A list of Ways Italy Could Save Money

Those who know a little about Italy's wobbly economy will know that public spending levels are reaching record highs.So, how could Italy save a few Eurocents?  Read on for a list of ten ideas. … [Read more...]

Clouds often do have silver linings.

A big thanks to all of you who left messages of support regarding my mother in law. I'm pleased to be able to say that, although she is still in hospital, she is making progress, and is feeling a lot less poorly than she was a couple of weeks ago when she was rushed into hospital with breathing … [Read more...]

Don’t Touch WordPress 2.5!

Having read that WordPress 2.5 was out, I was curious to see what it was like, but I had also read that there were problems.However, my curiosity got the better of me, and I went ahead and installed this new milestone release of my favourite blogging platform. Only, I installed WordPress 2.5 on a … [Read more...]

Cheesed Off

Italia Dei Valori Party

The rubbish crisis which appears to have made Naples infamous the world over, has now been joined by a mozzarella crisis.  A Buffalo Mozzarella crisis, to be more precise.As you may have seen from stories in the press the world over, this delicious cheese, one of Italy's more prized … [Read more...]

Registering Domain Names in Italy. Dot com or dot it?

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...]