<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683</id><updated>2011-12-31T23:04:07.655+01:00</updated><category term='EEE'/><category term='florence'/><category term='mobile'/><category term='sleep apnea'/><category term='jokes'/><category term='vaffanculo day'/><category term='funny'/><category term='dd'/><category term='RPG'/><category term='death'/><category term='asus'/><category term='Photo'/><category term='commercial clone'/><category term='miserere'/><category term='ghostscript'/><category term='lyrics'/><category term='Federico Teloni'/><category term='war'/><category term='widescreen'/><category term='firefox'/><category 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term='prank'/><category term='music'/><category term='finale'/><category term='games'/><category term='meeting'/><category term='patagonia dwarf owl'/><category term='deutsches'/><category term='didgeridoo'/><category term='envy'/><category term='motivational posters'/><category term='life'/><category term='wikipedia'/><category term='tibet'/><category term='supernova'/><category term='plain'/><category term='wonder'/><category term='poetry'/><category term='god'/><category term='mayor'/><category term='domenici'/><category term='miyazaki'/><category term='scroogled'/><category term='Conan future boy'/><category term='gmail'/><category term='taralli'/><title type='text'>decio: il blog</title><subtitle type='html'>Enjoying doing poorly a lot of things.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>167</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-970404758535263174</id><published>2010-07-17T09:10:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-17T09:10:00.809+02:00</updated><title type='text'>40th B'day: the definitive gift</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href='http://picasaweb.google.com/decio.biavati/DecioIlBlog?authkey=Gv1sRgCMGqgYucndelpwE#5494768827613015346'&gt;&lt;img src='http://lh3.ggpht.com/_B8VkR4Y91bg/TEFXItzDbTI/AAAAAAAAAMc/w8hEVPTTc0w/s288/iphone_photo.jpg' border='0' width='281' height='210' style='margin:5px'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I received for the beginning of my 41th tour around the Sun The Simpsons Chess Game Set, starring Homer as King, Marge as Queen, Bart as Bishop, Lisa as Rook (or Castle, according to the included leaflet), Krusty as Knight and Maggie as Pawn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note the Super Cute mini-sword and mini-shield held by the Barts.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-970404758535263174?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/970404758535263174/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=970404758535263174' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/970404758535263174'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/970404758535263174'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2010/07/40th-b-definitive-gift.html' title='40th B&amp;#39;day: the definitive gift'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh3.ggpht.com/_B8VkR4Y91bg/TEFXItzDbTI/AAAAAAAAAMc/w8hEVPTTc0w/s72-c/iphone_photo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-8115693654081820495</id><published>2009-11-14T01:00:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-14T01:14:46.837+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hero'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Federico Teloni'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Superman'/><title type='text'>A Superman is dead</title><content type='html'>A 63 years old father is dead by concussive trauma after several months of coma consequent to a bashing from a group of three in their twenties. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He reacted verbally to harsh jokes from the killer trio addressed to his disabled son.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He was an hero, and he died like a man. His name was Federico Teloni, let his name not be forgotten.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-8115693654081820495?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://quotidianonet.ilsole24ore.com/cronaca/2009/11/13/260241-morto_papa_coraggio.shtml' title='A Superman is dead'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/8115693654081820495/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=8115693654081820495' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8115693654081820495'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8115693654081820495'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2009/11/superman-is-dead.html' title='A Superman is dead'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-4150318441753021966</id><published>2009-04-10T14:56:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-10T15:04:30.402+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Aux armes, citoyens!</title><content type='html'>Briefly: French government proposes a law to ban from internet all those who download pirated material, following a "three-strike" rule.&lt;br /&gt;The law blows up at the very last step needed to be confirmed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Freedom 1 - Stupid laws 0.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-4150318441753021966?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/09/french-government-nu.html' title='Aux armes, citoyens!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/4150318441753021966/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=4150318441753021966' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/4150318441753021966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/4150318441753021966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2009/04/aux-armes-citoyens.html' title='Aux armes, citoyens!'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-3106984569868040457</id><published>2009-01-31T12:26:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-31T12:29:02.992+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fun'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='graphjam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='graph'/><title type='text'>Graphjam</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_B8VkR4Y91bg/SYQ1pRDk_DI/AAAAAAAAAIc/C3MiQzA-cDw/s1600-h/broken-guitar-string1.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 396px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_B8VkR4Y91bg/SYQ1pRDk_DI/AAAAAAAAAIc/C3MiQzA-cDw/s400/broken-guitar-string1.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297418044763864114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Graphjam, probably one of the most funny sites on the net.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-3106984569868040457?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://graphjam.com' title='Graphjam'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/3106984569868040457/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=3106984569868040457' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/3106984569868040457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/3106984569868040457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2009/01/graphjam.html' title='Graphjam'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_B8VkR4Y91bg/SYQ1pRDk_DI/AAAAAAAAAIc/C3MiQzA-cDw/s72-c/broken-guitar-string1.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-333313695683163216</id><published>2009-01-24T11:30:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-24T11:51:49.919+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='merge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='linux'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ghostscript'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='join pdf'/><title type='text'>Join / Merge pdf files in Linux</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Linux does a lot of things out-of-the-box, just like a Mac. Essentially, unlike a Mac, Linux isn't boxed, and viceversa does a lot of things more than a Mac. It just lacks the sheer semplicity of Mac.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To join pdf use GhostScript. I tried successfully on my Ubuntu 8.10 machine.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(citation from linux.com)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;tt&gt;gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=finished.pdf file1.pdf file2.pdf&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Unless you're very familiar with Ghostscript, that string of commands won't mean much to you. Here's a quick breakdown:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;tt&gt;gs&lt;/tt&gt; -- starts the Ghostscript program&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;tt&gt;-dBATCH&lt;/tt&gt; -- once Ghostscript processes the PDF files, it should exit. If you don't include this option, Ghostscript will just keep running&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;tt&gt;-dNOPAUSE&lt;/tt&gt; -- forces Ghostscript to process each page without pausing for user interaction&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;tt&gt;-q&lt;/tt&gt; -- stops Ghostscript from displaying messages while it works&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;tt&gt;-sDEVICE=pdfwrite&lt;/tt&gt; -- tells Ghostscript to use its built-in PDF writer to process the files&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;tt&gt;-sOutputFile=finished.pdf&lt;/tt&gt; -- tells Ghostscript to save the combined PDF file with the name that you specified&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Obviously the operation is not limited to two files. I merged 12 files in a matter of seconds with a single command line. Yes, it supports wildcards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=finished.pdf *.pdf&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-333313695683163216?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.linux.com/feature/36815' title='Join / Merge pdf files in Linux'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/333313695683163216/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=333313695683163216' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/333313695683163216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/333313695683163216'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2009/01/join-merge-pdf-files-in-linux.html' title='Join / Merge pdf files in Linux'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-240763286337700818</id><published>2009-01-13T01:00:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-13T01:19:32.803+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='unkindness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='waste of time'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pointless law'/><title type='text'>Australian do it worst</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_B8VkR4Y91bg/SWvdaDZHAxI/AAAAAAAAAH4/8eAZIT1RpLY/s1600-h/kangaroo.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 383px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_B8VkR4Y91bg/SWvdaDZHAxI/AAAAAAAAAH4/8eAZIT1RpLY/s400/kangaroo.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290565626933740306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A land where is born the great &lt;a href="http://clintonforbes.blogspot.com/"&gt;Clinton Forbes&lt;/a&gt; cannot be so bad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But Australia government pissed me twice recently:&lt;br /&gt;1) Forcing the ISPs to implement a sort of Internet filtering that simply &lt;a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081205-australias-internet-filtering-too-ambitious-doomed-to-fail.html"&gt;isn't going to work&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;2) Refusing &lt;a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/26/2430714.htm"&gt;atheist's ads&lt;/a&gt; on their buses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This isn't free speech. This is not even in the neighborhood of the free speech. You are insulting humanity as a whole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, Australians, let's make a deal: you don't insult me because of the government of my State, and I promise to do the same.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-240763286337700818?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/240763286337700818/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=240763286337700818' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/240763286337700818'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/240763286337700818'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2009/01/australian-do-it-worst.html' title='Australian do it worst'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_B8VkR4Y91bg/SWvdaDZHAxI/AAAAAAAAAH4/8eAZIT1RpLY/s72-c/kangaroo.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-8660456257814470617</id><published>2008-12-22T00:46:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2009-08-25T15:55:59.409+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='felching'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='freeganism'/><title type='text'>Words you may not know (I didn't)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeganism"&gt;Freeganism&lt;/a&gt;: portmanteau of "Free" and "Veganism", describe looting dumpsters as lifestyle. Done mainly for environmental purposes, the concept is very far from the homeless lifestyle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felching"&gt;Felching&lt;/a&gt;: the act of [censored] the mix of [censored], [censored], and [censored] after a [censored] in [censored] consequent to a [censored][censored] or [censored].&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please refer to Urban Dictionary for more detailed explanation.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-8660456257814470617?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8660456257814470617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8660456257814470617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2008/12/noun-you-may-not-know-i-didnt.html' title='Words you may not know (I didn&apos;t)'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-7514798718217600238</id><published>2008-12-07T11:16:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-07T11:25:43.269+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dalai lama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sarkozy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='meeting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tibet'/><title type='text'>Sarko meets Dalai Lama</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_B8VkR4Y91bg/STuiujgdsSI/AAAAAAAAAHw/QUFp9zoNXC8/s1600-h/afp_france_tibet_sarkozy_dalai_lama_6dec08_eng_175.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 190px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_B8VkR4Y91bg/STuiujgdsSI/AAAAAAAAAHw/QUFp9zoNXC8/s400/afp_france_tibet_sarkozy_dalai_lama_6dec08_eng_175.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276990309083754786" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday Sarkozy met Dalai Lama in Gdansk. Finally, in a scenario populated by governments without &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testicle"&gt;balls&lt;/a&gt;, someone show off his &lt;a href="http://www.onaroad.com/HY/Tibetan_prayer_stones_pics/hy_Spile_manistones_405x300.jpg"&gt;stones&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-7514798718217600238?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://voanews.com/english/2008-12-06-voa19.cfm' title='Sarko meets Dalai Lama'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/7514798718217600238/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=7514798718217600238' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/7514798718217600238'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/7514798718217600238'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2008/12/sarko-meets-dalai-lama.html' title='Sarko meets Dalai Lama'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_B8VkR4Y91bg/STuiujgdsSI/AAAAAAAAAHw/QUFp9zoNXC8/s72-c/afp_france_tibet_sarkozy_dalai_lama_6dec08_eng_175.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-3195377191589023325</id><published>2008-11-24T01:45:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-24T01:45:27.654+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snoring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sleep apnea'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='didgeridoo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snore'/><title type='text'>No more snoring nights</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;img width='308' height='411' src='http://lh3.ggpht.com/_B8VkR4Y91bg/SSn42F8B3-I/AAAAAAAAAHc/ww2QkeX5cRk/%5BUNSET%5D.jpg?imgmax=800' style='max-width: 800px;'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Your neighbor is going to hate you, but your best bet to get rid of snoring is buying a Didgeridoo.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.laoutback.com/didgeridoo/education/Didgeridoo_and_Sleep_Apnea.html'&gt;Didgeridoo Playing Helps Sleep Apnea&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;blockquote/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-3195377191589023325?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/3195377191589023325/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=3195377191589023325' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/3195377191589023325'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/3195377191589023325'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2008/11/no-more-snoring-nights.html' title='No more snoring nights'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh3.ggpht.com/_B8VkR4Y91bg/SSn42F8B3-I/AAAAAAAAAHc/ww2QkeX5cRk/s72-c/%5BUNSET%5D.jpg?imgmax=800' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-4667864972361769790</id><published>2008-10-29T17:59:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-10-29T18:22:02.847+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MTV'/><title type='text'>Maybe get a blister on your little finger</title><content type='html'>This is great. MTV posts every music video ever. &lt;a href="http://www.mtvmusic.com/video/?id=18177"&gt;I mean it&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="http://www.mtvmusic.com/video/?id=7846"&gt;Really&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="http://www.mtvmusic.com/video/?id=256482"&gt;Really really&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-4667864972361769790?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/4667864972361769790/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=4667864972361769790' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/4667864972361769790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/4667864972361769790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2008/10/maybe-get-blister-on-your-little-finger.html' title='Maybe get a blister on your little finger'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-8783885007058140510</id><published>2008-09-16T01:24:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-16T01:24:53.546+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Hurricanes</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;From the pictures, the &lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station'&gt;ISS&lt;/a&gt; seems the only sure place &lt;strike&gt;on&lt;/strike&gt; above Earth.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/hurricanes_as_seen_from_orbit.html'&gt;Hurricanes, as seen from orbit - The Big Picture - Boston.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;blockquote/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-8783885007058140510?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/8783885007058140510/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=8783885007058140510' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8783885007058140510'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8783885007058140510'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2008/09/hurricanes.html' title='Hurricanes'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-3932995672355002463</id><published>2008-08-20T11:51:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-20T11:51:43.447+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='funny'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='motivational posters'/><title type='text'>Alignment motivational posters</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;First, came motivational posters, with sad middle management putting them all over the office.&lt;br/&gt;Second, came Despair.com, with some kick-ass series of (un)motivational posters. (Read them, they are far more mind-tickling than your usual MP).&lt;br/&gt;Finally, came the rest of the world, with fake motivational poster about almost &lt;a href='http://attivissimo.blogspot.com/2008/08/la-regola-34-di-internet.html'&gt;everything&lt;/a&gt;. After the jump you'll find some poster modeled on roleplaying games alignements. Lovely.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href='http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2008/06/09/from-the-slushpile/?rss'&gt;Mightygodking.com » Blog Archive » From The Slushpile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;blockquote/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-3932995672355002463?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/3932995672355002463/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=3932995672355002463' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/3932995672355002463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/3932995672355002463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2008/08/alignment-motivational-posters.html' title='Alignment motivational posters'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-5031622282611655648</id><published>2008-08-01T01:30:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-01T01:39:11.773+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wonder'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sun'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eclipse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life'/><title type='text'>Remembering eclipses</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_B8VkR4Y91bg/SJJM67mxk-I/AAAAAAAAAFc/0D7WKUKA4D4/s1600-h/SolarEclipse1999.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_B8VkR4Y91bg/SJJM67mxk-I/AAAAAAAAAFc/0D7WKUKA4D4/s400/SolarEclipse1999.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229326692647015394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Tomorrow a total eclipse of Sun will be visible from Canada to China. I just put my story about the 1999 eclipse I saw in Salzburg as a &lt;a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/31/total-solar-eclipse.html#comment-249479"&gt;comment on Boingboing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was longing for this eclipse since twenty years. I remember I was roughly nine, reading on a book the Total Eclipses agenda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1981 Siberia, 1999 Austria.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thought it was impractical for a 10 years old boy travel toward Siberia to see the nearest one. So I asked to my parents: "May I go in Austria during 1999?" - "Of course you can: you will be 29, and you will decide by yourself whether you should go or not."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back then I didn't understood this anticipation, but I haven't miss my rendez-vous with the eclipse.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-5031622282611655648?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/5031622282611655648/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=5031622282611655648' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/5031622282611655648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/5031622282611655648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2008/08/remembering-eclipses.html' title='Remembering eclipses'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_B8VkR4Y91bg/SJJM67mxk-I/AAAAAAAAAFc/0D7WKUKA4D4/s72-c/SolarEclipse1999.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-5360855614394169629</id><published>2008-07-30T23:34:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-07-30T23:52:32.471+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='randy pausch'/><title type='text'>RIP: Randy Pausch</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/%7Epausch/news/index.html"&gt;Goodbye, Randy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-5360855614394169629?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/5360855614394169629/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=5360855614394169629' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/5360855614394169629'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/5360855614394169629'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2008/07/rip-randy-pausch.html' title='RIP: Randy Pausch'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-4502841066798007213</id><published>2008-06-02T12:21:00.020+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-09T00:07:02.044+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='musical instruments'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mario bros played with'/><title type='text'>45 ways to play Mario music</title><content type='html'>Super Mario Bros., level 1 music (&lt;a href="http://gprime.net/images/mariopiano/"&gt;main theme&lt;/a&gt;), played with a lot of instrument, ranging from the usual voice, piano, and guitar, to the &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;less usual&lt;/span&gt; sousaphone, jaw harp, ruler, and tesla coil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf56jYDv2fc"&gt;11 strings Bass&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZpD0btOZx8"&gt;2 Guitars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI2a7_XfKaI"&gt;Accordion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_st5eLRYtE"&gt;Bagpipe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPv9VZQkxJI"&gt;Balalaika&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCPAyr4AyTI"&gt;Banjo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRRY_mbxHxU"&gt;Bass Clarinet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gXh83hNnWw"&gt;Bassoon&lt;/a&gt; (@3'05'')&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crfrKqFp0Zg"&gt;Beatboxing flute&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke1JdEpYxjQ"&gt;Bells&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC1ArNmQ7zI"&gt;Bottles (blowing)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtIgRvWqqUU"&gt;Cello&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNcTLKRNF4Q"&gt;Chorus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFnQZicYjpA"&gt;Church Organ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ3C3segi90"&gt;Clarinet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wZCoeq9Ppc"&gt;Clarinet and Flute&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZmkWv5ApvM"&gt;Clarinet Quartet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cf50q4xpts"&gt;Drums and Bass&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS2sk3ADgKE"&gt;Flute&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkL9lRcAAsM"&gt;Guitar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0bKq3x74UE"&gt;Hand (by a manualist)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GtvLj8K1F4"&gt;Harmonica&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF3jC5VpfBc"&gt;Horn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1ezqv1MDYo"&gt;Jaw Harp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtzpGKadgew"&gt;Marimba&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzIB_ubrgXw"&gt;Mini Bagpipe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0OLujiKi4A"&gt;Mouth Clapping&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ljxEX8hr9s"&gt;Oboe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sw76wHUmk4"&gt;Ocarina&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A-A3lXP8tQ"&gt;Orchestra&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbGjBQILU08"&gt;Piano&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed4CHkN-Dkw"&gt;RC Car and Bottles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx2E6YMSFP8"&gt;Ruler&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCsQNO0yCnE"&gt;Saxophone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WppTbLm_zJg"&gt;Slap Bass&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26ggYNafkKg"&gt;Sousaphone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86eb5fiCM7Y"&gt;Throat&lt;/a&gt; (à la Animal House)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX5V_9s0Gfw"&gt;Tesla Coil&lt;/a&gt; (you HAVE to see it)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpbeUtU8mXc"&gt;Trumpet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONrOhMW7y4s"&gt;Tuba&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_mp5rw32ws"&gt;Ukulele&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo-KhZ9qZQk"&gt;Violin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnDry_gQiiM"&gt;Voice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hetmz0rLFQ"&gt;Whistle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHP5xjBP-9I"&gt;Xylophone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S.: my son's name is Mario. This fact is totally unrelated (giggle).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-4502841066798007213?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/4502841066798007213/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=4502841066798007213' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/4502841066798007213'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/4502841066798007213'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2008/06/45-ways-to-play-mario-music.html' title='45 ways to play Mario music'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-9104960100270247445</id><published>2008-05-22T01:24:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-22T01:32:45.525+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patagonia dwarf owl'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='environment'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='myth'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debunking'/><title type='text'>Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/16-06/ff_heresies_intro"&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; Wired column debunks some environmentalists' myths, may be very interesting if you're concerned. If you're not yet, you will be soon, so go on and RTFA.