Archive for the 'Games' Category

Chess problem

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

White moves.

White moves.
Unfortunately I was black… A couple moves before, with arrogance I chose not to do N. … c1 N+1. …, with promotion of the pawn, hunting for a nice checkmate. I should have promoted the pawn, because we saw only the following lines:
1. Qe8+, Kf6 2. Qf8+, Kg6 3. Qe8+, Kh7 4. Qh8+, […]

Five Things

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

I have been tagged by Tommaso Dorigo for a blog game, consisting in writing down five things you might not know about me…
Let’s see:
1) The only reason I keep Windows OS on a PC at home is that some games do not run well in Wine/Cedega
2) When I was at high school, I quarrelled with […]

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…

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 […]

Evolution From Evolution, but not from Dapper. Some Mangas Too…

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

Evolution is nice.
But it appears to have some problems in managing the backup in mbox format…
I am studying the manual of Mutt, to try it. People says it is wonderful
Oh well, the following is not linked to mail. But Upstart, the replacement of init for Ubuntu Edgy Eft, does not convince me… I tried […]

Tried Some Days Ago

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

Planeshift… Something like World of Warcraft, developed for Linux

World Of Warcraft

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

Even great heroes must have some fun
I don’t know why the blog does not embed the video…So you will have to go to The direct url

The Wandmaster

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

Which wand will yours be?

10 1/2 inches, cedar and floo powder, a strange Gregorovitch combination indeed! You’ve been bitten bad by the travel bug, and change is the name of your game. A true wanderer, you can’t stay long in one place and wish to travel the world.
Take this quiz!
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Call of Duty

Saturday, July 15th, 2006

When you look at Band Of Brothers and you see that the small town of Carentan is exactly the same as the Carentan map on the first person shooter Call Of Duty, you can fully appreciate the work of the programmers at Activision
And the San Giovese is a veeeery good wine