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Taipei 101: The tallest building in the world since 2004 This is my 101 days. Writing a post on the 100 (50 * 2) was just too obvious ;) A lot of things are changed, and a lot are still changing. My life is stable like an Elephant on the point of a needle. The Big City has giving a lot to my “maturation process” as Software Engineer, but it’s not just gold because it sparkle, is it? But it worth it. We come out of University thinking “we deserve the best”, but we don’t. At least, we don’t yet. I’m figuring out, every day much more clearly, that University is just a gym, and whatever we did there, it is just not enough for the business world. ...

There was once a man who had 2 horses, but he couldn’t tell them apart. So he cut the tail off one, but it didn’t work, because it grew again. So he cut the mane off one, but it didn’t work, because it grew again. Then he misured them, and he found that the black hourse was 4cm shorter than the white horse. -_- P.S. This “joke” was used (in an interesting teaching way) during my first lesson for the ESOL L1 course in the [en:Southwark College], just started today. P.P.S. I know: it’s a shame to have a course in Saturday, at 9:30, when you are supposed to sleep. But, what can I do?

From [en:Stephen_Fry|Wikipedia]: Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, writer, actor, novelist, filmmaker and television personality. The former comedy collaborator of [en:Hugh Laurie], he is also the host of the television panel game [en:QI]. I like this man. I discovered him thanks to Laurie, and reading and watching him I discovered that he is great on his own. Fry and his FryPhone (is not my idea: is him) ...

Update 2007-09-14: I re-listed it on eBay because they contacted me and said that I’ll receive my money for the 2 auction back. As usual, eBay has a great Customer Care (or, at least, this is my present and past experience about that). Update 2007-09-12: I sold it twice. Twice was a spoof/fake. :( A fake account on eBay bought it with the option “Buy Now”. Then he asked to me to send the product in Africa (Nigeria) and asked to me to pay with PayPal. In the beginning I thought it was strange… but with the money, I would sell also in Nicaragua. ...

Update 10th of Sep 2007: The name of the Restaurant is “Sig. Grilli - Ristorante Pizzeria” in 40 Goodge Street, London W1. I wrote a review about it in Italian ;) It was parked in Tottenham Court Road. We were just out of an Italian Restaurant (£25.00 each… for a beef steak and House’s Red Wine!!!)… when I saw it: It’s beautiful, isn’t it? The mythic [en:Volkswagen] [en:VW_Type_2|Type 2 (aka Transporter)]!!! Another one follow. ...

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 ;)

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! ...

Edit: Added a linkto the Google Group of the project of Mal about the sync-stuff. It’s name is PySync. Yesterday I went with a collegue (thank you Serage, particularly for the pictures ;) ) to this event that the Google’s London Office sort twice (or more?) a year. Google London Open Source Jam. I went for one main reason and other two minors (and… I didn’t know that the most important was another one ;)): The Topic To take a look to the Google Office in London (very very close to Victoria Station) Free Food (very nice pizza ;) ) (What’s the “main one” is up to you… :-D ). The Topic This time, our topic of interest is Mobile. Linux on phones JavaME vs JavaSE vs .NET CF vs Native Browser technologies: AJAX and Flash Building native apps that port to multiple architectures Open platforms (e.g. OpenMoko) Cross platform testing Making the most of mobile hardware (camera, voice, bluetooth, GPS, etc) Phone bling ...