Archive for the 'The Net' Category

The Same Old Song for the Same Old Fart

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

Happy birthday to meee,
happy birthday to meeee,
happy birthday dear Pietrooo,
happy birthday to meeeeeee!
I gave myself as a present another 30/30 in an exam… So good!

Quote of Today and a thanksgiving

Monday, January 8th, 2007

You should emulate your heros, but don’t carry it too far, especially if they are dead
And thanks to the 1402 unique visitors of this week…

The True Firefox Logo

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

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Referrer of the week…

Monday, November 20th, 2006

social irresponsibility of cold drinks to society (2, Google Stati Uniti d’America)
Is there somebody able to tell me what is the problem? What the hell is the link between cold drinks and social irresponsibility? In which wicked way would a cold drink be harmful for the society? I am still laughing…

Wireless

Monday, November 13th, 2006

At FNAL there is a wireless network: you can register the MAC address of your wlan interface, and then use the network, as well as surfing the web.
In some physics departments in Italy this is also a reality.
In Padova not.
Yep!

Vacuum

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

Higgs… Noether… Symmetries… SU(3)… Flavour… Color… Crap… Neutrinos… Neutralinos… Standard Model And Beyond…
Why Pisa and Roma universities have a quality of teaching surely NOT better than Padova University, but have plenty of money to send their undergraduates some months in America during the thesis?
Why Pisa and Roma universities consider the Summer Student as an exam […]

Beware…

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

Seem like people who arrive here following a link http://en.pietrovischia.altervista.org/blog/ is not able to view the last posts…
The solution is to go to the raw address http://pietrovischia.altervista.org/blog/ : for the blog this is not a problem, for the blog itself is only in English (differing in this from the main website that is in both […]

NYTimes video: workaround!

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

As I answered to Jonathan Ryshpan in a previous post concerning NYTimes linux support, a working workaround for visualizing the NYTimes video is to install the User Agent Switcher extension of Firefox. Then you select the “IE6″ identification string, and the website lets you in the video section! Thanks to the fellows from the forum […]

Fair Exchange In A Renaissance Faire

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

Renaissance Faire is obviously from Blackmore’s Night…
Hum, I want to exchange my USB modem with an Ethernet modem, at local Italian Telecom store.
But ethernet modems are yet en trein d’arriver. Bloody hell.
And the vast majority of Italian films sucks.

Opinion-builders

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

Do you remember my email to NYTimes support service?

From:
FeedRoom Customer Support via RT

Reply-To:
feedback AT rt.feedroom.com

To:
MY EMAIL

Subject:
[feedroom.com #347805] nytd-Feedback

Date:
29 Jun 2006 20:59:08 -0000 (22:59 CEST)

 

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