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Nvidia today left me wordless! They are jumping in the mobile, smartphone and netbook market in a very “noisy” way. The NVIDIA® Tegra™ family of computers-on-a-chip, brings the power of advanced visual computing to a broad range of handheld and mobile platforms—from phones, MP3 players, and portable navigation devices (PNDs) to mobile internet devices (MIDs). NVIDIA Tegra enables intuitive user interfaces and advanced multimedia features, all while delivering longer battery life. ...

I strongly suggest to see this documentary. It will help people understand a lot of things about “how” things actually works in the [en:World Economy], why we trade Money and… why [en:USA] holds in its hands the balls of the World Economy. Or, doesn’t it? The Day of the Dollar Roel van Broekhoven (Backlight 2005) The documentary is in [en:Dutch] with English subtitles.

[](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/RaguGnocchiMeatballsAndMoreMakingOf#)[Ragu', Gnocchi, Meatballs and more: Making of...](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/RaguGnocchiMeatballsAndMoreMakingOf#) All fruit of my hard work ;) Enjoy… the pictures, while we enjoyed the food! :P

Title: Housemade Music in Oxford Circus Abstract: Great, Talented artists, express themselves using just “common stuff”. I met those guys a week ago at Oxford Circus, while I was with my Bro’. They are really really good!

As I said, I’m doing some stuff with Google AppEngine. And, of course, I’m facing the usual problem of Browser Incompatibility: Browser Incompatibility ;-) =Browser Incompatibilities: the Most Common Problem= The most common problem for Web Site developers is the fact that every browser treats HTML Tags, CSS and Javascript in it’s own way. This Recipe tries to address one of the problem I faced the most: having a slightly different CSS for every Browser. =The Usual Solution= The usual solution is to load every time a different CSS depending on the Browser. But this solution has some side effects: ...

I know I’ll now have some problems for posting this, but I can’t deny that it is VERY FUNNY!!! It’s a blog, with daily comic-strips about a very particular “couple”: Jesus and Mohammed. The blog is entitled: Jesus and Mo. I was unable to find the name of the author (what a surprise), but I really don’t care. Is he American, Saudi, Egyptian, Iraqi, Thai, Chinese or Napolitan? I really don’t care, as long as the strips are smart and funny. ...

That was pretty exciting. A free, big, enlightening event about the “Google Stuff”… Ok, ok. Who spoke with me here knows that it was NOT so enlightening: most of the knowledge they brought from USA is and was already available on the web. But that’s probably not the point. The point is, I believe, to share. Share the culture, the vision and… the APIs. The Venue: Wembley Stadium!!! I went there for mainly two topics: Android and AppEngine. About Android, the presenter, Mike Jennings, was very funny (and you will see him as the second presenter in the video below) and a “great character”. But his knowledge of the Platform was pretty basic. I believe he sort of Project Manager or something like that. Plus, in the second part they invited to do a “technical talk about the SDK” a guy, Carl-Gustaf Harroch. He is developing an application that involves a bit of LBS (Location Based Services) and some Google Maps. Ok nice, but he straggled quite soon with our questions about… almost everything of the SDK. And, yes, I was quite bastard with my own questions. Come one: how can you do a talk like that without even knowing “enough” what is the meaning of the Tags within the AndroidManifest.xml? He was even quite young and not very confident, and he was unable to introduce the basic concepts before talking about more complex and in deep stuff. At the end, quite disappointing session, I must say. Probably, I knew more about it :-P . The USB freebie ;) About AppEngine, I went to a “CodeLab”: a session where you are supposed to code. And I did, focusing more on my own Python code. They were available for help and questions, either about the application they proposed to build, or about your own. “In chair”, Mano Marks: confident. Probably too confident. But, at the end, he was helpful, even if an answer or two where quite “upsetting” (I mean: if I ask a question about something you don’t know, and I tell you that you are wrong, don’t be arrogant and confident; wait and see my proof!!!). Now, let’s see the Keynote: ...

Deadly Funny!!! [Original Source: Zein’s Blog]

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 […] ...