Book

I was on the train to Portsmouth, and listening-reading the book “In the Plex”. In the Part 2 of the book, Chapter 2 if I recall correctly, the author is talking about Google and the Ocean project, what is later on going to be know as Google Books. The part that got me thinking is when Page, Brin and Mayer are trying to work out how actually they can scan the physical books, in a scalable manner. To the Googlers, hiring a lot of human beings and a lot of scanner didn’t look like a scalable solution at all! So they decided to work on their own scanner, using the hardware building expertise that years of Google Data Center made them acquire. ...

Un’altra piccola “perla” che dipinge Napoli come e’. Niente “romanzazioni” ne “stereotipizzazioni”: “Napule” cosi’ com’e’ per i Napoletani. Tristemente Bello. Bravo Andrej Longo.

I hope the Movie is better than the Book. It’s not a “bad book” in absolute values: it’s bad because it doesn’t follow it’s own logic. If you write the story of a man that, on the side of the age goes from Old to Young, and on the side of the body size goes from Small to Big… don’t screw everything because you need to close the book in a “strange but appealing way”. ...

I just read “The Metamorphosis”. And I liked it… until I reached the last page of it. Where I understood that Franz Kafka is an Idiot. First Edition Cover I like of course very much the quality and Franz is, out of any doubt, a great novelist… but I totally disagree with the message, the perspective and the conclusion of it. P.S. I read it with the great Stanza for iPhone.

Galeotto fu il Post e Chi lo lesse ;) [](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/InfernoInLondon)[Inferno in London](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/InfernoInLondon) Letto il primo capitolo: promette sorprese interessanti ;) .

Coca di fianco al mio MBP. Una mano agitata di troppo (e’ la mia natura, non ci posso fare niente). Una superficie di alluminio e plastica metallizzata… ricoperta interamente di friccicante coca. Spegnimento istantaneo automatico (ancora non so perche’, ma dalla velocita’ e l’immediatezza assumo sia presente un sensore water-proof). 1299 pound che salutano con la manina, insieme ad una quantita’ infinita di dati dal valore inestimabile. Iastemme di tutti i tipi. Richiesta di aiuto (prima in Italiano, poi in Inglese). 3 disperati che tentano di asciugare per salvare il salvabile. ...

[en:Andrew Tanenbaum] recently released the 3rd edition of Modern Operating Systems, and there is a brand new chapter about [en:Symbian OS]. Prof. Andrew Tanenbaum - Sexy, isn’t it? ;) I think that this is a reflection of the importance that Symbian OS has at present. This also means that more people will probably learn about Symbian OS as part of their university courses. Thanks for the interest Andy. I’ll buy it (or borrow from our library) very soon ;-) .