http://www.vladjecan.com Portfolio and Blog Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:39:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On December the 4th 1676 two armies had faced each other near the city of Lund in Sweden. The invading Danish force numbering some 12,300 strong was led by 31 year old King Christian V of Denmark and carefully advised by General Carl von Arensdorff. Standing to face them was ... http://www.vladjecan.com/2008/10/the-battle-of-lund/ Some time ago, I spotted on Yahoo! Movies an interesting article. Actually it was a ‘Top 10’ article about the most historically inaccurate movies. The interesting part is that Mel Gibson’s movies, or the ones in which he had the lead role, appeared 3 times on that list. In my opinion, ... http://www.vladjecan.com/2008/10/mel-gibson-re-writes-history-with-every-change-he-gets/ Should historical fiction really be 100% accurate? No. It shouldn't - and that's the beauty of fiction. Many readers confuse historical fiction with plain history for some undetermined reasons while others because of cheap snobism. The clean fact is that historical fiction does not have to be accurate, that's why it ... http://www.vladjecan.com/2008/09/on-historical-fiction-and-real-history/ From bloggers to journalists, this question seems to trouble the most. Many of us, including myself, have spent hours, days or weeks cogitating on it without a satisfying result. The fact is that in order to be able to write a story, first you need to write. As I mentioned above, ... http://www.vladjecan.com/2008/09/how-to-write-a-story-the-question-that-everybody-asks/ In the next days I will start covering the Northern Dacian Limes. Astigan.com will publish a series of articles focused on the principal auxiliary and legionary forts in the northern Dacian province. Before I analyze the Roman forts, I will write an introductionary article on the castrum and on the conquest ... http://www.vladjecan.com/2008/09/covering-the-northern-dacian-border/ This not even a month old web browser, Google Chrome, has already massive success and unintentionally competes with well-established browsers like Mozilla. When I first discovered Chrome, two weeks ago I guessed, I said "finally a fast and reliable browser". Not that I didn't like Firefox, but it repeteadly crashed and ... http://www.vladjecan.com/2008/09/a-long-adventure-to-discover-google-chrome/ I’ve just come across a very interesting article published by GameSpot, UK edition. It speaks of a study that shows that about 99 percent of boys and 94 percent of girls play games. 1,102 teenagers were part of the research and 97 per cent of them, aged 12-17, played video games. ... http://www.vladjecan.com/2008/09/study-says-almost-all-teens-play-games/ Welcome to my website. Thank you for your interest! As you may have noticed, I've launched the new version of vladjecan.com. Now this website will serve as a portfolio and as a blog. Additionally, I've updated my Bio and the Selected Articles page. http://www.vladjecan.com/2008/09/hello-world/