Painting the snow

Originally uploaded by ximilian

Walking towards the Coliseum (or Colosseum, or, frack me, call it as you wish), I was wondering how much snow there should be. Not too much. Therefore, no white Colosseum. Besides the jerks, that were throwing to the people snow balls (thank God there was a policeman), there was a cute blip of colours, too.
Black and white, but whit a touch of colourful rainbow.
And of course the snow at the Coliseum: could you imagine a more beautiful day?

Painting the snow is a post from: 'cipicchia!

Footprints

Originally uploaded by ximilian

Friday morning (last week), a great snowfall in Rome. Great, well, a little one.
Enough to cover the grass, the holes in the soil, and the dog’s little things.
A man crossed the garden and left a trace behind.
I came, I took a picture.

Footprints is a post from: 'cipicchia!

Few months ago, I pointed out this method to change the GDM login page background according your current background.

Now, the same author has changed a bit his great script: a debian package is now available!
Therefore, here there an update guide for achieving the automatic wallpaper change:

1. install wallpaper_tray
2. install xsplash-background-settings
3. done!

Remember to select the “Use Desktop Background” setting!

XSplash Settings Dialog

Automatic GDM background changer is a post from: 'cipicchia!

It seems Google finally discovered the hot water, and taken a new approach to China.
Well done! Yeah, as an activist at Amnesty International, and idealistic person, I’m very happy about this decision.
Of course, who dare to not be happy? But, reading twice this piece of news a question arises.
Where was Google in the past years? With its head under the sand? Maybe they were blind by the shining of waving things…
Human rights are denied all over the world. China is one of the top-most repressive free speech: people are tortured, the justice is unfair, there are arbitrary arrests and detentions.
Suddenly, Google is attacked by Chinese hacker and they discover that, maybe, something is wrong. Because of this accident, they are reconsidering their approach to China. Fine. “Not to be evil”, is your motto, and finally you understand that was bad bow your head for the Chinese money. Now, you have the opportunity to show to the world that the change is possible.
Please, do not stop by just this episode. Keep opening the Internet, everywhere. Keep the free speech, well, FREE!

And then, we will forgive you this late second thoughts…

Google un-censor China is a post from: 'cipicchia!

Può piacere o non piacere, ma Lorenzo per me è un grande!

Mettete le cuffie, alzate al massimo, chiudete gli occhi… e ascoltate…

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Baciami ancora is a post from: 'cipicchia!

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Rolling twisting jumping: parkour! sliding jumping twisting rolling (again)…. rolling twisting sliding cover me/uncover me JUMP!

Amazing papercraft by Serene Teh.

Parkour is a post from: 'cipicchia!

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Flickr is a post from: 'cipicchia!

One month ago, I stumbled upon a very interesting project: PostCrossing
Essentially, it is bookcrossing applied to postcards. What? Are you wondering what all these *crossing things are?
Well, try to click on the link above, or keep reading!

Bookcrossing is “the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise” (cit. by Wikipedia).
You read a book, you like/dislike it, you set it free in the wild, ready to be picked up by another potential reader. Cool isn’t it?

Well, postcrossing is the same concept applied to postcards: you send some postcards, you receive some postcards!
Beyond that, you request one or more addresses, the system randomly selects the addresses, then is up to you to send the postcards! Eventually, the more postcard you send, the more postcard you will receive!

I’m really addicted to stamps, postcards and postmark. Travelling around the world, I always send a postcard to me (this sounds weird, I know), with a fancy stamp, and a-not-so-fancy postcard, hoping in a cool postmark.
(Why I like so much postmark is another story… (please wait few days)…)

I just sent my first five postcards, and I’m looking forward to receive a postcard!

Happy postcrossing!

Crossing a postcard is a post from: 'cipicchia!

via XKCD

…and Happy Birthday to you! Doh! is a post from: 'cipicchia!

Merry Xmas… to youuuuuuuu!!! is a post from: 'cipicchia!