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English
From the seashore (2)
A bilingual stammering.
(English)
Layers of memoirs as vanished civilizations. An epoch vanished in a late winter sea.
(Italian)
Strati di ricordi come civiltà scomparse. Scomparse un’epoca nel mare di un tardo inverno.
Long term growing languages
While last month TIOBE elected Go “language of the year for 2009″, I noticed that, according to their data, only the following languages of the top ten have a positive trend in the long period (2002 – 2009):
PHP;
C#;
Python;
JavaScript.
Writing, 22 years ago
Last December, Andreas asked the following question:
Were computers part of your childhood?
When I was 15 or 16, I wrote a few science fiction short stories, printed by a small book publisher. It was 1988/89 and the web didn’t exist then: I used to write by hand or with a mechanical typewriter. :)
Having published some short [...]
Spreading Kiva
Using the common “business as usual” models, someone might say that the global systemic crisis hit me too: well, I can still help people. :) A friend of mine invited me to join Kiva which is a very useful and interesting mashup website.
I’ve just loaned a few Euros to a small farmer in Bolivia: an [...]
Vittorio Perassi
(English)
I’m happy to announce that my son, Vittorio, was born on 2010-01-07 at 15:18 CET.
While he and his mother are doing well, I think I’ve finally found a good reason to live. :)
(Italiano)
Sono lieto di annunciare che mio figlio, Vittorio, è nato il 2010-01-07 alle 15:18 CET.
Mentre sia lui che sua madre stanno bene, io [...]
Requiem for the languages
It seems someone has estimated that half of the world’s languages will disappear in the next fifty years: “fifty percent in fifty years” sounds suspect to me.
As I heard from a British professor, we could see this phenomenon either as the triumph of the unimportant language spoken on an island close to the the shore [...]
XHTML Strict YouTube video snippet
This is just a short reminder for me and a note for you on how to write a valid XHTML strict snippet to insert a YouTube video.
<p>
<object id="video_o" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/JaJbDln7oGA" width="560" height="340">
<param id="video_p" name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JaJbDln7oGA" /><img src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JaJbDln7oGA" width="560" height="340" alt="titolo_video" />
[...]
Iomega Storcenter ix2
I’ve bought a Iomega Storcenter ix2 which should be a 1 TB NAS and even though it offers a good list of features, I’m sorry to say that I’m quite disappointed with it.
In the previous sentence, I wrote “should be” rather than “is” because its interface shows a warning like “second disk missing” so it [...]
MarkerClusterer clearMarkers bugfix
(This should be a crosspost written with Massimiliano)
It seems that MarkerClusterer has a bug, fixed with this patch (*) written by Massimiliano while we were hunting together for it on this application (now working fine): after the ajax submit and zooming out, the library was still displaying old clusters and markers, because, after destroying MarkerClusterer, [...]
Measuring 3G signal strength
Often I have to use my Huawei E176 (which I previously described) inside an area not so well covered by HSDPA signal: in order to increase the bandwith I can use, I bought a 5 dBi GPRS/UMTS antenna.
Does it work well? Answering is measuring. :)
Thanks to the very good list of AT commands written by [...]