blah, first day of almost winter weather and just got a cold that i’m currently fighting with my arsenal of medicins, interestingly enough one of the components turn out to be known also for doping effects, althought i’ve some doubts about it, at least on me it just makes me feel sleepy and as if a tank is passing over me. Also my pc seem to have some sickness:it just hangs and freeze up with the cd patetically trying to start, only the mouse cursor moves but with nowhere to go , i’d say. just brutally powering off is the solution. I suspect some conflict between my SCSI chain and that new Terratec soundcard i got, there’s also to say that the whole system is quite old, yet upgrading it right now that i’ve another notebook i can play with… well i’ll think ‘bout it

found this test from Antonio and scored 52/100 with this remark :
You are a dedicated weblogger. You post frequently because you enjoy weblogging a lot, yet you still manage to have a social life. You’re the best kind of weblogger. Way to go! wow ! (now if someone could explain me what’s a “meme” that’d be great

you don’t realize fully the value of something till it’s no longer there, two examples, the tiny buttons on my Siemens cell phone to access the main menu and the contacts… of course the phone works even without them but… (a longer story on Siemens customer support to be released maybe soon, watch out this space…) and the cleaning of railway station… you never notice too much if they’re clean or not as you may do today where due to a strike all stations and trains are a mess.

now really, does any of you know of some local competition about laziness ? ‘cause i think i’d run and get some outstanding results. If i look back at the list of things i thought i’d do in this extended week end ranging from learning Flash5 to stop procrastinating going to gym passing from a visit to Alba for some good food and wine…. well i don’t see any of those on my list of things done, and with nothing that can fit as substitute as intellectual, social, or whatever challenge. Now even if sometime’s good just to do nothing and take a rest this must change, before it’s too late < period >

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if any of you, random or affectionate readers has any idea, or better, experience on how to connect a couple of Beyerdynamic electret mics MCE 5 (specifically the MCE 5.16 with Lemo plug) to a Minidisc recorder in a quick and dirty hack way please let me know. I saw they’ve a thing called MES16 but the idea of having a couple of them with bulky XLR out to feed into a tiny portable MD is not so elegant, not to mention it’s way too expensive.

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wow!. cool design ahead, that reminds me of my resolution to do first steps with flash5 in this extended w/e, but it’s likely that even if i do , i’d never reach 1/100000th of that style, so you webdesigners out there are safe..

as saw on a banner while was visiting Leonardo’s weblog : “i’m kashmiri/pakistani muslim. click here to send hate mail” and the tag title=”” featuring : “an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”. ah clicking i got on Adnan site

i use to keep updated my cd playlist with win 98 (you know when you listen to cd with cd player and edit the entries), at least with cddb you can avoid this chore by downloading from the web for official cd releases, nevertheless for custom cds or live recordings you’ve to do on your own, all this work is saved into the file cdplayer.ini in your win directory. Now keeping in sync this stuff with my laptop where i’ve win 2000 that uses another system ( all entries are in an access db called deluxecd.mdb ) would have been a mess if not for this nice freeware tool : PLC converter that convert from many different format and saved me the effort of re-entering something like 150 cds…

there’s an interesting conversation that’s going across various italian weblogs, and in order to throw my 2c in i think i’ll break my unwritten rule to post in english and switch to native language mode, for the english only readers out there (to the extent that you exist) why dont’ ya learn some italian too… there’s an interesting world of blogging here as you’d check out in www.bloggando.com

Tutto inizio’ con il post del laPizia sui trentenni, e sulle mutazioni o atteggiamenti che avvengono in questa eta’ soprattutto se poi uno comincia a mettere su famiglia etc. Se concordo sul fatto che ci siano persone che siano vecchie dentro anche quando sono giovani fuori o che pateticamente cercano di sembrare dei bambinoni anche se la carta identita’ non lo rispecchia, non necessariamente penso cio’ accada automaticamente al passaggio negli ‘enta o perche’ uno si sposa, e oltretutto che cio’ segni comunque un’appiattimento ed un ingrigimento della vita. Mi viene in mente una persona che ho conosciuto quando io avevo 25 anni e lui 10 + di me , sposato , con un bambino di due anni e perfettamente coerente nell’ essere papa’ e poi dedicarsi ad attivita’ quali la camminata sui carboni ardenti o lo studio delle pratiche sciamaniche.

Mi piace molto la sincerita’ della Pizia e di Vanessa nel prendere posizione sul tema, certo se uno mette su famiglia solo perche’ cosi’ risolve una bella serie di problemi materiali (dallo stirare al cucinare), piuttosto perche’ generazionalmente succede cosi’ o perche’ i genitori o altri vorrebbero cosi’ o in ultima analisi perche’ uno ha paura di rimanere solo e l’idea di dying alone and being found three weeks later eaten by an Alsatian come dice Bridget Jones non e’ proprio allettante, beh tutto cio e’ alquanto triste, ma… concordo con Eva che dice che “qui forse ci si dimentica che uno si sposa per amore” e con il post di Rillo che oltretutto viene come dire per esperienza sul campo, io quell’esperienza non ce l’ho pero’ saro’ ottimista o illuso, ma penso che l’amore esista, anche se gioca a nascondino o e’ un po’ stanco