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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/atom10full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" gd:etag="W/&quot;A0AGQXc6eip7ImA9WhRUGUQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165360</id><updated>2012-01-31T09:48:40.912+01:00</updated><category term="knetwalk" /><category term="travaglio" /><category term="floss" /><category term="copyright" /><category term="manifestazione 8 luglio roma" /><category term="ita" /><category term="society" /><category term="Free Burma" /><category term="real life" /><category term="politics" /><category term="kbreakout" /><category term="di pietro" /><category term="kdegames" /><category term="politica" /><category term="copyleft" /><category term="kde" /><category term="ksquares" /><title>nimatar</title><subtitle type="html">Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.</subtitle><link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://nimatar.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://nimatar.blogspot.com/" /><link rel="next" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false&amp;v=2" /><author><name>Fela Winkelmolen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-PjlWf8Z_zTI/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAACLw/o-0OF_26c6M/s512-c/photo.jpg" /></author><generator version="7.00" uri="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>43</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/nimatar" /><feedburner:info uri="nimatar" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;D0QHSH0-fip7ImA9WhZaFUk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165360.post-7689498379140151451</id><published>2011-06-11T12:11:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2011-07-01T20:35:39.356+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-07-01T20:35:39.356+02:00</app:edited><title>Nucleare</title><content type="html">&lt;div&gt;Non ho tempo per un'analisi approfondita quanto vorrei, però provo a dare alcuni spunti su cui riflettere.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(Messaggio promozionale: tutti a votare, mi raccomando!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pensare al nucleare significa pensare al lungo periodo. Nel lungo periodo le fonti fossili non saranno più un'opzione.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Per cui: dovremo prima o poi disintossicarsi dalla dipendenza del petrolio, in un modo o nell'altro.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Le alternative più promettenti sembrano il rinovabile e il nucleare.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Credo che un incidente importante ogni paio di decenni e il problema delle scorie, in realtà, siano quasi insignificati in confronto alle devastazioni giornaliere messe in atto dalla nostra specie.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Però non ci sono scuse per come gestiamo le scorie. Ancora non sappiamo cosa fare con quelle provenienti dalle centrali chiuse nell'87.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Esempio: lo tsunami del 2004 riversò numerosi fusti di scorie nucleari sulla costa somala. 300 morti sul momento, e chissà quanti in seguito. La criminalità organizzata italiana da sempre usa quelle acque come discarica abusiva. Questo è solo un esempio che mostra l'irresponsabilità dell'uomo. Credo che l'essere umano non sia abbastanza maturo per il giocattolo del nucleare.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Non mi sembra che il nucleare sia così conveniente economicamente come alcuni vogliono far credere. Allo stato attuale le rinovabili hanno un costo che va da circa uguale a circa il doppio del nucleare. Costi che continuano a diminuire.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Con la differenza che con il nucleare bisogna spendere tutto subito.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nessuna azienda sana di mente investirebbe i propri soldi sul nucleare, se non che è lo stato a anticipare tutta la spesa.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Questo perché attivandosi ora vedremmo le prime centrali tra dieci anni e prima di esserci rifatti degli investimenti iniziali saranno passati altri decenni.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nel frattempo può succedere di tutto. Dai cittadini che chiudono le centrali con un referendum, alla scoperta di metodi più efficienti per produrre energia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Non sono un economista, ma continuo a non capire come possa essere saggio economicamente puntare sul nucleare.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Di quattro o cinque centrali non ce ne facciamo niente. Perché abbia senso ne servono svariate decine (vedere la Francia): se intanto buona parte del fabbisogno energetico verrà da fonti rinnovabili tanto vale usare solo quelle, o no?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Quando lo stato fa finanziamenti così grossi a multinazionali private tendo a essere sempre sospettoso.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Invece di investire decine di miliardi di soldi statali nel nucleare, investiamo nella ricerca. Sono convinto che si possa fare molto meglio del nucleare.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Buon referendum!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13165360-7689498379140151451?l=nimatar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nimatar/~4/pKzuix6xsCo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://nimatar.blogspot.com/feeds/7689498379140151451/comments/default" title="Commenti sul post" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13165360&amp;postID=7689498379140151451" title="1 Commenti" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/7689498379140151451?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/7689498379140151451?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nimatar/~3/pKzuix6xsCo/nucleare.html" title="Nucleare" /><author><name>Fela Winkelmolen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://nimatar.blogspot.com/2011/06/nucleare.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0MNQXg6fip7ImA9WhZREko.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165360.post-9056674303531404673</id><published>2011-04-07T20:27:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-08T18:18:10.616+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-04-08T18:18:10.616+02:00</app:edited><title>via</title><content type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;osservo la strada &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;impercorribile &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;per ciò che vorrei &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;indivisibile &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;so che mi attendono&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;altre vie &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ma le mie gambe &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;son restie &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;rimane il ricordo &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;incancellabile &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;per quanto il sogno &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;sia inafferrabile &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;guardo al passato &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ma ho solo il futuro &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;devo girarmi &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;e tenere duro &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13165360-9056674303531404673?l=nimatar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nimatar/~4/DBa9B00fyOc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://nimatar.blogspot.com/feeds/9056674303531404673/comments/default" title="Commenti sul post" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13165360&amp;postID=9056674303531404673" title="0 Commenti" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/9056674303531404673?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/9056674303531404673?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nimatar/~3/DBa9B00fyOc/via.html" title="via" /><author><name>Fela Winkelmolen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://nimatar.blogspot.com/2011/04/via.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEENRHc-cSp7ImA9WhZREU0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165360.post-4235075964271380036</id><published>2011-04-05T11:33:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-06T18:18:15.959+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-04-06T18:18:15.959+02:00</app:edited><title>10 ragioni per vivere (da un'idea di Roberto Saviano)</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="background-color: transparent; "&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; "&gt;i temporali, le gocce che si infrangono sulla tua pelle, il profumo di bagnato sotto il sole che spunta &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; "&gt;lottare contro la natura, nella natura, ma in realtà poi essere un tutt’uno con essa &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; "&gt;le stelle &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; "&gt;il sorriso sincero delle persone &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; "&gt;continuare a sciare, anche dopo essersi rotto il polso, mai fermarsi &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; "&gt;l’amicizia e l’affetto &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; "&gt;uno sconosciuto che ti aiuta &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; "&gt;aiutare uno sconosciuto &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; "&gt;soddisfare la propria sete di conoscenza e imparare a conoscere il mondo, la natura e le persone &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; "&gt;cercare 10 ragioni per cui valga la pena vivere e trovarle &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13165360-4235075964271380036?l=nimatar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nimatar/~4/D-BaJ9aObDE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://nimatar.blogspot.com/feeds/4235075964271380036/comments/default" title="Commenti sul post" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13165360&amp;postID=4235075964271380036" title="0 Commenti" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/4235075964271380036?