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-== June 2007 ==
-
-The story continues in JulyBlog of course.
-
-=== Sat, 30th ===
-
-==== Italian profanity ====
-
-I just found out that "A Cappella" is how Italians say "in the style of the church".
-It's used for music played by human voice instead of instruments. Yes, indeed.
-Nobody could understand why I was grinning :-)
-
-
-
-==== Random Birthday Paradox ====
-
-I'm writing you this from ChrisBalls's house. cjb for IRC friends.
-Yesterday was his wife's birthday. And also the birthday of somebody
-else too. That's where the title came from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_paradox .
-
-We're having a lot of fun and getting drunk very quickly. Someone
-came with a box of Avocados with a picture of Avogardo saying:
-"let's Party. arriba." It's the things like these that will make it
-very sad for me to leave this nation.
-
-Food is vegan, and incredibly tasty if you ask me. There are people
-from the office as well as other nerds from other places. One guy
-showed up with a tee saying: "shut the fuck up and write some
-code!". We're listening to TheSoundOfSilence from Xyzzy's (*) mp3 player.
-That's one of my favourite songs, but I thought it was from the Beatles :-)
-
-(*) We'll call her Xyzzy 'cause she doesn't want her name to end up on
-Internet.
-
-
-Xyzzy: remember...all is not as it appears to be and the best place to hide something is in plain sight
-
-Bernie: hmmm... then I guess I'll hide at OLPC and the USCIS won't find me :-)
-
-RandomBirthdayParty.jpg
-RandomBirthdayPartyHouse.jpg
-RandomBirthdayPartyTv.jpg
-RandomBirthdayPartyHall.jpg
-
-
-=== Tue, 26th ===
-
-==== Long time, no C++ ====
-
-The title was inteded to be a joke on "long time, no see", because I've
-not been updating the blog for some time.
-
-But this reminds me that, yes, indeed I've not been doing any C++ for a few
-months now. That's probably irrelevant to most of you... but this is my blog
-and I get to decide what goes in. Except when *you* edit it. Damn WikiWikiWeb!
-
-The reason we don't have any C++ in the OLPC is that, in the Linux world,
-C++ never flied that much. The kernel hackers say it's not well suited
-for kernel programming, and I partially agree. Of course, C++ can't be
-used for glibc and POSIX system libraries. Even MicrosoftCompany uses C
-for those.
-
-This leaves us with three more layers to exclude: windowing server,
-desktop and applications.
-
-X11 is written in C for historical reasons. Since its internals mostly
-deal with interfaces and specialization of interfaces, C++ would have
-been very beneficial.
-
-Gnome also uses C, for no good reason. KDE is older than Gnome and
-was entirely written in C++, although I clearly remember g++ 2.7.2 being
-quite a painful experience. The GObject crap in glib and GTK is expecially
-ugly, hard to use and error prone due to lack of good OOP support in the
-language.
-
-And applications? Well, applications in the OLPC are written in Python
-anyway, like many higher level applications in regular Linux distros.
-
-There's a few exceptions: Mozilla is written in C++ and eToys is written
-in SmallTalk. I don't know about TamTam.
-
-'''rasky:''' in fact, with the raise of scripting languages and fully-featured
-platforms (like Java's), using C++ for doing almost *anything* is the wrong
-choice. As you said, system programming wants C for several good reasons, and
-almost anything else can be done in scripting language. I think one last thing
-that C++ is still good today at is high-performance libraries (eg: math
-libraries), where you don't want to use C and you need a lot of performance.
-But C++ is feeling more and more like a dead horse...
-
-'''marco:''' About writing kernels in C++:
-http://okmij.org/ftp/cpp-digest/toy_OS.txt
-
-=== 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://jrfowler.com/SbarroLogo.JPG
-
-=== Fri 1st ===
-
-==== Bernie is going to write something here soon ====
-
-Yes. Definitely.
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