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Sono sempre stati tra i miei “candies/sweets/cakes” preferiti (quando si tratta di cose piccole e veloci) (ovviamente, incomparabili ad un bel Baba’ ;) ). Il loro concentrato di cioccolata abbinata a Caffe’ o Nocciola e’ un “Marriage Made in Heaven”. Ma non sono qui per parlarvi di questo. Che sono un chiattone lo sapete gia’. Sono qui per parlare dell’ennesimo parto della mia mente malata circa la “Comparazione di Uomo e Donna”. O meglio, di quello che penso debbano essere Uomo e Donna per far si che le cose funzionino (si vede che ho il cuore nello zucchero? :-P ). ...

Cioe’, Saviano riceve la solidarieta’ dall’Ordine dei Giornalisti perche': […] ha aiutato anche l’informazione a capire meglio come la criminalità organizzata corrompa e devasti tante zone d’Italia. Dobbiamo a lui, come a Rosaria Capacchione, a Lirio Abbate, a Pino Maniàci, a Nino Amadore e ad altri giornalisti, una fondamentale opera di risveglio della coscienza civile. Le parole di Saviano prendono di mira stavolta anche le aree di contiguità e di compromissione con gli interessi della malavita presenti all’interno del giornalismo italiano. La nostra solidarietà - sottolineano -suonerebbe vuota e ipocrita se fingessimo di non averle lette: è del tutto evidente che chi è compromesso o anche solo distratto nei confronti della grande criminalità non ha diritto di cittadinanza nel mondo dell’informazione, che si propone invece obiettivi di tutt’altro segno, quelli della trasparenza e della denuncia […] ...

Today, 10th of September 2008, the final, complete, clock and anti-clock wise test of the Large Hadron Collider was a major success. The LHCis working and ready to start to “crash protons”… and probably blow up your (our all) mind ;) . 4.5K-1.9K: brrrrrrr Some interesting links (that are updated on a frequency of 15/30 minutes): LHC Cooldown Status - It shows the temperatures in the different sectors. While they were testing it was on an average of 1.9k!!! O_o ...

Some scientists working on the LHC at the Cern of Geneva had a cool idea to make people aware of “what” they are going to do. On the 10th of September there will be the First Beam (more info on the official website/blog), and I like the way they make sure people understand it’s NOT the end of the World. My personal answer to them is: Hey man, this shit is good! ;) ...

How can I say it without being unpolite with M$? … I simply can’t! [Original Source: melablog.it]

I don’t have an answer to this, it’s too early (we don’t even have a screenshot of it). But I strongly suggest to take a look a the Google Chrome Comic Book: a very new, fresh, funny and precise (!!!) way to introduce an incoming software. They discuss a lot of different topics: * Problems they wanted to solve * Performance * Process Isolation * Javascript VM and Performance * Sandboxing * Phishing and Malware * UI principles Very interesting. And, again, very innovative. Ah, the Rendering Engine they chosen is… WebKit (what a surprise!!! ;-) ) and… it’s fully open source. An early leaked screenshot follows. ...

In the last period I’m spending some time working with Google AppEngine: if you don’t know what is it, be ashamed! :P I would like to highlight a couple of interesting resources that can make the life of who works with this framework/hosting platform/cloud computing system easier: * [Google AppEngine Cookbook](http://appengine-cookbook.appspot.com/) with a lot of good recipe (there are few now, written by the Googlers, but I'm sure it's gona blow up soon) The App Gallery, with a lot of interesting applications already in production phase ...

Google finally announced the winners of the First Round of the Android Developer Challenges. There are 10 x $275,000 prizes and 10 x $100,000 prizes. $3,750,000 in prizes!!!. Not bad I must say. There are some pretty cool apps, with a very clean and nice UI: demonstration of the power and flexibility of the Android Graphical Widgets Framework. Take a look at them in the official gallery. Congratulations to the Winners!!!

About the news itself, I invite you to spend 2 minutes to read directly from the words of Eric Chu on the official blog. Said that, what is not defined yet (just the screenshot you see here) is Security. Better, what exactly they have in mind? Just put on the Market WHATEVER the developer will come with and leave to the final user the burden of reading, understanding and accepting/rejecting the application. Based on just some words written on a little screen? Words that sounds like C3PO? ...