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 == June 2007 ==
 
+=== Sat, 20th ===
+
+==== 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++ ====
@@ -36,6 +77,16 @@ 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 ===