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/4235075964271380036?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nimatar/~3/D-BaJ9aObDE/10-ragioni-per-vivere-da-unidea-di.html" title="10 ragioni per vivere (da un'idea di Roberto Saviano)" /><author><name>Fela Winkelmolen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://nimatar.blogspot.com/2011/04/10-ragioni-per-vivere-da-unidea-di.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUYHQH4-fyp7ImA9Wx9QFE4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165360.post-4175137483556723833</id><published>2010-12-26T22:39:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-27T09:05:31.057+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2010-12-27T09:05:31.057+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="politica" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="copyright" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="copyleft" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="society" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="ita" /><title>Copyright nel 21esimo secolo</title><content type="html">&lt;i&gt;In &lt;a href="http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2010/12/26/musica-non-ce-piu-bisogno-della-pirateria/83715/"&gt;un’articolo&lt;/a&gt; pubblicato in prima pagina su &lt;a href="http://ilfattoquotidiano.it/"&gt;ilfattoquotidiano.it&lt;/a&gt; Federico Mello descrive i cambiamenti recenti all’interno dell’industria discografica, suggerendo che le attuali modalità di distribuzione e i prezzi bassi renderebbero, contrariamente a 10 anni fa, la “pirateria” ingiustificata. Seguono i miei pensieri basati su &lt;a href="http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2010/12/26/musica-non-ce-piu-bisogno-della-pirateria/83715/comment-page-3/#comment-1359605"&gt;un commento&lt;/a&gt; che ho fatto all’articolo.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nell’ambito della codivisione di file, il punto cruciale che spesso non viene colto è l’assoluta arretratezza e inadeguatezza dell’attuale normativa sul copyright. La quale non fa assolutamente gli interessi della collettività, &lt;a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/02/contextualizing-the-copyright-debate-reward-vs-creativity.ars"&gt;come dovrebbe&lt;/a&gt; e come probabilmente faceva un tempo: fino all’800 violare il copyright significava possedere una tipografia che stampava materiale di cui non si avevano i diritti (c’è poi da dire che le prime leggi in materia sono nate per ragioni assai meno nobili, ma questo è un’altra storia...). Sta di fatto che ora il copyright fa invece quasi esclusivamente gli interessi delle multinazionali dell’entertainment e di pochissimi artisti che di certo non rischiano di morire di fame.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Diritti esclusivi per 70 anni (negli Stati Uniti 70 anni dopo la morte dell’artista) sono un lasso di tempo ridicolo. È davvero raro che i piccoli artisti, quelli per i quali è più importante assicurare un ritorno di investimento, riescano a guadagnare qualcosa dalle loro creazioni per più di una decina d'anni.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La metafora del furto non funziona. Se io ti rubo una mela, te non la hai più. Se io invece ti “rubo” una canzone, la abbiamo entrambi, non è una cosa fantastica?! Dicono che rubiamo un possibile profitto all’artista, il che, in particolare per piccoli artisti, potrebbe non essere così vero (diventando più conosciuto potrebbe finire per guadagnarci). Ma soprattutto, chi lo dice che colui che ha creato un’opera d’arte ha moralmente diritto a una ricompenza ogni volta che qualcuno ne usufruisce, e quanto dovrebbe essere questa ricompensa? quanto vuole lui? o altrimenti chi lo decide? Se io racconto a delle persone una storia che mi sono inventato, posso arrabbiarmi se loro la raccontano ad altri?! Sono convinto che non può esserci una &lt;a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/12/uk-ignores-logic-backs-20-year-music-copyright-extension.ars"&gt;regola morale&lt;/a&gt; assoluta e in questo caso il principio guida dovrebbe essere di fare ciò che più giova alla collettività. E, nel dubbio, lasciare una maggiore libertà, perché sia ben chiaro, il copyright è una limitazione abbastanza arbitraria alla libertà personale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Non voglio affermare che eliminare tout court ogni forma di copyright sarebbe la soluzione migliore, anche se a mio avviso  la società nell'insieme &lt;a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2006/11/8292.ars"&gt;ne guadagnerebbe&lt;/a&gt; rispetto al sistema attuale, senza limitare poi tanto l’esistenza e la creazione di contenuti (o almeno questo vale per quanto riguarda contenuti principalmente ludici, non avere una minima forma di copyright per esempio per giornali o libri di testo potrebbe creare qualche problema). Ma per esempio limitare il copyright (non il diritto d’autore che è una cosa diversa) a 10 anni, permetterebbe a chiunque di ottenere guadagni più che sufficienti, e chi è disposto ad aspettare avrebbe un mondo da guadagnarci.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un mio consiglio: se volete finanziare i musicisti che vi stanno a cuore andate ai loro concerti!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13165360-4175137483556723833?l=nimatar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nimatar/~4/FPUIW6jS80g" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://nimatar.blogspot.com/feeds/4175137483556723833/comments/default" title="Commenti sul post" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13165360&amp;postID=4175137483556723833" title="0 Commenti" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/4175137483556723833?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/4175137483556723833?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nimatar/~3/FPUIW6jS80g/copyright-nel-21esimo-secolo.html" title="Copyright nel 21esimo secolo" /><author><name>Fela Winkelmolen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://nimatar.blogspot.com/2010/12/copyright-nel-21esimo-secolo.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;Ak4MR307eSp7ImA9WhZREUU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165360.post-3831207421868034543</id><published>2010-12-20T15:52:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-04-07T17:09:46.301+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-04-07T17:09:46.301+02:00</app:edited><title>dove va la neve? (parte II)</title><content type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;forse prima o poi &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;la neve è destinata a tornare &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;la poesia a riprendersi il paesaggio &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;e le persone a sognare &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;i fiocchi riportano in vita &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;speranze lungamente assopite &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;il riso rieccheggia nelle valli e nelle anime &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;e le persone vengono riunite &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;con i sogni &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;si costruiscono castelli &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;troppo alti &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;e troppo belli &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;i primi scricchiolii &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;vengono ignorati &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;i primi squarci &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;con un po' di apprensione, osservati &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ma la valanga &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;è in agguato &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;e la tempesta &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ti coglie impreparato &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;il gelo nell'aria &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;diventa gelo nel cuore &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;il sogno che ti dava forza &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;una speranza che muore &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;nel silenzio incerto &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;che ha succeduto alla tempesta &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;un vago ricordo del fuoco che è stato &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;è tutto ciò che resta&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13165360-3831207421868034543?l=nimatar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nimatar/~4/rWRUQULD21Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://nimatar.blogspot.com/feeds/3831207421868034543/comments/default" title="Commenti sul post" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13165360&amp;postID=3831207421868034543" title="0 Commenti" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/3831207421868034543?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/3831207421868034543?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nimatar/~3/rWRUQULD21Q/dove-va-la-neve-parte-ii.html" title="dove va la neve? (parte II)" /><author><name>Fela Winkelmolen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://nimatar.blogspot.com/2010/12/dove-va-la-neve-parte-ii.