== June 2007 ==
+=== Sat, 20th ===
+
+==== Random Birthday Paradox ====
+
+I'm writing you this from ChrisBalls's house. cjb for IRC freins.
+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.
+
+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://www.emich.edu/dining/images/sbarro/sbarro.jpg
+
+
=== Fri 1st ===
==== Bernie is going to write something here soon ====
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