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://stiappona.blogspot.com/2008/05/10-miti-ambientalisti-da-sfatare-e.html"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; you will find my comments to the cited article (in italian, no offense intended for Patagonia Dwarf Owls).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-9104960100270247445?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/16-06/ff_heresies_intro' title='Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/9104960100270247445/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=9104960100270247445' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/9104960100270247445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/9104960100270247445'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2008/05/inconvenient-truths-get-ready-to.html' title='Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-3908330475067666861</id><published>2008-04-30T18:15:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-04-30T18:56:43.200+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comparison'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='firefox'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='safari'/><title type='text'>Safari pwnz Firefox!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Or: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_So_Happy_I_Can't_Stop_Crying"&gt;I am so boringly safe that I can't stop crying.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_B8VkR4Y91bg/SBiitt7-HyI/AAAAAAAAADc/f6PQRRMSwp0/s400/images.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195081076480810786" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mozilla-europe.org/it/products/firefox/"&gt;Firefox&lt;/a&gt; have had me. At first it came as the only true alternative to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer"&gt;IE&lt;/a&gt;. I loved it very much. I installed some useful extension (Forecastfox for the weather, NoScript for security, Scribefire (formerly Performancing) for blogging, and DownThemAll for pr0n): they helped me to enjoy Firefox ever more.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But FF is a memory hog, and is slow, slower than IE? Sure is slower than Safari, today also in Windows flavor, which is pretty safe, pretty usable, and - damn - is definitely fast.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;What I am about to miss: FF has a great way to handle rss feed as dropdown menu that is missing in Safari. Neither you can close tabs with the middle mouse button. Nobody's perfect.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-3908330475067666861?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/3908330475067666861/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=3908330475067666861' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/3908330475067666861'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/3908330475067666861'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2008/04/safari-pwnz-firefox.html' title='Safari pwnz Firefox!'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_B8VkR4Y91bg/SBiitt7-HyI/AAAAAAAAADc/f6PQRRMSwp0/s72-c/images.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-8862638312170281521</id><published>2008-04-13T02:14:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-04-13T02:14:48.837+02:00</updated><title type='text'>tIpNo: unsalted rice cakes</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;After reading my nutella posts, a colleague of mine told me about his experience with unsalted rice cakes (well-known for the flatline effect on your taste). He suggested Nutella is good enough to give a sense even to this ailment. Actually, I learned the meaning of "eating cardboard" after the first bite of my first rice cake (w/out nutella). &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Needless to say, I have to try it myself.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;1. Get a pack of unsalted rice cakes&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div align='center'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.biavati.net/blog/1-Gallette' style='max-width: 800px;'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;2. Get a Nutella jar. The more, the better. Here we have a family-size one.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div align='center'&gt;&lt;img src='http://lh3.ggpht.com/decio.biavati/SAFNFAj1YwI/AAAAAAAAACc/YTq6ctQu-eM/%5BUNSET%5D.jpg' style='max-width: 800px;'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;3. Extract a cake from the pack.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div align='center'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.biavati.net/blog/3-Substrato' style='max-width: 800px;'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div align='left'&gt;4. Spread Nutella on cake. A fairly good amount, please.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div align='center'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.biavati.net/blog/4-NutGalletta' style='max-width: 800px;'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;5. Have it. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div align='center'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.biavati.net/blog/5-Obliterata' style='max-width: 800px;'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;That's true: even the filthiest rice cake becomes very good with the reasonable amount of Nutella; and dietetically, due to the &lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polystyrene'&gt;EPS&lt;/a&gt; structure, the rice cakes have very few calories. (Thank you, MArco!)&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-8862638312170281521?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/8862638312170281521/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=8862638312170281521' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8862638312170281521'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8862638312170281521'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2008/04/tipno-unsalted-rice-cakes.html' title='tIpNo: unsalted rice cakes'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh3.ggpht.com/decio.biavati/SAFNFAj1YwI/AAAAAAAAACc/YTq6ctQu-eM/s72-c/%5BUNSET%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-5700107110389180972</id><published>2008-04-09T18:42:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-04-09T18:47:31.779+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kidney transplant'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='civilization sign'/><title type='text'>Divided we fall</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;Q: What if you need a kidney transplant but your available donors are incompatible with you?&lt;br /&gt;A: You find other people with the same problem, and exchange your donor with another, until you find one suitable for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the article:&lt;br /&gt;Five patients had a willing donor whose kidney was incompatible with theirs, but it did match another in the group.&lt;br /&gt;[...]an altruistic donor - neither a friend nor relative of any of the six patients - was found to match one of them.&lt;br /&gt;[...]suddenly, there were six people who could receive an organ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is civilization.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7338437.stm"&gt;BBC NEWS | Health | 'Six-way' kidney transplant first&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-5700107110389180972?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/5700107110389180972/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=5700107110389180972' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/5700107110389180972'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/5700107110389180972'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2008/04/divided-we-fall.html' title='Divided we fall'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-8907688821247311422</id><published>2008-03-16T17:43:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-16T17:43:21.373+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nutella'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Digestive'/><title type='text'>tIpNo: Digestive</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;Following a &lt;a href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/10/tipno-banana.html#c2161276990946722004'&gt;suggestion&lt;/a&gt; posted by anonymous,  I tried eventually Nutella on Digestive.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div align='center'&gt;&lt;div align='left'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.biavati.net/blog/digestive1.jpg' style='max-width: 800px;'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div align='left'&gt;Get a Digestive pack, the first in my life (but not the least, I hope).&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.biavati.net/blog/digestive2.jpg' style='max-width: 800px;'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Hold firmly a biscuit. You will be tempted to gnaw it. I resisted the urge for scientifical sake :-)&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.biavati.net/blog/digestive3.jpg' style='max-width: 800px;'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Get Nutella. The more, the better. Here we have a family-size one.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.biavati.net/blog/digestive4.jpg' style='max-width: 800px;'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Spread Nutella on biscuit. As you can see, I never limit myself to the &lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoichiometry'&gt;stoichometric&lt;/a&gt; quantitative.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.biavati.net/blog/digestive5.jpg' style='max-width: 800px;'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Yes: have it. The firm structure of the Digestive becomes brittle when hits your tongue, unleashing a Nutella tornado with a crisp cereal note. Actually I think it's one of the best way to taste Nutella. Not to mention the biscuit itself is a masterpiece. After the jump you will find the Digestive entry on Wikipedia.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digestive_biscuit'&gt;Digestive biscuit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-8907688821247311422?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/8907688821247311422/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=8907688821247311422' title='6 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8907688821247311422'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8907688821247311422'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2008/03/tipno-digestive.html' title='tIpNo: Digestive'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-6530507997805043025</id><published>2008-03-11T00:01:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-11T00:01:38.496+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rant'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wiretapping'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='security'/><title type='text'>About surveillance</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;The linked article from Bruce Schneier demonstrates that sharing personal information between two people is not a fair trade, because gives the more powerful even more power on the weaker.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Someone, in Italy, &lt;a href='http://punto-informatico.it/p.aspx?i=2199142'&gt;is thinking about a law to avoid wiretapping&lt;/a&gt;: I hope this law will be equally applied to everyone. Besides, it doesn't satisfies the &lt;a href='http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/community/columns/security/essays/10salaws.mspx?mfr=true'&gt;Ten Immutable Laws of Security&lt;/a&gt;, so is flawed since its birth.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2008/03/securitymatters_0306'&gt;Bruce Schneier's Security Matters: The Myth of the 'Transparent Society'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-6530507997805043025?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/6530507997805043025/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=6530507997805043025' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/6530507997805043025'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/6530507997805043025'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2008/03/about-surveillance.html' title='About surveillance'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-4227702779268046599</id><published>2008-03-01T17:51:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-01T17:51:14.263+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wikipedia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='censorship'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='florence'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='internet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mayor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='domenici'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='useless'/><title type='text'>Censorship: what?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;Read from &lt;a href='http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/01/1426201&amp;amp;from=rss'&gt;Slashdot&lt;/a&gt;, through il &lt;a href='http://www.corriere.it/cronache/08_febbraio_29/domenici_sindaco_firenze_querela_wikipedia_658497ee-e6f2-11dc-84b2-0003ba99c667.shtml'&gt;Corriere&lt;/a&gt;: the &lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leonardo_Domenici'&gt;Mayor of Florence&lt;/a&gt; sued &lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org'&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; about a (possible) defamation, about which I care not at all. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;This allows to demonstrate once more how censorship on Internet is useless; in the worst case, attracts unwanted attention on the news you are trying to erase. Actually, the questionable phrase has been removed from the &lt;a href='http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_Domenici'&gt;page&lt;/a&gt; (2008-03-01 17:31 CET), but due to the structure of Wikipedia, the old one is visible &lt;a href='http://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leonardo_Domenici&amp;amp;oldid=14460982'&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Or if you prefer, &lt;a href='http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:JqNxykW__LMJ:it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_Domenici+%22la+realizzazione+del+progetto+della+tramvia%22&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=4&amp;amp;gl=us'&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; is the cached Google version.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Besides, someone tagged &lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leonardo_Domenici&amp;amp;oldid=195130338'&gt;a version of the Domenici english page on WP&lt;/a&gt; as "LGBT people from Italy", where LGBT is "Lesbo Gay Bisexual Transgender". The tag has been &lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leonardo_Domenici'&gt;already removed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-4227702779268046599?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/4227702779268046599/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=4227702779268046599' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/4227702779268046599'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/4227702779268046599'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2008/03/censorship-what.html' title='Censorship: what?'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-8787809954249832367</id><published>2008-02-08T00:28:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-02-08T00:56:46.962+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dogfather'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wallpaper'/><title type='text'>Dogfather wallpaper</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_B8VkR4Y91bg/R6uXxBlbJFI/AAAAAAAAABI/Gctm3nsMNvY/s1600-h/dogfy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 321px; height: 255px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_B8VkR4Y91bg/R6uXxBlbJFI/AAAAAAAAABI/Gctm3nsMNvY/s400/dogfy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164388266205193298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My genius friend (and former colleague) &lt;a href="http://www.marcotesselli.com/"&gt;Marco&lt;/a&gt; sent me a wallpaper both visually awesome and funny. He granted me permission to post it here. You can download the wallpaper after the jump.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Standard:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.biavati.net/blog/dogfather/THEdogFATHER_1600x1200.jpg"&gt;1600 x 1200&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.biavati.net/blog/dogfather/THEdogFATHER_1280x1024.jpg"&gt;1280 x 1024&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.biavati.net/blog/dogfather/THEdogFATHER_1024x768.jpg"&gt;1024 x 768&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.biavati.net/blog/dogfather/THEdogFATHER_800x600.jpg"&gt;800 x 600&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Widescreen:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.biavati.net/blog/dogfather/THEdogFATHER_1680x1050.jpg"&gt;1680 x 1050&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.biavati.net/blog/dogfather/THEdogFATHER_1280x800.jpg"&gt;1280 x 800&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note to self: a black-themed wallpaper stuns your coworkers and helps you keeping clean your desktop.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-8787809954249832367?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/8787809954249832367/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=8787809954249832367' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8787809954249832367'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8787809954249832367'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2008/02/dogfather-wallpaper.html' title='Dogfather wallpaper'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_B8VkR4Y91bg/R6uXxBlbJFI/AAAAAAAAABI/Gctm3nsMNvY/s72-c/dogfy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-738197231446852352</id><published>2008-02-04T02:03:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-02-04T02:03:03.652+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patio heater'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pointless'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='EU'/><title type='text'>Senselessness from EU, part II</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;div align='center'&gt;&lt;img width='333' height='242' src='http://www.biavati.net/blog/patio_heater.jpg'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;EU just banned patio heaters, thus expecting to diminish of a whopping 0,016 % the CO2 production, as demonstrated by numbers in the linked article. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I am waiting (breathless: otherwise I would emit CO2) for a more *substantial* measure.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/03/patio_heater_ban_call/'&gt;EU to ban the patio heaters that ate the planet. Not. | The Register&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-738197231446852352?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/738197231446852352/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=738197231446852352' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/738197231446852352'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/738197231446852352'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2008/02/senselessness-from-eu-part-ii.html' title='Senselessness from EU, part II'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-5232490954877705739</id><published>2008-01-16T21:56:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-16T22:12:21.117+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='prank'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='commercial clone'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='holy trinity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='balls'/><title type='text'>Commercial made real: Holy Trinit, Rome</title><content type='html'>A bunch of men launched a whopping half million balls down the stairs of Holy Trinit on Pincio Hill in Rome. See the video below:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="500" height="410" class="strPlayer" id="flashplayerObj" align="middle"&gt; &lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /&gt; &lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /&gt; &lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent" /&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://tv.repubblica.it/flashplayer/player_embed.swf"&gt; &lt;param name="quality" value="high" /&gt; &lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt; &lt;param name="flashvars" value="autostart=false&amp;strip=0&amp;logo=1&amp;image=&amp;repeat=false&amp;file=repubblicatv/file/2008/pallespagna160108_sotto.flv&amp;videoTitle=Piazza di Spagna invasa dalle biglie&amp;fsType=fl" /&gt; &lt;embed src="http://tv.repubblica.it/flashplayer/player_embed.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="400" height="328" class="class="strPlayer"" name="flashplayerObj" align="middle" wmode="transparent" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" allowFullScreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="autostart=false&amp;strip=0&amp;logo=1&amp;repeat=false&amp;image=&amp;file=repubblicatv/file/2008/pallespagna160108_sotto.flv&amp;videoTitle=Piazza di Spagna invasa dalle biglie&amp;fsType=fl" /&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The scenario is very similar to a TV manufacturer commercial, that became a viral video on the Net a couple of years ago: see by yourself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oP5J4W5GQ3w&amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oP5J4W5GQ3w&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before you ask, the soundtrack is "Heartbeats" by Jose Gonzales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The commercial involved 250,000 bouncy balls, so the half million declared by the newspaper seems a bit overrated. Is quite an effect anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script&gt; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/world_news/500_000_balls_down_Spanish_Steps_by_Holy_Trinit_in_Rome_IT';&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-5232490954877705739?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/5232490954877705739/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=5232490954877705739' title='15 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/5232490954877705739'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/5232490954877705739'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2008/01/commercial-made-real-holy-trinit-rome.html' title='Commercial made real: Holy Trinit, Rome'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-5954011548961710948</id><published>2008-01-05T16:16:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-05T16:16:40.698+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='DRM'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='EU'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open letter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shame'/><title type='text'>Senselessness from EU</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;While Sony BMG, after Warner, EMI and Universal,  adds another nail to DRM coffin, Viviane Reading issued a report sanctioning a "transparent" DRM framework for the EU.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;From my Boingboing comment:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class='comment-content'&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;Although as an Italian I am used to be ashamed of government, sometime I am ashamed of government as an &lt;a rel='nofollow' href='http://www.euratlas.net/PHA/history_europe/europe_map_1300.jpg'&gt;EU&lt;/a&gt; citizen too.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;I hope you all will act now and sign the Open Letter, as I have just done.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Please sign the Open Letter, and spread the word. Let not be ineptly shameful.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.defectivebydesign.org/EU_Letter'&gt;Letter to Viviane Reding, European Union commissioner for information society and media | DefectiveByDesign.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-5954011548961710948?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/5954011548961710948/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=5954011548961710948' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/5954011548961710948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/5954011548961710948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2008/01/senselessness-from-eu.html' title='Senselessness from EU'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-1753643656362910381</id><published>2008-01-03T02:07:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-03T02:07:59.124+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sperm flagellum'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nanobots'/><title type='text'>The most (im)probable future job yet: wanker.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;Yes, not banker. Turns out the best motion source for pharmacologic nanobots is ATP-powered sperm flagellum. If this is true, given sufficient outcome from nanotechnologies, will result in a higher sperm demand for drugs prep.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You will be paid to jerk off. If you are reading this and you are at work, maybe you are already paid for that. :-) &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href='http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/02/1624252&amp;amp;from=rss'&gt;Slashdot | Sperm Could Power Nanobots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-1753643656362910381?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/1753643656362910381/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=1753643656362910381' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/1753643656362910381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/1753643656362910381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2008/01/most-improbable-future-job-yet-wanker.html' title='The most (im)probable future job yet: wanker.'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-4533609899480538182</id><published>2007-11-29T23:01:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-11-29T23:01:53.923+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='italian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cory doctorow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='translation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scroogled'/><title type='text'>Scroogled in italian</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;I just published the &lt;a href='http://stiappona.blogspot.com/2007/11/ingooglato.html'&gt;italian translation&lt;/a&gt; of "Scroogled", by Cory Doctorow, who kindly linked my page to his site. As usual, my italian translation is strictly for zero-english-knowledge people.  If you can, you should read the original work.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href='http://craphound.com/index.php?cat=2'&gt;Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com » Stories&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-4533609899480538182?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/4533609899480538182/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=4533609899480538182' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/4533609899480538182'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/4533609899480538182'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/11/scroogled-in-italian.html' title='Scroogled in italian'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-2662667737582533240</id><published>2007-11-03T00:18:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-11-03T00:18:57.656+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comparison'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='software'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='windows'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='compression'/><title type='text'>7zip pwns Zipgenius</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;Free compression software:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I used to be a &lt;a href='http://www.zipgenius.it/eng/index.php'&gt;ZipGenius&lt;/a&gt; fan, for its reliability, stability, for wide range of filetype supported, and last but not least, because is Italian software.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I adopted &lt;a href='http://www.7-zip.org/'&gt;7zip&lt;/a&gt; after the weekly antivirus scan showed a possible threat in the ZipGenius  folder, and I totally uninstalled ZipGenius: 7zip is even more reliable, more stable, supports more compression formats than you'll ever use, and last but not least, is open source.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-2662667737582533240?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/2662667737582533240/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=2662667737582533240' title='4 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/2662667737582533240'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/2662667737582533240'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/11/7zip-pwns-zipgenius.html' title='7zip pwns Zipgenius'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-3117964891475569220</id><published>2007-10-17T01:28:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-10-17T01:28:25.015+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pricing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='asus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='specs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='EEE'/><title type='text'>Definitely: I want one</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;div align='center'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.biavati.net/blog/asus-eee-pc-8g.jpg'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Today ASUS announced the &lt;a href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/06/asus-announce-extra-cheap-notebook.html'&gt;long-waited&lt;/a&gt; ultraportable EEE notebook.