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The man with the funny hat
Thatās what happens when you found your religion on the fact that [en:Pope|a Man] with a funny Hat is ELECTED āThe Representation of God and His Willing on Earthā: Watch CBS Videos Online Where his humanity is? Why he didnāt just stop, send away the guards and touched the hands of the āso faithfulā woman? Is this act REALLY the willing of God on Earth?
Where exactly?
Yesterday, 25th of December, President of Iran [en:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] broadcasted from Channel 4 a Christmas Speech for people of UK. Now, I could understand the āsurpriseā of receiving a āclassicalā Christmas Speech from a President of an Islamic and Middle Eastern country, while Queen Elisabeth the II was doing the same (Yes! The British Monarchy has an Official Channel on YouTube!). But, reading the full transcription and watching the video I canāt see where exactly Ahmadinejad was āoffensiveā or expressing his āfanatic anti-semitismā. I mean, we all know what he said during the last years, and how much he would like to send a couple of nuclear bombs on the Israeli army, but there is nothing of that in this message. (By the way, would it be that bad to kick the ass of the IsrAmericans? :-P ) Particular interesting to read is the article from BBC, āAhmadinejad show ācauses offenceāā, where different perspective and comments are reported, mostly from westerns. And the only thing I can see is that no one actually listened of what he said: westerns just assumed that he wants to kill Jews and Christians; while, actually, what he said is quite shareable and agreeable: changing just a couple of words it would easily be the Speech of the Pope!⦠Ehm⦠Mmm⦠Eee⦠Sorry, my mistake: the Pope will never send itās Greetings to Muslims! He will just send some Crusaders! Yes, seriously: itās actually a Positive and Good-Willing message. He just condemned the bullish and expansionisms of āsomeā countries, as something that Jesus will stand against, if he was on earth. Iām not supporting Ahmadinejad here: Iām simply highlighting how much our media (all of them) likes to control our perception of things, sometimes passing down to us just a surrogate (a POISONED SURROGATE) of the news. From my side, I just congratulate Channel 4 for doing this. Brave, Intelligent, Modern, Really Open-minded. Full video and transcript (both in english) follows. ...
Involuting Christianity
Once, in a very weird and dark nightmare, I read this letter from the Pope: My dear Christians, The World is changing and a wave of new corrupted culture is establishing a new, different, atheist moral. Please, donāt join the World in itās changing. Bear in mind that homosexuality is a Sin and an Abomination: Iām sure God is furious much more because of you loving your homosexual partner, than of the fact that you all are polluting the planet. So, please, stop bumping each other. Actually, I think would be way better if you were just raping your own sister! Being in this period of the year, bear in mind to destroy the Pagan beliefs of your kids: Santa Claus doesnāt exists. Only Jesus, with itās collection of miracles, and itās conception on the 8th of December and birth on the 25th of the same month, itās real. Like Adam and Eva. Sincerely, your Cultural and Religious Dictator Pope ...
Crisi Mondiale, Riforme Locali
Sono sceso dallāaereo il 16 Dicembre⦠e da allora sto monitorando, a modo mio, quello che sta succedendo in questo mio paese natio. Crisi Mondiale A sentire le radio e le TV "maggiori", l'[it:Italia] e' una specie di oasi felice in mezzo ad un [it:Europa], un [it:Mondo] in piena crisi Economica e Finanziaria. L'unico sentore della crisi ce lo danno con i commenti (tagliati e riadattati) dei cittadini per strade e centri commericali: Spenderò di meno per regali, li farò solo a parenti e amici stretti⦠ma il panettone/capretto/pandoro/cibo-usanza non mancherĆ Questo rincuora lāItaliano Medio. Gli fa pensare «⦠tutto sommato non va cosƬ maleā¦Ā». E questo diventa il leitmotiv. Poi però mi ricordo che allāaeroporto di [en:Stansted] ho comprato un bel numero speciale dellāEconomist, āThe World in 2009ā, e leggo. Leggo. Leggo. Non ci trovo traccia di ottimismo. Ma di sano āpessimismo riflessivoā. Non ci sono articoli fatalisti. Non ci sono dichiarazioni da fine millennio: solo coscienza che il 2009 non sarĆ un anno facile, e che i Leader di tutti i paesi devono intervenire ORA sulle economie per rallentare il più possibile la Spirale Recessica. ...
Granpa Luigi - Sorbillo's Pizza
Ladies and Gentleman, this is the BEST Pizza I have ever (EVER!) eaten in my whole life! This Pizzeria, Sorbillo, is a family with a long History of āpizzaioliā. From fathers to sons, they passed down the knowledge, the secrets of how to make the real Napolitan Pizza. Tonight I went there, completely unaware of where I was heading too: and I discovered the best pizza I have ever tried. This pizzeria also won the Prize of Best Pizza of the World! I donāt know in which year, but most probably they are still the best. ...
The Android is spreading all around
I was sure that is was just a matter of time, before we started to see Android spreading all around into every possible flavour of Mobile (only?) piece of hardware. It started when just the first versions of the SDK were out in the wild: people were ājustā recompiling the kernel, and boom! The magic was happening. That was a demonstration of really good and effective layering: just adapting the kernel to the hosting hardware was making it up and running. Now, with the source code available to everyone, the porting festival is becoming even larger, with small-medium company, as well as university guys, porting Android everywhere. ...
Finally! I updated my WordPress installation
Yes, I did it. Finally. It was on my todo-list since last year and I decided, in this moment of confusion and 100 things to do, to update. Why? Because Wordpress 2.7 was released recently, and I decided that I was ālate enoughā. Codename of this release? āColtraneā! Yes, like [en:John Coltrane] ;-) . Update: And this update comes from my iPhone! I can finally use the WordPress app.
Friends
Very True!
Thinking aloud about my Career
I donāt know exactly how to express whatās happening to me. I mean, to be quick, Iād say that āIām doing well with my Careerā. But thatās not my point here; and I donāt think you really care, do you? Plus, itād show how little humble Iām: not really helpful social and friend wise. ;-) ...