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DkcFRHk9fCp7ImA9Wx5QFUk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165360.post-8251475318118925517</id><published>2010-09-03T21:35:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-03T22:00:15.764+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2010-09-03T22:00:15.764+02:00</app:edited><title>Ruby Summer of Code, End</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://rubysoc.org/"&gt;Ruby Summer of Code&lt;/a&gt; has come to an end. We want 1.0 of &lt;a href="http://hackety-hack.com/"&gt;Hackety Hack&lt;/a&gt; to be really polished and ready, so on Whyday we decided to release just a prerelease version, it can be downloaded from &lt;a href="http://github.com/hacketyhack/hacketyhack/downloads"&gt;github&lt;/a&gt; (you can find the Ubuntu version &lt;a href="http://github.com/fela/hacketyhack/downloads"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). It has already been downloaded over 650 times. There will be another prerelease version in a few days with the latest improvements included. It should not be much then until 1.0 final.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of the change since my last &lt;a href="http://nimatar.blogspot.com/2010/07/ruby-summer-of-code-midterm.html"&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt; are lots and lots of bug fixes and small improvements, specially to the user interface. The state of not used tabs is now preserved, and you don't risk accidentally losing unsaved changes anymore. The lesson architecture, which was very minimal when just implemented, now has an index to easily navigate through the pages and when a lesson set gets opened it will do so on the same page the user last left, along with many other enhancements. And thanks also to an improvement in Shoes, now window size is handled much better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To make contributing to Hackety Hack easier I added some documentation for developers to the &lt;a href="http://wiki.github.com/hacketyhack/hacketyhack/"&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt;, there are also much more comments in the source code than before. On the website there is some help for users available, so that they won't get lost.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes I found it a little hard to work with Shoes, as it seems to not have the flexibility needed in an application of medium size. This is why, triggered by a &lt;a href="http://librelist.com/browser//shoes/2010/8/21/shoes-in-pure-ruby/"&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; on the Shoes mailing list (see also this follow up &lt;a href="http://librelist.com/browser//shoes/2010/8/24/qt-ruby-branch/"&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt;), I played around a bit with the idea of a Shoes implementation based on &lt;a href="http://github.com/ryanmelt/qtbindings"&gt;qt-ruby&lt;/a&gt;, some proof of concept code can be found on my github &lt;a href="http://github.com/fela/qtshoes"&gt;repository&lt;/a&gt;. Based on my initial idea Steve Klabnik also created a Shoes &lt;a href="http://github.com/steveklabnik/shoes/tree/qtruby"&gt;branch&lt;/a&gt;. Some of the advantages of using Qt include good cross platform support, including support for multimedia and support for the promizing &lt;a href="http://meego.com/"&gt;MeeGo&lt;/a&gt; mobile platform, many additional features that would be provided by Qt for free. And it might be easier for people to contribute to code written in Ruby instead of C, I know C a little but I found that the current Shoes code base isn't very welcoming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Of course this is, for now, just proof of concept code, and there are quite a bit of things to do before it will become obvious if this road will really lead to something useful. For example I did't find a straightforward way to implement the current way text and other elements are combined. But it looks promising nevertheless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, I must say it has been wonderful to have this opportunity. Many thanks go to my Summer of Code mentors Steve Klabnik and Christopher Redinger for their help and encouragements, and to all the &lt;a href="http://rubysoc.org/sponsors"&gt;RSoC sponsors&lt;/a&gt; that have made this possible. I hope and am quite sure this will pay back in terms of a very nice application that will help many people get into programming, ruby and free software.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://github.com/hacketyhack/hacketyhack/issues"&gt;Bugreports&lt;/a&gt; and comments are obviously welcome!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13165360-8251475318118925517?l=nimatar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nimatar/~4/oTErvpdKViU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://nimatar.blogspot.com/feeds/8251475318118925517/comments/default" title="Commenti sul post" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13165360&amp;postID=8251475318118925517" title="0 Commenti" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/8251475318118925517?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/8251475318118925517?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nimatar/~3/oTErvpdKViU/ruby-summer-of-code-end.html" title="Ruby Summer of Code, End" /><author><name>Fela Winkelmolen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://nimatar.blogspot.com/2010/09/ruby-summer-of-code-end.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUQGSXY5cSp7ImA9WxFaF0U.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165360.post-2230260381738613177</id><published>2010-07-21T17:25:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-22T09:22:08.829+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2010-07-22T09:22:08.829+02:00</app:edited><title>Ruby Summer of Code, Midterm</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YdRrFvhleqY/TEcUubCiPOI/AAAAAAAAAC0/moSREzb0Hq8/s1600/tryruby.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;As I've gotten this exiting opportunity to work on &lt;a href="http://hackety-hack.com/"&gt;Hackety Hack&lt;/a&gt; for the whole summer, it's only fair to let people know what I've been up to. Let me thus summarize what has been done in the first half of this great &lt;a href="http://rubysoc.org/"&gt;Summer of Code&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I started by making some improvements to the editor and the Try Ruby console. The editor now has undo and redo support using key shortcuts, highlighting of blocks and brackets, and simple automatic indentation (when starting a new line the indentation level of the previous line will be used). I also improved the history browsing in the console, which is triggered using the up and down keys, and while doing so I fixed a few bugs and made some other minor improvements to the console; some work is still needed there, as I recently noticed a few bugs that need fixing, I hope to have them smashed soon. This phase provided the additional benefit of allowing me to familiarize more with the code base and with &lt;a href="http://shoes.heroku.com/"&gt;Shoes&lt;/a&gt;, upon which Hackety is built.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next I implemented a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_graphics"&gt;turtle graphics&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language"&gt;DSL&lt;/a&gt;. I think turtle graphics is a nice way to introduce young people to programming, it's fun and lets you understand how the flow of execution of code works. &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/ashbb"&gt;ashbb&lt;/a&gt; made a great &lt;a href="http://www.rin-shun.com/shoes/hh_turtle_stars.swf.html"&gt;video capture&lt;/a&gt; of the turtle in action (thanks!). If you feel adventurous and want to try it out you can download the latest &lt;a href="http://github.com/hacketyhack/hacketyhack/downloads"&gt;development snapshot&lt;/a&gt;, or fetch the development version from &lt;a href="http://github.com/hacketyhack/hacketyhack/"&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;, you can find some documentation for writing turtle code &lt;a href="http://github.com/hacketyhack/hacketyhack/blob/master/turtle-graphics"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once this was done I had to dive back into the code of the main application, and did a little bit of boring but needed refactoring. Then I started to write the code needed to be able to write lessons. For more info about the lesson architecture you can read the &lt;a href="http://librelist.com/browser//hacketyhack/2010/7/13/rubysoc-lessons/"&gt;email&lt;/a&gt; I wrote on the mailing list. Here follows a screenshot where the current state of the lessons can be seen:&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YdRrFvhleqY/TEcUubCiPOI/AAAAAAAAAC0/moSREzb0Hq8/s1600/tryruby.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YdRrFvhleqY/TEcUubCiPOI/AAAAAAAAAC0/moSREzb0Hq8/s400/tryruby.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496384657993907426" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 263px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;All in all I'm very happy with what I've been able to accomplish so far, my ruby knowledge has improved a lot, especially with regards to reflection and to writing DSL, having written two! (one for the turtle graphics and one for the lessons)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems we will easily manage to release 1.0 in time for &lt;a href="http://whyday.org/"&gt;whyday&lt;/a&gt;, thanks also to the help of Steve who is rewriting the website. I've finished doing exams for university, thus from now on I can concentrate more on Hackety coding myself. It seems things are moving again in Hackety land, people starting contributing, the mailing list having become quite active again, and the downloads at github showing people displaying interest in the development process. The priority will now be 1.0, finishing the lesson architecture, and writing a few basic lessons, and then stabilizing and polishing until the 19th of August. But I've already got a few interesting post-1.0 ideas in mind. You will hear from me... 