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Here you will find the specs: &lt;a href='http://eeepc.asus.com/en/product.htm'&gt;ASUS | Eee PC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Here you will find pricing info: &lt;a href='http://chinese.engadget.com/2007/10/16/eee-pcs-official-prices-announced/'&gt;華碩 Eee PC 正式上市 - Engadget 癮科技&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The most attractive feature being the price. If you look for the best mobility device, you can't choose a 20'' laptop, because isn't mobility. &lt;br/&gt;You can't choose a smartphone either, keybord too small and display too small.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The best device would be a TX series Sony Vaio, but the price tag isn't just too high: it prevents people to buy it because if you have a Vaio TX you have to take it everywhere with you. But then, your chances to have it lost or stolen are higher and higher. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;If you, like me, could afford to buy a laptop so expensive, but you can't afford (or you just can't bear) to lose a 3000 US$ gadget, you will not buy a Vaio.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The price tag of the most expensive EEE should be less than 300 EUR. I want one.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-3117964891475569220?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/3117964891475569220/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=3117964891475569220' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/3117964891475569220'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/3117964891475569220'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/10/definitely-i-want-one.html' title='Definitely: I want one'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-7547637884897746468</id><published>2007-10-12T01:43:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-10-12T01:43:20.566+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nutella'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='taralli'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flavour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mix'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spread'/><title type='text'>tIpNo: tarallini</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;img width='359' height='284' src='http://www.biavati.net/blog/IMAGE_600.jpg'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Things I put &lt;a href='http://www.nutellausa.com/'&gt;Nutella&lt;/a&gt; on: &lt;a href='http://www.roangelo.net/valente/taralli.html'&gt;tarallini&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;- Tarallini availability scarce except in Southern Italy.&lt;br/&gt;- Overall taste: good but not great.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Tarallini have a strong flavour that covers almost completely Nutella taste. &lt;br/&gt;Long time Nutella fans know she (Nutella) gives her best with unsalty bread.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-7547637884897746468?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/7547637884897746468/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=7547637884897746468' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/7547637884897746468'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/7547637884897746468'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/10/tipno-tarallini.html' title='tIpNo: tarallini'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-8156969521289197851</id><published>2007-10-12T01:33:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-10-12T01:33:54.829+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nutella'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flavour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mix'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spread'/><title type='text'>tIpNo: banana.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;img width='376' height='300' src='http://www.biavati.net/blog/IMAGE_575.jpg'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Things I put Nutella on: banana.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;- Easy to find components&lt;br/&gt;- Overall taste: very good&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The hazelnut flavour of Nutella mix very well with greasy fresh taste of banana. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Post scriptum: this is my first post Nutella related. It isn't the last. If you have suggestion, or experience, of things to spread Nutella on, write me and please send a picture as proof (as Digg readers used to say: "picture or didn't happen".)&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-8156969521289197851?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/8156969521289197851/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=8156969521289197851' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8156969521289197851'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8156969521289197851'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/10/tipno-banana.html' title='tIpNo: banana.'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-2990178712518342662</id><published>2007-10-09T00:22:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-10-09T00:30:25.987+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='games'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='arcade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='boring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='RPG'/><title type='text'>PC games are boring.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.biavati.net/blog/Mysterious_Ways_Cat_Yawn_with_Yarn.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recently I pointed out with my son that PC games, after you buy them, are almost free, and the gameplay is only time limited. In a video arcade you have rather a money limit, so playing PC games is more fun, because you haven't to worry for your wallet getting lighter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I saw the first arcade games in 1980, the very first one being a car race (gosh) with a fake steering (but real enough), a gas pedal, and a whoppin'  gamut of two gears (L and H)...&lt;br /&gt;Then came &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invaders"&gt;Space Invaders&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacman"&gt;Pacman&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario"&gt;Mario&lt;/a&gt; in all his flavors, and more, Star Wars with a fighter-like cockpit to immerse you in the game (very futuristic, very LucasArts, but so poorly realistic).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then came Id Software, and when I saw &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_%28video_game%29"&gt;Doom&lt;/a&gt;, running with &lt;a href="http://www.tenberry.com/dos4g/index.html"&gt;dos4g&lt;/a&gt; in all his glory, I knew I will never ever spend a dime in a video arcade (I was 23). I have a strong dislike for fly simulators (too fake: the thrill in the flight is flying, like alcohol in beer - better drink tap water than alcohol-free beer). I have a strong dislike for adventures too. Adventure games are so time expensive, requiring hours and hours even for little advances - think  about the beginning of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grim_fandango"&gt;Grim Fandango&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My interest was therefore captured by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-playing_game"&gt;RPG&lt;/a&gt;-like games (once and for all: you can't have a real RPG playing alone, and when your PC AI will be sufficiently developed, well, you will be not alone anymore...). &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_%28video_game%29"&gt;Diablo&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_6"&gt;Rainbow 6&lt;/a&gt; helped me to kill some cumbersome hours, then I reached for the top with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_Ex:_Invisible_War"&gt;Deus Ex: Invisible War&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stunning graphic, a convincing plot, easy to play (no: rifle and flamethrowers sharing the same ammo diminishes obviously your perception of a real story, but keeping account for ten or twelve ammos type is too far from the patience I'd like to put in a game, so why bother? I like to know the plot, feel part of your movie. I hate throwing away hours adjusting my inventory. And again, being short is not a defect, I left undone the first part (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex"&gt;Deus Ex&lt;/a&gt;) for being too long.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now, I cannot find a PC game sufficiently great (oxymoron intended) to spend all my three hours per year that I budgeted for PC games. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_IV:_Oblivion"&gt;Oblivion&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_Siege_II"&gt;Dungeon Siege II&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwinter_Nights_2"&gt;Neverwinter Nights II&lt;/a&gt; are too boring for me. I just hope Deus Ex 3 will be as terrific as his predecessors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Should I try a console? Should I get out more?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_Ex:_Invisible_War"&gt;Deus Ex: Invisible War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script&gt; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/pc_games/PC_games_are_boring';&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="poweredbyperformancing"&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://scribefire.com/"&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-2990178712518342662?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/2990178712518342662/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=2990178712518342662' title='6 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/2990178712518342662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/2990178712518342662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/10/pc-games-are-boring.html' title='PC games are boring.'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-7432256321719799790</id><published>2007-10-04T00:35:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-10-04T00:35:48.609+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lyrics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='japanese'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Conan future boy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='miyazaki'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='translation'/><title type='text'>Things I have done.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;a href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/08/i-am-dying-and-you-too.html'&gt;Recently I whined about lack of time&lt;/a&gt;, wishful to learn Alexander Technique and Japanese language (having the sole purpose to understand lyrics from Miyazaki's Conan Future Boy soundtrack). Thanks to the 'net, part of my wish is already fulfilled: below you will find the original Conan lyrics and the Portuguese translation to help you understand them (although the cited online Dictionary is very useful, too).&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Next stop: Alexander Technique. &lt;/big&gt;&lt;/big&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Ima Chikyuu Ga Mezameru Lyrics&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;Umi wa aoku nemuri&lt;br/&gt;Daichi ni inochi mebae&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Soshite sora ga soshite sora ga&lt;br/&gt;Ashita o yume mite&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Hora umarekawatta chikyû ga&lt;br/&gt;Mezame no asa o mukaeru&lt;br/&gt;Oyoge namiketate hashire&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Tsuchi o keri&lt;br/&gt;Konna ni chikyû ga suki dakara&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Konna ni yoake ga utsukushii kara&lt;br/&gt;Utae koe awase odore kata o kumi&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Konna ni chikyû ga suki dakara&lt;br/&gt;Konna ni yoake ga utsukushii kara	&lt;br/&gt;	&lt;br/&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Ima Chikyuu Ga Mezameru (tradução) Lyrics&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;umi wa aoku nemuri&lt;br/&gt;(O mar em soneca azul.)&lt;br/&gt;daichi ni inochi mebae&lt;br/&gt;(A vida renasce pela terra.)&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;soshite sora ga soshite sora ga&lt;br/&gt;(E no céu, e no céu...)&lt;br/&gt;ashita o yume mite&lt;br/&gt;(...sonhos do amanhã.)&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;hora umarekawatta chikyû ga&lt;br/&gt;(Olhe! A Terra renascida...)&lt;br/&gt;mezame no asa o mukaeru&lt;br/&gt;(...recebe a manhã.)&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;oyoge namiketate hashire tsuchi o keri&lt;br/&gt;(Nade contra as ondas. Corra e chute o solo.)&lt;br/&gt;konna ni chikyû ga suki dakara&lt;br/&gt;(Porque você ama tanto a Terra.)&lt;br/&gt;konna ni yoake ga utsukushii kara&lt;br/&gt;(Porque o amanhecer é tão lindo.)&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;utae koe awase odore kata o kumi&lt;br/&gt;(Coloquem suas vozes juntas e cantem.)&lt;br/&gt;konna ni chikyû ga suki dakara&lt;br/&gt;(Porque você ama tanto a terra.)&lt;br/&gt;konna ni yoake ga utsukushii kara&lt;br/&gt;(Porque o amanhecer é tão lindo.)&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;	&lt;small&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Shiawase No Yokan Lyrics&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;kokoro ga konna ni furueru no wa naze&lt;br/&gt;ryôte ga sora e nobite iku no wa naze&lt;br/&gt;ryôashi ga tsuchi o kette hashiru no wa naze&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;kokoro wa toareru shiawase no yokan&lt;br/&gt;ryôte wa tsukamu fukura miyuku kibô&lt;br/&gt;ryôashi wa kakete iku haru kara chihei&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;ikite iru kara&lt;br/&gt;ashita ga aru kara&lt;br/&gt;chikyû ga mawatte iru kara&lt;br/&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Shiawase No Yokan (Tradução) Lyrics&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;Por que é que meu coração treme tanto?&lt;br/&gt;Por que é que eu levanto minhas mãos ao céu?&lt;br/&gt;Por que meus pés chutam o solo e correm assim?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Eu tenho uma premonição de boa sorte em meu coração.&lt;br/&gt;Eu seguro em minhas mãos as esperanças crescentes.&lt;br/&gt;Meus pés caminham em direção do horizonte.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Porque estou vivo!&lt;br/&gt;Porque existe um amanhã!&lt;br/&gt;Porque a Terra gira sem parar!&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Mirai-Shounen-Conan/'&gt;MIRAI SHOUNEN CONAN Lyrics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.highharbor.net/en/musique.html'&gt;Highharbor.net - Future Boy Conan - Music&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href='http://my.opera.com/xyzcosmonaut/blog/future-boy-conan'&gt;Future Boy Conan - X-Y-Z-Cosmonaut's CosmoBlog - by xyzcosmonaut&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.freedict.com/onldict/jap.html'&gt;Online English to Japanese to English Dictionary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-7432256321719799790?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/7432256321719799790/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=7432256321719799790' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/7432256321719799790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/7432256321719799790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/10/things-i-have-done.html' title='Things I have done.'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-1429206951735481076</id><published>2007-10-01T23:14:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-10-01T23:55:56.865+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirikou e la sorciere - lyrics</title><content type='html'>Dans le village l'eau et les hommes&lt;br /&gt;avaient disparu&lt;br /&gt;Le femmes pleuraient et tremblaient&lt;br /&gt;devant la sorcière&lt;br /&gt;Kiriku seul savait ou trouver&lt;br /&gt;notre grand-père&lt;br /&gt;Kiriku&lt;br /&gt;mon ami&lt;br /&gt;nous a redonné la vie&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;R.&lt;br /&gt;Kiriku n'est pas grand,&lt;br /&gt;mais il est vaillant&lt;br /&gt;Kiriku est petit,&lt;br /&gt;mais c'est mon ami&lt;br /&gt;Kiriku n'est pas grand,&lt;br /&gt;mais il est vaillant&lt;br /&gt;Kiriku est petit,&lt;br /&gt;mais c'est mon ami&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sur la route des flamboyants&lt;br /&gt;Du haut de la case de Karaba&lt;br /&gt;Le fétiches surveillant le village&lt;br /&gt;Kiriku demand purquoi&lt;br /&gt;Karaba est si méchante&lt;br /&gt;Kiriku&lt;br /&gt;mon ami&lt;br /&gt;nous a redonné la vie&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;R. Kiriku n'est pas grand...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reprise:&lt;br /&gt;Kiriku est petit,&lt;br /&gt; mais c'est mon ami&lt;br /&gt;Kiriku n'est pas grand,&lt;br /&gt; mais il est vaillant&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;R. Kiriku n'est pas grand... (ad libitum)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-1429206951735481076?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/1429206951735481076/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=1429206951735481076' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/1429206951735481076'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/1429206951735481076'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/10/kirikou-e-la-sorciere-lyrics.html' title='Kirikou e la sorciere - lyrics'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-1558216446900861428</id><published>2007-09-28T00:54:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-28T00:54:40.236+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blood'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iron'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stars'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='supernova'/><title type='text'>Stars and blood</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;The presence of heavier chemical elements (as Calcium, Iron, etc.) is not explained just as result of plain, boring &lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion'&gt;nuclear fusion&lt;/a&gt; that makes stars burn. This is why Hydrogen and Helium are so abundant. The only way to form heavier elements is during a supernova explosion. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;So, Calcium in your bones and Iron in your blood are nothing but pieces of dead stars.&lt;br/&gt; This fact never cease to amaze me.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href='http://astronomyonline.org/Stars/Supernova.asp?Cate=Stars&amp;amp;SubCate=OG04&amp;amp;SubCate2=Supernova'&gt;Astronomy Online - Modeling Supernova&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-1558216446900861428?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/1558216446900861428/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=1558216446900861428' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/1558216446900861428'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/1558216446900861428'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/09/stars-and-blood.html' title='Stars and blood'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-3656635853632287402</id><published>2007-09-22T01:06:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-22T01:06:02.808+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='god'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lightning'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='penis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='female'/><title type='text'>God is female</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;Here is the proof. :-)&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2517312.html?menu='&gt;Ananova - Biker's penis hit by lightning&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-3656635853632287402?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/3656635853632287402/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=3656635853632287402' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/3656635853632287402'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/3656635853632287402'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/09/god-is-female.html' title='God is female'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-372412962440545686</id><published>2007-09-21T11:02:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-22T16:29:25.157+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='former minister'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='unfairness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='italy'/><title type='text'>Happens in Italy</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;A former Transport Minister was caught last sunday driving against the traffic on a freeway. Actually, in Italy neither freeways are *free*, so WTF?&lt;br /&gt;There comes a cop: the Driver shows an ID Card (expired) proving he is a Parliament Member. And [therefore] he isn't fined.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are two kind of people, those who believe police is here to protect, and those who believe police is here to vex. I am definitely in the first group, but this news give the police a bad name, leaving an overall sense of unfairness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next: former Health Minister smoking dope - stay tuned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.repubblica.it/2007/09/sezioni/cronaca/burlando-contromano/burlando-contromano/burlando-contromano.html"&gt;Burlando contromano in autostrada "Sono deputato", niente multa - cronaca - Repubblica.it&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="poweredbyperformancing"&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://scribefire.com/"&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Update: the former Minister asked to be fined to the maximum extent of law: 1 year without drive license, 3 month without his car, a fine of 3.508 EUR for driving against the traffic + 72 EUR for driving w/out drive license.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, maybe he did it to dodge the scandal, but nevertheless is a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ginormous&lt;/span&gt; step beyond.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-372412962440545686?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/372412962440545686/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=372412962440545686' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/372412962440545686'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/372412962440545686'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/09/happens-in-italy.html' title='Happens in Italy'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-766223418319846255</id><published>2007-09-13T16:08:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-13T16:13:11.504+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SI'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jokes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='weight'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kilo'/><title type='text'>Today my weight is greater (and yours, too).</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;The hi-tech cylinder of Platinum-Iridium stored in Sevres, near Paris (F), lost 50 micrograms since 1889. While scientists are worrying why The Kilogram has lost weight, I just performed a simple calculation:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em style="font-family: courier new;"&gt;50 micrograms are 0.00000005      kg&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em style="font-family: courier new;"&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this picture, a 100 kg person now weights 100.000005 kg, a whopping 5 mg more. Maybe is to blame the ice cream I ate yesterday? :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/13/kilogram-has-lost-th.html"&gt;Kilogram has lost the weight of a fingerprint - Boing Boing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="poweredbyperformancing"&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://scribefire.com/"&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-766223418319846255?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/766223418319846255/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=766223418319846255' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/766223418319846255'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/766223418319846255'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/09/today-my-weight-is-greater-and-yours.html' title='Today my weight is greater (and yours, too).'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-5622103546479883671</id><published>2007-09-09T23:09:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-10-01T23:57:56.345+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='plain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='selfconsciousness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='silence'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='noise'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='disco'/><title type='text'>Noise and plain</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;Often who is against disco noise says: who haven't a thing to say loves to stay in the noise. I completely agree.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Again: somewhere, maybe in "The Teachings of Don Juan, A Yaqui way of Knowledge" by Carlos Castaneda (repeat: maybe), is stated that native americans were quite negative about skyscrapers. They believed white man build them to try and fill the void between earth and sky. But this void can be filled only with what is inside of you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Likewise, several people I know feels a little nervous when in plain. Sure, such a vastness is likely to pull out what is inside of you; if there are just ugly things, which can you feel shameful or anxious, no surprise you hate plains.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Silence is but a sort auditive flat country: either you feel comfortable in it, or you have something that doesn't work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="poweredbyperformancing"&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://scribefire.com/"&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-5622103546479883671?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/5622103546479883671/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=5622103546479883671' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/5622103546479883671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/5622103546479883671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/09/noise-and-plain.html' title='Noise and plain'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-3151098424079824036</id><published>2007-09-08T23:26:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-08T23:38:55.570+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vaffanculo day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='v-day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beppe grillo'/><title type='text'>V-Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.biavati.net/blog/Vaffanculo_day.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beppe Grillo (his &lt;a href="http://www.beppegrillo.it/english.php"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; is currently &lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/pop/blogs/"&gt;12th&lt;/a&gt; on Technorati) launched today the so-called "Vaffanculo day" (namely: fuck off day), to collect a minimum of 50,000 signatures. With those signatures he will mainly promote a popular law to forbid convict politicians to run for the Parliament (and no, there is no such a law in Italy yet. Really.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.beppegrillo.it/eng/condannati_parlamento.php"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; you will find a list of convict politicians who are currently members of Italian Parliament (actually they are &lt;a href="http://www.beppegrillo.it/condannati_parlamento.php"&gt;24&lt;/a&gt;, the english page has not been recently updated).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since almost every mainstream media gave no hype to this event (demonstrating that every reference to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta"&gt;V for Vendetta&lt;/a&gt; is correct). Hello? This is Italy, not North Corea, in case you were wondering.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More than 300,000 signatures were collected today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.beppegrillo.it/eng/2007/08/vday_instructions.html"&gt;Beppe Grillo's Blog: V-day: Instructions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script&gt; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/world_news/24_convict_politicians_in_Italian_Parliament';&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="poweredbyperformancing"&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://scribefire.com/"&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-3151098424079824036?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/3151098424079824036/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=3151098424079824036' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/3151098424079824036'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/3151098424079824036'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/09/v-day.html' title='V-Day'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-8467409547721614040</id><published>2007-09-03T23:49:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-04T15:19:18.347+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ocean'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='space'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='moon'/><title type='text'>Ocean Moon</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 398px; height: 298px;" src="http://www.biavati.net/blog/ocean_moon.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't think it's photoshopped: breathtaking anyway, isn't it?&lt;br /&gt;Link to the larger version after the jump.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=481881310&amp;amp;size=o"&gt;Flickr Photo Download: Reflejo - Reflection&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="poweredbyperformancing"&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://scribefire.com/"&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-8467409547721614040?