Hoy en Catalunya es un dia especial: San Jordi.
Un poco como el San Valentin, pero mas original porque nadie tiene que comprar regalos estupidos.
En el dia de San Jordi en toda Catalunya es tradicion que el chico regale una rosa (mejor si es roja, que es el color original), y la chica un libro.
No olvides que los catalanes han inventado tambien comida de puta madre como el alli i oli y el pa amb tomaquet
Meetup 2010 – Interlaken, Switzerland. Probably, one of the best Meetup (or at least the same level of the 2008′s one). Location was a bit far away this time, we went to Interlaken, Switzerland and was chosen because of the exciting activity planned on Sunday: canyoing!
But canyoing wasn’t the only news in this Meetup.
We had a full day of talks and speeches about various interesting topics: profiling, mobile, agile and so on, two “Free beer” evenings, a BBQ on a boat on Saturday night. Simply amazing!
The talks sessions seemed quick, interesting and not heavy. We had also lightning speeches about funny stories happened with customers (unfortunately I cannot mention anything 
but, trust me, it was really funny!). I came home with some new ideas and new starting point for new though.
During the evening there was a free beer for every participant to Hooters, and we’ve got double hangovers. My suggestion, that came Friday when was too late was: “Next year we shouldn’t have ‘free beer’ it on Friday”.
Saturday evening we had a beautiful BBQ on a boat, we also risked to miss it because we went initially to the wrong lake (grasse risate) but we fixed the mistake by catching a train in time and go to the correct location! 
The weather was pretty good, we had a very nice view of the lake and the mountains; the sunset was amazing: a bit yellow, orange and surrounded by blue.
Sunday was the “exciting activity day”: canyoing. We walked down a torrent surrounded by high rocks and sometimes entered in small canyons. We jump in the water, climb rocks, got wet in the freezing mountain water. Simply fantastic!
Next year… canyoing level 2? or parachuting? Who knows?
Here you can find all my photos.
In The Netherlands, the European rule to use only IBAN for all bank transfer is not applied, yet.
The problem come when you don’t have a national bank account and you need to pay a bill or someone. Usually they provide you only the account number and 90% of the cases without the possibility to ask for the IBAN.
Fortunately exist a IBAN calculator here, which provide you the automatic calculation of IBAN and BIC.
Despite my blog is fully covered of crappy nerdy technology, this article is something different. The first title for this article was Laura B “for dummies”.
Main goal of this article (whichi is only the first of the many advices you might have) is just avoid you weird episodes you might have if you travel/hang out/whatever with Laura Bull (I will use her name just to preserve her your privacy).
Here what happens in Vienna (from one of our traveler, me):
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A couple of time happens also that we got trapped of the famous (in all over the world) “giro del ring” (ring’s tour) from Laura B (I don’t put the whole name to preserve her privacy, otherwise people will start asking her to have it)…
The procedure is basically simple, Laura, which is most of the time sleeping, jump up and say “let’s do the ring’s tour”, and you say “ok, but which tram should we catch”, before you finish the sentence, she’s already on the first one (which is the only one that go in the opposite or a completely wrong direction 
)…
When you realize your error…it just too late.
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So rule number one: never follow her…The idea to go in a city that hasn’t a ring, is not valid. She can do it even without a Ring. Be careful.
Next lesson, sooner or later (about cruise expedition or trips)…
This draw can explain more than 1000 worlds why this flu is a fake..
When I was in Italy, I was used to travel by bus to go to work. About a year ago they renew the website and give to customers the possibility to subscribe to a newsletter that announced changes in the path of the bus, due to works on the street and so on.
I still a subscriber of this newsletter (that I guess is useful), more for laziness, but tonight I receive a message about a variation of path in Melegnano.
First of all two words about it. Melegnano can be considered the pain in the ass of every person is travelling to Milan from the South, vice-versa (but also in any direction that include this bloody city). There aren’t big streets to avoid you to pass inside the city and the roads available are small, that means queues every day and almost every hours! Every people would like to blow up Melegnano and build an highway instead (by the way I know some nice people from that city, none of them I would see hurt).
Anyway, today I saw an email from the bus company said the path will change for one day because in Melegnano there will be men at works for the pruning of plants in one street (Viale repubblica), from 7:00 to 16:00. Guess, that street is one of the main street people use to pass throu the city. What does that means? Jungle!
After reading that I starts guessing all my emotions during the travels to and back to work (and I can say that I’m one of the luckiest guys in my company), with car or bus. Will be able to come back to my previous life? Probably not. That because the quality of life is mostly based on the environment around your job, and I guess, the travel can change a lot how you feel (like or dislike) your job.
Of course there isn’t a place without defect…but we’ll see (after the Dutch winter)
Rotterdam is nice, but looks like a non-Dutch city. Seems more like a German city. Big, large, modern.
It was completely rebuilt after the second world war. For people used to Dutch cities, like Utrecht or Amsterdam, Rotterdam might be ugly: big and sometimes empty streets, skyscrapers, seems oversized… and living there might be difficult…
But at the end I believe Rotterdam is like modern art: cube house, skyscrapers, towers…
I saw Rotterdam in a sunny Sunday and I can say that probably is not a people city like, for example, Delft or Utrecht but is nice and photographically speaking give you a lot of inspiration.
The harbour is amazing! The weather was perfect…during the sunset the harbour creates a gorgeous combination of shadows and shapes.
This set is an experiment of RAW development using Bibble, you can find it here. i have a laptop with a screen not really luminous, sometimes I might use too much saturation and contrasts…
Archimede said: “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.”
Luca said: “Give me a regular expression long enough and a string on which to apply it, and I shall fix this code.”
This year the Linux Day in Lodi was a bit unusual, because was organized in part from abroad and in a really short time.
After 5 years of Linux Days, we are pretty handy on it, so most of the work was already done.
The agenda was a mix of techincal and divulgatives talks. We got two guests: Daniele Segato and Alessandro Palumbo that respectively spoke about “git for superheroes” and “Drupal: With a great CMS comes great possibility”. Good impression the first talks done by Leonardo about Openoffice and Raffaello about Gobby (a nice collaborative editor).
Despite the effort we put on it, we had low participation, probably we lack in communication: more spam and more conventional channels; Facebook (in Italy) remains a weak way to have more people participating to some events.
Anyway a big Thanks to anybody who came, who organized and set it up and all contributors we had. Thanks!
Photos (from Francesco Crippa) here.