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(parte I)</title><content type="html">&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;m'era parso d'intravedere&lt;br /&gt;fiocchi di neve e di felicità&lt;br /&gt;donatimi dal mondo&lt;br /&gt;nella sua discontinua bontà&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;forse era soltanto un sogno&lt;br /&gt;soltanto un flebile miraggio&lt;br /&gt;ombra dei miei desideri&lt;br /&gt;immaginario viaggio&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;o un evento destinato a rimanere&lt;br /&gt;nulla più che un ricordo distante&lt;br /&gt;lavato via dal tempo&lt;br /&gt;come neve sciolta dal sole accecante&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13165360-5718105163001222666?l=nimatar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nimatar/~4/oKGCyXFKWYU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://nimatar.blogspot.com/feeds/5718105163001222666/comments/default" title="Commenti sul post" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13165360&amp;postID=5718105163001222666" title="0 Commenti" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/5718105163001222666?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/5718105163001222666?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nimatar/~3/oKGCyXFKWYU/dove-va-la-neve-parte-i.html" title="dove va la neve? (parte I)" /><author><name>Fela Winkelmolen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://nimatar.blogspot.com/2010/01/dove-va-la-neve-parte-i.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUEBRHw4fSp7ImA9WxJXEk0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165360.post-4610872846736133324</id><published>2009-05-09T22:08:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-06-05T15:14:15.235+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-06-05T15:14:15.235+02:00</app:edited><title>muore l'amore</title><content type="html">&lt;blockquote&gt;m'hai insegnato la gioia&lt;br /&gt;m'hai insegnato il dolore&lt;br /&gt;hai tinto di speranza&lt;br /&gt;una vita incolore&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;prima d'accantonarmi&lt;br /&gt;per sempre&lt;br /&gt;e spezzarmi&lt;br /&gt;il cuore&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13165360-4610872846736133324?l=nimatar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nimatar/~4/lOBNE5_3nn8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://nimatar.blogspot.com/feeds/4610872846736133324/comments/default" title="Commenti sul post" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13165360&amp;postID=4610872846736133324" title="0 Commenti" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/4610872846736133324?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/4610872846736133324?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nimatar/~3/lOBNE5_3nn8/muore-lamore.html" title="muore l'amore" /><author><name>Fela Winkelmolen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://nimatar.blogspot.com/2009/05/muore-lamore.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkENSXo5eCp7ImA9WxVTFU0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165360.post-8158052922113786933</id><published>2008-12-28T22:31:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-28T22:44:58.420+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-12-28T22:44:58.420+01:00</app:edited><title>costruzione piscine - trattamento acqua</title><content type="html">Facciamo un po' di spam... :P Vediamo se riesco a migliorare un po' il page rank del sito che ho fatto per quest'azienda che si occupa di &lt;a href="http://culliganservicegenova.it"&gt;costruzione piscine e trattamento acqua&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13165360-8158052922113786933?l=nimatar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nimatar/~4/faPyMHi7cMY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://nimatar.blogspot.com/feeds/8158052922113786933/comments/default" title="Commenti sul post" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13165360&amp;postID=8158052922113786933" title="0 Commenti" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/8158052922113786933?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/8158052922113786933?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nimatar/~3/faPyMHi7cMY/costruzione-piscine-trattamento-acqua.html" title="costruzione piscine - trattamento acqua" /><author><name>Fela Winkelmolen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://nimatar.blogspot.com/2008/12/costruzione-piscine-trattamento-acqua.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;Ck4FRnczeyp7ImA9WxdWFkQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165360.post-7384280637118072917</id><published>2008-07-10T10:29:00.014+02:00</published><updated>2008-07-10T13:55:17.983+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-07-10T13:55:17.983+02:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="politica" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="manifestazione 8 luglio roma" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="travaglio" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="di pietro" /><title>manifestazione 8 luglio</title><content type="html">Di fronte all'enorme successo della &lt;a href="http://www.antoniodipietro.com/2008/07/non_mi_dissocio_da_piazza_navo.html"&gt;manifestazione di piazza Navona&lt;/a&gt; volta a criticare e tentare di dare visibilità alle vergognose leggi salva-premier e sfascia giustizia che l'attuale governo sta approvando di certo la "casta" non poteva starsene con le mani in mano.&lt;br /&gt;Infatti si è visto come è stato fatto di tutto per togliere l'attenzione dall'effettivo significato della manifestazione ed infangarne il successo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il fronte coeso di tutti i giornali e telegiornali si è dato a una campagna di disiformazione senza precedenti, atto a dare un quadro quanto mai distorto dei fatti. Questo mi ha fatto capire che parlare dell'informazione di "regime" non è affatto un'esagerazione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sono davvero disgustato e penso doveroso fare almeno nel mio piccolo un po' di controinformazione, anzi di informazione, perchè la controinformazione a questo punto è quella attuata dai mass media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vorrei descrivere la manifestazione riportando le parole di Di Pietro, forse, dato che era tra gli organizzatori non potrà essere considerato di parte, ma almeno sono parole - è mia convinzione - di una persona onesta e sincera, caratteristica quanto mai rara dell'attuale classe politica:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Ieri Piazza Navona era piena di cittadini che, per una volta, hanno avuto la possibilità di protestare contro la deriva antidemocratica del Paese. Sul palco si sono alternate diverse voci. Non erano voci allineate. Non erano - come non dovevano essere - interventi concordati. Non c’era la censura dei partiti e di quella parte dei media a loro asservita.&lt;br /&gt;[...]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.antoniodipietro.com/2008/07/non_mi_dissocio_da_piazza_navo.html"&gt;leggi tutto l'articolo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Riporto anche per intero la lettera aperta di Marco Travaglio al direttore dell'Unità (&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/Voglioscendere/%7E3/331176146/1966218.html"&gt;leggi l'originale su voglioscendere&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;l'Unità, 10 luglio 2008&lt;br /&gt;Lettera aperta al direttore&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Caro direttore,&lt;br /&gt;quando tutta la stampa (Unità compresa), tutte le tv e persino alcuni protagonisti dicono la stessa cosa, e cioè che l’altroieri in Piazza Navona due comici (Beppe Grillo e Sabina Guzzanti) e un giornalista (il sottoscritto) avrebbero “insultato” e addirittura “vilipeso” il capo dello Stato italiano e quello vaticano, la prima reazione è inevitabile: mi sono perso qualcosa? Mi sono distratto e non ho sentito alcune cose - le più gravi - dette da Beppe, da Sabina e da me stesso? Poi ho controllato direttamente sui video, tutti disponibili su you tube e sui siti di vari giornali, e sono spiacente di comunicarti che nulla di ciò che è stato scritto e detto da tv e giornali (Unità compresa) è realmente accaduto: nessuno ha insultato né vilipeso Giorgio Napolitano né Benedetto XVI. Nessuno ha “rovinato una bella piazza”. E’ stata, come tu hai potuto constatare de visu, una manifestazione di grande successo, sia per la folla, sia per la qualità degli interventi (escluso ovviamente il mio).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per la prima volta si sono fuse in una cinque piazze che finora si erano soltanto sfiorate: quella di Di Pietro, quella di molti elettori del Pd, quella della sinistra cosiddetta radicale, quella dei girotondi e quella dei grillini, non sempre sovrapponibili. E un minimo di rigetto era da mettere in conto. Ma è stata una bella piazza plurale, sia sotto che sopra il palco: idee, linguaggi, culture, sensibilità, mestieri diversi, uniti da un solo obiettivo. Cacciare il Caimano. Le prese di distanza e i distinguo interni, per non parlare delle polemiche esterne, sono un prodotto autoreferenziale del Palazzo (chi fa politica deve tener conto degli alleati, delle opportunità, degli elettori, di cui per fortuna gli artisti e i giornalisti, essendo “impolitici”, possono tranquillamente infischiarsi). La gente invece ha applaudito Grillo e Sabina come Colombo (anche quando ha chiesto consensi per Napolitano), Di Pietro, Flores e gli altri oratori, ma anche i politici delle più varie provenienze venuti a manifestare silenziosamente. Applausi contraddittorii, visto che gli applauditi dicevano cose diverse? Non credo proprio. Era chiaro a tutti che il bersaglio era il regime berlusconiano con le sue leggi canaglia, compresi ovviamente quanti non gli si oppongono.