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Dario de Judicibus

Dario de Judicibus is a Certified Managing Consultant of IBM Italia. He is also an inventor (5 patents) and a writer (2 manuals, 3 essays, one novel, two short tales and more than 250 articles published in hardcopy). He has many hobbies as playing guitar, photography, and martial arts.

The Digital Dark Age

Preface Yesterday my 13-years old daughter called me for help because her laptop hard disk was rather full. It was a matter of minutes to realize that most of her storage (i.e. 90%) was filled by images, audio and video files. In fact, she has a camera and she likes to take lots of snapshots of her friends. Since her digital camera allows [...]

Draculea the Musical in Sec...

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 — 21:30 CEST (12.30 SLT) Living in Tuscany and Treasure of Tuscany lands «Draculea - Nel Sangue e nell'Amore», the musical, is coming to Second Life! The show is sponsored by the major Italian blood donor association: AVIS (Associazione Volontari Italiani Sangue). On Septe [...]

Upon whom can we rely?

Abstract Nowadays, reliability of contents is extremely important in the web. We can mostly find any kind of information in Internet, but how much reliable is a source? How much accurate are the pieces of information provided? Several feed aggregators and site directories have defined various criteria to rate sites and blogs, but most of the [...]

Polvere di blog

È finito il BlogFest 2008. Bene. Sono stati decretati i vincitori del Macchianera Blog Awards 2008. Aribene. Sapete chi ha vinto il premio per il Miglior Blog 2008? Indovinate un po'? Ma sì, proprio lui! Il Grillone Nazionale: Beppe Grillo! Bene? Mah, se lo dite voi... Perché? Perché quello di Grillo non è un blog, eccco perché. Certo, [...]

Qualcosa da dire

Questo non è il mio solito articolo. In genere non parlo di articoli scritti da altri blogger, ma questa volta ho deciso di fare un'eccezione. Stasera sono andato a fare un salto sul blog di Mauro Lupi per leggerne l'ultimo articolo. Si intitola «Robin Good e il nuovo MasterNewMedia» e parla della nuova strategia editoriale [...]

[Satirical Amoebas] Despera...

Amoeba A: «Sarah Palin? A Bible-believing Christian who was unfaithful to her husband, raised drug addicted teens, and whose daughter might be pregnant at the wedding?» Amoeba B: «Well, if she wouldn't be elected, at least she can surely count on a leading role in the next season of “Desperate Housewives&rdq [...]

[Satirical Amoebas] If you ...

Amoeba A: «It looks like Barack Obama might be the First Muslim President of United States of America» Amoeba B: «Well, great strategy! If you can't beat them, join them!»

FaJo XP File Security Exten...

«L'Indipendente» Rating  Installation  Interface  Usefulness Note: advanced users only! Yesterday I got in trouble with few files I created by a graphics editing program on Windows XP Home. File had regularly been created but there was no way to do anything with them after closing the application: I could not [...]

Esuberi a Go Go

C'è una cosa che non capisco dell'intricata vicenda «Alitalia». Il 28 marzo 2008 i giornali riportavano: Confermati i 2.100 esuberi ... sarebbero così distribuiti: 1.620 per Alitalia Fly e 500 per Alitalia Servizi. Nel documento si specifica che gli esuberi riguardano 50 [...]

Sustainable Web

The first time I connected my computer to a network, it was on May 1984. The computer was an Amiga 1000, the network was a BBS by MC-Link, and the device I used to connect was a 300bps modem. Downloading a 10K image required a lot of time and since that connection occurred on a traditional telephonic line, it was very expensive too. There [...]

Thought (18)

Enough of talking about politicians: let us talk about politics instead. Dario de Judicibus, Rome, September 6th, 2008 Translations Basta parlare di politici: parliamo di politica, piuttosto. Assez de parler de politiciens: laissez-nous parler de politique à la place.

Quel cinema così serio

Cannes 2008. Due i film italiani in concorso: «Gomorra» di Matteo Garrone e «Il divo» di Paolo Sorrentino. Il primo è la trasposizione del romanzo di Roberto Saviano sulla camorra, il secondo racconta un pezzo di vita di Giulio Andreotti. Venezia 2008. Quattro i film italiani in concorso: «Il papà di Giovan [...]

God bless America

God bless America. In the latest few weeks I heard that wish to conclude most of the speeches of the candidates for the presidency and vice-chair of the United States, and I wondered "which God?" I mean, USA is the country of Freedom, the country of the Founding Fathers, the country of the Declaration of Independence. So the Fre [...]

First impressions on Google...

Today I downloaded Chrome, the new browser by Google, and I used it for the whole day. I stressed it a little bit, but of course it was not an exhaustive test: just a first impression, for the moment. So, it is possible that some drawback is not Chrome's fault but mine, that is, I have not yet worked with it for long. Anyway, here is it. [...]

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