Archive for November, 2009

Nebunii

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

Seems they fixed the Web site, but now the Romanian politicians and conjoined media circus have gone completely batshit crazy. From here it looks like a mad squabble of ruthless scoundrels which does little-to-nothing for Romania but determine which cabal gets the next round of public largess.

What’s going on, people?

I turn a blind eye for a short while and the whole world seems to fall apart…

Ignorance betrays Romanian presidency

Friday, November 20th, 2009

A terrible way to undermine one’s President is to demonstrate a clear lack of sophistication in common communication mediums.

Perhaps you’ve heard of the Internet. Possibly even the Web. Fairly common these days, I’d say.

Politicians rely on rapid and on-message agitprop to be delivered to the target audience(s) in a reliable fashion such that the (mis)information takes root or engenders a desired effect.

It’s probably a good guess to say no one reads this blog any more. Rightly so; there hasn’t been anything to read here for blog-eons. And I’d wager that even if there are a few last holdouts, they may not have read my previous discussion about the systemic ignorance of Romanian Web server administrators.

A while back, I opined with incredulity about the pervasive Romanian failure to properly configure something as mind-numbingly simple yet as mission-critical as a Web server. And now it’s come into the spotlight by embarrassing Preşedintele României Traian Băsescu on the international stage.

As trumpted by JurnalismOnline, it seems the Web site for the Romanian Presidency is run by an ignorant admin who clearly is unable to comprehend how to perform his or her job.

Unless it’s a PSD operative trying to subvert PD-L objectives… heh.

Romanian President hires incompetent IT staff

This is the moment where I burst forth into involuntary cackling, upsetting all around me into believing I’ve gone mad. But I haven’t. The insane asylum is connect by PRI to Cotroceni.

The fools!

(Hat tip to Monsoux for bringing this gem of hilarity to my attention.)