Feanor

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.

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 Nobody knows how many data have been archived, what the providers did with the data and then if and when the data have been destroyed after January 2008 when the authorities ordered the providers to stop.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.

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.

The price of raw materials has increased a lot during years and then things like stealing wires from the rail roads for retrieving copper has become relatively common here.
Now there is a new trend for more professional thieves, stealing solar panels.
While photovoltaic solar panels are getting increasingly popular on italian buildings, it seems some people are organizing crews to get over the roof at night and take down the expensive panels.
Then the stolen panels are sold in other countries, probably north Africa, for about 1/3 of the original price. I am reading the new solar panels get an unique ID the first time they get online in the national power grid so they can't be reused in Italy but I don't know if this is true.

Like everybody on MyOpera knows, thanks to the message "from above", Opera 10 (the browser) is out. My opinion is the same as usual. Opera is good software, a very good browser with lots of nice options for customizing and an integrated advanced mail client. I would suggest Opera to anybody but in the same time I can't find a reason to prefer Opera over Firefox that is my first option.
Opera 10 was meant to have two major "innovations".
One is the "Turbo" feature for slow speed Internet connections. It works by connecting to a proxy server operated by Opera (the firm) that caches the Web pages and compress them before sending to you, especially images, to reduce the amount of data transferred. Like I said before, this was a common trick in the '90s when many people had dial-up connections.
The other feature is "Unite" but it did not make it to Opera 10 yet, it is still under development. Unite is a webserver that you run on your computer and allows other people to connect to you to browse your pictures or download files. To find other people you can use either their IP address or search among registered users over Opera (the firm) community. It was introduced as "revolutionary" but I can't understand why. Of course it makes it easier for anybody to run a webserver but the concept in itself is not exactly new. And you know, running a server over a personal computer is not always a smart idea, basically because personal computers are not meant to be online 24/7, neither "safe" as servers. When I switch my computer off, my images collection is offline and my friends from Australia can't access it. When my hard disk crashes the collection is lost because I don't do any backup, etc.