Altri 100 Watt :)
Qualche tempo fa scrissi un post con alcune osservazioni sul libro “Cento Watt per il prossimo miliardo di anni”. Gli autori mi hanno risposto: sono ben felice di riportare qui i loro chiarimenti alle mie osservazioni. Escludendo la seconda delle tre parti, non ho nulla da aggiungere a quanto da loro scritto e voglio ringraziarli [...]
Greatest solar tracker
A friend and business partner owns what is supposed to be (AFAIK) the greatest solar tracking photovoltaic plant of the world (35 kWp)… or – at least – a very big beast! He doesn’t have either a blog or a website so I took a picture of the structure and, although we are also involved [...]
When Moses went down
An old joke I’m not able to find on the Internet anymore: What kind of transport did Moses use to come down from Mount Sinai? The Holy Bible says he came down with his Triumph. I can’t stop thinking of Moses as a rider… like “The Lone Biker of the Apocalypse” in Raising Arizona but [...]
Notes about TPCI 2008-12
The TPCI December Headline is C and C++ Candidates Programming Language of 2008 The return of these two old lions might be read as a side effect of the current crisis. I mean, are the “two zero” gears all behind us? Are we getting back to critical coding?
Vim: Hall of honour
Again I’m (…) living through that time of the year when many people around me are going to celebrate the birth of the son of a god in whom they “believe” and even atheists and the like are doing their best to be better. :) I’ve just done something I should have done many years [...]
flv and XHTML
There are many pages explaining how to show a flv video inside a XHTML page but it’s very hard to find a page explaining how to do it in a clean way (I mean without making your code dirty with GET parameters and alike). Thanks to DVDVideoSoft I’ve found the way to embed a flv [...]
Underlying connections
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849); Jack London (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916); Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 — July 2, 1961); Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969). Four American great masters of writing who have influenced me so much. Well, I’ve never realized they [...]