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come mai allora questa percezione non è emersa, nemmeno nei commenti delle persone più vicine, come per esempio te e Furio? Io temo che viviamo tutti nel Truman Show inaugurato 15 anni fa da Al Tappone, che ci ha imposto paletti (anche mentali) sempre più assurdi e ci ha costretti, senza nemmeno rendercene conto, a rinunciare ogni giorno a un pezzettino della nostra libertà. Per cui oggi troviamo eccessivo, o addirittura intollerabile, ciò che qualche anno fa era normale e lo è tuttora nel resto del mondo libero (dove tra l’altro, a parte lo Zimbabwe, non c’è nulla di simile al governo Al Tappone). In Italia l’elenco delle cose che non si possono dire si allunga di giorno in giorno. Negli Stati Uniti, qualche anno fa, uscì senz’alcuno scandalo un libro di Michael Moore dal titolo “Stupid White Man” (pubblicato in Italia da Mondadori…), tutto dedicato alle non eccelse qualità intellettive del presidente Bush. Da dieci anni l’ex presidente Clinton non riesce a uscire da quella che è stata chiamata la “sala orale”. In Francia, la tv pubblica ha trasmesso un programma satirico in cui un attore, parodiando il film “Pulp Fiction” in “Peuple fiction”, irrompe nello studio del presidente Chirac, lo processa sommariamente per le sue innumerevoli menzogne, e poi lo fredda col mitra. A nessuno è mai venuto in mente di parlare di “antibushismo”, di “anticlintonismo”, di “antichirachismo”, di “insulti alla Casa Bianca” o di “vilipendio all’Eliseo”. Tanto più alta è la poltrona su cui siede il politico, tanto più ampio è il diritto di critica e di satira e anche di attacco personale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quelli che son risuonati l’altroieri in piazza Navona non erano “insulti”. Erano critiche. Grillo, insolitamente moderato e perfino affettuoso, ha detto che “a Napolitano gli voglio bene, ma sonnecchia come Morfeo e firma tutto”, compreso il via libera al lodo Alfano che crea una “banda dei quattro” con licenza di delinquere. Ha sostenuto che Pertini, Scalfaro e Ciampi non l’avrebbero mai firmato (sui primi due ha ragione: non su Ciampi, che firmò il lodo Schifani). E ha ricordato che l’altro giorno, mentre Napoli boccheggia sotto la monnezza, il presidente era a Capri a festeggiare il compleanno con la signora Mastella, reduce dagli arresti domiciliari, e Bassolino, rinviato a giudizio per truffa alla regione che egli stesso presiede. Tutti dati di fatto che possono essere variamente commentati: non insulti o vilipendi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Io, in tre parole tre, ho descritto la vergognosa legge Berlusconi che istituisce un’ ”aggravante razziale” e dunque incostituzionale, punendo - per lo stesso reato - gli immigrati irregolari più severamente degli italiani, e mi sono rammaricato del fatto che il Quirinale l’abbia firmata promulgando il decreto sicurezza. Nessun insulto: critica. Veltroni sostiene che io avrei “insultato” anche lui, e che “non è la prima volta”. Lo invito a rivedersi il mio intervento: nessun insulto, un paio di citazioni appena: per il resto la cronistoria puntuale dell’ennesima resurrezione di Al Tappone dalle sue ceneri grazie a chi - come dice Furio Colombo - “confonde il dialogo con i suoi monologhi”. Sono altri dati di fatto, che possono esser variamente valutati, ma non è né insulto né vilipendio. O forse il Colle ha respinto al mittente qualche legge incostituzionale, e non me ne sono accorto? Sono o non sono libero di pensare e di dire che preferivo Scalfaro e i suoi no al Cavaliere? Oppure la libertà di parola, conquistata al prezzo del sangue dai nostri padri, s’è ridotta a libertà di applauso? Forse qualcuno dimentica che quella c’è anche nelle dittature. E’ la libertà di critica che contraddistingue le democrazie. Se poi a esercitarla su temi quali la laicità, gli infortuni sul lavoro, l’ambiente, la malafinanza, la malapolitica, il precariato, la legalità, la libertà d’informazione sono più i comici che i politici, questa non è certo colpa dei comici.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Poi c’è Sabina. Che ha fatto, di tanto grave, Sabina? Ha usato fino in fondo il privilegio della satira, che le consente di chiamare le cose con il loro nome senza le tartuferie e le ipocrisie del politically correct, del politichese e del giornalese: ha tradotto in italiano, con le parole più appropriate, quel che emerge da decine di cronache di giornale sulle presunte telefonate di una signorina dedita ad antichissime attività con l’attuale premier, che poi l’ha promossa ministra. Enrico Fierro ha raccolto l’altro giorno, sull’Unità, i pissi-pissi-bao-bao con cui i giornali di ogni orientamento, da Repubblica al Corriere, dal Riformatorio financo al Giornale, han raccontato quelle presunte chiamate (con la “m”). Ci voleva un quotidiano argentino, il “Clarin”, per usare il termine che comunemente descrive queste cose in Italia: “pompini”, naturalmente di Stato.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quello di Sabina è stato un capolavoro di invettiva satirica, urticante e spiazzante come dev’essere un’invettiva satirica, senza mediazioni artistiche né perifrasi. Gli ignorantelli di ritorno che gridano “vergogna” non possono sapere che già nell’antica Atene, Aristofane era solito far interrompere le sue commedie con una “paràbasi”, cioè con un’invettiva del corifeo che avanzava verso il pubblico e parlava a nome del commediografo, dicendo la sua sui problemi della città. Anche questa è satira (a meno che qualcuno non la confonda ancora con le barzellette). Si dirà: ma Sabina ha pure mandato il papa all’inferno. Posso garantire che, diversamente da me, lei all’inferno non crede. Quella era un’incursione artistica in un genere letterario inaugurato, se non ricordo male, da Dante Alighieri. Il quale spedì anticipatamente all’inferno il pontefice di allora, Bonifacio VIII, che non gli piaceva più o meno per le stesse ragioni per cui questo papa non piace a lei e a molti: le continue intromissioni del Vaticano nella politica. Anche Dante era girotondino?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il fatto è che un vasto e variopinto fronte politico-giornalistico aveva preparato i commenti alla manifestazione ancor prima che iniziasse: demonizzatori, giustizialisti, estremisti, forcaioli, nemici delle istituzioni, e ovviamente alleati occulti del Cavaliere. Qualunque cosa fosse accaduta, avrebbero scritto quel che hanno scritto. Lo sapevamo, e abbiamo deciso di non cedere al ricatto, parlando liberamente a chi era venuto per ascoltarci, non per usarci come pedine dei soliti giochetti. Poi, per fortuna, a ristabilire la verità sono arrivati i commenti schiumanti di Al Tappone e di tutto il centrodestra: tutti inferociti perchè la manifestazione spazza via le tentazioni di un’opposizione più morbida o addirittura di un inciucio sul lodo Alfano (ancora martedì sera, a Primo Piano, due direttori della sinistra “che vince”, Polito e Sansonetti, proclamavano in stereo: “Chi se ne frega del lodo Alfano”). La prova migliore del fatto che la manifestazione contro il Caimano e le sue leggi-canaglia è perfettamente riuscita.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aggiornamento: &lt;a href="http://www.antoniodipietro.com/2008/07/giuro_fedelta_alla_piazza.html"&gt;intervista della Repubblica a DiPietro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13165360-7384280637118072917?l=nimatar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nimatar/~4/kESXqcnQxg4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://nimatar.blogspot.com/feeds/7384280637118072917/comments/default" title="Commenti sul post" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13165360&amp;postID=7384280637118072917" title="1 Commenti" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/7384280637118072917?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/7384280637118072917?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nimatar/~3/kESXqcnQxg4/manifestazione-8-luglio.html" title="manifestazione 8 luglio" /><author><name>Fela Winkelmolen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://nimatar.blogspot.com/2008/07/manifestazione-8-luglio.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEIGQHY5cSp7ImA9WxZQFU4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165360.post-7447747625129965039</id><published>2008-02-18T20:26:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2008-02-20T19:35:21.829+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-02-20T19:35:21.829+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="real life" /><title>Joost</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YdRrFvhleqY/R7xycxjs00I/AAAAAAAAABM/ffRdctjGdpY/s1600-h/jostvogels.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YdRrFvhleqY/R7xycxjs00I/AAAAAAAAABM/ffRdctjGdpY/s320/jostvogels.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169132310979466050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;È poco più due mesi fa che è volato via ormai. Perché devono essere i migliori ad andarsene io mi chiedo, tra tutti, perché lui? Ma il mondo va come vuole purtroppo, fregandosene del concetto di "giustizia" che noi uomini abbiamo inventato e a cui spesso tentiamo di aggrapparci. L'unica cosa che posso fare a questo punto è ricordarlo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ricordarmi di quando mi fece conoscere la musica punk e in particolare i &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Religion"&gt;Bad Religion&lt;/a&gt; che ancora ora sono tra i miei &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/user/nimatar"&gt;gruppi preferiti&lt;/a&gt;. Ricordarmi che lui e Claudia mi ospitarono a casa loro quando ero scappato di casa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi ricordo come ero rimasto impressionato dal suo stile di scrivere, moderno e ironico e originale, quando mandava email di aggiornamento a tutti i suoi amici, quando era in ospedale a lottare contro la leucemia e poi nuovamente contro la leucemia quando gli tornò, e poi contro &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindrome_di_Guillain-Barr%C3%A9"&gt;sindrome di Guillain-Barré&lt;/a&gt; che l'aveva paralizzato e per dei mesi lo aveva costretto su una sedia a rotelle. Era come se avesse blog, ma prima che avere un blog diventasse di moda.