Travelling, and not Arriving

How I ended up on “Il sole 24 ore”

Well, on a supplement dedicated to Lombardia (an italian Region), actually; and there’s my photo, but not my name. However, Il sole 24 ore is still the most important italian economic newspaper, so I guess it can be considered a good news for a quite and sleepy Wednesday.
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Begijnhof, Amsterdam

Begijnhof, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Asus EEE pc: first impressions

I must confess I was waiting for January 24th since weeks. Today is in fact the official German release date of the Asus EEE pc, the new cheap (299 €) ultraportable laptop created by Asustek.
So this morning I headed to the local Galeria Kaufhof to pay my fee to become one of the first [...]

Noordwijk aan Zee

Noordwijk aan Zee, Netherlands, North Sea

Volkenkunde Museum, Leiden

On my way to Antwerp, I stopped for a day in Leiden, where I visited the Volkenkunde Museum. I’ll upload other pictures of the exposition here later this week.

Photoblog online

I’ve finally found some time to set up my photoblog; after experimenting with a good number of web photogalleries (and spending some too much time sketching up a rails prototype) I decided to use Wordpress, the same platform I’m using for this blog. In fact while Wordpress is not exactly developed for being a [...]

Lack of coffee

I saw this strip yesterday, printed on an abandoned sheet… and I couldn’t resist to find the original comic strip (thanks to Google Cache!)

Düsseldorf Worldcup

The FIS Ski Cross Country Worldcup started last weekend in Düsseldorf, along the Rhine river, at the remarkable elevation of 38 meters above the sealevel. Impossible? Check this Flickr photoset out!
For more informations:
Worldcup Düsseldorf

Upgrading stories

Nasty things happen, always on Friday….

1. I tried to upgrade my Ubuntu 7.04 to the latest and greatest Gusty Gibbon, but everything got messed up (ok, I’m not completely innocent, since I tried to enable Compiz effects on a blacklisted video card), and the computer was crashing every few minutes… eventually I backed up everything [...]

Holding Breath

(a lucky shot in Rome, last weekend… does anybody recognize the place? I can’t remember…)