic upload and sync between online computers, shareable documents, automatic photo gallery generation for photos, undo-deletes, file version history and a small nifty and smart client application. The only con I found so for is that the location of the root of the synced hierarchy can not (easily) be moved out of the My Documents. If you want to try DropBox I still have around 10 invites so just drop a line and I would be glad to send them out.

3. I’ve been tagged by .marius in the “Winamp leapsa” … I will take up the challenge but after I clean up my playlist :)

Update: I have uploaded some poor quality photos from Garana here – still better than nothing!