About

A little about me

Raoul PopI’ve got knowledge and/or experience in the following fields:

  • Web design and development
  • Writing
  • Photography
  • Information/knowledge systems management (academic, healthcare and business systems - i.e. EMR/LMS/CMS implementation & management)
  • Server and desktop virtualization, administration and management
  • Database design and administration
  • Blogging, podcasting, feeds
  • Healthcare administration
  • Innovation, product improvement and product reviews
  • Strategic development, cost reduction and streamlining of processes

I have a full-time job, and I also do IT consulting. I’m focusing on web design and development for the present time.

My interests are varied. I like photography, old movies, old cartoons, old music, new information, new computers and new technology, especially new DSLR cameras. In my spare time, I like to watch good movies, read good books, listen to good music and take good, long and leisurely walks with my wife Ligia.

Ligia PopLigia is an accomplished piano teacher who teaches both adults and children. She has just published her first book, entitled “Pasi in Lumea Muzicii” (Steps in the World of Music). The book was published in Romania, and it’s an innovative and very approachable method for teaching children piano.

Ligia likes old movies, old cartoons and old music, just like me, but unlike me, she actually likes to spend her spare time watching them, not reading articles and writing or editing photographs.

What you’ll find here

This site is my dream job. Really, I’d love to be doing this full time. I love writing and I love photography, and if I could do both and make a good living from it, I’d be a happy man. For now, it occupies my evenings and weekends. I publish original content about 3-4 times per week, plus links to other interesting articles that I want to share with you (some of which you can only get if you subscribe to the site feed). I also share my photos with you via the same site feed.

If there’s a lull in my posts, that means I’m either very busy with other projects or I’m working on an article that takes several hours or more to put together and can’t be done in one day. There could be other reasons of course, such as travel or sickness, but the former two are the more likely.

Here’s a list of the various subjects I write about:

  • Technology: Having worked in the field of IT for over 13 years, I am naturally interested in everything that has to do with computers and various other technologies that make our life better or worse.
  • Photography: I am a photographer, and I often do reviews of cameras and lenses or write about advances in the field. I post my own photography as well, gathered from my numerous outings and trips. All of the photographs that I post here or on my portfolio site are available for license or sale if they are marked with my name. Should you be interested, here are the details.
  • Travel: I get around — thanks to my wife and my thirst for photography — and when I do, I take photos, and tend to reflect on the places I visit.
  • Movies and Cartoons: I love old movies and cartoons (silent, classic, black and white, color, you name it), and I write about them. I also write about current movies and cartoons that interest me.
  • Products: New and innovative products get me really excited. I love good design, and I admire products where design, function, durability and reliability are tightly integrated. I review cameras, computers and other technology-related products on my site.
  • Books: I do book reviews from time to time.
  • News and discoveries: I love to find out what’s new in the world, and to share that information right here on my blog.
  • Ideas: I post my own ideas here, because I want to do what I can to contribute to our overall well-being.
  • Life: I write about various things in my life, or life in general, with all its quirks, pleasures, frustrations and yes, sorrows.

There are plenty of digital trails that lead to me. Here are a few of them:

There are very good reasons why I don’t have a MySpace or Facebook profile.

Would you like to ask me a particular question? Do you want to see my current CV? Email me.

Background info

After years of writing articles for my other sites and several months of blogging at Blogger in late 2005 and early 2006, I finally said enough is enough, I should have only one place where I write about the things I care. I consolidated my blog from Blogger and my content from Amalgamy into a single site, ComeAcross, in April of 2006. This explains why you’ll see posts from as early as 2001 if you look through the Archives.

In December of 2007, I moved all my content here (raoulpop.com) from ComeAcross (comeacross.info). This was the culmination of an extended and torturous decision process about whether I should have a separate site or whether I should store it all under my name and be done with it.

I initially chose comeacross.info for a good reason. In spite of the fact that there are tons of splogs on the .info TLD, I took the meaning of the .info to heart, and wanted to create a site where you could truly come across interesting information. Simple enough, right? I thought of my site as one of the very few real websites on the .info TLD. I also thought that it’d be hard for people to remember and type raoulpop.com, and that they’d mess it up. Well, the truth is that people seldom type in URLs. Most often, they click on links, and as long as the link is correct, and the content is good they don’t really care how it’s spelled.

To make a long story short, all my content is here now, and here’s where I plan to keep it.

Feedback is welcome

Your ideas and suggestions about anything that pertains to the site are welcome. If you like it, please tell your friends. And I certainly welcome your post requests. If you know of an interesting piece of news or some tidbit of knowledge, please, let me know.

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