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When bad is good.

Vanna Marchi is a convicted swindler.  She conned people out of money, in a rather despicable fashion, and was convicted and actually sent to prison

RAI or Sky?

I’ve been thinking about this lately.  You can choose who provides with you a phone line, who connects you to the www, and even, increasingly,

An interesting question

I’m running a course at a company which supplies electronic payment machines, or POSs.  The guy that manages the office is something of a polyglot

Italian TV yet again

I heard it on the news last night.  Recent audience figures from the Auditel TV monitoring body have confirmed that Italians want better quality TV. 

Ch, ch, ch, changes

Over the years in Italy various journalists and entertainers have been banned and excluded from television, usually because they made claims, often through satire, about

Italian TV, yet again

Good news. Apparently I’m not alone in thinking Italian TV stinks. Indeed the TV news carried a story about the introduction of a new code

Italian TV again

A while back I wrote this .  Have I changed my opinion – which was quite well justified by the info in my previous post

Montalbano is back!

OK, so I have not been blogging for a while.  Too much to do and other stuff too boring to go into here. Now, what