Storie di me

I’m back

storiedime — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:59:09 +0000

Ok, I’m back to my English language blog. I would like to use it to improve my English, but it’s difficult to maintain one Italian blog (http://www.storiedime.com), and a tumblr (http://storiedime.tumblr.com), so, another one and in another language… Hm… I’ll try…

On my Flickr photos of new iPod nano “opening”…

Back to office after a lot of time…

storiedime — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:47:58 +0000

An italian language post about Italian digital divide
A service I HAVE TO test: Yugma
25 tricks on Skype [IT]; this is the English original post
Amazing cars prototipes
The best visual explanation of Web2.0 ! Great !
An interesting program that gives you the measures of all the objects in a photo
I’m trying something like this: a mixture between paper and pda
How to preparing “new antique paper“
A stupid idea. Or, perhaps, not so much stupid. But absolutely quite stupid
Smileys with cats !

Anyone will be there ?

storiedime — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:42:11 +0000

The Future of the web design, in London, April, 18th.

I’ll be here.

Today

storiedime — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:07:57 +0000

A quite strange but interesting project
The top 25 web-celebrities
What’s up over there ?
A great idea, not only for Valentine’s Day

Falling in love with Twitter

storiedime — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:45:26 +0000

I’m becoming addicted. http://www.twitter.com/storiedime

If you, that are reading this post, have twitter too, please, put it in the comments or sent to my mail

For the moment, I’m Twitting in Italian, but, if someone will leave here is twitter sign, I’ll try to post in English…

Too much to do…

storiedime — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:00:31 +0000

…in so a little time.

Here in my office there’s an awful mess. Peraphs it would be a little better after January, 30th. But now… Ohw…

And tomorrow I’ve to go to Verona (Giuletta and Romeo city) for work, and it seems that in Northern Italy will snow. Here in Rome we have 12C degrees, so I don’t want to think at the difference…

Surfing again and again…

storiedime — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:00:45 +0000

All the “you need” to fix a PC on your USB key
A funny advertising
A nice idea: making bijoux from buttons ! Cheap and new
Wonderful and modern fireplaces
Don’t put in the wastebasket your finished ballpoints ! Reuse them !
Top 25 personal finance myths.

The discovery of the day…

storiedime — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:28:50 +0000

I’d never heard before of “maildrop” services. In Italy we have the POBox system only, but it’s quite expensive and Post Offices require lot of time in line to take your post.

Now, I have a “little problem”: I haven’t any “smailmail” address. I’m still resident in my birthtown, Turin, but I live in Rome, and now I have a new address without the possibility to change the name on the entry phone.

I absolutely LOVE magazines, and I have the opportunity to subscribe in a cheap way to a lot of them. But where may I ask to send them ?

Google helped me, and I discovered the wonderful word (?) of the private POBox ! The Maildrops ! Great !

I’ve found the remailing services nearest to me, I’ve contacted them and… now I have only to pay the magazines subscription Great service !!!

Maybe you can find my surprise funny, but not everywhere the maildrop system is so diffused.

Only for information

storiedime — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:20:16 +0000

Guantanamo is 5 years old.

A wonderful Gmail tip !

storiedime — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:37:28 +0000

Need to write a Gmail message in a while ? Have you installed the Google toolbar ? OK, so…

This is the right way ! Great !

New experiences

storiedime — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:23:10 +0000

Ok, may seem stupid for lot of people, but today, for the first time in 6 years (and a half), I came to work by metro.

I can’t spend 3 hours a day blocked in traffic jam on the “Rome ring” (the “Grande Raccordo Anulare”), I feel so stupid doing it. So I’ve decided and I’m trying. I have to drive for 7Km to the Metro terminal, then 15 metro stops, change metro line, 7 other metro stop, and then stairs and a little hill to climb (well, not so high). But it’s better than the awful Rome traffic jam.

I can also read. Today my first commuting-companion was Isabel Allende, with her last book (“Ines anima mia”, the Italian title). So nice having time to read again !!!

