Title: Advices of a Jerk

I have as much qualities as deficiencies,
I would miss virtues.
But an Older Brother is not every time right,
just Older.
And I know how to badger you about everything,
it is clear I should stop,
but for your unluckiness
I have no sons and I have to bring to you Advices of a Jerk.

If they say to stand up, sit down
and when they sit down, stand up.
Do not believe only in what you can see
Pursuit you dreams as long as you believe they are true.

And, suddenly, everyone will be your friend
They will say to love you for what you are
but they will want only to have a piece of what you have.
But
There will be Mom forever.
She has younger eyes than us.
With here you’ll have precious days,
stay with her as much as you can.
Don’t care if models or salesgirls,
or some girls will make fun of you.
Look after them as Princesses,
you will be a King.

If they say to stand up, sit down
and when they sit down, stand up.
Do not believe only in what you can see
Pursuit you dreams as long as you believe in them.

They will insult you yelling, so You laugh.
They will close your mough, so You write.
If they will hit you and they will impose you prohibitions
You mock them and sing their secrets.

You have my determination to make every mistake
before to learn from them.
But sometimes it’s not worthed the price,
as when you were playing in the courtyard
and was my duty to look after you…
or at least try to.
You will do as you wish.
You will follow your idea.
Let’s do a turn around the buoy,
also if there is high tide.
It’s a vice of our family,
like this Advices of a Jerk.

If they say to stand up, sit down
and when they sit down, stand up.
Do not believe only in what you can see
Pursuit you dreams as long as you make them true.

And then, when the party is over
everyone will go away.
You will finally realize that what is still their is enough
and, yeah, that’s your home.

They will insult you yelling, so You laugh.
They will close your mough, so You write.
If they will hit you and they will impose you prohibitions
You mock them and sing their secrets.

For my Sister and all my Brothers. I love You all and You are in my heart forever.

Su consiglio del mio amico Nemo, prendo subito parte a questa simpatica quanto semplice iniziativa: i ragazzi di TheAppleLounge regalano un iPhone ad estrazione.

Le regole per partecipare… le trovate sul loro blog

Perche’ non partecipare? (… per non diminuire ancora ulteriormente le possibilita’ di vittoria, stupido!!! -_- )

Who knows me better, knows that I love the Web. So, I was seeking for info about the next generation of web.

What I mean with “next generation”? I mean “what we can expect to see in the future”.
And the best place, is to go were people (with good skills) go and start to discuss and brainstorm about this stuff.

I found a very interesting pre-RFC: HTML 5 Working Draft.
All the amazing and cool stuff are coming are there and is pointless for me to report them (just one: Client-Side Persistency!!! COOOOL!). But it’s interesting to see WHO is working on this. I mean, who is ALREADY thinking about what we will have in the “next World Wide Web”.

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Editor:
Ian Hickson, Google, ian@hixie.ch

© Copyright 2004-2007 Apple Computer, Inc., Mozilla Foundation, and Opera Software ASA.

You are granted a license to use, reproduce and create derivative works of this document.

Ian Hickson. He is famous in “our” world but I never spent a minute taking a look to his CV. And his “poor” (for a person that does what he does) web site.

Tripping around his web page, he is doing his favourite work… in the best place possible to do this (Google).

Besides, another interesting thing to notice is the name of the companies working with him (or, better, that seems to own this VERY IMPORTANT document): Apple, Mozilla and Opera. Why Google is missing if the they pay the Employee?

Edit 2007-11-23: Is it normal that my guy that sit on my right is cutting is nails? -_-

When a “person” makes a lot of unpleasant noise sipping his/her drink. Almost everytime it happens with hot drinks.
When a “person” produce a lot of strange sounds with his/her mouth chewing.
When a “person” fart and/or burp in public without begging for pardon.
… In general, I hate who is not well-mannered. At least, in public and/or in a place where not everyone is a close friend.

… A sumptuosly laid table…

Probably will sound strange for people that know me personally, but I think is different when you make it “on proper/for fun” and when you are in that way.

Interessante analisi sulla Giustizia di Travaglio ad Anno Zero.

Title: Marco Travaglio - Giustizia Italiana
Abstract: Marco Travaglio parla di giustizia ad AnnoZero

PS Prima che lo diciate, lo so che e’ OLD… ma mi faceva piacere farvi fare due risate sulla giustizia italiana… -_-

Sounds impossible? Depends on WHERE you get bored. Please, do do it in the House of Parliament.

LONDON (AFP) - Queen Elizabeth II’s speech in the British Parliament Tuesday may have been routine but at least nobody got bored to death. That would have been against the law.

Dying in parliament is an offence and is also by far the most absurd law in Britain, according to a survey of nearly 4,000 people by a television channel showing a legal drama series.

And though the lords were clad in their red and white ermine cloaks and ambassadors from around the world wore colourful national costumes, at least nobody turned up in a suit of armour. Illegal.

Other rules deemed utterly stupid included one that permits a pregnant woman to urinate in a policeman’s hat and murdering bow-and-arrow-carrying Scotsmen within the city walls of York, northern England.

A law stating that in Liverpool, only a clerk in a tropical fish store is allowed to be publicly topless, was also ridiculous, said a poll of 3,931 people for UKTV Gold television out Tuesday.

Nearly half of those surveyed admitted to breaking the ban on eating mince pies on Christmas Day, which dates back to the 17th century and was originally designed to outlaw gluttony during the rule of the Puritan Oliver Crowmell.

The laws and other regulations were culled from published research into ancient legislation that has never been repealed although subsequent statutes have rendered them obsolete.

Respondents were given a shortlist and asked to vote.

Most ridiculous British law:

1. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament (27 percent)
2. It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside-down (seven percent)
3. In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless except as a clerk in a tropical fish store (six percent)
4. Mince pies cannot be eaten on Christmas Day (five percent)
5. In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your toilet, you must let them enter (four percent)
6. A pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, including in a policeman’s helmet (four percent)
7. The head of any dead whale found on the British coast automatically becomes the property of the king, and the tail of the queen (3.5 percent)
8. It is illegal to avoid telling the tax man anything you do not want him to know, but legal not to tell him information you do not mind him knowing (three percent)
9. It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour (three percent)
10. In the city of York it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow (two percent)

Some of them are quite incredible to believe. Some of them are just the inheritance of a rich/strange/solemn/monarchical past!
But, for all of them, I admit they are “smart”!

I’m quite sure, looking in some archive in the Italian Parliament, we can find something similar. Can’t we?
Some very incredible or funny or absurd law made to fit some “necessity” going on in that time, and which today are just ignored… or creating some “troubles” because out of any logic.

But, wait a moment: Is not what EVERYDAY happens in our Parliament’s Works? -_-

Source, Yahoo! News.