flying in colors

got and saw “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and there are at least two things i liked very much in that movie, firstly the fight scenes, you’ll say oh martial arts so what ? well it not that aspect as the lightness, the effect that they created when characters indeed fly and move so quickly and with elegance that you start dreamin’ of doing something similar, it’s a depiction of a state of grace that you’d experiment maybe dancing or when you play an instrument and things run so smooth that it’s almost like flying. Second thing is choreography with scenes and colors from the woods of intense green and fighting on the trees to the palace in the city and images of desert (that in some parts reminded me of badlands of North Dakota). I said two things well there’d be more : the story itself and Yo-Yo Ma’s cello solos.

Firstly : i don’t understand why people create viruses, really, i may understand clever hacker attacks, tricks of various nature, but viruses and worms not really. my systems at home are safe at least , i always have an antivirus on in the background that i update often and when there’s something suspect downloaded i delete at all. Now the other day i was on this web development project and suddely saw a web error “server busy too many users” at first i said wow amazing (considering that IIS on Win2000 Pro says has a limit of 10 users it could be a success since there was just me and another person on this intranet working on it…) instead looking

at log files i saw traces of the infamous Code Red II worm, disconnected from network and cleaned up, now at home i’m looking at logs of my tiny webserver, where i develop what you see and spotted again traces of attacks in the same form,and that makes me think, cause i figured out that attacks were likely on people using cable modem or permanent/flat connection, not just poor dial up stuff… anyway i raised up my defences… btw if you’re interested and have a web server, the log trace is something like this :


GET /default.ida?XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

XXXXXXXXX%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%

u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b0

0%u531b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a


StorTrooper me too !

I spotted those creatures around the web, avatars , digital icons, well just funny at least i think so, hence i created my own, so you’re looking at ciampatrooper V.1.0, impressive, don’t you think ?

where il ciampa stops a police car…

ah that was funny today, i guess just something less funny than the day i crashed a police car but this is another story, well i was riding my bike (yess sun was on my side today) when in front of me there was this police car going damn slow and in a point where it was forbidden to pass, i stay beside just a little annoyed because there were much below the speed limit, anyway when comes the point where i can pass them i notice something on the top of their car so i just ride side by them and start making some gestures pointing at the top and at my helmet, now before they make it wrong (you know pointing at the head may suggest “you’re nut” , and considering my black opaque helmet, bandana up to my nose and dark glasses and the recent debate about cops violence after G8 i’d not like eventually to taste their baton) so we mutually move to the side of the road but with me in front of them ,step down and i just very politely say: “hey mister sorry but you forgot your hat on the top of the car and it just flew away a few meters there”…. and the guy: “oh sh##, thanks”.

thinking about Nelly Furtado it came to my mind another girl who published a nice album, do you remember Natalie Imbruglia ? (see , i’ve a thing for chicks who write and sing). It was 1998 and Torn was surely pop(ular) now i’m wondering where did she go, vanished ? nay look at her website and she’s working to a new album, the site indeed feature a diary done with Flash, see : power of the journaling and of the net

it seems that this year statistical evidence leads to rainy weekends… and even this one after some hide and seek rain came in, that meant another chance lost to do a some km with my bike, yeah i don’t like at all riding with the rain and long gone are the days when i ride trough all Valle d’Aosta under heavy rain without almost caring.

week started with another two days business trip to Geneva, two in a month, not too bad. positive note of meetings away from the office is the fact that proves you can live without computers for some time ( i’ve got 3 of them on my desk) and avoid reading e-mails too! .for the rest the weather here is damn hot , should this be enough to explain this specific lack of inspiration ?

lectio difficilior

back in high school i was keen (not always) to go for the lectio difficilior, i.e. to make it short : the less likely interpretation of something, a translation or a text. to a greater extent i find out that i may tend to follow the less beaten track, not the main or most popular one, again, not always : heck, i’m using IE5.5. on Win pc 😉 so no wonders that this may lead (but not necessarily) to days like this one that i’d easily label borrowing the title of a Ben Harper song : just another lonely day . no i’m not whining or venting about that. and as a matter of fact i’m heading out for a ride with my mountain bike (while most of the people considering the 90+ F degrees out there and the humidity would go to a swimming pool), yeah i’m a little masochistic too