&lt;br /&gt;Il desiderio di vivere e l'amore dei suoi cari gli permise di vincere tutte queste battaglie. Solo per poi perdere di nuovo tutto per causa di uno stupido batterio che avvantaggiandosi suo corpo indebolito nel giro di 24 ore lo uccise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Con lui riuscivo a parlare come con nessun altro. A discutere di vegetarianesimo, di politica, di software libero, di educazione dei figli, di rabdomanti. Non sono mai stato bravo a parlare con le persone, ma con lui ci riuscivo, e soprattutto era molto piacevole confrontare le nostre idee, spesso avevamo opinioni diverse, ma questo non era un problema. Con lui solo potevo parlare di ragazze, non nel modo superficiale e macho e stupido in cui la maggior parte della gente ne parla, potevo parlargli della mia timidezza, dei miei sentimenti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dico quindi addio a quest'uomo così creativo, idealista, punk, &lt;a href="http://joostschildert.nl/"&gt;artista&lt;/a&gt;, sensibile e intelligente che anche se non è piú fisicamente tra noi rimarrà sempre nel nostro cuore (frase scontata forse, ma vera). Addio Joost!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13165360-7447747625129965039?l=nimatar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nimatar/~4/7t6wjwT_8eA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://nimatar.blogspot.com/feeds/7447747625129965039/comments/default" title="Commenti sul post" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13165360&amp;postID=7447747625129965039" title="1 Commenti" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/7447747625129965039?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/7447747625129965039?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nimatar/~3/7t6wjwT_8eA/joost.html" title="Joost" /><author><name>Fela Winkelmolen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YdRrFvhleqY/R7xycxjs00I/AAAAAAAAABM/ffRdctjGdpY/s72-c/jostvogels.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://nimatar.blogspot.com/2008/02/joost.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0cDRXo_eCp7ImA9WxVVGEs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165360.post-601462123279825326</id><published>2007-10-05T00:19:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-03-12T15:44:34.440+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-03-12T15:44:34.440+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="kdegames" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="kbreakout" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="floss" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="kde" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="knetwalk" /><title>New KBreakout theme</title><content type="html">After less than a week since I put &lt;a href="http://games.kde.org/game.php?game=kbreakout"&gt;KBreakout&lt;/a&gt; into playground Eugene Trounev (aka it-s), a kdegames artist, already made an awesome theme for it =) here is how it looks like now:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdRrFvhleqY/RwVoIdJGPjI/AAAAAAAAAA0/h8CJOB3gwIE/s1600-h/kbreakout02.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdRrFvhleqY/RwVoIdJGPjI/AAAAAAAAAA0/h8CJOB3gwIE/s400/kbreakout02.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117611046047465010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also took over maintainership of the KDE game &lt;a href="http://games.kde.org/game.php?game=knetwalk"&gt;KNetWalk&lt;/a&gt;, as it needs some love and polishing before it's ready for the KDE4.0 release.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YdRrFvhleqY/RwVpodJGPlI/AAAAAAAAABE/TCqLyA-S6ek/s1600-h/knetwalk01.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; 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Image --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.free-burma.org" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://freeburma.s3.amazonaws.com/free_burma_03.jpg" alt="Free Burma!" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- End Free Burma! 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Please find instructions attached.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/quote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So it looks like I'm officially a KDeveloper now =)&lt;br /&gt;My first commit was to import the Breakout like game (&lt;a href="http://games.kde.org/game.php?game=kbreakout"&gt;KBreakout&lt;/a&gt;) that I'm writing into playground.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;r718501 | fela | 2007-09-28 23:13:15 +0200 (Fri, 28 Sep 2007) | 2 lines&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Initial KBreakout import&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh... and of course everybody loves screenshots:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YdRrFvhleqY/Rv_zqE0rlFI/AAAAAAAAAAk/w4KE3YDRJfs/s1600-h/kbreakout01.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YdRrFvhleqY/Rv_zqE0rlFI/AAAAAAAAAAk/w4KE3YDRJfs/s400/kbreakout01.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116075605890929746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13165360-5121425538607239191?l=nimatar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nimatar/~4/SdkElpuCt3o" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://nimatar.blogspot.com/feeds/5121425538607239191/comments/default" title="Commenti sul post" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13165360&amp;postID=5121425538607239191" title="0 Commenti" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/5121425538607239191?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/5121425538607239191?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nimatar/~3/SdkElpuCt3o/subject-account-created-for-kde-svn.html" title="commited KBreakout into KDE SVN" /><author><name>Fela Winkelmolen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YdRrFvhleqY/Rv_0900rlGI/AAAAAAAAAAs/8KX164QxpwE/s72-c/start-here.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://nimatar.blogspot.com/2007/09/subject-account-created-for-kde-svn.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;Ck8GRn4-eip7ImA9WBFREUg.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165360.post-2829537323763356456</id><published>2007-02-22T13:52:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-02-22T14:27:07.052+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2007-02-22T14:27:07.052+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="ksquares" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="floss" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="kde" /><title>my first patch</title><content type="html">Lately I've done again a bit of programming in C++ using Qt, and I've written a Mine Sweeper like game using kdelibs4, to practice a bit using the new KDE libraries, here is a screen shot:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YdRrFvhleqY/Rd2XJhiwWtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/n3E3yA1A6Uk/s1600-h/minesweeper.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YdRrFvhleqY/Rd2XJhiwWtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/n3E3yA1A6Uk/s320/minesweeper.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5034346148348844754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And yesterday I wrote my fist patch ever, to a simple game in KDE playground called &lt;a href="http://www.milliams.com/content/view/18/42/"&gt;ksquares&lt;/a&gt;, making it a bit more efficient, and today I saw the patch was committed, yay!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$ svn log --limit 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;r636118 | milliams | 2007-02-22 00:25:18 +0100 (Thu, 22 Feb 2007) | 1 line&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Patch by Fela Winkelmolen to reduce the number of repaints and make them more efficient&lt;br /&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13165360-2829537323763356456?l=nimatar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nimatar/~4/k18Hixf-xfs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://nimatar.blogspot.com/feeds/2829537323763356456/comments/default" title="Commenti sul post" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13165360&amp;postID=2829537323763356456" title="0 Commenti" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/2829537323763356456?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/2829537323763356456?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nimatar/~3/k18Hixf-xfs/my-first-patch.html" title="my first patch" /><author><name>Fela Winkelmolen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YdRrFvhleqY/Rd2XJhiwWtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/n3E3yA1A6Uk/s72-c/minesweeper.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://nimatar.blogspot.com/2007/02/my-first-patch.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;AkMESX85fip7ImA9WBBUFUs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165360.post-116265192636415950</id><published>2006-11-04T15:01:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-12-31T13:33:28.126+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2006-12-31T13:33:28.126+01:00</app:edited><title>Why you shouldn't use Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger)</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2313/1147/1600/nomsn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2313/1147/200/nomsn.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; MSN is the  second most used IM protocol in the world (following AIM) and the most used in Europe and in a lot of other parts of the world. Let me explain why this is and why it is &lt;strong&gt;a bad thing(TM)&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before the launch of MSN Messenger, there were other proprietary Instant Messaging protocols going strong, like AIM and ICQ, but Microsoft used its monopolistic position to push it's own protocol and installed Windows Messenger by default on Windows, as done with Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer, following Microsoft's &lt;strong&gt;lock-in strategy&lt;/strong&gt;. Being it based on a proprietary protocol it's very hard to write reliable alternative, non-official clients, usefull for example on platforms other than Windows.