Curiosity

Almost 5 weeks ago a collegues (and now friend) of mine was wondering about the name of “Champagne”: … Wines from the Champagne region were already known before medieval times. Churches owned vineyards, and monks produced wine for use in the sacrament of Eucharist. French kings were traditionally anointed in Reims. Champagne wine flowed as part of coronation festivities. Kings appreciated the still, light, and crisp wine, and offered it as an homage to other monarchs in Europe. In the 17th century, still wines of Champagne were the chosen wines for celebration in European countries. The English were the biggest consumers of Champagne wines, and drank a lot of sparkling wines. … ...

It’s the name of a very funny (and smart) campain of the “British Heart Foundation”, that wants to help any “over 50” (but why not also “under 50” ;-) ) to take “30 Minuts everyday” to do… something good for their hearts. The [en:British_Heart_Foundation|B.H.F.] has make a lot of funny ads (there are a lot of them everywhere here in London). My favourite? The answer could not be more obvious. ...

Here is a SmartSet on Zooomr. Do you like it? ;) I have GeoTagged them too ;)

I don’t know HOW but… I’m online. Someone, for my luckyness, doesn’t know the meaning of the words like “Security”, “Privacy”, “Protection”, “Encryption”, “Authorization”, “Identification”… It’s not a post, it’s only to say that “I’m not dead”: I have only little problems. I’m now a London Citizen (I live at the 253 of Horn Lane, near North Acton Tube Station) I’m a Graduate of the Symbian BootCamp codename “Donatello” ...

Matrix Consulting (www.matrixconsulting.it) cerca grafici e programmatori per creare un team affiatato per espandersi nel mondo del multimedia (siti, presentazioni, videogiochi, spot). Gradita esperienza web e conoscenza dei principali linguaggi di programmazione (Java, C++, ActionScript, ASP, PHP, ecc…). Per i grafici è necessaria un’infarinatura di grafica vettoriale. Cerchiamo personale di tutti i livelli di esperienza sia tirocinanti che professionisti. Se sei interessato, Manda il curriculum ad antonio.clemente@matrixconsulting.it.

Post of April the 3rd, 2007 (today) taken by the WordPress.org official blog: WordPress 2.1.3 and 2.0.10 By Matt. Filed under Security, Releases. We have a security update release now available for both the 2.1 and 2.0 branches of WordPress now available for immediate download. This update is highly recommend for all users of both branches. These releases include fixes for several publicly known minor XSS issues, one major XML-RPC issue, and a proactive full sweep of the WordPress codebase to protect against future problems. Many thanks to Sumit Siddharth and Alex Concha for their help with reporting issues in this release. As an update to the systems issue we had last month, we have taken dozens of additional precautions with the servers and systems that run WordPress.org and they appear to be working well, despite hundreds of hack attempts after we publicly disclosed there had been a problem. We are also now aggressively monitoring all downloads for any changes or modifications, and we are confident the same type of problem won’t happen again. ...

Every (almost) web site is say the same thing: today is a big day for the freedom (of the music and the customers). The Jobs’s tought is now reality. [en:EMI] (in the person of the CEO, Eric Nicoli) and [en:Steve_Jobs|Jobs], in a live blogging on Engadget, announce that, starting on May 2007, iTunes (and, probably, any other EMI music reseller) will sell music without any DRM. Details can be found on: ...

Thanks to tv|blog I have disclosed that [en:Hugh Laurie] is ALSO a novel author. On 1996, Hugh has written [en:The Gun Seller]: The Gun Seller (1996) is Hugh Laurie’s first, and to date only, novel. It concerns former Scots Guards officer Thomas Lang and his reluctant involvement in a conspiracy involving international arms dealers, terrorists, the CIA, the MOD, beautiful women and fast motorcycles. Wary of becoming another “celebrity author”, Laurie initially submitted his manuscript pseudonymously, only revealing his identity after it had been accepted for publication and was persuaded by his publicist to publish the book under his real name for the sake of publicity. ...

My side? [en:Optimus Prime] (also known as [en:Optimus Primal]), of course!

Con piacere segnalo un bellissimo “sunto ragionato” di Alhandra sul [it:Berlusconi|Nano di Arcore]. Riporto il mio commento sul suo blog: Applaudo. Un sunto “veloce” ma per nulla “superficiale”. Sono cose che, personalmente, ho letto e straletto… ma non fa mai male ripassarsele. Per ricordare. Per “non smettere di sapere”. Ed in particolare, concordo con l’ultima frase: «… finchè l’expremier avrà potere non ci potrà mai essere giustizia!!!»