== June 2007 ==

=== Wed, 13th ===

==== Under pressure ====

Miletstone B4 was expected to ship today.  I don't care because my work
is for due for Trial2.  But many of my colleagues were extremely
under pressure.

There is one last bug with some laptops not coming out of resume.
And it's still not fixed at 21:00.  Kernel hackers are scraping
their heads.

We had pizza together and, seeing so many tired faces, I casually asked:
"when do we close for summer?".

People look at me puzzled: "What do you mean exactly by ''close''?".

"Err... companies don't close for summer here in the States?".

They look at each other, trying to guess if it's some kind
of joke: "Why would companies ever ''close''?  They're not schools."

I quickly added: "Oh, I'm asking because, you know, most
companies in Italy do close a few weeks for summer".

At this point everybody laughed like if companies closing
was an extremely funny idea.

This is one reason why we have a strong economy here: people
are extremely committed at work.  Will I ever catch up?  Hope so.


=== Tue, 12th ===

==== Eutelia Voip ====

I have a new public phone number: {{055-3984187}}.

It's Eutelia's VOIP service, formerly Skypho.  People told me
that the quality is good.  All the previous phone numbers remain
valid.

I've also switched from Ekiga to a SIP client that doesn't
totally suck:

 http://www.twinklephone.com/

Actually, the user interface is horrible.  But if you close
your eyes, it works beautifully.


=== Mon, 11th ===

==== Sleeping At The Office ====

We have a futon here.  And it's quite comfortable.  Sleeping
at the office has its pros and cons, hereby listed by Dillinger:

OfficeSleep.jpg


==== Bender Down ====

There has been a longstanding outage of our wiki server since yesterday.
Today, my sister finally fixed the problem by rebooting both the modem
and the computer.

http://bender.codewiz.org/bender.jpg

I'm planning to move bender here one day, so I can properly maintain
it, but first I need to consolidate my visa position.


=== Fri, 8th ===

==== More laptop news ====

Available here:  http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=News

Some links to videos in the end.  There's not much about me, mostly because I've not done
much this week besides chasing bugs.


==== Father and son private business ====

 E' una settimana che non scrivi. Dove sei sparito? -- '''Babbo'''

Avevo problemi di ADSL piuttosto gravi su questo server... ora e' a posto, ma oggi ho da finire delle cose urgenti.  Vedo di scrivere due righe nel w/e, scusate tanto -- '''bernie'''

=== Sat 2nd ===

==== Food FUD ====

Two days ago I went to the local pub for the HappyHour... the HungryHour actually.
And I ordered this tasty dish of Cheese Bacon Fries!  Yummy yum!

 http://gastrologica.com/cheesefries.jpg

Ok, it's a disgusting blob of pure fat.  And the infamous Cheddar
cheese, also known as "solid cholesterol":

 http://www.dann-online.com/HappyHour/lrg93.jpg


If you're looking for something healthy, you can always try a
salad.  Just make sure you don't get a Caesar salad with its
ultra-fat dressing sauce:

 http://www.kosherblog.net/media/caesar.jpg

You may also want to avoid hot dogs drowned in chili sauce:

 http://onokinegrindz.typepad.com/ono_kine_grindz/images/WaffleDogwithChili-thumb.jpg

American pizza is edible and even good... But I recently discovered that
Pepperoni aren't vegetables, but a kind of hot salami:

 http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/PTGPOD/409409~Close-up-of-Pepperoni-Pizza-Posters.jpg


And, finally, beware of food franchises pretending to be Italian.
There are many:

 http://www.emich.edu/dining/images/sbarro/sbarro.jpg


=== Fri 1st ===

==== Bernie is going to write something here soon ====

Yes. Definitely.