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/8467409547721614040/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=8467409547721614040' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8467409547721614040'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8467409547721614040'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/09/ocean-moon.html' title='Ocean Moon'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-3712203080516315336</id><published>2007-08-04T00:18:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-08-04T00:27:23.026+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='death'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life'/><title type='text'>I am dying (and you too).</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;img width='402' height='245' src='http://www.biavati.net/blog/0613-life-instructions.jpg'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Recently I have turned 37, and I feel it's time to speak about life and death.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;It comes a day you should admit you are not immortal. Ok. No worry. You know this fact since you were 7, 8? Everyone has to die. Grey hair? Very George Clooney, no problem. But when you begin to notice the first &lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telangiectasia'&gt;spider veins&lt;/a&gt;, you have no Clooney to hide behind. You're simply aging. When you are 93, statistically you are nearer to death, but you ought to be resigned, although some examples (&lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Crowdis'&gt;Donald&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href='http://dontoearth.blogspot.com/'&gt;Crowdis&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monicelli'&gt;Mario Monicelli&lt;/a&gt;) have different opinions. No one is really prepared enough.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Things I would do having an unlimited amount of time: studying &lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Technique'&gt;Alexander technique&lt;/a&gt;, studying &lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language'&gt;japanese&lt;/a&gt; to understand the original soundtrack of &lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki'&gt;Miyazaki&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Boy_Conan'&gt;Future Boy Conan&lt;/a&gt;, etc... I think about learning something as a good way to use your time because I spent most of my life studying (and you can't be studying without dying), but feel free to change "studying" with "traveling" or whatever you like.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I hate to admit it, but I am afraid of death, the loss of consciousness being the most dreaded feature. Some people hate the very idea that the world, after their death, will be revolving exactly the same way as before. I am more consciousness-centric: and seeing &lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_runner'&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/a&gt; ("All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain")  haven't lift my mood.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanitas'&gt;Vanitas vanitatum&lt;/a&gt;. Is there something really worth? Maybe not, but some moments of joy can be really precious, so treasure them.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;To keep me focused to miss no precious moment I think about things I will do if I am going to live until 81. Life is so short. 81 years are roughly 29,000 days (yes, lifespan IS that short). If I am going to live until 81, I have 44 years left. 16,000 days. 2,300 weeks. 528 months. I have suddenly realized I never saw a &lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_moon'&gt;new moon&lt;/a&gt;. Do I have 528 chances left? Sometimes I need to take deep breaths.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Life's a bitch, then you die? So, the question is: why procreate? Because we have to (yes, this is why you think about sex so often), and because fail to do so will be the hardest form of &lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship'&gt;censorship&lt;/a&gt;. And after all that I said, I still think that live and die is far better than not having a life at all.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;So what's the (today's) bottom line? See the life instructions sign above (thanks, &lt;a href='http://glass.typepad.com/'&gt;Chris&lt;/a&gt;!): after 10^40 years from now neither "our" &lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton'&gt;protons&lt;/a&gt; will survive: let's have fun.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;script&gt; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/general_sciences/I_am_dying_and_you_too';&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-3712203080516315336?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/3712203080516315336/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=3712203080516315336' title='4 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/3712203080516315336'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/3712203080516315336'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/08/i-am-dying-and-you-too.html' title='I am dying (and you too).'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-377036067656342064</id><published>2007-07-19T00:38:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-07-19T00:38:28.035+02:00</updated><title type='text'>CPDL is back online.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Hallelujah_Chorus_%28from_Messiah%29_%28George_Frederic_Handel%29'&gt;Hallelujah&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-377036067656342064?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/377036067656342064/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=377036067656342064' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/377036067656342064'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/377036067656342064'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/07/cpdl-is-back-online.html' title='CPDL is back online.'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-8602153320624072141</id><published>2007-06-28T00:04:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-06-28T22:08:56.164+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nVidia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='linux'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beryl'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ubuntu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='envy'/><title type='text'>How Envy blew up xorg</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.biavati.net/blog/nano2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two days ago I installed Ubuntu 7.04 for the n-th time. I am motivated to add a piece every day until I will reach a good substitute for my &lt;strike&gt;Windows PC&lt;/strike&gt; iMac. (Well, windows vs ubuntu is not a fair match...). The installation worked flawlessly. Yesterday I installed ies4linux, aka Internet Explorer for Linux. Runs perfectly on Ubuntu, and allows to navigate sites IE only even if they use M$ proprietary technologies like asp and ActiveX.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So this evening I wanted to install Beryl. Let's see what's did go wrong. [Note: using Vista@work and to Tiger@home, I could not resist installing a lights and candies GUI for linux: my problem.]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://b22j.wordpress.com/2007/01/17/installazione-driver-nvidia-su-ubuntu/"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; I found a command to verify the direct rendering, needed to run Beryl:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;$ glxinfo | grep direct&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;$ direct rendering: No&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;No direct rendering? I had to update nVidia drivers (I have a nVidia video card, of course). I used &lt;a href="http://www.albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html"&gt;Envy&lt;/a&gt;, an automatic video driver updater for Linux. Ok, let's try. Blam! xorg doesn't starts anymore. Linux isn't Windows, so I log on in text mode, seep through /etc/X11 and rename xorg.conf to xorg.conf.rtfm, and pick xorg.conf.backup (thanks God it's backup day) to xorg.conf.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;$ sudo mv xorg.conf &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;xorg.conf.rtfm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;$ sudo mv xorg.conf.backup &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;xorg.conf&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;$ startx&lt;/strong&gt;, and everything is gonna be all right. No, the average salesman couldn't perform even such a simple repair, and this would have move him/her far away from Linux at least for 10 years. Alberto, please, add a routine to test if at the next reboot the system is running at the required runlevel.&lt;br /&gt;The dwarf (nano, in Italian) is a tribute to &lt;b&gt;nano&lt;/b&gt;, the text editor I used to find the difference between xorg.conf and xorg.conf.backup. The command I typed was&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$ sudo nano xorg.conf &lt;/b&gt;(incidentally, "sudo nano" means "I sweat, dwarf" in Italian, which is rather funny for a terminal command...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano_%28text_editor%29"&gt;Nano (text editor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script&gt; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/linux_unix/Envy_blew_up_xorg';&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="poweredbyperformancing"&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://scribefire.com/"&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-8602153320624072141?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/8602153320624072141/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=8602153320624072141' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8602153320624072141'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8602153320624072141'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/06/how-envy-blew-up-my-xorg.html' title='How Envy blew up xorg'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-2550646110314397024</id><published>2007-06-26T23:29:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-06-26T23:40:05.526+02:00</updated><title type='text'>CPDL is down?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;Testing a new search engine to retrieve free music scores (you can find the link &lt;a href='http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=015684163088674723932%3Adbw_r2vjqku'&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;), I didn't reach to browse on www.cpdl.org, home of the Choral Public Domain Library. I tried with several DNS resolvers, but not to avail. I hope it would be just a temporary down.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;And if you have news regarding cpdl, please: let me know.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script&gt; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/music/CPDL_is_down';&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-2550646110314397024?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/2550646110314397024/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=2550646110314397024' title='10 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/2550646110314397024'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/2550646110314397024'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/06/cpdl-is-down.html' title='CPDL is down?'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-698019582259598750</id><published>2007-06-23T01:06:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-06-23T01:36:29.235+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='I/O error'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dd'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recover'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='damaged files'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CD'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='DVD'/><title type='text'>How to recover files from a damaged CD/DVD</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.biavati.net/blog/shirts_identical_close.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you, just like me, have had enough of I/O errors reading your optical media, this post is for you.&lt;br /&gt;This method allows for recovering files from damaged CD/DVD by copying them byte to byte, using the Unix command &lt;i&gt;dd&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WARNING: dd is a very powerful program, and if misused, can literally erase everything on your hard drives. And worst, dd is a no-warning, no-second-think, advanced-users only, Unix-style mean and lean program. See &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_%28Unix%29"&gt;dd entry on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; for details.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the command you should run:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;dd if=/Volumes/MY_DYD/File_to_retrieve.ext of=/Users/myuser/myfolder/File_retrieved.ext bs=512 conv=noerror, sync&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;dd&lt;/span&gt;: the command&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;if&lt;/span&gt;: input file&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;of&lt;/span&gt;: output file&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;bs&lt;/span&gt;: bytes size [512 bytes]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;conv&lt;/span&gt;: conversion options [noerror, don't halt on errors; sync, pad with blanks the block containing the error]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you specify a bs so small (512), in case of a large bad chunk on the medium you will obtain a lot of error logs. Let it go until you have the prompt again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This method is expecially useful to recover damaged movies, because unless you have the file 50% corrupted (not very likely even in worst cases), you probably will strip a couple of frames from the movie, and the result will be perfect.&lt;br /&gt;Of course if you are recovering file working as a whole, as a compressed archive or a RDBMS datafile, maybe padding the error with spaces may render useless the resulting file. As usual, YMMV.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;dd&lt;/span&gt; is available under OSX and Linux (any). If you are running Windows, well, probably you are not an advanced user anyway, so why bother (and no, neither Robocopy nor NtBackup have the same functions of dd). Just in case, you can run dd under Windows via &lt;a href="http://cygwin.com/"&gt;Cygwin&lt;/a&gt;. And if you don't know Cygwin, aka Unix shell for Windows, you better read the &lt;a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/top/geek-to-live--introduction-to-cygwin-part-i-179514.php"&gt;tutorial&lt;/a&gt; on Lifehacker.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ss64.com/bash/dd.html"&gt;dd MAN Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script&gt; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/How_to_recover_files_from_a_damaged_CD_DVD';&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="poweredbyperformancing"&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://scribefire.com/"&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-698019582259598750?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/698019582259598750/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=698019582259598750' title='9 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/698019582259598750'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/698019582259598750'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/06/how-to-recover-files-from-damaged-cddvd.html' title='How to recover files from a damaged CD/DVD'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-9073367950239360682</id><published>2007-06-06T23:49:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-11-03T11:04:08.841+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Asus announce extra-cheap Notebook</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.biavati.net/blog/img_6258.jpg" height="257" width="342" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/linux_unix/189_laptop"&gt;Digg&lt;/a&gt;ing from &lt;a href="http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/114773/asus-stuns-computex-with-100-laptop.html#"&gt;PCPro&lt;/a&gt;, through Engadget and finally thanks to Engadget Chinese, I found some significative picture of the super cheap super light Asus Notebook, sporting a Linux OS (but a WinXP driver set is on its way), 1 to 32 GB &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_state_disk"&gt;SSD&lt;/a&gt;. The price tag is announced $ 199; as of today, corresponding to 147,407 EUR, roughly 1 EUR cheaper than &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/italy/annunci/windows/generale/windowsvista.mspx"&gt;Windows Vista Home Basic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's wait for this magic box to be released (August 2007), I want one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the pictures you can see some specs (guessed by me):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Full notebook keyboard&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Touchpad with one (one?) button&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- LAN adapter (left side)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- 3 USB ports (1 left + 2 right)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- 1 VGA out (right)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- 1 SD card reader (? what's the little opening in the right side?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- monitor roughly 9'' wide, 800 x 480.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I definitely want one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://chinese.engadget.com/2007/06/06/computex-2007-asus-Eee-pc-701-hands-on/"&gt;COMPUTEX 2007 動手玩：Asus Eee PC 701 - Engadget 癮科技&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="poweredbyperformancing"&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://scribefire.com/"&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-9073367950239360682?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/9073367950239360682/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=9073367950239360682' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/9073367950239360682'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/9073367950239360682'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/06/asus-announce-extra-cheap-notebook.html' title='Asus announce extra-cheap Notebook'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-688452649829297817</id><published>2007-06-06T01:38:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-06-06T01:38:33.094+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Why you should support Open Source</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;img width='293' height='414' src='http://www.biavati.net/blog/Microsoft_Ad.jpg'&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Briefly: Jamie Cansdale write an add-on for Visual Studio. Microsoft sends him  a MVP award to congratulate. Unfortunately, the add-on works on Visual Studio Express Edition too. Someone in Redmond notices the fact, and tries to ask softly, then firmly, then threatens, and finally sends his lawyers to Jaime, to make him remove the Express Edition compatibility from his add-on. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Are you a pay-version user? Ok, you can use the add-on. Are you a miserable free version user? Are you trying to use add-ons? What does Microsoft resembles? A bunch of Open Source Freaks? &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;The correspondence between M$ and Jamie stretches for a year. Meanwhile, Redmond sends him another MVP award, readily withdrawn (Microsoft: this error put you in the same rank of italian TLC companies - for the record, they are all disgusting).&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;The deadline given by the M$ lawyers is today, @4PM. Jaime, don't back down. I hope this story will fire back to Microsoft enough for them to understand why Google, after given years, will buy them.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/05/microsoft_mvp_threats/'&gt;Microsoft threatens its Most Valuable Professional | The Register&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-688452649829297817?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/688452649829297817/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=688452649829297817' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/688452649829297817'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/688452649829297817'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/06/why-you-should-support-open-source.html' title='Why you should support Open Source'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-3056949115740274673</id><published>2007-06-04T01:56:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-06-04T01:56:31.055+02:00</updated><title type='text'>About sexual harassment</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;object height='350' width='425'&gt;&lt;param value='http://www.youtube.com/v/_lXA_C0WaG8' name='movie'&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param value='transparent' name='wmode'&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed height='350' width='425' wmode='transparent' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://www.youtube.com/v/_lXA_C0WaG8'&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;					Be handsome, be attractive and don't be unattractive. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_harassment'&gt;Sexual harassment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-3056949115740274673?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/3056949115740274673/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=3056949115740274673' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/3056949115740274673'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/3056949115740274673'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/06/about-sexual-harassment.html' title='About sexual harassment'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-5198946379719801408</id><published>2007-06-02T21:57:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-06-02T21:57:47.023+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Space and children.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.biavati.net/blog/solar_system.jpg'&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Today I was talking to my son Mario (6 years) about gravity force and I was trying to explain that: &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;an apple falls from the tree &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;the Moon turning around the Earth&amp;amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;share the same cause. Ok, maybe is a little early (never underestimate childrens).&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;When I finally asked him: "Do you know why the Earth doesn't fall in the Sun?", he politely answered that the colorful ring (see image) is like a rail, thus the Earth and the other planets cannot steer off their guide." :-)&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-5198946379719801408?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/5198946379719801408/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=5198946379719801408' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/5198946379719801408'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/5198946379719801408'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/06/space-and-children.html' title='Space and children.'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-2572822517421717057</id><published>2007-06-02T21:43:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-06-02T21:43:33.006+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Space pictures</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.biavati.net/blog/venusmoon.jpg'&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;If you like space pictures the way I do, be sure to check the linked website. I found this nice image of the Moon and Venus in their 10 yrs archive.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html'&gt;Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-2572822517421717057?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/2572822517421717057/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=2572822517421717057' title='3 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/2572822517421717057'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/2572822517421717057'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/06/space-pictures.html' title='Space pictures'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-8696911024316146617</id><published>2007-05-26T18:11:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-05-26T18:11:17.228+02:00</updated><title type='text'>About women figure</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;Since when I began to see women as the other half of the sky, I ever wondered why the perfect silhouette of a woman should be dictate by a bunch of gay stylists. I could tell you how skinny TV women gets our daughter anorexic, or why a skinny woman should be less appalling to your genes, because she is less likely to carry your children well.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;I know is just a matter of fashion, and thanks to BoingBoing I found the linked advertising of this amazing product.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/26/ad_from_1934_promise.html'&gt;Boing Boing: Ad from 1934 promises to help you get fatter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-8696911024316146617?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/8696911024316146617/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=8696911024316146617' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8696911024316146617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8696911024316146617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/05/about-women-figure.html' title='About women figure'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-7191065308815584662</id><published>2007-05-19T00:31:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-05-19T00:31:25.955+02:00</updated><title type='text'>What a difference a screen made...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;If you see...&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.biavati.net/blog/Intera.jpg'&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;...what I mean.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.biavati.net/blog/ritaglio.jpg'&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/05/why-i-will-buy-widescreen-monitor.html'&gt;decio: il blog: Why I will buy a Widescreen monitor.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-7191065308815584662?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/7191065308815584662/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=7191065308815584662' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/7191065308815584662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/7191065308815584662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/05/what-difference-screen-made.html' title='What a difference a screen made...'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-4079914689624105969</id><published>2007-05-18T01:29:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-05-18T01:29:46.985+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Meaningful answers</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;Do you know the break-even to a happy life are $ 40,000? Do you think you should sue a sexual harasser? What should be the optimal length of a paperless CV?&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Read on. Penelope's answer may amaze you.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;N.B.: Read the italian version &lt;a href='http://stiappona.blogspot.com/2007/05/dieci-domande-penelope-trunk-consigli.html'&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/05/ten_questions_w.html'&gt;How to Change the World: Ten Questions With Penelope Trunk: Career Guidance for This Century&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-4079914689624105969?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/4079914689624105969/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=4079914689624105969' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/4079914689624105969'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/4079914689624105969'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/05/meaningful-answers.html' title='Meaningful answers'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-966116209306843520</id><published>2007-05-14T00:18:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-05-14T00:41:56.497+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='monitor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='widescreen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='editing'/><title type='text'>Why I will buy a Widescreen monitor.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.biavati.net/blog/monitor.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's time to buy new monitor(s). Currently I am using two 17'' CRT (one for WinXp and one for Ubuntu), and an astonishing beautiful 20'' wide LCD on my iMac G5. No surprise, usually I work on the iMac. But is time to put into retirement the CRTs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I am searching for a 19'' or 20'' LCD monitor, with fast refresh time (less than 8 ms, the faster the better), possibly with Pivot function (which allows to use the monitor in portrait mode).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The pivot function, otherwise useless, is intended to display an A4 paper sheet on screen as big as possible. The best of the pivot monitor is using them with musical notation software (Finale, for example). When you read a full score composed by 20 staves, use the portrait mode could really make the difference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, you could buy a 30'' LCD and use it in landscape mode to display *two* pages on the screen, but this solution is exceeding my budget.