JPA (JSON Partners Agenda)
Having gone through partial or outdated documentation, buggy examples and many forums, I’m now ready to release my first Android application. :) It is on GitHub, not on the Android Market, though. JPA (JSON Partners Agenda) displays partners’ details of a given company, fetching them as a JSON array like this one. [ { "company":"", [...]
Wives and numbers
An online friend, tired of being single, wrote to me this saying I’ve never heard before: A life without a wife is like fifty without five I completed it writing the following short funny poem. :) A life without a wife is like fifty without five… but even being marri-ed you didn’t get hundr-ed
A few WikiEuros :)
After having read, learnt and linked its pages many times for so many years, I’ve just donated a few (Wiki)Euros to Wikimedia Foundation. :)
The File system I’m looking for
Though it’s for a small project, I’m looking for a free software, distributed, fault tolerant (ideally without Single Points of failure), mature, POSIX compliant file system (such a long requirements list, I know). There are not so many projects with those features; this is my candidates list and I hope I didn’t leave out anyone [...]
Blog Action Day: water
Having registered this website on the Blog Action Day, I’ll try to write here some notes about water and I’m going to be brief: I’ve never seen two men fighting for an uncooked potato and I wish I could end my days without such a scene in my memory; most farmland here has been turned [...]
Vacche e rinoceronti
Indifferente a ogni teoria urbanistica, il Sudan si appresta a costruire una città a forma di rinoceronte; più modestamente, sul finire dell’estate, il Sindaco del mio Comune ha fatto piazzare una vacca in vetroresina (a grandezza naturale) all’interno di una nuova rotatoria: “animale scelto d’accordo con gli agricoltori della zona”, si è giustificato con chi [...]
Time to leave
They can’t wait for the {night, weekend, holidays, retirement} to begin. Are they waiting for their own death too?
Giacomo Segre
Centoquaranta anni fa oggi, Pio IX minacciò di scomunica chi avesse aperto il fuoco verso le mura di Roma: forse per questo Cadorna diede l’ordine al Capitano Giacomo Segre di far azionare la propria batteria di cannoni. Come si può capire dal cognome, Segre era ebreo e della scomunica del Papa non credo avesse molto [...]
Renewables won’t push the bad guys out
Someone thinks that a world with its entire energy needs completely satisfied by renewable sources would eventually become an only good people place: what a naive and irrational fallacy! Technology doesn’t change us that much.
