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Rainman

This is how I’m dressed when it rains… well, it pours, for days like it happened last week. I hope that now winter is over and we will get only light spring showers. I can stand those, without having to wear the full swim suit

PS The picture was taken by my colleague Andrea in the school’s corridor.

PPS the pic was taken on Monday, the day of the election of the new government. It was raining. We have a saying in Italian about rain and government. Coincidence? (Very rough translation: It rains, government thief).

Only real hackers consider improving what everybody else thinks is already optimal. At Funambol we like to do just that and we decided to improve the iPhone user interface:

Funambol, the company that is known for putting the “fun” back in the mobile business, today released a high contrast user interface for the widely used iPhone, making it more fun to use and more accessible to select customers.

Read the rest of the press release with the working screenshots on Funambol for iPhone.

This Wordpress needed some maintainance, but this time instead of upgrading ‘manually’ I decided to use the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin: boy, it was fast and simple. It seems to be working fine.  If you spot any glitches let me know. Now for me it’s time to go play with the RC minihelicopter and away from computers.

Tomorrow I’ll meet Hal in person for the first time at Malpensa while he is flying to Barcelona for the MWC: I’ll take pictures

Some months ago, during a boring train trip, I plaid iwth famous Janis Joplin’s song Oh lord (Mercedes Benz). Here is the outcome, I hope you like it:

Oh lord, would you teach me to hack gcc
my friends all can do it, I should know that too
please send Mike to my home to help debug routines
so lord would you teach me to hack gcc

Oh lord, would buy me a highdef tv
but please all I want is to be drm-free
no word from the major can stop that to be
so lord would you buy me that highdef tv

Oh lord would you buy me a server machine
my rack is now empty, I need few bogomips
I have plenty of bandwith to suit all my needs
so lord would you buy me a server machine

Oh lord would you bring us GNOME version 3
we need it for desktops to be bug-free
all other annoyances can stay with MS win
so lord would you bring us GNOME version 3

Oh lord would you fix us a perfect GPL3
Linus is angry, and so is HP
we’ll wait for delivery at home until 3
so lord would you fix us a perfect GPL3

If you don’t remember the original song listen to it on youtube.

Buon Natale

Visto che mi è stato chiesto, approfitto e rispondo alle domande di Alessio:

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