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, I have to choose between 4:3 and 16:10 (normal or wide). Well, my intention is display a full screen A4 sheet. If you display a 297 x 210 mm sheet (the ratio in equal to square root of 2, very roughly 1.4, on a 4:3 monitor (ratio 1.3*) in portrait mode, you will have two resulting vertical bars on both sides of the visible area. Conversely, if you display the same sheet on a widescreen monitor (e.g. 1680 x 1050, with a ratio equal to 1,6**), the resulting bars will be horizontal, where the mainstream OSes (Windows of all kind, Mac OS X, and the most Linux flavors, including Ubuntu, the one I use) find menu, quick launch, info, task bars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is why I will buy a widescreen monitor, but &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widescreen"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; you will find more details.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* And, BTW, periodical numbers have always turned me mad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;** This time is exactly 1,6 or to use a more familiar language 16:10&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script&gt; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/Go_widescreen_w_pivot_if_you_are_a_musician';&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="poweredbyperformancing"&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://scribefire.com/"&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-966116209306843520?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/966116209306843520/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=966116209306843520' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/966116209306843520'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/966116209306843520'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/05/why-i-will-buy-widescreen-monitor.html' title='Why I will buy a Widescreen monitor.'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-4992896001924792489</id><published>2007-05-10T23:59:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-05-11T00:02:53.638+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='miserere'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='war'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poetry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deutsches'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bertolt brecht'/><title type='text'>DEUTSCHES MISERERE</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.biavati.net/blog/winter_soldier.jpg" height="391" width="338" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This poetry by Bertolt Brecht is missing from the Net. Tells about war, and it's worth reading [in German, English and Italian].&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eines schönen Tages befahlen uns unsere Obern&lt;br /&gt;Die kleine Stadt Danzig für sie zu erobern.&lt;br /&gt;Wir sind mit Tanks und Bombern in Polen eingebrochen&lt;br /&gt;Wir eroberten es in drei Wochen.&lt;br /&gt;Gott bewahr uns.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eines schönen Tages befahlen uns unsere Obern&lt;br /&gt;Norwegen und Frankreich für sie zu erobern&lt;br /&gt;Wir sind in Norwegen und Frankreich eingebrochen&lt;br /&gt;Wir haben alles erobert im zweiten Jahr in fünf Wochen.&lt;br /&gt;Gott bewahr uns.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eines schönen Tages befahlen uns unsere Obern&lt;br /&gt;Serbien, Griechenland und Russland für sie zu erobern&lt;br /&gt;Wir sind in Serbien, Griechenland und Russland eingefahren&lt;br /&gt;Und kämpfen jetzt um unser nacktes Leben seit zwei langen Jahren.&lt;br /&gt;Gott bewahr uns.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eines schönen Tages befehlen uns noch unsere Obern&lt;br /&gt;Den Boden der Tiefsee und die Gebirge des Mondes zu erobern&lt;br /&gt;Und es ist schwer schon hier in diesem Russland&lt;br /&gt;Und der Feind stark und der Winter kalt und der Heimweg unbekannt.&lt;br /&gt;Gott bewahr uns und führ uns wieder nach Haus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[english]&lt;br /&gt;A beautiful day our leaders commanded us&lt;br /&gt;To conquer for their sake the little city of Danzig&lt;br /&gt;We broke in Poland with Tanks and Bombers&lt;br /&gt;We conquer it in three week.&lt;br /&gt;May God save us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A beautiful day our leaders commanded us&lt;br /&gt;To conquer for their sake Norway and French&lt;br /&gt;We broke in Norway and Franch&lt;br /&gt;We conquer them during the second year in five week.&lt;br /&gt;May God save us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A beautiful day our leaders commanded us&lt;br /&gt;To conquer for their sake Serbia, Greece and Russia&lt;br /&gt;We did go in Serbia, Greece and Russia&lt;br /&gt;And now we battle for our bare lives since two long years.&lt;br /&gt;May God save us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A beautiful day our leaders will command us&lt;br /&gt;To conquer the bottom of the oceans and the mountains of the Moon&lt;br /&gt;And it's hard yet here in this Russia&lt;br /&gt;And the enemy strong and the winter cold and the way to home unknown.&lt;br /&gt;May God save us and lead us to home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[italiano]&lt;br /&gt;Un bel giorno i nostri comandanti ci imposero&lt;br /&gt;Di conquistare per loro la piccola città di Danzica.&lt;br /&gt;Noi facemmo irruzione in Polonia con carriarmati e bombardieri&lt;br /&gt;La conquistammo in tre settimane.&lt;br /&gt;Dio ce ne scampi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un bel giorno i nostri comandanti ci imposero&lt;br /&gt;Di conquistare per loro Norvegia e Francia.&lt;br /&gt;Facemmo irruzione in Norvegia e in Francia&lt;br /&gt;Le conquistammo tutte durante il secondo anno in cinque settimane.&lt;br /&gt;Dio ce ne scampi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un bel giorno i nostri comandanti ci imposero&lt;br /&gt;Di conquistare per loro Serbia, Grecia e Russia&lt;br /&gt;Noi andammo in Serbia, in Grecia ed in Russia&lt;br /&gt;Ed ora combattiamo per la nostra nuda vita da due lunghi anni.&lt;br /&gt;Dio ce ne scampi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un bel giorno i nostri comandanti ci imporranno&lt;br /&gt;Di conquistare il fondo degli oceani e i monti della Luna&lt;br /&gt;Ed è già duro qui in questa Russia&lt;br /&gt;E il nemico implacabile e l'inverno gelido e non sapere la strada per tornare a casa.&lt;br /&gt;Dio ce ne scampi e ci riporti a casa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="poweredbyperformancing"&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://scribefire.com/"&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-4992896001924792489?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/4992896001924792489/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=4992896001924792489' title='5 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/4992896001924792489'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/4992896001924792489'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/05/deutsches-miserere.html' title='DEUTSCHES MISERERE'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-5621458008337382166</id><published>2007-04-25T17:57:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-04-25T17:57:23.785+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Scott McCloud online free comic</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;img width='381' height='244' src='http://www.biavati.net/blog/trn1.jpg'&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;You will find at the following link a comic book by Scott McCloud (the author of &lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Comics'&gt;Understanding Comics&lt;/a&gt;), readable through a very fancy Flash application. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;The title is "The Right Number", and is free (found via BoingBoing).&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/trn/intro.html'&gt;The Right Number&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-5621458008337382166?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/5621458008337382166/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=5621458008337382166' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/5621458008337382166'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/5621458008337382166'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/04/scott-mccloud-online-free-comic.html' title='Scott McCloud online free comic'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-4039254460080973676</id><published>2007-04-23T22:53:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-04-23T22:53:14.227+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Firmate la petizione</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;Questo messaggio è per tutti i cittadini europei: firmate la petizione per introdurre tre emendamenti ad IPRED2, una proposta di legge fatta a livello comunitario per criminalizzare tutte le violazioni di copyright e tutte le contraffazioni che verrà votata mercoledì 25 Aprile 2007.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;I tre emendamenti hanno lo scopo di:&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;LIMITARE il campo di applicazione di IPRED2 alle imprese criminose, che prevedono pirateria e violazione di marchi registrati su scala commerciale, con dolo e a scopo di lucro, anziché criminalizzare tutte le violazioni di proprietà intellettuale come prevederebbe l'attuale direttiva.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;EVITARE di creare uno stato di criminalizzabilità (senza precedenti) per gli organismi intermediari su Internet, provider, fornitori di software ivi compresa una serie di attività legittime, togliendo le parole "aiutando o assistendo e incitando" [aiding or abetting and inciting] dall'articolo 3.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;FORNIRE DELLE CERTEZZE LEGALI adottando precise ed appropriate definizioni di "su scala commerciale" e "violazione intenzionale" nell'articolo 2, in modo che si intenda con questo le attività commerciali fatte a fine di ottenere lucro che si possa direttamente attribuire all'attività di violazione.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Fondamentalmente avete quattro possibilità:&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;1) Firmare a "scatola chiusa"&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;2) Informarvi &lt;a href='http://www.boingboing.net/2007/04/22/urgent_europeans_las.html'&gt;qui&lt;/a&gt; e &lt;a href='http://www.copycrime.eu/action'&gt;qui&lt;/a&gt;, poi firmare&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;3) Informarvi e poi decidere di non firmare&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;4) Sbattervene le palle e non firmare&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Preferirei se sceglieste la 2), in mancanza di tempo la 1), se scegliete la 3) fatemi sapere nei commenti perché non avete firmato, e se scegliete la 4) siete delle bestie, e non so proprio che cosa vi spinga a leggere questo blog.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.copycrime.eu/petition'&gt;Firma qui&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p 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petizione'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-2753350156288498456</id><published>2007-04-21T02:06:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-04-21T02:06:46.246+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Flat Daddies</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.biavati.net/blog/flat_daddy_2_2.thumbnail.jpg'&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Coming back from Guy's Blog, I bring this unbelievable thing: Flat Daddies are full-size printed posters of parents who are serving overseas in the military (cited from their website). Really. They use a padded full-size print of the Dad instead of the real one: dining, traveling, sleeping.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Don't laugh. At first I found it ridiculous, then I remembered Vonnegut's words: "...that no one is bad, disgusting, or ridiculous".&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;And, really, there's nothing to laughing about.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://takeyourmedicine.blogspot.com/2007/04/price-of-war-part-2007.html'&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; you will find an article of a Flat Daddy tester. Her experience is not so bright, but for many other should be quite a relief, based on the success of the idea.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;I encourage you to read the original. Let me know in the comment if you would like to read the linked article translated in Italian.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://flatdaddies.com/about'&gt;Flat Daddies | free life-size posters of your hero&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-2753350156288498456?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/2753350156288498456/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=2753350156288498456' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/2753350156288498456'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/2753350156288498456'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/04/flat-daddies.html' title='Flat Daddies'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-9208731438021549664</id><published>2007-04-16T17:22:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-04-16T17:22:55.886+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Modern Mechanix</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;img src='http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/qf/c/ModernMechanix/2-1938/lrg_firebox_pranks.jpg'&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;The picture above shows a device that traps who (unfortunately) rings the fire alarm. Sure it will reduce the alarm pranksters, expecially because only a policeman or a fireman can free the (barbequed) hand.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;I just want you to notice &lt;a href='http://blog.modernmechanix.com/'&gt;Modern Mechanics&lt;/a&gt;, a site full of "wonders" from the past.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/11/30/fire-box-traps-pranksters/'&gt;Modern Mechanix » Fire Box Traps Pranksters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-9208731438021549664?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/9208731438021549664/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=9208731438021549664' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/9208731438021549664'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/9208731438021549664'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/04/modern-mechanix.html' title='Modern Mechanix'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-1008389967091576749</id><published>2007-04-16T00:05:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-04-16T00:07:07.966+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='optical illusion pointless fun'/><title type='text'>Optical illusion</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;I am an avid reader of pointless and unuseful things. In this group fall definitely optical illusions. I like them very much, and I wonder how after almost two (pointless) years of blogging I never linked one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, look below at the magic picture, and look again when you are at least 8 steps away from your monitor (I tried as far as three meters and it worked flawlessly).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The two faces seem to swap themselves. In the comments of the link you will find an explanation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="width: 386px; height: 190px;" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/171/435058989_9d83960682_o.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bloggerwhale.blogspot.com/2007/03/dont-trust-your-eyes.html#"&gt;Blogger Whale||freestyle blogging: Don't trust your eyes!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="poweredbyperformancing"&gt;Powered by &lt;a href="http://scribefire.com/"&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-1008389967091576749?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/1008389967091576749/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=1008389967091576749' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/1008389967091576749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/1008389967091576749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/04/optical-illusion.html' title='Optical illusion'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-7972569267431228623</id><published>2007-04-14T12:37:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-04-14T12:37:47.240+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Kurt is up in heaven now.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;Kurt Vonnegut (american despite the german name) is dead, and this may be a good day to begin reading his books.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;I recently read Slaughterhouse 5 (in Italian: "Mattatoio n° 5"). I learnt a new way to think about war. I learnt a new way to think about death.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Farewell, Kurt.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut'&gt;Kurt Vonnegut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-7972569267431228623?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/7972569267431228623/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=7972569267431228623' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/7972569267431228623'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/7972569267431228623'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/04/kurt-is-up-in-heaven-now.html' title='Kurt is up in heaven now.'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-2619757171628900031</id><published>2007-04-05T00:40:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-04-05T00:40:03.445+02:00</updated><title type='text'>A personality test (sorry, Mac only)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.biavati.net/blog/nano2logo.jpg'&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Mac OS X 10.4, codename Tiger (I know the ladies love it), comes equipped with two games: &lt;a href='http://www.garagegames.com/products/15/'&gt;Marble Blast Gold&lt;/a&gt; and Nanosaur II: Hatchling.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;The first is one of the most addictive and brain-tickling videogames I ever played; stages are usually short as two minutes, nevertheless you will spend hours (days?) with the little rolling marble. The learning curve is simply right, not too hard nor boring, and the Gold Time limit is challenging even for hardcore gamers. In a word, a Masterpiece.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;The second isn't the worst videogames I ever played, but sure is in the bottom 3. I need to rephrase it: it would be one of the worst 3 games I ever played. Nanosaur II isn't a game: is a personality test. Do you know someone who spent more than 10 minutes (globally) on it? Well, maybe you should seeing him/her less. Is boring, is useless, and is a misuse of graphical effects (which are indeed very good). A little too graphical to seem a personality test, but well, today the style is overcoming the substance.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Your daughter wants to date a Mac owner: ask him how much time does he spend on Nanosaur II, and if is more than 10 minutes (in all his life), be warned: something is wrong in him: &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;i. His QI&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;ii. He cannot tell videogames and personality tests apart &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;iii. &lt;a href='http://www.youparklikeanasshole.com/'&gt;He parks like an a*****e&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;iv. All of the above.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;/sarcasm&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.pangeasoft.net/nano2/'&gt;Pangea Software: Nanosaur 2 Home Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-2619757171628900031?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/2619757171628900031/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=2619757171628900031' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/2619757171628900031'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/2619757171628900031'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/04/personality-test-sorry-mac-only.html' title='A personality test (sorry, Mac only)'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-1062859406364565438</id><published>2007-04-02T01:32:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-04-02T01:32:21.193+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Music score search engine collection</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;In my website you can find a collection of *free* music sheet sites. IMHO there are basically two type of scores: one, easy to find and cheap (so cheap that often is less expensive than xeroxing, i.e. Dover or Könemann), the other, hard to find and as expensive as white truffle (i.e. Salabert and other french edition).&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Well, if you are searching for a score of the first type, is very likely you will find it using one of the suggested links (YMMV).&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Please, write me to suggest free scores sites that I didn't mention.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;In another post I will describe my experience buying music sheet online.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.biavati.net/biavati.net.html'&gt;biavati.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;Powered by &lt;a href='http://scribefire.com/'&gt;ScribeFire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-1062859406364565438?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/1062859406364565438/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=1062859406364565438' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/1062859406364565438'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/1062859406364565438'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/04/music-score-search-engine-collection.html' title='Music score search engine collection'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-8048679904720997948</id><published>2007-03-20T01:06:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-03-20T01:09:15.128+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Linux Advert</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EwL0G9wK8j4"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EwL0G9wK8j4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't miss the Ali's tagline at the end. (links in the italian translation).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Speak your mind. Don't back down."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Transcript of IBM ad:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open on young boy sitting in chair, camera pans overhead.&lt;br /&gt;Male Voice: I think you should see this.&lt;br /&gt;Female Voice: It's just a kid.&lt;br /&gt;Rock Guy: This is a G cord. (Strums his guitar)&lt;br /&gt;Male Voice: He's learning. Absorbing. He's getting smarter every day.&lt;br /&gt;Anthropologist: Homo habilis was the first to use tools.&lt;br /&gt;Coach Wooden: A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, that's teamwork.&lt;br /&gt;Male Voice: It's happening fast.&lt;br /&gt;Astrologer: We've always watched the stars. If you look at the sky, you can see the beginning of time.&lt;br /&gt;Cut to soccer player bouncing ball on knee in front of boy.&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Gates: Collecting data is only the first step toward wisdom. But sharing data is the first step toward community.&lt;br /&gt;Poet: Poetry. There's not much glory in poetry, only achievement.&lt;br /&gt;Voice: Knowledge amplification. What he learns, we all learn. What he knows, we all benefit from.&lt;br /&gt;Ms. Nasar: One little thing can solve an incredibly complex problem.&lt;br /&gt;Ms. Marshall: Everything's about timing kid.&lt;br /&gt;Businessman: This is business. Faster. Better. Cheaper. Constant improvement.&lt;br /&gt;Pilot: So, you wanna fly, huh? Wind speed, thrust, it's physics.&lt;br /&gt;Latin Teacher: Res publica non dominetur.&lt;br /&gt;Plumber: Plumbing, it's all about the tools.&lt;br /&gt;Ali: Speak your mind. Don't back down.&lt;br /&gt;Female Voice: Does he have a name?&lt;br /&gt;Male Voice: His name is Linux.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sceneggiatura della pubblicità IBM per Linux:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apre su un ragazzo seduto su una sedia, la telecamera allarga sopra la sua testa.&lt;br /&gt;Voce maschile: penso che dovresti vederlo.&lt;br /&gt;Voce femminile: è solo un ragazzo.&lt;br /&gt;Rocker: Questo è un Sol maggiore. (Esegue l'accordo sulla chitarra)&lt;br /&gt;Voce maschile: sta imparando. Assorbendo. Diventa ogni giorno più intelligente.&lt;br /&gt;Antropologo: l'Homo Habilis fu il primo ad usare utensili.&lt;br /&gt;Allenatore &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wooden"&gt;John R. Wooden&lt;/a&gt;: un giocatore che rende grande una squadra val di più di un grande giocatore. Perdersi nel gruppo, per il bene del gruppo, questo è gioco di squadra.&lt;br /&gt;Voce maschile: sta succedendo in fretta.&lt;br /&gt;Astronomo: Abbiamo sempre guardato le stelle. Se guardi il cielo, puoi vedere l'inizio del tempo.&lt;br /&gt;Inquadratura di un calciatore che fa rimbalzare la palla sulle ginocchia davanti al ragazzo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates,_Jr."&gt;Prof. Gates&lt;/a&gt;: raccogliere dati è solo il primo passo verso la saggezza. Ma condividere i dati è il primo passo verso la comunità.&lt;br /&gt;Poeta: la poesia. Non c'è molta gloria nella poesia, solo il risultato.&lt;br /&gt;Voce: amplificazione della conoscenza. Quello che impara, lo impariamo tutti. Di quello che sa, tutti quanti ne traiamo beneficio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Nasar"&gt;Sylvia Nasar&lt;/a&gt;: una piccola cosa può risolvere un problema incredibilmente complesso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Marshall"&gt;Penny Marshall&lt;/a&gt;: è tutta una questione di tempismo, giovane.&lt;br /&gt;Uomo d'affari: Questo è il business. Più in fretta. Meglio. A minor costo. Miglioramento costante.&lt;br /&gt;Pilota: e quindi vuoi volare, eh? Velocità del vento, spinta, è fisica.&lt;br /&gt;Insegnante di Latino: Res Publica non dominetur (la cosa pubblica non sarà dominata da nessuno...)&lt;br /&gt;Idraulico: le tubature, è tutta una questione di attrezzi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali"&gt;Ali&lt;/a&gt;: dì la tua. Non tirarti indietro.&lt;br /&gt;Voce femminile: come si chiama?&lt;br /&gt;Voce maschile: il suo nome è Linux.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="poweredbyperformancing"&gt;powered by &lt;a href="http://performancing.com/firefox"&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-8048679904720997948?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8048679904720997948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8048679904720997948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/03/linux-advert.html' title='Linux Advert'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-2731908525097947571</id><published>2007-03-13T01:14:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T01:16:11.535+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Breathtaking eclipse</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 371px; height: 371px;" alt="" class="photo" src="http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/img/stereoimages/preview/transit_still1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, the big one is the Sun, and the small black spot is the moon. You make me feel, by weight:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;small&gt;Oxygen      65%&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;small&gt;          Carbon      18%&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;small&gt;          Hydrogen    10%&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;small&gt;          Nitrogen     3%&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;small&gt;          Calcium      1.5%&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;small&gt;          Phosphorous  1.0%&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;small&gt;          Potassium    0.35%&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;small&gt;          Sulfur       0.25%&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;small&gt;          Sodium       0.15%&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;small&gt;          Chlorine     0.15%&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;small&gt;          Magnesium    0.05%&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;small&gt;          Iron         0.0004%&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;small&gt;          Iodine       0.00004%&lt;/small&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/12/solar_eclipse_viewed.html"&gt;Boing Boing: Solar eclipse viewed from spacecraft&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="poweredbyperformancing"&gt;powered by &lt;a href="http://performancing.com/firefox"&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-2731908525097947571?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/2731908525097947571/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=2731908525097947571' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/2731908525097947571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/2731908525097947571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/03/breathtaking-eclipse.html' title='Breathtaking eclipse'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-6228122314048522765</id><published>2007-03-13T01:04:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T01:04:29.190+01:00</updated><title type='text'>How many elements should have a list?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;5 is good, 10 is better, 15 is bad, 20 is worst. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;I don't want to read "52 ways to improve your piano playing" because if I spend the same time practicing my piano playing will improve far more than reading a lousy list ever could. I'd prefer read "5 ways to improve your piano playing", despite the semplicity. I don't want to read "&lt;a href='http://www.twu.edu/o-sl/counseling/SelfHelp001.html'&gt;52 ways to reduce stress&lt;/a&gt;", because your list (longer than Deuteronomy) is stressful.