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I started. What? My “project” of learn how to write (serious) apps for Mac OS X. Using Cocoa. Details on the “official” page: Experiments with Cocoa. Cocoa Butter… What’s the first “experiment”? HiEuro!

I tried it from the first release, but I was disappointed because of the “heavyness” of the indexing process: all my apps seems to be like “yawning” at every interaction I did. But because I like Google (yes, I said! I like it!) I thought “why don’t give to it another chance?”. I read a post on the Official Google Mac Blog about the latest release (1.1.0.520 (8/31/2007)) and I simply installed it (not a classical Mac OS X installer, but we can forgive this…). ...

I went inside the store (www.halfords.com) to choose a Town&Trial Bike (also known as Touring Byke): just because I have to go around “a city”. But when I saw her I forgot about any “stupid-little-tiny-weels-bike” and just loved her at first sight! Apollo FS.26 SE Mens 20" Full Suspension Mountain Bike I’ll go to bring her with me on Sunday: we will go around London just for fun. I hope we will stay together forever. And that she will like my weight. And… ...

Tra le tante opportunità che offre la città di Londra, resto sempre più affascinata dalla cultura e dall’importanza che questo popolo riserva ai suoi “personaggi”, a coloro che legano il nome dell’Inghilterra alla propria fama, portandolo in tutto il mondo… uno di questi è [en:William Shakespeare]. Ebbene sulle rive del Tamigi, nel Bankside, si trova il teatro aperto nel 1997, dedicato al lavoro del novellista, nel quale vengono rappresentate le sue opere da diverse compagnie! Ma per ulteriori informazioni vi consiglio di dare un’occhiata al sito ufficiale dello Shakespeare’s Globe, che di sicuro riconoscerete in questo filmato. ...

Ma qui da me non ne vogliono sapere di dormire ;) “Sant’Antò, hè fatto sta buono ‘o figliu mio. Nun ‘me dj’ niente .. .. .. nunn’aggia potuto fa ‘a testiera a ‘o Bambiniello. Sulo chesto aggia potuto”. Facendo niente… ha fatto anche troppo per i miei gusti ;)

Ho dovuto attendere un bel pò ma alla fine ce l’ho fatta: ho finalmente potuto condividere (anche se solo in foto ed immagini) la gioia della Laurea di Grace. Alla fine si tratta di momenti, di attimi della vita di altre persone in cui “o ci sei, o non ci sei”. E, mancandoci, capisci bene l’importanza di tale differenza. L’importanza di essere lontano e distante fisicamente: condizione che implica, con il tempo, una distanza anche “mentale”. Non perché lo si voglia realmente, ma perché, “semplicemente”, la vita scorre, il tempo passa, le cose accadono… e tu sei dove sei. Tu sei chi sei. Tu sei CON chi sei. ...

Thanks God, now I can [en:iSync]!!! As someone probably remember, I switched from an [en:Nokia E70] to a [en:Sony Ericsson W950i]. In the beginning, it was not possible to synchronize my [en:iBook] with my new smarth-phone because of a “strange” implementation of the [en:SyncML] protocol on Sony Ericsson/UIQ 3.0 phones. A lot of people has tried to figure out how to do it (Google for it), failing! But now [en:Sony_Ericsson] has finally released the relative plugins: ...

> Title: Bella Ciao Singers: Modena City Ramblers A friend of mine, one that I’d have never expected something like that, has sent to me this email: I heard this song by mistake and i loved the music if you have time and if it is not ball breaking i want to ask you to translate it for me […] And then I replied: You choosen probably the “spinal cord” of the Italy. The FORGOTTEN spinal cord. What has joined us against Fascists + Nazists during the Second World War. The origin is not sure, but it comes from the Partigians, people in the middle-north of Italy that has fightened (and death) for the Freedom against Mussolini and his stupid idea of joining Nazists. Today, in every young knows it… but only very old man REALLY UNDERSTAND what it means. Not because of the words (they are few and simple) but because of the “carried message”, the “payload” of this song. Anyway, you can find a lot of translations here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_ciao Thanks for remembering me the “good part” of my beautiful country. ...

When I began this newexperience, during the BootCamp, a Teacher/Employee of Symbian, L.Simpson (yep, “Simpson” :-D ) said: Wellcome to the Big City!!! He was referring to the amount of code [en:Symbian OS] is made of. But I think it can be applied to everything here. The feeling of being part of something big. It is Frightful… but Fascinating and Stimulanting too. Actually, I’m (and I’ll be for a lot) “no one” here… but I see a lot of young guys like me doing important things. And this is the most stimulating thing: I Could! ...

Hi Guys. I’m part of a very little Gooooogle Group (only 5 members) discussing about an interesting project, PySync. I’ll not go in details (everything is in the “3” discussions inside the group), but some interesting ideas are “popping-out”. Share if you have something to.