Blasted signal is dropping every two seconds. Don't know why, but it is bugging me. Coupled with everything else, this is the Monday of nightmares. … [Read more...]
Busy Times
January 28, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I've got a lot on at the moment, what with courses kicking off right left and centre. Mix that in with a workshop, lesson dates and times which seem to be moved every other day, and things become complicated. Then there is the sausage project....I need to think things through, so I'm off out for … [Read more...]
Clemente Mastella is Innocent!
January 26, 2008 By Leave a Comment
It's true, Mastella, Italy's former justice minister who has come under all sorts of accusations for wrong doing, really does believe that he has done nothing wrong. His wife is also under investigation for suspected bribery. UPDATE below - this case has recently flared up once more - October … [Read more...]
The Power of Italy
January 25, 2008 By Leave a Comment
In these troubled times in Italy, I'm going to buck the trend and have a look at something which puts Italy in the kind of light it should be in permanently. That something is the Italian car company, which I regard as being the Italian equivalent of Aston Martin. That company is Maserati. … [Read more...]
Italia.it isn’t
January 23, 2008 By Leave a Comment
It was supposed to have been a shop window to Italy, a tourism web portal par excellence, but it has turned out to be a 7 million Euro white elephant. If you try to visit, www.italia.it, you won't see too much. All I've been getting is server timeouts. Brutta figura time. UPDATED July … [Read more...]
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