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;You can't separate the top 5 arguments about a theme? Obviously you don't know enough about that specific argument. A Lifehacker post tells about &lt;a href='http://oedb.org/library/college-basics/hacking-knowledge'&gt;77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper and Better&lt;/a&gt;: the author should choose the top 5 or the top 10, I will read it, and then I will decide if is worth reading the remaining 70.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Lists are the mainstream for blog posts: Guy Kawasaki advice you to use them to hook your audience. He is one of the best list-maker: often he puts 12 question in a "10 questions with..." interview, knowing that if you have the guts to reach the tenth question, you wouldn't mind to read two more.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;"Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for  making a summary".&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;powered by &lt;a href='http://performancing.com/firefox'&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-6228122314048522765?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/6228122314048522765/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=6228122314048522765' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/6228122314048522765'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/6228122314048522765'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-many-elements-should-have-list.html' title='How many elements should have a list?'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-2368616498020539637</id><published>2007-03-05T23:21:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-03-05T23:21:20.019+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Verify your source, please.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;Internet is becoming every passing day more similar to TV: everyone yells the last breaking news without verify the source.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Last case: Vista brute-force cracking tool. Almost every tech site gave the news and almost every site retreated their declarations after two-three days. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Please, verify your sources: if you are an editor of a tech site, &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;then&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; you have a Vista Iso, &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;and&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; you can download the tool (don't ask me how, or I will steal your job) and try it by yourself. You have a chance to write a far better article if you find out it isn't working. At least you could write a nice howto.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;But please: verify your source.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38007'&gt;Vista hack is about as useful as a useless thing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;powered by &lt;a href='http://performancing.com/firefox'&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-2368616498020539637?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/2368616498020539637/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=2368616498020539637' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/2368616498020539637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/2368616498020539637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/03/verify-your-source-please.html' title='Verify your source, please.'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-877065828171408952</id><published>2007-02-24T10:54:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-02-24T10:54:04.561+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Iron(ing) man</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.biavati.net/blog/iron.jpg'&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Is nice sometime engage in activities unpracticed for years: it's similar to meet a distant friend. Yesterday I performed a Strawinsky Mass which I haven't sung since 1991. Today I have done some ironing (roughly 30 years since last time).&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;After 2 minutes: I wish my housemaid was here.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;After 4 minutes: housemaid? Maybe I should refer her as my "Domestic Advisor".&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;After 6 minutes: in a shirt, just the front, neck and wrists are important.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;After 8 minutes: in a shirt, just &lt;strike&gt;the front,&lt;/strike&gt; neck and wrists are important.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;After 10 minutes: in a shirt, just &lt;strike&gt;the front,&lt;/strike&gt; neck &lt;strike&gt;and wrists are&lt;/strike&gt; is important.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...f****ing shirt.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Beware cotton stretch: wonderful to wear, horrible to iron. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.thegenuineman.com/fashion/ironing.html'&gt;The Genuine Man.com - Ironing a Shirt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;powered by &lt;a href='http://performancing.com/firefox'&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-877065828171408952?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/877065828171408952/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=877065828171408952' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/877065828171408952'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/877065828171408952'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/02/ironing-man.html' title='Iron(ing) man'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-473538900577302380</id><published>2007-02-14T01:53:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-02-12T23:13:29.289+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Why you should be learning German language. </title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.biavati.net/blog/deutschland.jpg'&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;German is an agglutinative language. For example, Perlentränentröpfchen means "teardrops like pearls" (english also is somewhat an agglutinative language indeed). Torschlusspanik is "panic caused by closing doors"; used mainly to describe the situation of a childless aging woman searching for an heir, could be applied to everyone who feels like losing opportunities year after year.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;No surprise German generated so much poetry.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutinative_language'&gt;Agglutinative language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;powered by &lt;a href='http://performancing.com/firefox'&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-473538900577302380?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/473538900577302380/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=473538900577302380' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/473538900577302380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/473538900577302380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/02/why-you-should-be-learning-german.html' title='Why you should be learning German language. '/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-9207816293967923146</id><published>2007-02-12T22:57:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-02-12T22:57:37.572+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photo'/><title type='text'>Why you should buy a Nikon camera.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.biavati.net/blog/forlifoto.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Twenty days ago, my Nikon Coolpix S3 was ill. The sturdy camera survived several falls and lived through the less-then-respectful-for-technology hand of my wife. Suddenly (and unrelated to what happened in its brief live) didn't read or write SD card anymore. Nada. Nothing. Kaputt. I tried reading some useless newsgroup in which the most intelligent post was "Do you have formatted your card?".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, thanks, I formatted it using the camera (unbelievebly formatting worked, but no read/write again), using a card reader from my Mac, from my PC. With the first snapshot, it tried to write down to card, but not to avail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fortunately, a kindly photo store in the city I live (see image) took my camera and gave it me back (repaired!) after just 2 weeks, without charge, althought I wasn't able to show my buying proof. I suspect Nikon have a free repair policy for all products within two years of life (according to EU warranty laws), at least in Europe. This is why my next camera will be a Nikon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nikon.com/"&gt;Nikon Global Gateway&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="poweredbyperformancing"&gt;powered by &lt;a href="http://performancing.com/firefox"&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-9207816293967923146?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/9207816293967923146/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=9207816293967923146' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/9207816293967923146'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/9207816293967923146'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/02/why-you-should-buy-nikon-camera.html' title='Why you should buy a Nikon camera.'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-6451811930986622770</id><published>2007-02-12T13:20:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-02-11T22:16:38.325+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gourmet'/><title type='text'>Recipes</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;Yesterday I tried successfully the linked recipe by Mr. Grasshopper (italian): baked tuna is wonderful, even if a little difficult for my stomach to process. A chardonnay from Calabria helped me to keep untouched my rep.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;But the point is: why I have a preference for bloggers recipes? The answer is easy: in case of failure, I have someone to blame (literally: send someone to wanking - mandarlo a fare le pugnette).&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Good work, Mr. G.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://mrgrasshopper.blogspot.com/2006/08/tonno-al-forno-con-patate.html'&gt;Mr.Grasshopper: Tonno al forno con patate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;powered by &lt;a href='http://performancing.com/firefox'&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-6451811930986622770?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/6451811930986622770/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=6451811930986622770' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/6451811930986622770'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/6451811930986622770'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/02/recipes.html' title='Recipes'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-5454644721728254089</id><published>2007-02-07T23:12:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-02-07T23:12:42.486+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life'/><title type='text'>So it goes</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;i&gt;Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden, &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;so scheide nicht von mir; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;wenn ich den Tod soll leiden, &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;so tritt du dann herfür; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;wenn mir am allerbängsten &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;wird um das Herze sein, &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;so reiß mich aus den Ängsten &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;kraft deiner Angst und Pein. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href='http://colmarisches.free.fr/Choralmelodien/Chorals/Wennicheinmal.html'&gt;Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;powered by &lt;a href='http://performancing.com/firefox'&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-5454644721728254089?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/5454644721728254089/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=5454644721728254089' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/5454644721728254089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/5454644721728254089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/02/so-it-goes.html' title='So it goes'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-8290420315545061070</id><published>2007-01-30T00:17:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-01-30T00:28:19.687+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='policy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comment'/><title type='text'>New comment policy</title><content type='html'>Following the never boring suggestions of Guy, I decided to change the comment policy for this blog. No more moderation (yes, that means what you write will be added immediately to the site - althought I retain some deleting permissions). And again, no &lt;a href="http://www.captcha.net/"&gt;CAPTCHA&lt;/a&gt;, no hassles, nothing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seguendo i consigli mai scontati di Guy, ho deciso di cambiare le regole per inserire commenti su questo blog. I commenti non verranno più moderati (sì, vuol dire che quello che scrivete finisce direttamente online - anche se ho ancora la facoltà di cancellare). In più, niente &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA"&gt;CAPTCHA&lt;/a&gt;, niente scocciature, niente di niente.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-8290420315545061070?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/8290420315545061070/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=8290420315545061070' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8290420315545061070'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8290420315545061070'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/01/new-comment-policy.html' title='New comment policy'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-5442382622156533043</id><published>2007-01-25T23:35:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-01-25T23:35:34.085+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life'/><title type='text'>Mi secca dovermene andare</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;Dal blog di Don:&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;In questi giorni, anche se cerco di rimandare tutte le decisioni all'ultimo, devo ammettere che mi scoccia fare un po' tutto. Per esempio, scrivere mi scoccia, perché devo stare attento ad essere leggibile, anche nei riguardi di me stesso. Sono ormai abbastanza sicuro di avere avuto un ictus (la diagnosi medica finale è ancora in sospeso); uno piccolo, suppongo, dato che guido ancora poche settimane dopo il mio 93esimo compleanno. A quest'età, devo ammettere che ci provo gusto nel vedere lo stupore della gente quando dico quanti anni ho. Ma sotto tutto c'è la consapevolezza che sono il maschio che ha vissuto più a lungo di entrambi i rami della mia famiglia, materno e paterno, e che me ne dovrò andare abbastanza presto. Semplicemente non mi piace l'idea.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Ho galleggiato sul classico "Stato lì, fatto questo" per un po' di tempo, ma la nozione che si avvicina il momento in cui non potrò più dirlo mi secca. La verità è che non me ne voglio andare.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Ci sono molte ragioni. Per un sacco di tempo mi sono comportato come se potessi posporre tutto indefinitamente, e così ho un mucchio di cose che devo fare subito. Non voglio che i miei successori scoprano quante cose avrei potuto fare e non ho fatto, almeno per un bel po'. Ci sono tante note e lettere che devo scrivere. Ci sono posti che avrei voluto visitare, ma non ne ho mai avuto l'occasione. In realtà, ciascuno di voi potrebbe, se pensasse per un attimo di avere la mia età, stilare la lista. Almeno potrebbe provare a capire perché dico che odio andarmene. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://dontoearth.blogspot.com/2007/01/it-bothers-me-that-i-have-to-go.html'&gt;Don To Earth: It Bothers Me That I Have To Go&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;powered by &lt;a href='http://performancing.com/firefox'&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-5442382622156533043?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/5442382622156533043/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=5442382622156533043' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/5442382622156533043'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/5442382622156533043'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/01/mi-secca-dovermene-andare.html' title='Mi secca dovermene andare'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-7831614431553251434</id><published>2007-01-21T23:12:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-01-22T23:24:48.294+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Tenebrae factae sunt</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;One of the composers I admire at most is &lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_Luis_de_Victoria'&gt;Tomas Luis de Victoria&lt;/a&gt;. His &lt;i&gt;responsoria&lt;/i&gt; are masterpieces. I had to do it: I hope your ears will forgive me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed width='200' height='40' src='http://www.biavati.net/blog/music/Tenebrae_factae_sunt.mp3' controller='true' autoplay='false' loop='false'&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.biavati.net/blog/music/Tenebrae_factae_sunt.mp3"&gt;Download Tenebrae Factae Sunt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Tenebrae_factae_sunt_%28Tenebrae_responsory_No._8%29_%28Tom%C3%A1s_Luis_de_Victoria%29'&gt;Tenebrae factae sunt (Tenebrae responsory No. 8) (Tomás Luis de Victoria) - ChoralWiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;powered by &lt;a href='http://performancing.com/firefox'&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-7831614431553251434?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/7831614431553251434/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=7831614431553251434' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/7831614431553251434'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/7831614431553251434'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/01/tenebrae-factae-sunt.html' title='Tenebrae factae sunt'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-3093766862761599897</id><published>2007-01-20T17:59:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-02-12T23:11:51.694+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open/free'/><title type='text'>In Italy is not illegal download and store copyrighted material?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;The Italian &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_Cassation_%28Italy%29"&gt;Supreme Court of Cassation&lt;/a&gt; stated it's not illegal downloading copyrighted files, if you don't use them for money. Two Turin students won the trial: is not wrong "spare" on the films' tag price, even if police found copy protection removing software on their computers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://punto-informatico.it/p.aspx?id=1857111"&gt;Update&lt;/a&gt;: this sentence refers to facts happened before the "decreto Urbani", which introduces the concept of profit (better, the loss of) in copyright issues. And in case you're wondering: yes, file sharing and downloading in Italy is still illegal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.repubblica.it/2006/10/sezioni/cronaca/cassazione-3/lecito-scaricare-file/lecito-scaricare-file.html"&gt;Cassazione: lecito scaricare file protetti basta non usarli a scopo di lucro - cronaca - Repubblica.it&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="poweredbyperformancing"&gt;powered by &lt;a href="http://performancing.com/firefox"&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-3093766862761599897?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/3093766862761599897/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=3093766862761599897' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/3093766862761599897'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/3093766862761599897'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/01/in-italy-is-not-illegal-download-and.html' title='In Italy is not illegal download and store copyrighted material?'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-1100875064344733640</id><published>2007-01-20T00:09:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-01-20T00:09:24.340+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Quotes from Wonderful Graffiti</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;span class='txtbld'&gt;Quotes from &lt;a href='http://wonderfulgraffiti.com'&gt;Wonderful Graffiti&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. –Mario Andretti&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Se tutto sembra sotto controllo, semplicemente non stai andando abbastanza forte.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class='txtbld'&gt;Take pride in how far you've come. Have faith in how far you can go.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sii orgoglioso di quanta strada hai fatto. Abbi fede in quanta ne farai.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class='txtbld'&gt;One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. –Virginia Woolf&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Non si può pensare bene, amare bene, dormire bene, se non si mangia bene.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class='txtbld'&gt;Approach love and cooking with equal abandon. –The Dalai Lama&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ama e cucina col medesimo abbandono.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class='txtbld'&gt;You're stronger than you seem; Braver than you believe; And smarter than you think you are. (A.A. Milne)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sei più forte di quanto sembra; più coraggioso di quanto credi; e più furbo di quanto pensi. (E sì, è l'autore di Winnie the Pooh)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;powered by &lt;a href='http://performancing.com/firefox'&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-1100875064344733640?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/1100875064344733640/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=1100875064344733640' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/1100875064344733640'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/1100875064344733640'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/01/quotes-from-wonderful-graffiti.html' title='Quotes from Wonderful Graffiti'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-1614225398722897873</id><published>2007-01-15T23:14:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-01-15T23:14:04.379+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Surveillance Cams</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;Italiano: leggete (o guardatevi) &lt;a href='http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta'&gt;V for Vendetta&lt;/a&gt;, poi leggete l'articolo di Punto Informatico del link sottostante. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;English: read &lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta'&gt;V for Vendetta&lt;/a&gt;, then read below:&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Someone is opposing to city cams!&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Incredible: successful in UK and in Italy, but their diffusion in the States may be more difficult. Because someone do protest and speaks about crushed rights. Exaggeration from the usual four hot heads. (The beginning is cleary ironic: PI is against every form of censorship).&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Roma - New Orleans is one of the cities in the States with the higher number of cam installation across the streets, mainly managed by police. And several other cities have some webcam. But the surveillance cam initiative, a long time established fact in UK and in Italy, clashes with a growing opposition.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;As such may be incredible - since surveillance cam diffusion usually is very popular - &lt;a href='http://www.eff.org'&gt;Electronic Frontier Foundation&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href='http://www.aclu.org'&gt;ACLU&lt;/a&gt; decided to &lt;a href='http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/13/sanfrancisco_surveillance_cameras/'&gt;battle&lt;/a&gt; against the surveillance across some San Francisco blocks.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Both associations, two of the most important civil rights' defense associations in the States, oppose to a project, as &lt;a href='http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/09/BAGL4L2KK61.DTL'&gt;stated&lt;/a&gt; by San Francisco Chronicle, which is based on installation of 25 new surveillance cams in the residential blocks of the city, during the next 18 months. Every one of those cams will cost something between $ 4000 and 7000, and in the major's opinion, cams will be a deterrent against crime and against drug dealers. Meanwhile, they will provide and important monitoring service to increase people security.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;EFF, ACLU, and &lt;a href='http://www.nlg.org/'&gt;National Lawyers Guild&lt;/a&gt; are trying to &lt;a href='http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005067.php'&gt;build&lt;/a&gt; up protests from citizens against the installations. The net grapevine gives some hope: Indymedia San Francisco publish a petition to gather people for the next wednesday meeting with the city authorities, and explains clearly why this kind of surveillance cams are dangerous:&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;"Video surveillance poses a significant threat to privacy and free speech by allowing the government to track what you are doing and where you are going. Surveillance cameras also impact free speech by chilling protected political and religious expression. The prospect of government surveillance may deter individuals expressing unpopular views from attending demonstrations and speaking out on controversial issues."&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Back in 2003, the former italian authority for the privacy, Stefano Rodotà, affirmed with the usual precision: "This unstoppable publication of private spaces, this perennial exposition to unknown and undesidered eyes, actually change individual and social behavior. To be aware of the control causes people to behave less spontaneously and reduces freedom."&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;"Shrinking control-free spaces one may be forced to remain at home, defending ferociously this last private space, even if more and more unprotected from surveillance techniques more efficient every day. But if liberty and spontaneity will be coherced in our private spaces, we will consider far and hostile everything exists in the outer world. This may be father to new conflicts, and therefore a radically and permanent insecurity, which in facts destroys the stronger argument in favor of surveillance, whose primary end is to produce security".&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://punto-informatico.it/p.aspx?id=1847926'&gt;PI: Qualcuno si oppone alle cam in città!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;powered by &lt;a href='http://performancing.com/firefox'&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-1614225398722897873?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/1614225398722897873/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=1614225398722897873' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/1614225398722897873'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/1614225398722897873'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/01/surveillance-cams.html' title='Surveillance Cams'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-3646200261801875435</id><published>2007-01-13T23:28:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-01-13T23:28:42.874+01:00</updated><title type='text'>HD DVD vs. Blu Ray</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;The truceless war between HD DVD and Blu Ray has a new element to think about.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070112-8602.html'&gt;Adult film industry embracing HD DVD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;powered by &lt;a href='http://performancing.com/firefox'&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-3646200261801875435?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/3646200261801875435/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=3646200261801875435' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/3646200261801875435'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/3646200261801875435'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/01/hd-dvd-vs-blu-ray.html' title='HD DVD vs. Blu Ray'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-8190257659556177504</id><published>2007-01-13T20:59:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-01-13T20:59:15.161+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Very bad song</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;This evening I was outside for shopping. Radio was broadcasting "Angelica", a song by an italian group, "Le Vibrazioni". &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Simply: "Angelica" is awful. It isn't "not very good", is quite horrible. Senseless words, disturbing music: a nightmare.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Questa sera ero fuori per acquisti. La radio trasmetteva "Angelica", una canzone di un gruppo italiano, "Le Vibrazioni". &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Semplice: "Angelica" fa schifo. Non è solo "non un gran che", è proprio orribile. Parole senza senso, musica fastidiosa: un incubo.