Feanor

1. Skype (the company) has been sold for 2 billion USD to a group of investors among which there a private equity Silver Lake, Joltid Limited, Andreessen Horowitz and Canada Pension Plan Investment. In the past I've seen those acquisitions lead soon or later to an involution of the original company, like the owners/founders want to get money and run away before it is too late. We will see if it is the case of Skype.

2.Chrome OS from Google has been officially presented yesterday.
Here you find the description:
http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/software-architecture
To me it looks like a simplified Linux distro aimed to people who use some sort of "mobile" device like the "netbooks" and who use it to be always on the Internet and accomplish "Internet-related" tasks. Being Open Source software, it will be extensible but also "fork-able" in any possible way.

Besides the fact that they don't know the bidet, the English seem to have strange ideas about saving water by not flushing the toilet. Some of the proposed tricks are stuff like pissing in the shower, pissing in the garden (it also helps the making of fertilizer it seems), waiting till everybody has pissed before flushing and stuff like that. Last time I checked it looked like England did not have much problems with shortage of water so it sounds a bit weird from here.

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.

Six italian soldiers have died and four others seriously wounded in Kabul, Afghanistan, when two armored vehicles have been struck by a car packed with explosives and driven by suicide attackers. There isn't any working defense against this suicide bombers who mix with the local population in crowded places.
Now the usual debate in the Parliament about war in Afghanistan as "peace mission" versus "open war", given that in the Italian Constitution, written right after WWII, there is an article that says "Italy refuses war".

Besides taxes, we have got many "hidden" expenses. Right now I am waiting for the technician to come for the annual revision of the house heater. It is mandatory by law every year and it costs 90 euros.