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reasons to not use MSN may include:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;you don't want to be &lt;strong&gt;locked to Microsoft&lt;/strong&gt; for the rest of you life. Yes, you cold always use &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiprotocol_instant_messaging_application"&gt;alternative clients that support MSN&lt;/a&gt;. It has already happened however that Microsoft suddenly slightly changes it's protocol with the consequence that a lot of alternative clients stopped working, even outdated versions of the official program won't connect anymore&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;it's a proprietary protocol&lt;/strong&gt;, there is an alternative, called &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabber"&gt;Jabber&lt;/a&gt;, witch is open and based of standard protocols, witch means it's a lot easier to implement and it's &lt;a href="http://www.jabber.org/software/clients.shtml"&gt;supported by a lot of clients&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;privacy concerns&lt;/strong&gt;, you may not like the idea of all you conversations going trough Microsoft's servers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But all my friends use MSN...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well... that's exactly what the Microsoft lock-in strategy is all about, use it's monopoly to make enough people use it's own technologies in order make it very difficult for people to switch back to anything else. Fortunately there is a way out, using one of the multi-protocol client's, like &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiprotocol_instant_messaging_application"&gt;Gaim&lt;/a&gt;, that allow you to use Jabber, MSN, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo! and others with the same client or alternatively using a plain Jabber client and use the &lt;a href="http://www.jabber.org/user/userguide/#usegateways"&gt;gateways&lt;/a&gt; offered my some Jabber servers to connect to other networks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lately Jabber is starting to become e bit more widespread thanks to Google who used it to implement Google Talk, whoever wants a gmail account, witch automatically creates also a Google Talk account can e-mail me at nimatar(at)gmail.com to get in invite.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My Jabber ID is fela@jabber.org&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13165360-116265192636415950?l=nimatar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nimatar/~4/hZ-M6bcSijs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://nimatar.blogspot.com/feeds/116265192636415950/comments/default" title="Commenti sul post" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13165360&amp;postID=116265192636415950" title="2 Commenti" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/116265192636415950?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/116265192636415950?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nimatar/~3/hZ-M6bcSijs/why-you-shouldnt-use-windows-live.html" title="Why you shouldn't use Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger)" /><author><name>Fela Winkelmolen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://nimatar.blogspot.com/2006/11/why-you-shouldnt-use-windows-live.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUYHR3Y_eyp7ImA9WBJbGU4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165360.post-114893261631180029</id><published>2006-05-29T21:26:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-05-29T22:05:36.843+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2006-05-29T22:05:36.843+02:00</app:edited><title>Colemak keyboard layout</title><content type="html">The standard QWERTY keyboard layout still used by computer keyboards was designed with typewriters in mind, quoted from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwerty"&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Frequently used pairs of letters were separated in an attempt to stop the typebars from intertwining and becoming stuck&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The position of the letters however determine also the ergonomics and the speed of the typing. This is why they invented alternative keyboard layouts, the most known of which is the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard with a greater focus of the position of the letters. &lt;br /&gt;When I come to know that, having learned myself touch typing, I was quite interested and did some research on the net. That is how I came across the &lt;a href="http://colemak.com/"&gt;colemak&lt;/a&gt; layout, specifically designed for computers and specially made to allow an easy transition from QWERTY. I've started to practice 3 days ago and am able to write using 16 letters so far. For my day to day use I'm still on the standard QWERTY and the two don't seem to interfer.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13165360-114893261631180029?l=nimatar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nimatar/~4/SpNpPIawwuw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://nimatar.blogspot.com/feeds/114893261631180029/comments/default" title="Commenti sul post" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13165360&amp;postID=114893261631180029" title="4 Commenti" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/114893261631180029?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/114893261631180029?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nimatar/~3/SpNpPIawwuw/colemak-keyboard-layout.html" title="Colemak keyboard layout" /><author><name>Fela Winkelmolen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>4</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://nimatar.blogspot.com/2006/05/colemak-keyboard-layout.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkABR3Y5fip7ImA9WBJbGU4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165360.post-114866602536800615</id><published>2006-05-26T19:52:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-05-29T21:25:56.826+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2006-05-29T21:25:56.826+02:00</app:edited><title>Fixed width</title><content type="html">A thing that bothers me a lot, apparently without a really good reason, is seeing for example screenshots of people that don't use fixed width fonts on IRC. I also felt quite bad about the fact that gmail didn't use monospaced fonts for text emails, and I felt even worse about kmail using sans serif by default. Probably it's only a matter of getting used to something, but to me it feels a bit like they don't read exactly what I write. Using pure text, the only way to manipulate the look of the text is by using the width of the letters, but for this to work all letters have to be of the same size.&lt;br /&gt;Nobody would think to use Comic Sans in a terminal. And almost everybody write code using monospaced fonts. Well, think of IRC as a multiplayer terminal...&lt;br /&gt;There are also other things, some time ago I've written a bot for IRC that let you play games, but it uses the fact that letters are the same. And also ASCII-art don't shows right if you don't have the right fonts. Another little thing are smileys, :) looks best with mono, while else it's better to use :-) Probably for most people these thinks don't make much of a difference, and not mono fonts are usually considered to look better. Maybe I'm just too geek... I don't know, but I feel very strong about this. I think that using monospaced text for pure text should be like a not written standard. I know that the default courier without antialiasing that Windows uses isn't exactly pretty. But that isn't true on Linux, where there is more choice, and I think the free Bitstream Mono fonts are quite nice.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13165360-114866602536800615?l=nimatar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nimatar/~4/vbw9gJmEiIQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://nimatar.blogspot.com/feeds/114866602536800615/comments/default" title="Commenti sul post" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13165360&amp;postID=114866602536800615" title="0 Commenti" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/114866602536800615?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/114866602536800615?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nimatar/~3/vbw9gJmEiIQ/fixed-width.html" title="Fixed width" /><author><name>Fela Winkelmolen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://nimatar.blogspot.com/2006/05/fixed-width.