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;powered by &lt;a href='http://performancing.com/firefox'&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-8190257659556177504?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/8190257659556177504/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=8190257659556177504' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8190257659556177504'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8190257659556177504'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/01/very-bad-song.html' title='Very bad song'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-442055440407577932</id><published>2007-01-13T00:35:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-01-13T00:35:12.095+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Orfeo ed Euridice</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;"Orfeo ed Euridice" by Gluck (performance 1 of 10 in 5 different cities) was performed this evening in the Ravenna Theatre, "Dante Alighieri".&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;1% of inspiration and 99% perspiration allowed me to partecipate preparing this event. I will be in Pisa next february for the last two performances.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Going to the opera (and &lt;i&gt;a fortiori &lt;/i&gt;performing) is emotionally moving. In this opera I enjoyed expecially the direction by Graham Vick. I am pretty sure that tomorrow the newspaper will praise the modern and stylish direction, the dancing chorus and the very dynamic scenes. People like sweat, and I can assure you this evening their craving was satisfied.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;But IMHO, the cream is in the less dynamic scenes; let me tell some examples:&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Act 1 (ending): Orpheus lost Eurydice for the first time. A mourning chorus left slowly the scene, when someone tries to take away the tumbled chair near Orpheus (we've seen dead Eurydice before laying in this chair). A distressed Orpheus grabs the chair, and the other left shaking his head in misery (thanks, Sergio: yes, it does works great).&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Act 2 (hell): as stated by the director, the tableau brings life from the Sartre idea: "L'enfer est les autres". Hell is others.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;a) An actress tries to put three chairs in a row, and another actress ruins the order every time the work of the first one is almost done. You feel the anxiety, and the sense of unfulfillment. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;b) An actor reads the newspaper in a very rude manner on a sofa, while an actress pushes him not gently at all to swap tv channels with a remote. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;c) An actress pretends to be sick, and another one pretends to take care of her. When the nurse tries to left the bed, the other suddenly catches her ("Misery").&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Not enough hell? You deserve demons and forks.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;The music is a masterpiece. The libretto is not so good, but in the 18th century was impossible to write a libretto without happy ending. Yes, Orpheus looks at Eurydice and lost her... forever? No, because Love settles everything, and they lived happily ever after.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;I do prefer much more the sad version, in which Orpheus losts Eurydice forever.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.teatroalighieri.org/stagione_opera_balletto/spettacoli_stagione/pagina39.html'&gt;Teatro di tradizione Dante Alighieri - GLI SPETTACOLI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;powered by &lt;a href='http://performancing.com/firefox'&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-442055440407577932?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/442055440407577932/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=442055440407577932' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/442055440407577932'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/442055440407577932'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/01/orfeo-ed-euridice.html' title='Orfeo ed Euridice'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-5979339314408478940</id><published>2007-01-10T02:02:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-01-10T02:02:22.828+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Chips, chips, du-du-du-du-du</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;(Chi-boom, chi-boo-boom)&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.italianissima.net/testi/viaconme.htm'&gt;VIA CON ME Paolo Conte&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;powered by &lt;a href='http://performancing.com/firefox'&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-5979339314408478940?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/5979339314408478940/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=5979339314408478940' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/5979339314408478940'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/5979339314408478940'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/01/chips-chips-du-du-du-du-du.html' title='Chips, chips, du-du-du-du-du'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-1172797491537446156</id><published>2007-01-08T00:29:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-01-08T00:29:44.367+01:00</updated><title type='text'>I'm an Englishman in New York</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;A gentlemen will walk but never run.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sting/englishmaninnewyork.html'&gt;STING LYRICS - Englishman In New York&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;powered by &lt;a href='http://performancing.com/firefox'&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-1172797491537446156?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/1172797491537446156/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=1172797491537446156' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/1172797491537446156'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/1172797491537446156'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/01/i-englishman-in-new-york.html' title='I&amp;#39;m an Englishman in New York'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-8306446165059801318</id><published>2007-01-03T16:00:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-01-03T16:00:18.834+01:00</updated><title type='text'>EU video format petition</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;English: read the post from &lt;a href='http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/03/petition_eu_should_s.html'&gt;BoingBoing&lt;/a&gt;, then sign the &lt;a href='http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/eu_streaming_service_for_everybody'&gt;petition&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Italiano: le assemblee del Consiglio dell'Unione Europea sono &lt;a href='http://ceuweb.belbone.be/index.php?lang=EN'&gt;trasmesse&lt;/a&gt; su internet in streaming. Peccato che siano in formato proprietario (= soldi nostri che finiscono in tasca a Microsoft e/o alla Apple, nessuna delle quali è un'azienda europea...). Alternative ce ne sono, ma questi &lt;a href='http://ceuweb.belbone.be/faq.php?lang=EN'&gt;rispondono&lt;/a&gt; che non "possono" sostenere legalmente Linux, per cui Linux non è supportato. Le soluzioni open source sono compatibili anche con Windows e Mac. Perché non risparmiare accontentando tutti? C'è qualcuno che si mette in tasca i soldini di zio Bill o di zio Steve? O semplicemente è un modo gratuito e inopportuno di gestire le minoranze trasversali? &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Firmate la &lt;a href='http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/eu_streaming_service_for_everybody'&gt;petizione&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/eu_streaming_service_for_everybody'&gt;Petition Spot - Platform independent solution to watch "Streaming Service of the Council of the European Union."&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;powered by &lt;a href='http://performancing.com/firefox'&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-8306446165059801318?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/8306446165059801318/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=8306446165059801318' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8306446165059801318'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/8306446165059801318'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/01/eu-video-format-petition.html' title='EU video format petition'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-4526124718465357900</id><published>2007-01-01T23:12:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-01-01T23:12:37.112+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Years and landings</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;Years are very similar to landings: every one you survive aren't quite so bad.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;But I haven't liked very much the last year, so I am glad it isn't on my guts anymore.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Welcome 2007.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006'&gt;2006 - Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;powered by &lt;a href='http://performancing.com/firefox'&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-4526124718465357900?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/4526124718465357900/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=4526124718465357900' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/4526124718465357900'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/4526124718465357900'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/01/years-and-landings.html' title='Years and landings'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-735974696989268151</id><published>2007-01-01T11:35:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-01-01T11:35:57.008+01:00</updated><title type='text'>How many batteries does it takes...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;Stumbled upon the linked article via &lt;a href='http://www.digg.com'&gt;digg&lt;/a&gt;. You have to see to believe it. 6 x AAAA batteries = 1 x 9V.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;img width='357' height='267' src='http://www.biavati.net/blog/Foto%2020.jpg'&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Holiday is when you have too much time on your hands. Happy new year.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.axecollector.com/aaa.html'&gt;Triple "A" Battery Hack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;powered by &lt;a href='http://performancing.com/firefox'&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-735974696989268151?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/735974696989268151/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=735974696989268151' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/735974696989268151'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/735974696989268151'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-many-batteries-does-it-takes.html' title='How many batteries does it takes...'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-4095848364703787992</id><published>2006-12-25T21:06:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2006-12-25T21:06:12.376+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Let's be less consequentialist.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;They say at Christmas we have to be good. To be more precise, it would be enough if we were all more deontological, because not ever &lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_ends_justify_the_means'&gt;the ends justify the means&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deontological_ethics'&gt;Deontological ethics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;powered by &lt;a href='http://performancing.com/firefox'&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-4095848364703787992?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/4095848364703787992/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=4095848364703787992' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/4095848364703787992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/4095848364703787992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2006/12/let-be-less-consequentialist.html' title='Let&amp;#39;s be less consequentialist.'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-6669024795582150144</id><published>2006-12-23T01:16:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2006-12-23T01:16:29.724+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Dude, pass that shit</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;From a Digg comment: when you feel yourself too inspired, or too self-insightful, try imagine your blogger next door posting a comment like "Dude, pass that shit." &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;For example, yesterday someone referenced Donald Crowdis (the oldest blogger) as a "surrogate grandpa". Reading Donald's blog is hard to believe he's almost 93 (tomorrow Dec 24 is his birthday). So I was almost to post on his blog: "Happy birthday, timeless friend." &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;But no one could have saved me afterwards from a "Dude, pass that shit" comment. I will post my best (and less naive) wishes to Don tomorrow.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;P.S.: The title of the linked article contains an obvious typo ("lunch" instead of "launch"). If you are curious to see how soft is a large audience respect to a mere typo, read the comments. Most of them are very funny.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Da un commento su Digg: quando ti senti troppo ispirato o troppo auto-introspettivo, prova ad immaginare il tuo blogger accanto lasciare un commento come "Ehi tipo, passami il fumo."&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Per esempio, ieri qualcuno si è riferito a Donald Crowdis (il blogger più vecchio) come un "surrogato di nonno". Leggendo il blog di Donald è difficile credere che ha quasi 93 anni (domani, 24 dicembre è il suo compleannno). Stavo quindi per scrivergli "Buon compleanno, amico senza tempo."&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Ma nessuno avrebbe potuto salvarmi da un "Ehi tipo, passami il fumo." Manderò i miei migliori auguri (e meno naif) a Don domani.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;P.S.: Il titolo dell'articolo referenziato contiene un ovvio refuso ("lunch" [pasto] al posto di "launch" [lancio]). Se siete curiosi di vedere come sia tenero il grande pubblico rispetto ad un semplice refuso, leggete i commenti. La maggior parte è molto divertente.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://digg.com/space/Amazing_photograph_of_Saturday_s_lunch_of_the_space_shuttle_Discovery?cshow=4200004'&gt;digg - Amazing photograph of Saturday's lunch of the space shuttle Discovery&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;powered by &lt;a href='http://performancing.com/firefox'&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-6669024795582150144?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/6669024795582150144/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=6669024795582150144' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/6669024795582150144'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/6669024795582150144'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2006/12/dude-pass-that-shit.html' title='Dude, pass that shit'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-529954377817053310</id><published>2006-12-23T00:33:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2006-12-23T00:33:35.193+01:00</updated><title type='text'>You make me feel like Forrest Gump</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;One of the most moving scenes of "Forrest Gump" happens when Forrest eventually finds Jenny and his son, Forrest Jr. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Jenny (speaking of Forrest Jr.): Isn't he beautiful?&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Forrest: He's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. But... is, is he smart, or is he...&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Jenny: He's very smart. He's one of the smartest in his class.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.biavati.net/blog/sloth.tiff'&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Not very different from the feeling you get when your children learn counting up to ten, or reading, or riding a bike.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Forrest-Gump.html'&gt;Forrest Gump Script at IMSDb.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;powered by &lt;a href='http://performancing.com/firefox'&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-529954377817053310?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/529954377817053310/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=529954377817053310' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/529954377817053310'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/529954377817053310'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2006/12/you-make-me-feel-like-forrest-gump.html' title='You make me feel like Forrest Gump'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-176344745269975844</id><published>2006-12-20T00:28:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2006-12-20T00:28:45.440+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Scuola per genitori, parte 4</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;a href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2006/12/school-for-parents-round-4.html'&gt;decio: il blog: School for parents, round #4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Ecco la traduzione italiana: meglio tardi che mai.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;L'intimità nella coppia, Prof. R. Giommi&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;1) Intimità: l'intimità comincia durante l'infanzia e cresce sviluppandosi in un "cerchio magico": intimità con se stessi; intimità con gli altri, ai quali ci rapportiamo come doni, per dare a qualcuno il bimbo dentro di noi che nessuno ha mai capito. E' confidenza corporea, quindi contatto fisico. E' importante insegnare il rispetto per gli altri corpi: prima di toccare qualcun altro devo chiedere il permesso, anche se non direttamente ("posso toccarti?"), ma accorciando le distanze fisiche ed osservando le reazioni. E' importante che un bimbo non percepisca la distanza. Tenere un bambino a distanza significa renderlo malfidente.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;2) Quando scegliamo un partner, spesso la parte principale non viene svolta a livello conscio. Un errore tipico che si commette è toccare l'altro nel modo in cui si vorrebbe essere toccati. Bisogna avere una gran pazienza (ed è sicuramente più facile se il tuo partner ti piace). Il gioco consiste nel fondere gusti differenti. Viene in aiuto il concetto di "Sindrome pedagogica" (ovvero: "Io ti cambierò"). Uccidere le passioni dell'altro non giova all'intimità.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;3) La sessualità dovrebbe corrispondere ad aprire la stanza del piacere, non la stanza delle disgrazie. In quanto piacere, si può sottrarre il contributo della sessualità dal carico totale in un dato giorno; in caso contrario lo si dovrà sommare. Per vivere una buona sessualità aiuta pensare al partner prima dell'incontro. La sessualità ha due significati, (a) divertirsi e (b) coltivare la relazione. In questo punto l'insegnante suggerisce di disegnare un grafico a torta con i componenti della sessualità (bacio profondo, accoppiamento, ...) e confrontarlo con il grafico del partner.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Divertirsi, con emozioni. Anche un amore non corrisposto è una buona cosa, perché è comunque meglio che non amare nessuno.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Coltivare la relazione: imparare a gestire una relazione: qual è la cosa che ti piace più di tutte? Per favore, non bisogna avere cattivi pensieri riguardo alle domande. Se devo chiedere, è per il nostro piacere, non per dimostrare che non ti esprimi abbastanza bene. Se devi rispondere, è per il nostro piacere, non per denigrarmi per il solo fatto che non sono un indovino.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;4) Ascoltare: imparare l'"ascolto neutro": con il quale posso davvero ascoltare il mio partner, anche dopo anni, devo ascoltare le parole che dice per capire cosa sta dicendo, lasciando da parte l'impressione sbagliata di conoscere il mio partner meglio di quanto lui/lei potranno mai fare. Durante la sessualità lo scenario più terrificante è sentirsi soli. Questi errori vanno corretti, o saremo destinati a trascinarceli da una generazione a quella successiva.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Questo è il fine ultimo di questa scuola: se diventi una persona migliore, i tuoi figli cresceranno meglio. Non parlare loro della tua sessualità (frustrata). Cresceranno pieni di paure.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Nota: questa è la prima lezione in cui chi spiega fornisce indicazioni sul comportamento da tenere con i figli.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Il prossimo aggiornamento della scuola per genitori al prossimo anno.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;powered by &lt;a href='http://performancing.com/firefox'&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-176344745269975844?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/176344745269975844/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=176344745269975844' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/176344745269975844'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/176344745269975844'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2006/12/scuola-per-genitori-parte-4.html' title='Scuola per genitori, parte 4'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-6800006112808729950</id><published>2006-12-08T01:19:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2006-12-08T01:19:27.526+01:00</updated><title type='text'>School for parents, round #4</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;Intimacy in couples, by Prof. &lt;a href='http://www.irf-sessuologia.org/chisiamo.htm'&gt;R. Giommi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;1) Intimacy: intimacy begins during childhood and grows as a "magic circle": intimacy with self; intimacy with others, we bring ourselves as a gift, to give someone the child within, who none ever understood. Bodily confidence, then physical contact. Is very important to teach respect for others bodies: before I could touch you, I have to ask for permission, even not in a straightforward way (i.e.: asking), but shortening the physical distance and observing the feedback. It is important that a child don't feel the distance. Keep physical distance with the children could keep them untrusty.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;2) When we choose our partner, often the unconscious plays a preminent part. A typical error is touching the other the wame way we like to be touched. You have to keep patience (which is easier if you like your partner). The game is to melt different tastes. Comes helping the concept of "Pedagogic syndrome" (aka "I will change you"). Killing others passions is not good for intimacy. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;3) Sexuality should be like opening the pleasure room, not the woes room. As pleasure, you can subtract the sexuality term from the amount of total pressure in a given day; otherwise you have to sum it. To live a good sexuality you have to think about your partner before the intercourse. Sexuality has two meanings, (a) have fun and (b) have relationships. Here the teacher suggests we draw a pie chart with the sexuality parts (french kiss, intercourse, ecc.) and confront it with the partners pie chart.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Have fun: from emotions. Even a one way love is a good thing, because is better than love no one.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Have relationships: learn to manage a relationship: what do you like at most? Please, don't feel bad about this question. I have to ask, for our pleasure, not to demonstrate you don't communicate sufficently well. You have to answer, for our pleasure, and you shold not blame me for not be a wizard.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;4) Listen: learning the "neuter listening": in which I really listen for my partner, and even after years, I have to listen my partners words to understand what he is saying, putting apart the bad feeling about knowing our partner better he/she could ever knows him/herself. During sexuality the worst case is to feel alone. We have to correct our errors, otherwise they will travel from one generation to another. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;This is the final meaning of this School: if you become a better person, your child will grow better.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Don't tell your children about your (frustrated) sexuality. They will grow fearsome.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Note: This is the first lesson in which the teacher gave indication about parents behavior.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Stay tuned for the italian translation.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;brb next year.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;powered by &lt;a href='http://performancing.com/firefox'&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-6800006112808729950?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/6800006112808729950/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=6800006112808729950' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/6800006112808729950'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/6800006112808729950'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2006/12/school-for-parents-round-4.html' title='School for parents, round #4'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-5757609097275021770</id><published>2006-11-30T01:35:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-11-30T01:38:53.103+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Il papà più forte del mondo.</title><content type='html'>Con la scusa di provare se funziona inserire un video di YouTube, ecco una storia che mi ha (davvero) commosso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Da Sports Illustrated, di Rick Reilly]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cerco di essere un buon padre. Aiuto i miei ragazzi. Lavoro la notte per pagare i loro messaggini. Li porto a vedere gli spettacoli.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ma in confronto a Dick Hoyt, faccio schifo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ha spinto ottantacinque volte suo figlio disabile per i 42.195 km della maratona. Otto volte non solo l'ha spinto per 42.195 km in sedia a rotelle, ma l'ha pure trainato per 3,8 km in una barchetta a nuoto e per 180 km in bici su un sedile ricavato sul manubrio--tutto nello stesso giorno.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dick l'ha portato a sci di fondo, in spalla per arrampicare e una volta attraverso tutti gli USA in bici. Il che ridimensiona un po' il portare tuo figlio al Bowling, no?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E cosa ha fatto Rick per suo padre? Non molto--a parte salvargli la vita.&lt;br /&gt;Questa storia inizia a Winchester, nel Massachusetts, 43 anni fa, quando Rick rimase soffocato dal cordone ombelicale durante il parto, lasciandogli un danno cerebrale e inabile a controllare gli arti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Sarà un vegetale per il resto della vita;" - racconta Dick - lo dissero i dottori a lui e a sua moglie Judy quando Rick aveva nove mesi. "Mettetelo in un istituto."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ma gli Hoyt non ci stavano. Avevano notato che gli occhi di Rick li seguivano per la stanza. Quando Rick ebbe 11 anni lo portarono alla facoltà di Ingegneria alla Tufts University e chiesero se ci fosse qualcosa che permettesse al ragazzo di comunicare. "Non esiste", dice Dick che gli fu detto. "Non c'è niente che vada nel suo cervello."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Gli racconti una barzelletta," ribatté Dick. Lo fece. Rick rise. Evidentemente c'erano un sacco di cose che 'andavano' nel suo cervello. Collegato ad un computer che gli permetteva di controllare un cursore toccando un interruttore con un lato della testa, Rick fu finalmente in grado di comunicare. Le prime parole? "Go Bruins!" [squadra di hockey di Boston, N.d.T.] E quando un suo compagno di classe rimase paralizzato per un incidente e la scuola organizzò una corsa per raccogliere fondi, Rick si lanciò: "Papà, la voglio fare."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sì, certo. Come avrebbe fatto Dick, che chiamava se stesso un "ciccione" e che non aveva mai corso per più di un chilometro, a spingere il figlio per oltre otto chilometri? Comunque provò. "Dopo ero io l'handicappato," dice Dick, "sono stato dolorante per due settimane."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quel giorno la vita di Rick cambiò. "Papà," scrisse, "quando correvamo, non mi sentivo più disabile!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E quella frase cambiò la vita di Dick. Divenne ossessionato dall'idea di far provare a Rick quella sensazione più spesso che poteva. Si mise così in forma che lui e Rick erano pronti per la maratona di Boston del 1979.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Non esiste," disse a Dick un giudice di gara. Gli Hoyt non erano un corridore singolo, e non erano un contendente in sedia a rotelle. Per diversi anni Dick e Rick si unirono semplicemente alle enormi competizioni, finché non trovarono un modo per entrare in gara ufficialmente: nel 1983 corsero una maratona così forte che si qualificarono per quella di Boston dell'anno successivo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Poi qualcuno disse, "Ehi, Dick, perché non il triathlon?