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After the mactini, the macwheel: the generation of laptops with a single big button is here. Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard I think I keep the keyboard for now... :)

I've never been a great TV watcher when I was in Italy. Here in Germany I don't watch TV also because I don't understand German. But sometime I miss some Italian news shows, like Anno Zero. The public URLs are the followings: RAI 1 mms://212.162.68.163/prodtvr1 RAI 2 mms://212.162.68.163/prodtvr2 RAI 3 mms://212.162.68.163/prodtvr3 RaiSport+ mms://212.162.68.163/raisport+ Unfortunately the [...]

Last year our beloved politicians were discussing about a law that basically would make of all the Italian bloggers a people of undercover editors, making laws requiring the blogging activity and internet writing to be subject to state registration and taxation. Here's a fragment from an old article from Times Online: Recently, Italian lawmakers once [...]

Eight years ago... ...and today... True change. Hopefully :) Good luck Obama!

Did you know?     1 - x 3 = 1 3     1 - = 0.333... 3     0.333... x 3 = 0.999...     ...then...     0.999... = 1     Are you searching for the trick? Believe it or not, this demonstration is true. Maybe the old intel pentiums [...]

Colleague: I just got an email ... Title: "The blue wonder - and you can also f**k the girl next to the door" ... Content: some comments about the offer in subject .... ... The best thing about Vi is the safety of flying with autopilot, relaxing and without the necessity of worrying of that [...]

Today I booked a flight to Italy for this weekend with Lufthansa. At the beginning I checked without logging in, and I got a nice price (€251.00). Then I logged in with my miles & more account and I got an higher price (€327.00). I made some checks, and what I've understood is that the [...]

One centilliard is 10603. Much more than the number of atoms in the universe that is 1080... no, I'm not sure :roll:, I think it was looking much more smaller. We should add some mirrors. If you have more questions about the universe, remember that the answer is 42.

Let a=b, with a≠0 a=b a2=ab a2+a2=a2+ab 2a2-2ab=a2+ab-2ab 2a2-2ab=a2-ab 2(a2-ab)=1(a2-ab) 2=1 ...or... a=b ab=bb -ab=-bb a2-ab=a2-b2 a(a-b)=(a+b)(a-b) a=a+b a=a+a 1=2 Another nice one, with numers instead of letters 16=16 Reflexive property of "=" 4+12=16 From definition of "+" 4-12=16-24 Subtract 24 from both sides 4-12+9=16-24+9 Add 9 to both sides, completing squares (2-3)2=(4-3)2 Factor, rewriting [...]

A super drawing you can always reuse (to gain points with your boss): A joke I draw on a white board corner of a huge and impressive drawing. Unluckily there was only the red pen: multiple color charts are the key for the success in software architectures! (infact, I never seen a chart that doesn't [...]