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October 2009

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Martina is a cat

Today I grabbed a torch to look for a thing that had fallen under some furniture. Martina was there looking at me. At some point she saw the circle of light on the floor and she tried to touch it. I moved the circle and she chased it. Then she saw I was holding the torch, tried to touch the light with a finger, then came closer and licked it. Then, since she could not understand what it was, she lost interest and went away chasing something else.

You Can't Get What You Want

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This is a famous song from Joe Jackson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GasFKkVkgSI

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But, on a side note, Joe Jackson was famous for another song from the end of '70s that tells a life story we all know pretty well.

Ma Joe Jackson era famoso per un'altra canzone della fine degli anni '70 che racconta una storia di vita che tutti noi conosciamo bene:
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Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street
From my window I'm staring while my coffee grows cold
Look over there! (Where?)
There's a lady that I used to know
She's married now, or engaged, or something, so I am told

Is she really going out with him?
Is she really gonna take him home tonight?
Is she really going out with him?
'Cause if my eyes don't deceive me,
There's something going wrong around here

Tonight's the night when I go to all the parties down my street.
I wash my hair and I kid myself I look ***really*** smooth
Look over there! (Where?)
Here comes Jeanie with her new boyfriend
They say that looks don't count for much
If so, there goes your proof

Is she really going out with him?
Is she really gonna take him home tonight?
Is she really going out with him?
'Cause if my eyes don't deceive me,
There's something going wrong around here

But if looks could kill
There's a man there who's marked down as dead.
Cause I've had my fill
Listen you, take your hands off her head
I get so mean around this scene

Is she really going out with him?
Is she really gonna take him home tonight?
Is she really going out with him?
'Cause if my eyes don't deceive me
There's something going wrong around here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5BaurXMmMU

Edit: I just edited this very old post to change the Youtube link and nice MyOpera has changed the post date like I have written it right now. Note to myself: editing post changes the post date. Second note to myself: bomb MyOpera. I hate them.

Four months later


Big brother

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I am reading on the news today that from 2001 to 2008 all the Web traffic passing through three major italian Internet providers has been recorded. It means all the URL visisted, all the usernames and passwords, all the other sensitive personal data. Nobody knows how many data have been archived, what the providers did with the data and then if and when the data have been destroyed after January 2008 when the authorities ordered the providers to stop.
The good news is probably the encrypted connections couldn't be sniffed (not sure of it, I suspect common encryption like HTTPS can be decrypted with the right tools.).
The bad news is, given that is was the Internet provider sniffing the connection, using an anonymous proxy was useless.
So at any given day somebody can call and blackmail you using those data.

Wee

Update on Martina

It is still summer here. It is strange given that we are already in October. I was invited to my brother's today and I took the chance to snap some pictures of Martina (she is 13 months old now). Here they come.
I placed Martina in her doll stroller and then threw her around the room.
She enjoyed it, despite her look in this picture.

She is walking better and better now.
Playing with uncle Lorenzo.
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