supernova heights

couldn't resist..

2006-02-17T01:03:00.000+01:00

When I heard that Songbird 0.1 preview was been released i couldn't resisit temptation of run it on my linux box.. i hacked a bit the dll's path to make it run with wine and that's the results..

Songbird is based on mozilla firefox and uses Xul engine, it will be ported for Linux and Mac Os X very soon but i couldn't wait any longer.. finally a very good iTunes alternative, and hey, it's open-source! http://www.songbirdnest.com/

da vinci code

2006-02-11T12:20:00.000+01:00

sorry for english people out there, trailers are in italian.

Screenshot #12!

2005-12-21T19:01:00.000+01:00

hope you like the effects..

last week snowfall

2005-12-10T12:37:00.000+01:00

GNOME Science

2005-12-07T17:39:00.000+01:00

This is a preview of what we came up with at #gnome-art, we would like to make a Plus! pack like the one included on old windows 95. More info at gnome wiki update: Icons are png's which I'm planning to substitute with vector versions. Just let me some time to teach myself Inkscape pretty well. Update: icons are now svg.

Screenshot #11!

2005-12-07T01:13:00.000+01:00

My last screen at Hoth.. my laptop.

gnome splash mockup..

2005-11-25T00:08:00.000+01:00

Some weeks ago i've read somewhere (maybe on planetgnome) that someone was writing something to notify the content of /etc/motd. Now, i think /etc/motd is very useful when you're on a machine and you're not the sysadmin, you can easily and quickly read what the administrator wants to notify to his users, GUI lacks of something like this, and i think one of the best user-friendly feature is GDM (newbies don't want to write startx!!). Said that i do love /etc/motd, i should say that I DO HATE "casual" notification bubbles (the upgrade notification in ubuntu makes me so nervous.. yeah, I know by myself I have to do a dist upgrade!!), so i thought it would be useful to have such infos directly in the splash screen that, is something useless let by itself. I also think it wouldn't be hard to implement, basically it's an imagemagick trick. All you need is a template image and imagemagick can write the content of /etc/motd and the output of mail command in the template image. It's a simple bash script.. (I'll post the script later, my bash scripting is a bit rusted at the moment. Of course, the script could be disabled if somebody wants a traditional splash screen. comments are welcome. cheers, night and thank you for all the fish. Update: rumors say that splash screen will be removed in gnome 2.14. I'm always late, shit.

nautilus mockup

2005-11-11T09:18:00.000+01:00

I made a mockup for nautilus.. as i want it to be. This is only version 0.1, it needs color adjustment and a precise design of the layout but it's near to what I want nautilus to be.

making gnome more fun...

2005-11-10T01:18:00.000+01:00

These guys are doing an interesting job on gnomelook.org here and here I'm really excited about the first one, so I'm planning to code something similar, even though there are some issues taken from Windows Vista that i don't like and probably I will not code. idea: we could do two different default themes for gnome, usability default end eye candy default. the first is the classic clearlooks theme (or the future tango one) with tango icons, the second one could be something like the first mockup thos: if you're listening, what about it? (I'll be on #gnome-art asap to talk about it)

Oasis Live @ Palaverde, Treviso 29/10/05

2005-11-02T01:45:00.000+01:00

more photos here!

Absolutely the best gig I've ever seen!

"Someday you will find me, caught beneath the landslide, in a champagne supernova in the sky"

UFO Maps

2005-10-25T18:49:00.000+02:00

Today I've discovered this: UFO Maps They overlayed ufomaps to googlemaps using googlemaps API, the result is very funny.. check it out!

Grisham (continue...)

2005-10-23T22:59:00.000+02:00

The King Of Torts

Public Defender Clay Carter arrives in court just in time to receive another hopeless murder case. His bad luck and dead-end career disappear as he stumbles upon evidence that thrusts him into the opulent world of class-action lawsuits. Clay's initial success earns him the title "King of Torts." Quickly, the glamour fades for both the character and the listener. Despite reader Dennis Boutsikaris's strong and clear narration, the novel drags along to an unsatisfactory conclusion. Boutsikaris applies a fitting characterization to European model Ridley, Clay's new trophy girlfriend, who symbolizes all the pitfalls facing the nouveau riche. Regrettably, his fine reading cannot transform a dull, predictable story into an intriguing, suspenseful tale.

A Time To Kill

his addictive tale of a young lawyer defending a black Vietnam war hero who kills the white druggies who raped his child in tiny Clanton, Mississippi, is John Grisham's first novel, and his favorite of his first six. He polished it for three years and every detail shines like pebbles at the bottom of a swift, sunlit stream. Grisham is a born legal storyteller and his dialogue is pitch perfect. The plot turns with jeweled precision. Carl Lee Hailey gets an M-16 from the Chicago hoodlum he'd saved at Da Nang, wastes the rapists on the courthouse steps, then turns to attorney Jake Brigance, who needs a conspicuous win to boost his career. Folks want to give Carl Lee a second medal, but how can they ignore premeditated execution? The town is split, revealing its social structure. Blacks note that a white man shooting a black rapist would be acquitted; the KKK starts a new Clanton chapter; the NAACP, the ambitious local reverend, a snobby, Harvard-infested big local firm, and others try to outmaneuver Jake and his brilliant, disbarred drunk of an ex-law partner. Jake hits the books and the bottle himself. Crosses burn, people die, crowds chant "Free Carl Lee!" and "Fry Carl Lee!" in the antiphony of America's classical tragedy. Because he's lived in Oxford, Mississippi, Grisham gets compared to Faulkner, but he's really got the lean style and fierce folk moralism of John Steinbeck.

why in english?

