Archive for 2008
Georgian hospitality
Georgians say that their country is the land of the hospitality: actually you can think they just want to praise it, but you should try and probably you would realize that it is not so wrong. I had an appointment with my friend Natia to go to Nariyala, a really wonderful part of Tbilisi, but before our meeting I received an invitation from an [...]
Back in the U.S.S.R.
After several days feeling bad for the flu, the time to take the flight to Georgia has come. This time is different, since I am flying with Turkish Airlines: Milano-Istanbul-Tbilisi. photo:3152399343(small)photo:3153236482(small) I arrived at the airport quite early, since nobody was in the street on December 26th; I supposed not many [...]
Funambol Developer Conference 2008
On November 25thm 2008, at the Dipartimento di Elettronica ed Informazione (DEI) (Sala Conferenze) of the Politecnico di Milano, there will be the first Developer Conference by Funambol. It will be an occasion for the community to meet and talk about synchronization and push email technologies, as well as the Community Programs Code Sniper, Lion [...]
Thanks everyone
I would like to thanks everyone who partecipated to the donations for the victims of this Summer war in Georgia: at last, donations reached the 300 €. I've just sent the last ones received to the fund of Bank of Georgia: thanks again!
Funambol company meeting
Venerdì 24 Ottobre: oggi la sveglia suona alle 7:00, almeno un'ora prima del normale; la questione è decisamente tragica, ma si sopravvive. Niente ufficio questa mattina: appuntamento a Castel San Giovanni alle 8:15, puntuali, per poi raggiungere Compiano, ridente borgo nella provincia di Parma, dove si terrà il meeting aziendale con [...]
Funambol Lion Sniper
A new Community Program by Funambol, the company I work for and who develops open source solutions for mobile synchronization and push email, has born today: its name is Lion Sniper Program, and the goal is to allow community to get revenew by helping in software language translations. The project, named Lion from L10n (were 10 is the number [...]
Flickr Pink 2008
“Pink is my new obsession„ were singing Aerosmith: and pink is the theme of the initiatinve Pink 2008 promoted by Flickr. Here's the description of the group: October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and if you add your pink photos to this group you can help to raise up to €30,000 for local charities. For each pink photo you add to [...]
Trevi’s fountain description
For those who want to know everything about Trevi's Fountain in Rome. The video is in italian but with english subtitles: enjoy!
Installing Linux from Windows
Today I decided to install Ubuntu on my laptop, since I need a linux platform for my work; Ubuntu is quite easy and fast to install and use, so I have chosen it. Once inserted the cd, the autoplay (which I hate, but I didn't remove yet) showed me a window with an interesting choice: Install Ubuntu as Windows application. I heard about this, but I [...]
Restaurant suggestion: Italia, Montalto Pavese
Couple of weeks ago I went on the hills not so far from my house: it was my grandmother's birthday and we had a nice lunch in a restaurant with some relatives. Before going to the restaurant we visited a Madonna's «temple», called "Madonnina del vento" (Madonna of the wind): the name is quite appropriate, since it was really windy [...]
My post on Georgia Today
My article about helping georgian people has appeared on Georgia Today, a Georgian english-language newspaper. The article, titled Humanitarian Assistance for War Victims Within and Outside of Georgia and written by Tamar Kikacheishvili, can be read here or you may click on the image below to see the scan.
Restaurant suggestion: da Giulio, Pavia
Last evening I have been at restaurant “da Giulio„ in Pavia and I decided to begin these reviews about places where I go to eat; it won't be anything professional, just suggestions from places hopefully around the World; first is dedicated to this restaurant in Pavia, the city where I work and study. Open more than 30 years ago, this pizzeria [...]
Donations for Georgia
Money I collect throught PayPal will be sent to the fund of Bank of Georgia.You may donate directly there or using your credit card (see details below). Thank you in advance! After 5 days of fighting, situation in Georgia seems slowly coming back to normality: everywhere you can find news and photos about the war began on August, 8th 2008, while [...]
