I should be in bed, but I've been exchanging emails with an American web entrepreneur who is coming over to Milan shortly, and thinking about how I'm going to have a go at helping out an interesting German sculptor, one Jochen Kitzbihler, who is a friend of Gianpietro Carlesso's, incidentally.Very … [Read more...]
Registering Domain Names in Italy. Dot com or dot it?
March 9, 2008 By 4 Comments
Recently Carlos, after reading this post possibly, contacted me to ask whether Italian sites use the .com and .it domain names. This was an interesting question and oddly enough I had been looking at the Alexa statistics for Italy's top 100 Internet sites recently and I noticed that both .com and … [Read more...]
Not a lot of people know this – Francesco Rutelli
February 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Apparently, Francesco Rutelli, the present Italian Cultural Affairs minister, once replaced the Italian flag which flew at Palazzo Montecitorio with that of the Vatican. I have not been able to discover in exactly which year Rutelli did this mischievous act, but it was interesting to hear about it … [Read more...]
A daft idea for the Italian Goverment
February 14, 2008 By Leave a Comment
How about setting up a system which allows people to make advance IVA (VAT) and tax payments and grant those who do this a reduced rate of tax and/or use the interest generated on such advance payments to cover the some of the lost income resulting from the reduced tax rates?It's a mad idea, I … [Read more...]
Italy from the Inside
February 8, 2008 By 5 Comments
Whilst hunting about on Technorati, I came across this blog - Italy from the Inside, and there is some interesting stuff there.It's also written by an Italian Microsoft employee, in English. Yet more proof that a) Italian's go places and b) they certainly can, and do, learn English.I shall be … [Read more...]
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