2005-10-23T22:35:00.000+02:00

Many people are asking me why my blog is in english while my natural language is italian: it's time to give them a definitely answer. 1 - When I first approach internet and precisely the Web, in 1995, there were only english webs ites, so english became, in my mind, the only possible language in Internet. (if you don't speak esperanto.. ;-P) 2 - Strangely, I started to lead two separately lives, one led in Trichiana, Belluno, Italy, the other one led in Internet, in the beginning they were close to each other but in the last years they totally disassociated. The first life is led with my friends, my family, sometimes with my girlfriends. They all love me because who I am, they don't care about anything else, they just love me. Internet doesn't care about who I am, what car I drive, how much money I have in my bank account or how many girlfriends I've ever got. In internet all these stuff are useless, the only thing internet cares about is knowledge. In Internet you are someone by what you know, not who you are. In Internet who knows rules, who wants to rule learn.. the others just watch. These rules are brutal but right. Latins called this "dura lex sed lex". I am learning. So, in Internet I speak Internet language, although not very well (as one thousand gramar errors in less than ten lines can attest). 3) My little involvement in gnome community invites me to allow people to understand what I am talking about, the only way to make it possible is to write in english. 4) I don't usually post personal and private thoughts on this blog, but when I do, I don't want some people to understand what I wrote cos the posts in question are only outpours and nothing else. The people I am talking about don't understand english language (or not so well) so I'm out of danger. 5) The world's most spoken languages are english, spanish, chinese and french. I don't spoke a single word of spanish or chinese and my french is very poor so the only way to reach as many people as I can i to write in english. 6) It's my blog and I am free to post on it in bulgarian if I want so shut up! I use this post to answer another faq: why did you pick "radel" as your nickname? It was two or three years ago, I was on my laptop and I were feeling cold.. I looked around and I saw the word "radel" on the electric stove in the room where I was.. I liked the name.. that's all.

shit

2005-10-22T19:01:00.000+02:00

perfect.. all my plans went down the shitter!

100,000,000!!!

2005-10-20T12:23:00.000+02:00

Spritz Italian People

2005-10-20T01:37:00.000+02:00

everyone's invited. NB: Spritz is a well known cocktail drunk here in Veneto based on: white wine (prosecco), water and aperol soda. Don't be vague, ask for spritz

Stay Young

2005-10-17T14:17:00.000+02:00

Oasis One way out is all you're ever gonna get From those who'll hand it out don't never let it upset you Cos they'll put words into our mouths they're making us feel so ashamed Making us take the blame Making us cold in the night Making us question my heart and soul And I think that it's not quite right Hey! stay young and invincible Cos we know just what we are And come what may we're unstoppable Cos we know just what we are Feed your head with all the things you need When you're hungry Stay in bed and sleep all day as long as it's Sunday Cos they'll put words into your mouth they're making you feel so ashamed

Programming language inventor or serial killer?

2005-10-07T01:39:00.000+02:00

i found a quiz titled: Programming language inventor or serial killer? They show you a photo and you have to tell if the man in the photo was a serial killer or a programming language inventor.. you can do the quiz here i did 7/10.. it seems I know my slashers from my shashdotters..

gimp running on OSX.. without x11!

2005-10-07T00:20:00.000+02:00

Mikael Hallendal from Imendio unveiled their effort to port Gtk to OSX. They had not done much publicity before as they wanted to get some code working first. Anders Carlson is behind this effort. Hopefully we will see the community pick up and a nice theme to integrate the apps with the native look of the Mac happen.

Also see the GIMP running on OSX without X11.

These are fantastic news for Gtk# users.

Beagle..

2005-10-06T11:44:00.000+02:00

Last night I tried out beagle, the bleeding edge desktop search for gnome, on my ubuntu breezy .. very very impressive.. it's much faster than month ago and i can't wait for the new layout made by garret.. Beagle: a good answer to Spotlight by open source community. M$: what are you waiting for?

Screenshot #10!

2005-10-05T20:41:00.000+02:00

Microsoft Spaces vs Ubuntu's Logo

2005-09-29T15:17:00.000+02:00

Look at these images.. do you find some similarities? Microsoft is copying ubuntu's logo for its MSN Space site.. The problem is: Ubuntu logo is a trade mark.. ... and Microsoft was so upset when they released Lindows.. tze

Give Up

2005-09-27T12:45:00.000+02:00

The Postal Service 1. The District Sleeps Alone Tonight 2. Such Great Heights 3. Sleeping In 4. Nothing Better 5. Recycled Air 6. Clark Gable 7. We Will Become Silhouettes 8. This Place Is a Prison 9. Brand New Colony 10. Natural Anthem

Plans

2005-09-26T20:03:00.000+02:00

Death Cab For Cuties 1. Marching Bands of Manhattan 4. Different Names for the Same Thing 5. I Will Follow You into the Dark 6. Your Heart Is an Empty Room 7. Someday You Will Be Loved 8. Crooked Teeth 9. What Sarah Said 10. Brothers on a Hotel Bus 11. Stable Song

A Quick and Dirty IQ Test

2005-09-26T18:40:00.000+02:00

Your IQ Is 135

Your Logical Intelligence is Below Average
Your Verbal Intelligence is Exceptional
Your Mathematical Intelligence is Genius
Your General Knowledge is Genius

A Quick and Dirty IQ Test

I always thought my logical intelligence was above average.. maybe this test is not so reliable....