I'm toying with the idea of moving this blog to a fixed domain. Why? Well I'd like to be able to use more Wordpress plug-ins and I'm thinking about giving adense a go too.I hope you the readers won't hate me for this, but I'm sort of hoping I can resolve my cashflow problems. Especially after I … [Read more...]
TFR fever
June 19, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Vultures, in the form of banks and insurance companies, are hovering in increasingly large groups around working Italians' money at the moment. They are making a serious attempt to gain control of a portion of it. This chunk of money is known as the 'TFR'. The almost mythical TFR, if you didn't … [Read more...]
Comment Spam
June 19, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I seem to get my fair share of comment spam - which is all picked up by Wordpress.com's admirable askimet anti-spam system. Indeed, it picked up several 'comments' like this one: 'm194k'. I'm not sure what these comments are. There is no link, but there are lots of these 'codes'. It almost … [Read more...]
An unsung Milanese tradition – ATM’s Caccia al tesoro 2007
June 18, 2007 By 2 Comments
Yesterday, while I was off to lunch with a friend, I noticed lots of people on the underground here in Milan adorned in orange tee-shirts and wearing numbers . No, these people were not coming back from some marathon or other, they were, in fact, taking part in one of Milan's lesser known and more … [Read more...]
Apocalypto – the film
June 17, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I have to admit that this film intrigued me. First, I heard that it was shot in an obscure South American language. Then it was said that it was horrendously violent. But various reports also said that it was visually stunning.All these, what were for me, rumours, piqued my curiosity, so I … [Read more...]
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