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?
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.
Caring about what?
I spent most of the last two days helping my mother after her cataract surgery so only yesterday evening I noticed the statement of our friend Carl-Henric Svanberg: as everyboby knows, he said that “We (BP) care about the small people”. Was it just a weak sentence of a non mother-tongue speaker? Perhaps, but even [...]
Chrome, don’t be hypocritical
Google describes the private browsing feature of Chrome as something useful (…) for times when you want to (…) plan surprises like gifts or birthdays Was this feature conceived to help the average user to hide their e-commerce browsing history? I really don’t think so. Their informal motto is “don’t be evil“: I’d change it [...]
Contemporary monsters
During a technical meeting, I was unlucky enough to hear this sentence: You can’t have both features: it’s like Linux’s blanket. Well honey, we have two severe mistakes here: first, it’s Linus not Linux, second, a “Linus’ blanket” is a transitional object and not a “blanket too short”. By the way, the “contributor” to such [...]
What do they use? :)
Don’t ask me why but I noticed the following JavaScript error message on the Microsoft website: the very same page doesn’t show any error with Firefox so I wonder what they use to debug their own website. :)
Counting down to its death
Though it has lost a 1% market share each month on average during the last year, this old bastard is not dead yet. It might go below 7% before the end of 2009: that’s my prediction. What’s yours?
SIP audioconference
I still haven’t found a SIP client that: supports audioconferencing; comes with a user-proof installer on Windows (yes, people need it); doesn’t bind the user to a given domain. Google Talk is too tricky and Ekiga exploded in my hands while trying it (on Windows, of course). :) Any hints?
They did it again
I remember an old sentence once read on IRC, many years ago: I don’t watch TV: one tube is enough. Nowadays, with LCDs widespread all around, even though there are not many tubes left I still don’t watch much TV. Yesterday, passing by a television set, I incidentally noticed a commercial advertising of a sore [...]