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un tipo che non ha mai imparato a nuotare e che non è salito su una bici da quando aveva sei anni, come può portarsi dietro suo figlio di 50 kg in una gara di triathlon? Comunque, Dick provò.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ora hanno all'attivo 212 gare di triathlon, inclusi 4 massacranti Ironman da 15 ore alle Hawaii. Deve essere deprimente essere un atleta di 25 anni ed essere superati da un anziano che traina un adulto in una barchetta, che ne pensi?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ehi, Dick, perché non vediamo cosa faresti da solo? "Neanche per idea," dice. Dick lo fa puramente per "la sensazione straordinaria" che prova nel vedere Rick con un sorrisone mentre corrono, nuotano e pedalano insieme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quest'anno, alle rispettive età di 65 e 43 anni, Dick e Rick hanno finito la loro ventiquettresima maratona, al 5.083esimo posto su oltre 20.000 concorrenti. Il loro miglior tempo? Due ore, 40 minuti nel 1992--solo 35 minuti in più rispetto al record del mondo che, nel caso in cui non ti occupi di questo genere di cose, voglio ricordare che è stato ottenuto da un tipo che non spingeva un'altra persona su una sedia a rotelle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Non c'è dubbio," scrive Rick. "Mio papà è il padre del secolo."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E anche Dick ne ha ricavato dell'altro. Due anni fa ebbe un leggero attacco di cuore durante una gara. I dottori scoprirono che una delle sue arterie era chiusa per il 95%. "Se tu non fossi stato in una forma così strepitosa," gli disse un medico, "probabilmente saresti morto 15 anni fa." Così, in un certo senso, Dick e Rick si sono salvati la vita a vicenda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rick, che ha la sua casa (riceve assistenza a domicilio) e lavora a Boston, e Dick, in pensione dalla sua occupazione come militare e che vive a Holland, Massachusetts, trovano sempre il modo per stare insieme. Fanno conferenze in giro per il paese e gareggiano in competizioni durissime ogni fin settimana, compreso questa festa del papà [l'articolo è stato scritto prima del 19 Marzo 2006, N.d.T.].&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quella sera Rick offrirà la cena a suo papà, ma la cosa che vuole veramente è fargli un regalo che non potrebbe mai comprare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"La cosa che mi piacerebbe di piu," scrive Rick, "è che mio papà si sedesse sulla sedia e fossi io a spingerlo, per una volta."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Qui sotto, il video. [dura 4 minuti - il sottofondo musicale è facoltativo]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/f4B-r8KJhlE"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/f4B-r8KJhlE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-5757609097275021770?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://digg.com/videos_people/Strongest_Dad_in_the_World_Absolutely_amazing_Must_See' title='Il papà più forte del mondo.'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/5757609097275021770/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=5757609097275021770' title='3 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/5757609097275021770'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/5757609097275021770'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2006/11/con-la-scusa-di-provare-se-funziona.html' title='Il papà più forte del mondo.'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-2464347852778125774</id><published>2006-11-29T23:02:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2006-11-29T23:08:05.757+01:00</updated><title type='text'>La sicurezza dell'insicuro</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;Questo viene dal &lt;a href="http://dontoearth.blogspot.com/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; di &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Crowdis"&gt;Donald Crowdis&lt;/a&gt;: sa un po' di Socrate, ma ci sta tutto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Costantemente noi, o almeno io, abbiamo a che fare con quelli che sono &lt;i&gt;sicuri&lt;/i&gt; riguardo qualcosa, di solito riguardo se stessi in generale. Ovviamente, questo permette loro di passare ogni giornata problematica con la sicurezza che il mondo, se non addirittura il cosmo, va come loro ben sanno. &lt;a href="http://scholar.google.com/"&gt;Milioni di articoli a stampa&lt;/a&gt; che si occupano di nuovi concetti sulle questioni scientifiche e di noi stessi come individui e come gruppo, non li riguardano. Loro sanno, e questo è quanto!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il punto cruciale, o il punto di divisione, di tutto ciò è che se loro comprendessero che nessuno sa un gran che -- alla luce di questi articoli pubblicati -- allora la posizione corretta sarebbe "dimmi di più". Solo chi è sicuro della consapevolezza duramente raggiunta, e di rado, di una condizione di parziale conoscenza / parziale ignoranza, può rilassarsi nella sicurezza di non sapere, e di conseguenza può imparare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per me la domanda è: Perché non possiamo accontentarci della nostra fin troppo ovvia inadeguatezza? Accettiamo che volpi, &lt;a href="http://www.cowabduction.com/"&gt;vacche&lt;/a&gt;, formiche, elefanti e così via non possano sapere tutto, allora perché non accettiamo il fatto che nemmeno noi possiamo?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il rischio, o meglio, il fato di chi "sa" tutto è la disfatta che avviene quando inevitabilmente scopre che non sa. Potrei dire che l'avevo detto, e penso che lo farò.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[scoperto via &lt;a href="http://www.boingboing.net/"&gt;BoingBoing&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="poweredbyperformancing"&gt;powered by &lt;a href="http://performancing.com/firefox"&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-2464347852778125774?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/2464347852778125774/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=2464347852778125774' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/2464347852778125774'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/2464347852778125774'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2006/11/la-sicurezza-dellinsicuro.html' title='La sicurezza dell&apos;insicuro'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-7445829406876422367</id><published>2006-11-23T22:39:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-03T15:15:21.542+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Good and Bad Procrastination</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html"&gt;Good and Bad Procrastination&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Questo saggio di Paul Graham è così bello che non ho potuto fare a meno di tradurlo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Procrastinazione buona e cattiva.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dicembre 2005&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tutte le persone impressionanti che conosco sono terribili procrastinatori. Come può essere che il procrastinare non sia sempre una brutta cosa?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In generale, chi scrive riguardo alla procrastinazione lo fa per cercare di curarla. Questo però è letteralmente impossibile. C'è un numero infinito di cose che potresti fare. Non importa su cosa si stia lavorando, non si lavora nel frattempo su qualcos'altro. Quindi la domanda non è come evitare la procrastinazione, ma come procrastinare bene.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ci sono tre varianti di procrastinazione, che dipendono da cosa fai al posto che occuparti di una certa cosa: puoi fare (a) niente, (b) qualcosa di meno importante, o (c) qualcosa di più importante. L'ultimo tipo, suppongo, è procrastinazione buona.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E' il "professore con la testa fra le nuvole", che si scorda di radersi, o di mangiare, o magari anche di guardare dove va quando sta pensando a qualcosa di interessante. La sua testa è assente dalla quotidianità perché sta lavorando troppo duramente su qualcos'altro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Questo è il senso del fatto che tutte le persone più impressionanti sono procrastinatori. Sono dei procrastinatori di tipo C: non si applicano sulle piccole cose perché lavorano sulle grandi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quali sono le "piccole cose?" Grosso modo, tutto quello che non ha speranza di essere citato nel tuo necrologio. E' difficile dire in anticipo quale sarà il tuo lavoro migliore (sarà il tuo magnum opus [in latino nell'originale, N.d.T.] sull'architettura dei templi Sumeri o quel romanzo del terrore che hai scritto sotto falso nome?), ma c'è comunque un'intera classe di attività che puoi tranquillamente scartare: raderti, lavare, pulire la casa, scrivere ringraziamenti-- tutto quello che può andare sotto il nome di faccende.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La buona procrastinazione è evitare le faccende per occuparsi del lavoro vero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vero in un certo senso, almeno. Le persone che vorrebbero farti fare le faccende non penseranno che sia una buona cosa. Ma probabilmente sono le stesse che devi scocciare quando vuoi che venga fatto qualcosa. Le persone più miti, se devono fare del lavoro vero, hanno tutte un polso piuttosto fermo quando arriva il momento di evitare le faccende.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alcune faccende, come rispondere alle lettere, se ne vanno da sole se le ignori (probabilmente portandosi via gli amici). Altre, come falciare il prato, o fare la dichiarazione dei redditi, se le ignori tendono solo a peggiorare. In linea di principio non funziona ignorare il secondo tipo di faccende. Sono cose che alla fine ti toccherà fare. Perché (come recitano le formule di sollecito) non farlo adesso?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il motivo per cui paga mettere da parte anche queste faccende, è che il lavoro vero richiede due cose di cui le faccende non necessitano: grossi blocchi di tempo e l'umore giusto. Se sei ispirato da qualche progetto, può essere una scelta vincente sbarazzarsi di tutto quello che avresti dovuto fare nei giorni successivi per lavorare su quel determinato progetto. Sì, quelle faccende potrebbero costarti più tempo nel momento in cui decidi di occupartene. Ma se riesci a fare un sacco di cose in quei giorni, il risultato netto è che sarai più produttivo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In realtà, non è detto che sia una differenza di grado, ma di tipo. Ci possono essere tipi di lavori che possono essere fatti solo in periodo lunghi e senza interruzioni, quando si è ispirati piuttosto che diligentemente in piccole e precise scadenze. Empiricamente sembrerebbe essere vero. Quando penso a persone che conosco che hanno fatto grandi cose, non li immagino a spuntare in modo diligente la loro lista delle faccende, li immagino sgusciare via per lavorare su qualche nuova idea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Al contrario, forzare qualcuno a fare le faccende in modo ripetitivo mette un limite alla sua produttività. Il costo di un'interruzione non è solo dovuto al tempo che prende, ma al fatto che spacca l'intervallo di tempo in due parti. Probabilmente basta interrompere qualcuno un paio di volte al giorno per renderlo del tutto inabile ad occuparsi di problemi di una certa complessità.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi sono chiesto parecchie volte perché gli &lt;a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html"&gt;startup&lt;/a&gt; siano più produttivi quando sono agli albori, quando sono solo due ragazzi in un appartamento. La ragione principale può essere che non c'è nessuno ad interromperli. In teoria è un bene quando i fondatori hanno abbastanza soldi per assumere gente per far fare loro parte del lavoro. Ma potrebbe essere meglio il superlavoro piuttosto che le interruzioni. Una volta che diluisci uno startup con ordinari lavoratori da ufficio-- con procrastinatori di tipo B-- l'intera azienda comincerà a risuonare alla loro frequenza. Loro sono guidati dalle interruzioni, e in breve lo diventi anche tu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le faccende sono così efficaci nell'assassinare grandi progetti che un sacco di gente le usa proprio per quello scopo. Qualcuno che decide di scrivere un romanzo, per esempio, si renderà improvvisamente conto del fatto che la casa ha bisogno di una pulita. Chi non riesce a scrivere un romanzo non lo fa stando seduto per giorni di fronte ad una pagina bianca senza scrivere niente. Lo fa dando da mangiare al gatto, andando a comprare qualcosa per la casa, incontrando un amico per un caffè, leggendo la posta. "Non ho tempo per lavorare," dicono. Certo che no; hanno fatto in modo che sia proprio così.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(C'è anche una variante in cui non si ha posto per lavorare. La cura è andare a visitare i posti in cui hanno lavorato personaggi famosi, e vedere con i propri occhi quanto fossero inadatti).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Io ho usato entrambe queste scuse qualche volta. Ho imparato un sacco di trucchi per farmi restare sul pezzo negli ultimi 20 anni, ma anche adesso è una battaglia che non sempre riesco a vincere. Certi giorni faccio il lavoro vero. Altri vengono fagocitati dalle faccende. E so che di solito è colpa mia: sono io che permetto alle faccende di papparsi la giornata, per evitare di occuparmi di qualche problema davvero difficile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La forma più pericolosa di procrastinazione è quella ignara di tipo B, perché non sembra procrastinazione. Del resto stai "facendo delle cose." Semplicemente quelle sbagliate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Qualsiasi consiglio sulla procrastinazione che si basi sullo spuntare righe sulla tua lista delle attività non solo è incompleto, ma anche fuorviante, se non tiene conto la possibilità che la stessa lista delle attività sia una forma di procrastinazione di tipo B. In realtà, "possibilità" è una parola troppo debole. Quasi tutti sono in questa condizione. A meno che tu non stia lavorando sulla cosa più grossa di cui ti potresti occupare, sei un procrastinatore di tipo B, indipendentemente da quante cose riesci a fare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nel suo famoso saggio "&lt;a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html"&gt;Tu e la tua ricerca&lt;/a&gt;" (lettura che consiglio a chiunque sia ambizioso, non importa di che campo ci si occupi), Richard Hamming suggerisce di fare a te stesso tre domande:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Quali sono i problemi più importanti nel tuo campo?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) Stai lavorando su uno di quelli?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) Perché no?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hamming lavorava ai Laboratori Bell quando iniziò a porre queste domande. In linea di principio chiunque dovrebbe essere in grado si lavorare sui problemi più importanti nei rispettivi campi. Probabilmente non tutti possono tracciare un solco imperituro nel mondo; non ne ho idea; ma qualunque siano le tue capacità, ci sono progetti che le portano ai limiti. Quindi l'esercizio di Hamming può essere generalizzato come segue:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Qual è la cosa migliore sulla quale potresti lavorare, e perché non lo fai?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La maggior parte delle persone si schermisce davanti a questa domanda. Anch'io lo faccio; la vedo sulla pagina e lesto lesto vado alla frase successiva. Hamming prese l'abitudine di andare in giro a chiedere la stessa cosa, e questo non lo rese molto popolare. E' una domanda però che chiunque sia ambizioso dovrebbe affrontare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il problema è che usando quest'esca può essere che tu finisca per prendere un pesce veramente grosso. Per fare un buon lavoro, hai bisogno ti trovare ben di più che buoni progetti. Quando li hai trovati, devi metterti a lavorarci su, cosa che può risultare difficile. Più il problema è grosso, più difficile è mettersi all'opera.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ovviamente la ragione per cui risulta difficile lavorare su un particolare problema è che non &lt;a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html"&gt;piace&lt;/a&gt;. Quando sei giovane, in modo particolare, spesso ti ritrovi a lavorare su cose che non ti piacciono-- perché sembrano cose importanti, per esempio, o perché te l'hanno dato come compito. Molti studenti delle superiori si bloccano lavorando su grossi problemi che non li divertono affatto, e la scuola superiore è quindi sinonimo di procrastinazione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ma anche se ti piace quello su cui stai lavorando, è più facile mettersi a lavorare sui problemi piccoli piuttosto che su quelli grossi. Perché? Perché è così difficile lavorare sui problemi grossi? Una dei motivi è che potresti non ricevere mai una ricompensa per il tuo lavoro nel prossimo futuro. Se lavori su qualcosa che puoi finire in un giorno o due, ti puoi aspettare di poter assaporare piuttosto in fretta un certo senso di appagamento. Se la ricompensa è indefinitamente lontana nel futuro, sembra meno vera.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un'altra ragione per cui non si lavora sui grandi progetti è, notate l'ironia, la paura di perdere del tempo. Che succede se falliscono? Tutto il tempo passato su di loro sarà stato sprecato. (In effetti è probabile che non sia sprecato, in quanto lavorare su progetti impegnativi porta quasi sempre da qualche altra parte.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ma quello che impedisce di occuparsi dei grandi problemi non può essere solo la non immediatezza dei risultati e la possibilità che sia tempo sprecato. Se fosse tutto qui, non sarebbe peggio di andare in visita dai tuoi suoceri. C'è di più. I grandi problemi sono &lt;i&gt;terrificanti&lt;/i&gt;. Ad occuparsene si soffre quasi dolore fisico. E' come avere un aspirapolvere agganciato alla tua immaginazione. Tutte le tue idee vengono risucchiate immediatamente, e non te ne restano più, e comunque l'aspirapolvere continua ad aspirare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Non puoi guardare un grosso problema negli occhi in modo troppo diretto. Devi avvicinarti in un qualche modo obliquo. Ma devi aggiustare bene l'angolazione: devi affrontare i gradi problemi in maniera abbastanza diretta da riuscire a fare tuo parte dell'eccitazione che irradia da questo, ma non così tanto da paralizzarti. Puoi stringere l'angolo quando ci sei, come una barca inclina la vela sempre più verso il vento una volta che ha preso la bolina.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se vuoi lavorare sulle grandi cose, pare che tu debba ingannare te stesso per poterlo fare. Dei lavorare sulle cose piccole che possono in seguito maturare in cose grandi, o lavorare su cose progressivamente più grandi, o dividere il carico psicologico con i collaboratori. Non è un segno di debolezza dipendere da questi trucchi. Molti fra i lavori migliori sono stati fatti in questo modo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quando parlo con persone che sono riuscite a constringersi a lavorare sulle grandi cose, ho scoperto che tutti avevano tagliato le faccende, e che si sentivano colpevoli per averlo fatto. C'è più da fare di quanto chiunque potrebbe. Quindi chi svolge al meglio il proprio lavoro è inevitabile che lasci un sacco di faccende in sospeso. Sembra uno sbaglio sentirsi in colpa per questo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Penso che il modo per "risolvere" i problemi di procrastinazione sia lasciarsi tirare delicatamente al posto che fare una lista di cose da fare. Lavora su un progetto ambizioso che ti piace veramente, e naviga più attaccato al vento che puoi, e lascerai indietro le cose giuste.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grazie a Trevor Blackwell, Jessica Livingston, and Robert Morris per avere letto la bozza.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="poweredbyperformancing"&gt;powered by &lt;a href="http://performancing.com/firefox"&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-7445829406876422367?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/7445829406876422367/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13810683&amp;postID=7445829406876422367' title='5 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/7445829406876422367'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13810683/posts/default/7445829406876422367'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/2006/11/good-and-bad-procrastination.html' title='Good and Bad Procrastination'/><author><name>Decio Biavati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11835203845497500701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13810683.post-1586079928308212060</id><published>2006-11-20T00:31:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2006-11-20T00:34:55.948+01:00</updated><title type='text'>I like comics book</title><content type='html'>I like comics book very much. Please don't think about Spiderman (unless you refers to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraven%27s_Last_Hunt"&gt;Kraven's Last Hunt&lt;/a&gt;). Read &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen"&gt;Watchmen&lt;/a&gt; and come back to talk about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/7163/1685/1600/71476/Criminalcover_t.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/7163/1685/320/743436/Criminalcover_t.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="file:///Users/deciobiavati/Desktop/Criminalcover_t.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just read "Criminal", a comic book in five parts from the same creative team of "Sleeper". They tell a story about a Criminal mastermind who lives on petty theft until...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I loved the Robert Mitchum atmosphere (as stated by the author in #2), and the reference (involuntary?) to Chuck Palahniuk's "Choke" introducing a character (Donnie) who makes a life pretending epileptic seizures in the subway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://surebeatsworking.blogspot.com/"&gt;Blog of Sean Phillips&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="poweredbyperformancing"&gt;powered by &lt;a href="http://performancing.com/firefox"&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13810683-1586079928308212060?l=decio.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://decio.blogspot.com/feeds/1586079928308212060/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' 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type='text'>Output</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;a href='http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/11/the_top_ten_thi.html'&gt;How to Change the World: The Top Ten Things I Love Most About Woz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;#8: "He believes that your work/writing/code/design--whatever kind of output--is a personal reflection of your being and a window into your soul."&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;I love the concept of "output", not just something you make, but as net result of your everyday life.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;Another great post from &lt;a href='http://blog.guykawasaki.com'&gt;Guy Kawasaki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;&lt;p class='poweredbyperformancing'&gt;powered by &lt;a href='http://performancing.com/firefox'&gt;performancing firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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for parents, round #3</title><content type='html'>Educate to listening (&lt;a href="http://www.scuolagenitori.it/docenti/dw_35_2156_7547.html"&gt;Prof. M Baldini&lt;/a&gt;). [Italian version below]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nowadays no one listen to the other anymore. It's too difficult. Technology helps to talk, and impairs our listening skill. To listen is necessary a lot of silence (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer"&gt;Schopenhauer&lt;/a&gt;: in Berlin I cannot philosoph, because it's too noisy there - referring to crack of horsemen's whip). Brief digression about extraverbal communication (including several kind of silence) which should have been developed a bit more, IMHO. Today everything talks, the only defense is cut out the volume. To listen carefully (feastfully) I need time, which is the most missing wealth.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Two kind of people are the best (worst) unlisteners: the Peter Pan kind and the Narcissus kind. The latter being more nasty than the first, because listen just himself and speak &lt;u&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;big&gt;versus&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/u&gt; someone instead of speaking &lt;u&gt;&lt;i&gt;with&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/u&gt; someone. They reduce a dialogue to a series of monologues. You should understand the other brings her reasons: but for Narcissus there is no other, just a mirrored self.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Words spoken vs. words speaking: you should regain some authenticity, like poets and children, to give strength to your speech. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky"&gt;Dostoevsky&lt;/a&gt;: if your audience doesn't listen to you, it's your fault. Listen is a difficult task. Listen to a conference is even more difficult, because you cannot rewind. Brief meta-lecture on the lecture, and the art to listen to a lecture. Nice touch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How could I learn to listen? From living examples, like parents and teachers. Reaching a higher level of self consciousness. Stalking my unlistening tendency, finding what I don't like to hear (nor listen, of course). Publishing in a sincere mood my opinions, really thinking they could be different after someone's speech. Being sufficiently old to understand that none have The Truth.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Divorce happens when I think to be married to my fiancée, and I realize I am really to my wife, and in few years she will be my children's mother. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw"&gt;G.B.Shaw&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;small&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me."&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;Put in the other's shoes. That's what does a friend. And a seller. Speaking about daily routine, is surely more difficult, there a good chance you'll be boring.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;Don't forget to help your audience; speaking with short phrases sure will be helpful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;This lecture was very good. Prof. Baldini wants you to change your mental habits, therefore this was probably the most subversive lecture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BRB in three weeks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A grande richiesta*, questo articolo appare anche in versione italiana.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Educare all'ascolto (Prof. M Baldini). [English version above]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Al giorno d'oggi non si ascolta più. E' troppo difficile. La tecnologia ci aiuta a parlare, e blocca le nostre abilità di ascolto. Per ascoltare è necessario molto silenzio (&lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer"&gt;Schopenhauer&lt;/a&gt;: a Berlino non potevo filosofare, perché c'è troppo rumore - riferendosi al rumore delle frustate dei postiglioni). Segue una breve digressione sulla comunicazione extraverbale (inclusi diversi tipi di silenzio) che avrebbe dovuta essere sviluppata di più, a mio avviso. Oggi tutto parla, l'unica difesa è azzarare il volume. Per ascoltare con attenzione (in modo "festivo"), occorre tempo, che è la ricchezza di cui siamo più a corto.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I due tipi di persone sono i migliori (peggiori) inascoltanti: il tipo Peter Pan e il tipo Narciso. Quest'ultimo è il peggiore, perché ascolta solo se stesso e parla contro qualcuno anziché per qualcuno. Riducono i dialoghi ad una serie di monologhi. L'altro porta le sue ragioni: ma per Narciso non esiste l'altro, è solo un io riflesso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Parola parlata contro parola parlante: si deve recuperare autenticità, come i poeti e i bambini, per dare forza ai tuoi discorsi.  &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%ABdor_Mikhailovi%C4%8D_Dostoevskij"&gt;Dostoevsky&lt;/a&gt;: se il pubblico non ti ascolta, è colpa tua. Ascoltare è difficile. Ascoltare una lezione è ancora più difficile, perché non si può riavvolgere il nastro. Segue una meta-lezione sulla lezione e l'arte di seguire le lezioni. Bel tocco.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Come imparo ad ascoltare? Dagli esempi, genitori ed insegnanti. Raggiungendo un livello più elevato di autocoscienza. Stanando le mie tendenze all'inascolto, trovando ciò che non mi piace ascoltare (né sentire). Metterndo in ballo le proprie opinioni, pensando sinceramente che possano cambiare dopo l'intervento dell'altro. Essendo abbastanza vecchi per capire che nessuno possiede La Verità.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Il divorzio avviene quando penso di essere sposato con la mia fidanzata, finché non capisco di essere sposato a mia moglie, che fra pochi anni sarà la madre dei miei figli. &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw"&gt;G.B.Shaw&lt;/a&gt;: "L'unico uomo che si è comportato con passione è stato il mio sarto; infatti mi ha preso le misure da capo ogni volta, mentre gli altri usavano le vecchie e si aspettavano che funzionassero."&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mettersi nei panni altrui. Questo è ciò che fa un amico. E un venditore.  Parlare del quotidiano e molto difficile, ed è probabile che tu risulti noioso.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Non dimenticare di aiutare il tuo interlocutore; parlare per piccoli periodi e frasi corte certamente aiuta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;La lezione è stata molto buona. Il prof. 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