after witnessing the weakness of italian no-global movement, and the fake and rot behind it,
I’m really happy to witness the italian indymedia portal shut down
I might be sorry for the worldwide movement (although I am not), but the opportunism I’ve seen with the italian movement makes me angry at them.
by the way, I feel sorry for the true believers.
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niko sent me a youtube link to an advert for the Bug DNA Kit.
a kid’s game kit to develop and genetically modify your bugs.
pure genius marketing, as in some cases it might seem real.
the adverts are good quality ones, and funny.
how many people will believe this?
I’m not sure, but I assume many.
please check out the ads.
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…and my birthday too.
I love this kind of coincidences.
I feel geekly good in having my dates connected to something that has to do with my job.
The thing I’m mostly proud of about my bday, is that it was the same (quite some years later, though) as Charles Schultz: author of the peanuts
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…when they start registering it under other tld’s.
I’m quite proud of randomtype as a domain name, and I’m happy I got myself the .com before this dude tried.
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As many know, I’m from sunny italy, but left the place to move to amsterdam a few years ago.
I never post links to italian text news as this blog is mainly visited by english speaking people, plus my fields of interest gather more international users than italian ones.
Anyway…
I’m one of the angry ones, when it comes to italian law, taxation, behaviors and the vatican.
The italian government has little things to be proud of, one of them is the stupid privatization process which is going on for every institution.
Well, well…
When the national post service went private, there’s been quite a big change.
The private organization went so far to change some postcodes and add new ones, immediately removing the database of every postcode on the national territory.
Guess what… you can buy that database for a lot of bucks.
Oh… there’s more: the application is proprietary and windows only!
What a friggin’ bunch of morons!
I guess they deserve what the open community did:
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) thinks that this kind of information has to be public and available, so they released (thanks to the help of a few fellows) a SQL dump of the database.
As I’m quite sure the Dark Side will find a way to make it disappear, I’m going to link it as an available resource on randomtype.
Now tell me… Am I wrong in being so damn pissed off at what happens in my country?
Might revolution strike and defeat the Dark Side. (f**k’em all).
UPDATE:
maria created a nice online tool that uses the FSFE database to search for postcodes.
check it out
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I’ve taken this link from Make Magazine that Phil posted yesterday.
I’ll also allow (as permitted from the site’s licensing) a download as a mirror for the ebook.
the book is well written (as I can read on a few sample chapters) and quite useful for starters (I’ll always consider myself as one).
by Tony R. Kuphaldt, FEEE: Fundamentals of Electical Engineering and Electronics.
download and enjoy.
the .chm file can be easily read on windows but requires a CHM viewer on mac.
I use Chmox (free). download it from Chmox official sourceforge site.
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no words for this.
I think it’s quite self-explanatory.
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A new clueless attempt to shed panic amongst the Mac user community comes from a major anti-virus company.
This “demo virus” to demonstrate that the danger is “real” is an attempt to invite Mac users to waste their money on an anti-virus for the apple of their eyes.
I want to throw my two cents on this, and tell the sporadic rt() reader that I own
2 G5
1 12″ pbook
1 MacBook
1 Mac mini
all of them are connected to the internet almost 24/7 (except the laptops).
I’m a very active downloader and I like testing new software etc.
I never had virus issues on mac, and I can’t state the same for my only windows machine.
I invite everybody to read Rui Carmo’s little piece on the matter and check out his mac virus picture nonetheless.
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Limiteazero, my friends from milan, exhibit solo in brussels from november 12 to 26 november 2006.
Definitely worth a look at laptop orchestra, and it’s nice to go meet&greet silvio and paolo.
pass by if you’re in the neighborhood.
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My OCD makes me everything but an early adopter of technologies, then it comes with no surprise that I’m only now starting to use Ruby on Rails.
Mostly thanks to Rob Gaals from BlueAce, I bought a simple book on Rails (Ruby on Rails: up and running, O’Reilly) and started looking into it.
Having worked with more complex scripting languages like PHP, some Perl, ASP (youth mistakes) I still fail to understand how come things get so easy using Ruby on Rails.
The good side?
I’m loving it.
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