Stop Russia’s Unlawful Military Invasion in Georgia
As we were in the Middle Age, Russian is doing a mad military invasion in Georgia, bombing outside the conflict zone in South Ossetia; they had thrown bombs near Abkhazia, where the conflict could expand, in Poti, where there is an important port on the Black Sea, near Georgia's capital Tbilisi (pretty far from the conflict zone), in Gori, where [...]
Bees invasion
Morning, about 10am: I went out with my family for some business, not last going to the McDonald's; we came back at midday and, once entered with the car with our car, my father said: “wait, don't leave the car!„. That sounded strange, until I looked out the window: the house just in front of ours was full of bees; hundreds, thoudsands of [...]
Georgian gem of wisdom
I've found out a very nice sentence about Georgia: the original is in italian, but I've also translated it in english. “Mentre Dio distribuiva terre a tutti i popoli del mondo, i georgiani erano impegnati, come al solito, in una gigantesca tavolata. Essi arrivarono in ritardo, come sempre, e Dio disse loro che tutte le terre erano già state [...]
I found your camera
While we were in Roma for holidays, my friend lost her digital camera: we are still trying to find it and, searching online, I have found an interesting website: http://ifoundyourcamera.blogspot.com/. I think the idea is pretty nice: anyone who found a camera, or a memory card, somewhere in the World can send some of the pictures to the webmaster [...]
Weekend in Roma
Finally I've been in Roma, capital of my wonderful Italy and «caput mundi», capital of the world. The trip was pretty cool: I left from Milano on 24th by plane with Marco and Matteo, flying to Ciampino's airport in about one hour; landing was not perfect, but we arrived safe and sound at about 18:40, on time. Reach Roma from there is pretty [...]
Automatic web site backup
I have written a linux shell script to automatically backup a website: also, a php script can help to backup the database in case you do not have access to the database machine and cannot use the mysqldump command. First of all, what will you need: the script uses wget and ncftp; you can download them with your favorite package manager on [...]
Upload to Flickr with Python
Today I have found an interesting python script that allows you to upload photos from a local directory to Flickr; I decided to modify it and post here my modifications. The original script can be found here. The script is pretty easy to use: it searches image files in a given directory, check an history file in order to know if the photo has [...]
My italian pasta on NowPublic
Time to lunch at home: pasta. Cool, I want it with tomato sauce, of course, but not everyone has the same taste: someone in my family prefer it with just a drop of oil; someone else, with pesto. Wow, that's cool: green, white and red, the italian flag! This was the result that day: few days later I received an email from NowPublic, a [...]
Approach Simulator
Sometimes it is not easy to find the perfect girl; and sometimes, when we find her, we don't know what to say. We would need to have a way to try before searching a girl in the real life: with Approach Simulator now you can! Approach Simulator is a java game developed by me and Marco for the Java exam at the University of Pavia. The game has [...]
Funambol client for iPhone 3g
The “faboulus„ iPhone 3g has come; and in Funambol, the company I work for, we didn't wait: oud client for the new Apple's device is already in the AppStore and it has also been nominated as one of the top twenty cool applications for the iPhone by MacWorld. Let's say something about Funambol and the iPhone client: if you sign up to [...]
Weekend in Roma: plans
I will finally see Roma; it is strange that I have seen London, and more strange I was in Tbilisi for two times, and I have never seen our capital city: but time has come and I will go there on July, 24th. It will be just for a weekend, long weekend in fact, so we are planning everything to see as more beautiful things as we can. Actually I have [...]
Spring in Georgia
Second time in Georgia, this time in Spring; departure from Milano Malpensa. I was lucky not to lose my flight, because from my town to the airport I found lot of traffic and I arrived just 5 minutes before the check-in closure. The first flight, from Milan to Wien, was in time; then I had to wait about two hours in Wien for the second one: [...]
New Year’s day in Georgia
First time for me for a travel alone; and first time in a place that almost nobody in Italy knows: Georgia, also known as Saqartvelo by georgians. This wonderful country is situated on the East of the Black Sea, under the Russia; it was part of the U.S.S.R. and became independant on 1991. The beginning of the trip was good: it was the first time [...]
