Painting the snow
Originally uploaded by ximilian
Walking towards the Coliseum (or Colosseum, or, frack me, call it as you wish), I was wondering how much snow there should be. Not too much. Therefore, no white Colosseum. Besides the jerks, that were throwing to the people snow balls (thank God there was a policeman), there was a cute blip of colours, too.
Black and white, but whit a touch of colourful rainbow.
And of course the snow at the Coliseum: could you imagine a more beautiful day?
Filed under Photography, Real Life by on Feb 19th, 2010. Comment. 
Footprints
Originally uploaded by ximilian
Friday morning (last week), a great snowfall in Rome. Great, well, a little one.
Enough to cover the grass, the holes in the soil, and the dog’s little things.
A man crossed the garden and left a trace behind.
I came, I took a picture.
Filed under Photography, Real Life by on Feb 19th, 2010. Comment.
Few months ago, I pointed out this method to change the GDM login page background according your current background.
Now, the same author has changed a bit his great script: a debian package is now available!
Therefore, here there an update guide for achieving the automatic wallpaper change:
Remember to select the “Use Desktop Background” setting!
XSplash Settings Dialog
Filed under Tutorial, Ubuntu by on Feb 9th, 2010. Comment.
It seems Google finally discovered the hot water, and taken a new approach to China.
Well done! Yeah, as an activist at Amnesty International, and idealistic person, I’m very happy about this decision.
Of course, who dare to not be happy? But, reading twice this piece of news a question arises.
Where was Google in the past years? With its head under the sand? Maybe they were blind by the shining of waving things…
Human rights are denied all over the world. China is one of the top-most repressive free speech: people are tortured, the justice is unfair, there are arbitrary arrests and detentions.
Suddenly, Google is attacked by Chinese hacker and they discover that, maybe, something is wrong. Because of this accident, they are reconsidering their approach to China. Fine. “Not to be evil”, is your motto, and finally you understand that was bad bow your head for the Chinese money. Now, you have the opportunity to show to the world that the change is possible.
Please, do not stop by just this episode. Keep opening the Internet, everywhere. Keep the free speech, well, FREE!
And then, we will forgive you this late second thoughts…
Filed under Google, Human Rights, Real Life, Thoughts by on Jan 13th, 2010. 1 Comment.
Può piacere o non piacere, ma Lorenzo per me è un grande!
Mettete le cuffie, alzate al massimo, chiudete gli occhi… e ascoltate…
Filed under Video by on Jan 9th, 2010. Comment.
Rolling twisting jumping: parkour! sliding jumping twisting rolling (again)…. rolling twisting sliding cover me/uncover me JUMP!
Amazing papercraft by Serene Teh.
Filed under Video by on Jan 9th, 2010. Comment.
This is a test post from 
, a fancy photo sharing thing.
Filed under Real Life by on Dec 28th, 2009. Comment.
One month ago, I stumbled upon a very interesting project: PostCrossing
Essentially, it is bookcrossing applied to postcards. What? Are you wondering what all these *crossing things are?
Well, try to click on the link above, or keep reading! 
Filed under Fun, Postcrossing by on Dec 27th, 2009. Comment.
