Posts Categorized: Ramblings

Google Gadgets

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If you are using Google and your are using the Personalised Home Page, by now you must have heard of “Google Gadgets” — those little applets that you add to your home page and you move around and align them as you wish. I personally think it’s great — I even went to the length […]

(Astronomy) Picture of the Day

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If like myself you like your desktop wallpaper changed often with cool stuff, you might find this site useful: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html. Every day there is a new picture related to astronomy posted and you can download them in high quality as well. Some of them are indeed artists impressions of various events yet to come, but […]

New Horizons

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For those of you who haven’t heard about it yet, New Horizons is NASA’s mission to explore Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. The mission started back in January 2006 — and if you visit the mission’s site, the counters on the first page will tell you exactly, down to the very second, how long has […]

Protect your online content

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This has happened to me recently: Normally I check my webservers logs regularly — partly to find out whether my page views have increased (if only 🙂 ), partly to see where my visitors come from (and more importantly to make sure that I get other visitors than my friends 🙂 ), partly to see […]

J2ME and GPRS Connections

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I liked from the beginning the idea of mobile and embedded programming so I spent a lot of time on mobile and embedded programming (see the mobile section on my website). More specifically, I spent a lot of time doing J2ME stuff. Recently, as a lot of you might know, there is a new API […]

Stellarium

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Just came across this brilliant piece of software (which, believe it or not IS actually free!) for those of you interested in astronomy: it shows the sky at night basically with all the starts, constellations and so on. To quote from the site: Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows […]

Women are from Venus…

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Here’s an interesting fact folks: Venus (the planet) has a weird rotation pattern: its year is shorter than its day! So in other words it takes it more to spin around its own axis than it takes the planet to actually make a full rotation around the Sun in its own orbit. Now imagine venusians […]

Boiler Room

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I watched the other day Boiler Room — interesting stuff, folks! Never-ever say YES to a trader who calls you on the phone out of the blue 🙂 lol

Interesting Coincidence

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This one is quite funny: a friend of mine pointed out this blog site, which apparently comes in the search engines results if you look for “Liv’s Blog” : Livia Labate’s blog Mine apparently comes in about the 7th or 8th results page. lol

Enterprise vs .COM

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As some of you might know already, I work nowadays in a company that started during the .com era. It’s a new internet media organization, specialized in net contextual advertising. Prior to that though, I used to work in a company offering enterprise solutions for document management. Most of their clients were large-scale companies with […]