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkINR3w4fip7ImA9WBJbGU4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165360.post-114822970533698957</id><published>2006-05-21T18:17:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-05-29T21:23:16.236+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2006-05-29T21:23:16.236+02:00</app:edited><title>English and Cina</title><content type="html">Again two months without blogging... I'm tempted to say "I hope I'll post more often in the future", but already I've said that so often that I don't even believe that myself anymore (even if I still silently keep hoping :-) On one side there is the fact that I don't really have much interesting to say on the other side there is of course my ever lasting laziness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you may well have noticed I've decided to start blogging in English since I will probably need English much more that Italian in the future and blogging is a nice way of practicing. This also gives me a good excuse to blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lately I'm also becoming convinced that knowing Chinese would be very usefull, looking how things are going in the world. I'm not much interested in work opportunity and such as of the ethical importance that the future China is gaining. More specifically I'm convinced that the most important battle of liberty of this century is against the Chinese government. I don't have much doubt that the current totalitarian regime can't last forever. The question however is, what will be next? Will it slowly move towards a corporate driven "democratic" society as they are currently seen in most Western nations? Not to forget that it will possible take decades, if not longer, before the liberty and life-style of Chinese citizen would be acceptable. I'm convinced that a revolution or at least a &lt;em&gt;coup d'etat&lt;/em&gt; would be possible if there was an adequate framework to support it and if there was enough awareness of the situation and the possibilities, around the world and inside China itself. My idea is that, given its economical and political influence on the world, this would be a great opportunity for the human kind to emancipate and to go beyond democracy.&lt;br /&gt;You have heard it right! I think democracy isn't the best possible solution. And no, I don't think that communism is much more that a wonderfull utopia. A different kind of society, that is enough similar to the current capitalistic one, but which would solve some of it's issues should be possible. In Italy they say that voting is a &lt;em&gt;diritto/dovere&lt;/em&gt;, it's not only a right but you should to it. I don't agree with that. Everybody should have the possibility to chose it's representants but you don't have to. Actually I think only people that either really want to or that are in a position to make a good choise should be able to determinate the future of a country. It is important to give everybody the same opportunity in life, but people with different skills should do different things and not everybody is as qualified to make a right choice as it comes to government as in my opinion is showed well by western society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Probably you shouldn't take these thoughts to seriously, it are just things I think when I can't fall asleep. And surely there are a lot of situations and facts that I've not taken into account.&lt;br /&gt;So now you know wat the hell the title was about in the case you were wondering :-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13165360-114822970533698957?l=nimatar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nimatar/~4/NaoqMmp3-ME" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://nimatar.blogspot.com/feeds/114822970533698957/comments/default" title="Commenti sul post" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13165360&amp;postID=114822970533698957" title="2 Commenti" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/114822970533698957?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/114822970533698957?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nimatar/~3/NaoqMmp3-ME/english-and-cina.html" title="English and Cina" /><author><name>Fela Winkelmolen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://nimatar.blogspot.com/2006/05/english-and-cina.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEcGRnw_eCp7ImA9WBVbEkw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165360.post-113821198686764415</id><published>2006-01-25T18:00:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-01-25T19:00:27.240+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2006-01-25T19:00:27.240+01:00</app:edited><title>evvai!!!!!!</title><content type="html">Avevo pensato che sarebbe stato figo se riuscivo a fare tutti gli esami il prima possibile cos&amp;igrave; poi avrei tutto febbraio libero. Ebbene ci sono riuscito :-) oggi ho fatto l'ultimo orale, soltanto che ora non so bene come usare in modo produttivo il tempo che ho... stavo pensando di andare in Olanda, ma dato che secondo me gli aerei inquinano troppo, e visto che il treno &amp;egrave; troppo caro, questo vorrebbe dire andarci in autostop, ma non so ancora so se va cos&amp;igrave; a genio in questo periodo dell'anno, preferisco andarci quando far&amp;agrave; un po' pi&amp;ugrave; caldo, d'altra parte se mi copro bene.... Mi piacerebbe anche adare di nuovo in snowboard, visto che l'anno scorso mi ero divertito tantissimo, soltanto che dovrei trovare qualcuno con cui andarci.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ho ancora un po' di tempo per pensarci, visto che intanto per ora non andr&amp;ograve; ancora da nessuna parte. Nel frattempo mi piacerebbe impratichirmi un po' in &lt;a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/20020101.html"&gt;ruby&lt;/a&gt; e in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C++"&gt;C++&lt;/a&gt;, usando le librerie grafiche &lt;a href="http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/index.html"&gt;Qt&lt;/a&gt;, magari far&amp;ograve; qualche modifica anche al mio sito, anche se mi piacerebbe usare &lt;a href="http://www.rubyonrails.org/"&gt;Ruby on Rails&lt;/a&gt;, devo dire che non l'ho ancora mai usato, per cui non posso dire se poi mi piacer&amp;agrave; veramente cos&amp;igrave; tanto, ma o sentito molte cose positive a proposito, e il vantaggio di fare web development con Rails sarebbe anche che non devo imparare un altro linguaggio solo per quello. L'unico problema &amp;egrave; trovare servizi hosting gratuito che lo supportino, e grazie a come funziona fasweb non posso hostarmelo io :-\&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13165360-113821198686764415?l=nimatar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nimatar/~4/_Od9uGJkFwM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://nimatar.blogspot.com/feeds/113821198686764415/comments/default" title="Commenti sul post" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13165360&amp;postID=113821198686764415" title="0 Commenti" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/113821198686764415?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/113821198686764415?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nimatar/~3/_Od9uGJkFwM/evvai.html" title="evvai!!!!!!" /><author><name>Fela Winkelmolen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://nimatar.blogspot.com/2006/01/evvai.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUIBR38zeyp7ImA9WBVUFEw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165360.post-113741755546641942</id><published>2006-01-16T14:07:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-01-16T14:19:16.183+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2006-01-16T14:19:16.183+01:00</app:edited><title>best blonde joke ever</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://braincore.blogspot.com/2006/01/lol-best-blond-joke-ever.html"&gt;Muhahahaha questa &amp;egrave; la barzeletta sulle bionde pi&amp;ugrave; divertente che abbia mai sentito :-)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13165360-113741755546641942?l=nimatar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nimatar/~4/rPNGWjdOpGI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://nimatar.blogspot.com/feeds/113741755546641942/comments/default" title="Commenti sul post" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13165360&amp;postID=113741755546641942" title="3 Commenti" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/113741755546641942?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/113741755546641942?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nimatar/~3/rPNGWjdOpGI/best-blonde-joke-ever.html" title="best blonde joke ever" /><author><name>Fela Winkelmolen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://nimatar.blogspot.com/2006/01/best-blonde-joke-ever.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;AkMHSXc_eCp7ImA9WBVUEkk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13165360.post-113718793864472778</id><published>2006-01-13T22:25:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-01-14T15:20:38.940+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2006-01-14T15:20:38.940+01:00</app:edited><title>What is your Perfect Major?</title><content type="html">&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You should be a Philosophy major! Like the Philosopher, you are contemplative and you enjoy thinking about the purpose for humanity's existence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Philosophy 92%&lt;br /&gt;Mathematics 83%&lt;br /&gt;Engineering 83%&lt;br /&gt;Journalism 83%&lt;br /&gt;Psychology 83%&lt;br /&gt;English 75%&lt;br /&gt;Art 67%&lt;br /&gt;Biology 67%&lt;br /&gt;Theater 67%&lt;br /&gt;Dance 58%&lt;br /&gt;Chemistry 58%&lt;br /&gt;Sociology 50%&lt;br /&gt;Linguistics 33%&lt;br /&gt;Anthropology 17%&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://quizfarm.com/test.php?q_id=119158'&gt;QuizFarm.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;Egrave; curioso come i miei risultati siano molto simili a quelli degli &lt;a href='http://planetkde.org/'&gt;sviluppatori kde&lt;/a&gt; e anche i loro risultati siano molto simili tra di loro, si vede che e' mio destino diventare uno sviluppatore kde :-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13165360-113718793864472778?l=nimatar.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nimatar/~4/v5Hsxw-VXHE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://nimatar.blogspot.com/feeds/113718793864472778/comments/default" title="Commenti sul post" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13165360&amp;postID=113718793864472778" title="0 Commenti" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/113718793864472778?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13165360/posts/default/113718793864472778?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nimatar/~3/v5Hsxw-VXHE/what-is-your-perfect-major.html" title="What is your Perfect Major?" /><author><name>Fela Winkelmolen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://nimatar.blogspot.com/2006/01/what-is-your-perfect-major.html</feedburner:origLink></entry></feed>

