Thoughts and memories of living abroad and improving myself while at it
On this day, Bulgaria and Romania were officially joininig the European Union. Also, Bulgarian, Romanian, and Irish became official languages of the European Union, joining 20 other official languages.
I was celebrating New Year in Vienna, going up the Kahlenberg, taking the attached photo, and one day later experiencing my first Segway ride 
Happy New Year!
This is me!
Well… my Simpsons version anyway. Fun stuff to try:
1. go to http://simpsonizeme.com/
2. upload a mugshot of yours (or a friend’s)
3. get Simpsonized!
Being a great fan of Simpsons myself, I could not resist the temptation. Had a few good laughs as well
The image analysis they do is pretty basic. I noticed that the photo is always rotated to make the face perfectly vertical (or otherwise put, a line connecting the two eyes would be parallel to the bottom margin of the photo 
) . Does not seem like they analyze anything more than the symmetries of the face (forehead, nose, eyes), so don’t expect miracles. However, you can set your gender, age, clothing style, hear style before the rendering of the “simpsonized” version, and can fine tune the details after the rendition.
I am in no way affiliated to the site, other than being a Simpsons fan myself. The site also promotes Burgerking, which I am not a fan of.
I found out a very interesting website today - www.entrepreneur.com
Its name (very apropriately and conveniently chosen) made me think about how good domain names are chosen.
I’ve had my share of domain name hunting, and I know that by now all english words in the dictionary are already out there with a .com tail!
Anyone who’s tried to register a domain recently knows what I’m talking about 
Then I found out about the concept of “domain hack“, and immediately thought of some very cool ones (cyb.org, profit.net, anic.org, inter.com, ze.ro) Obviously, all taken!!
I started playing a bit with perl scripts and word lists, trying to find a real good one, that was still free. Then I found something better:
www.domainsbot.com and www.morewords.com Using these two nifty little sites it bound to make your domain name search a lot easier, albeit probably not much less frustrating…:D
If by this point you haven’t started wondering what the deal with my domain name is, no worries - I’ll tell you anyway!
Torego is a six letter word, made up of 3 sillables, each sillable being a consonant-vowel pair. DUH!
It’s also easy to remember, easy to pronounce in most languages, sounds cool (to my ears at least - being modest again) and might I state this again: only six letters…
That’s it.
Oh, and apparently there is an extraordinary market for good domain names out there, with some selling in the ranges of 6 zeros and 9 digit numbers…
The 6th of December 2003 was a very good day for me.
Today there are exactly 4 years since.
This is just a reminder.
May many follow!