Integration

storiedime — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:47:37 +0000

IMHO this is great ! Only one super-mega-government site.

Here in Italy we have lots of different public administration sites, everyone different from the other. When the Government changes, every site changes. Awful, and expensive.

And again…

storiedime — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:00:27 +0000

If you still believe in business plan
When craftmanship fit with technology, a video from FIAT Style Developement Center
52 stress reducers… I have to keep this list under my eyes
Wow ! For me it’s a great idea… I can break a CD case only watching at it (never understood how I can do that…)
I definitively LOVE Letterman !
Which is the best photogallery ? Difficult choice…
The periodic table of visualization methods. Great !
Free online file convertion. Useful !
The origami business card holder.

Surfing again…

storiedime — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:24:31 +0000

If I only could find some spare time…
great ! A wonderful 3D wood carving machine

Back in office…

storiedime — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:38:36 +0000

… and my Bloglines let me notice that I’ve been away from Internet too long…

the Emergent task planner. Nice.
best 50 hacks for your life
IM are better than mail for increased productivity. I’m sure it’s correct !
Great ! The Doorganizer ! I absolutely need one !
An interesting site, The FreeDictionary [via .mau.]
The Nature Calendar 2007. Great desktop for the new year
A wonderful USB weather station !
Calendars for every taste
Best and worst food and beverage in 2006
The winners of Darwin’s Award 2006…
A wonderful utility for creating newsletter !

So sad

storiedime — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:18:19 +0000

Ok, I don’t like New Year’s resolution. But discovering that the most voted one is “to lose weight” let me feel so sad…

It arrives before “Get a new job, freelance more or start a new business” (the same I voted) and “Run a marathon/5k/10k/triathlon or get better at a certain sport.”

Well, it’s better discovering that the second is a non-resolution: “I don’t make New Year’s resolutions”. Better that than “lose weight”. Oh my God… Weight ? Is that the Problem ? Is everything else OK in your life ? Have you time to spend with your children ? Have you enough money to live in a good way ? Ok, so, I wish you to lose weight…

Surfing somewhere on the net

storiedime — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 11:46:08 +0000

Directly from my bloglines:

Wow, this is what you can call “a great project” !
For these holiday season’s overeating. And, if you like posh restaurants… be aware and watch this comic:
finally, someone that understands me: The NYT ran a piece last week on the virtues of messiness, claiming that “messy desks are the vivid signatures of people with creative, limber minds.” Diana, are you reading this… ?
once upon a time… I thought that Jeff Goldblum was sooo nice. But he’s not like wine, obviously…
Tag your desktop. It sounds useful…
don’t judge too quickly. Nice advertising
are you ready for Vista ?
a very fast online dictionary: Ninja. Great !
The incomplete manifesto for growth. Interesting (and not so incomplete…)

Happy birthday to meee…

storiedime — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:38:41 +0000

Today it’s my birthday. I’m 36 years old, now.

I start feeling old.

I’m 660Km far from my friends, in my parents’ home, with an awful mood inside of me and of them.

Not so a nice way to spend my birthday.

I hope someone over there is enjoying him/herself also for me, and this could be a wonderful birthday gift, also if it sounds strange…

Enjoy yourself, and this will be your best present for me !

I can’t believe…

storiedime — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:22:47 +0000

Ok, I LOVE my blackberry. But I’m not (at the moment) a crackberry.

I can switch it off or put it in silent mode.

But, please, tell me that this photo is an advertising one…

New year’s resolutions

storiedime — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:01:53 +0000

I hate New Year resolutions. They are useful only for making you feel frustrated at the end of the year.

But this time I have some projects. I’d like to buy an house. Here in Rome is VERY expensive. So it’s a really high goal for me. But… I’ll try.

Maybe I’ll find useful these “11 Ways to Motivate Yourself to Complete any Task in New Year“…

Well, in that post I think that the better part is the caption of the image… let’s read: