Dell 6400 – update 2

Stop reading, start speaking

Stop translating in your head and start speaking Italian for real with the only audio course that prompt you to speak.

I complained about the wifi on my newish Dell laptop in a few past posts. The wireless signal used to drop so often that it almost became predictable. Well, I finally got round to checking out the Dell site and I found an update to the Intel wifi management software. This update has made a big difference. Now it’s impossible to predict when the wireless signal will drop!

Chad

+Alex Roe is from the UK, but has lived and worked in Milan, Italy, for many years. Alex has been interviewed by the BBC on Italy issues. He tweets news and information about Italy to over 37,000 Twitter followers via @newsfromitaly on Twitter.

Feeling down

Well, I’m not feeling too great at this precise moment in time. Baby’s swollen eye problem is back

Amazon Lands in Italy, but Visited BlogfromItaly.com first

Wow! Despite Italy’s decidedly dodgy postal service, Amazon has finally set up shop in Italy. Hello Amazon.it! Amazon.com Inc even visited BlogfromItaly.com to read my How to Post things to Italy post, according to my Google Analytics data. Very interesting.

Not sure who is handling deliveries for them, but if it’s the Italian post office, Amazon will need to keep an eye on things, as they will know after having read my post, and the comments. Amazon has done business in Spain, France and Germany for a few years, but seemed to have steered clear of Italy. Until now that is.

Italy – A Power Crazed Nation? Part 2

This is part 2 of my attempt at psychoanalysing Italy and its inhabitants. Part 1 is here. In

Renzi’s 2.17 Trillion Euro Headache

Alarm bells started sounding over Italy’s national debt situation after it was revealed that the GDP growth forecasts

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When Digital Television is not Digital

For a long time I thought we were lucky enough to have the new fangled, all singing and dancing, much vaunted digital television. No silly little set top box for us, or so I thought.

Did Berlusconi Create Italy or Did Italy Create Berlusconi?

This is a wee bit like the ‘which came first, the chicken or the egg?’ story, only in this case, the chicken is Berlusconi and the egg is Italy, or vice versa, maybe. Anyway, there have been comments from high level observers of the Italy situation, people such as Alexander Stille and James Walston, who intimate that Berlusconi has created contemporary Italy.

But is this really the case? Not necessarily. Read on for an answer. Comments, and disagreement, welcome. By the way, Italy is a bus.

Italy Bickers Its Way Towards Electoral Reform

The electoral reform ball is now rolling in Italy – largely thanks to the efforts of new centre-left leader, Matteo Renzi, although the comic-activist led

Photograph: Man with Globe in Milan

I quite like this man holding a globe who can be spotted towards the Via Canonica end of Via Paolo Sarpi in Milan. Today, I