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These are quick thoughts that just don’t fit a whole post…

Italian newspaper apologizes for missing links to UGC source (yay!)

In this post on the newspaper blog, Marco Pratellesi, chief editor at Corriere della Sera, apologizes for having published the gallery of the mysterious digital artist Paulthewineguy withoutEntre más poker online free compares mejor. link nor references. Babysteps, yet steps they are.

How to loose a game user

From Tateru Nino’s blog: Sorry, Portal. For nearly a half hour, you asked for wit and ingenuity. Then right near the end you started asking for reflexes. Sorry, I don’t actually have any of those. Guess I won’t be able to finish the story. A shame. Switching metaphor or required skillset half-way through a game [...]

An Italian tumble/side/bookmark-log

Just to start the new year diverging from my resolutions, I started playing a bit more with my tumble log. It’s (mainly) in Italian, and it’s turning out to have a good affordance for being an “inspiration” dump. Which is quite in conflict with how I mainly used this blog so far. Blimey. So this [...]

how broadband can help save the planet

Just a link to this article by Emily in SmartMobs that reports a study about how broadband access could spare the planet 1 billion tons of greenhouse gases. How would faster downloads and Web page loads curb the annual flow of globe-warming gases, and by how much? According to the report: – Telecommuting, a “zero [...]

Blinking in the fog

a bit disappointed for not being in Berlin, but a bit relieved for being here too. My Italian holidays are almost over, tomorrow I’ll fly back to London. My hometown this morning is already cloaked in mist, like it was forecasting in numb anticipation. I spent so little time clackering these days, I feel a [...]

privacy: oh-so 20th century

from SmartMobs: Part of the unease arises from the growing realisation that the legal foundation of privacy law is being rendered increasingly irrelevant. Ok, I’m not alone. And yes, mine was the “roughandnotpoliticallyscorrect” version.

iAble video out in the wild :)

Good old Babele posted a video (in Italian) of the iAble, the office suite totally controlled through eye tracking developed at SRLabs (the last Italian company I worked with before moving to the UK).

…with too much energy in their hands

Hat tip: Attivissimo

When Google doesn’t play nice

While helping out $prettybigUKnanopublisher in optimizing their visibility, I came across these odd guidelines for Google News: Display a three-digit number. The URL for each article must contain a unique number consisting of at least three digits. [...] If the only number in the article consists of an isolated four-digit number that resembles a year, [...]

CnC is now jQuery powered

Thanks for revamped work by Michael and the rest of the K2 theme team, finally this website too enjoys the bliss of the jQuery library for all interface sugar (namely search and interactive archive navigation). Thank you!

This work by Riccardo Cambiassi is licensed under a Attribution-Share Alike 3.0.