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 == May 2007 ==
+=== Fri, 25th ===
+
+Bernie, I'm Easy...
+
+I saw this two photo some row below...
+
+But all those OLPC at the roof, what doing?? Only for furnishing or for specific utility?? :)
+
+The office is very beautiful and the Apple Cinema Display is really very big...
+
+Do you have some new news about your new work??
+
+=== Sat, 19th ===
+
+==== Trip to work ====
+
+I still couldn't solve the problem of getting to work
+quickly.  I can't afford to waste over 2 hours every
+day like this.
+
+By now, I've tried any possible solution:
+
+ * Car: the office doesn't have a parking lot and there's
+ no way to park within one mile from KendalSquare for less
+ than $18/day.  Monthly fees start from $250.
+
+ * Bus: I need to commute in Dudley and take line no. 1 to
+ MassachusettsAvenue, then walk 15 minutes to KendalSquare.
+
+ * Bus + subway combo: The red line would get me directly
+ to KendalSquare, and there are several routes to get there,
+ but all of them require commuting at least twice.  The
+ monthly link pass costs $75.
+
+ * Car + subway combo: there are some cheap parkings next
+ to the terminal subway stations where you can leave your
+ car for $5/day.  Unfortunately, to get there I must
+ travel in the opposite direction.  And the whole thing
+ will cost $75 + $5*30, about the same of the monthly
+ parking fee.
+
+ * Taxi: Costs $11-$14 * 2 every day, which makes the
+ monthly parking cheap in comparison.
+ 
+And even worse, the red line stops running at midnight
+and bus no 1 at 1AM.  Which forces me to leave from
+the office very early (for my standards).
+
+If you want to play with the possibilities, I just
+discovered that the transportation company has a very cool
+web service that would have saved me a lot of time:
+
+{{{
+  http://www.mbta.com/rider_tools/trip_planner/default.asp
+  From: 66 Maywood st., Roxbury MA
+  To:  Kendall/mit Station, Cambridge
+}}}
+
+At the end of the day, the ultimate solution is moving
+closer to the office or at least close to the red line.
+Maybe I could afford to spend $600 for a room, but I
+don't feel like moving right now.  I already have enough
+things on my hands.
+
+''Have you considered to put a bicycle in your combo? You may replace a 10 km walk with it and open up new combinations (and ways to get wet...) -- PiroPiro''
+
+==== Awful Weather ====
+
+Today it's raining lightly.  Yesterday I took an extra shower
+in the evening :-(
+
+The WikiPedia was definitely right: weather in Boston can
+change very rapidly.  Must remember to buy a raincoat like
+RichardStallman's and keep it in my backpack.
+
+
+==== What Next? ====
+
+{{{
+1. Get employed at OLPC
+2. ???
+3. World domination!
+}}}
+
+Just joking, but the truth is that I still need
+to face a lot of new challenges now.
+
+My next problem will be improving my communication skills.
+After one month of full immersion, I can still barely
+understand people talking quickly to each and I clearly
+express myself using an inadequately poor vocabulary and
+too slowly in some cases.
+
+These things will improve over time, while my strong
+Italian inflection is likely to remain forever.  If
+only I could find one, I'd attend to a course to
+correct my diction now.  Actors do them.
+
+Another crucial problem I need to solve quickly is
+getting a visa that allows me to work here permanently.
+There are many possibilities, but none guaranteed to
+succeed.  For now, I'm not thinking about it: my
+employer knows better than me and will help as much
+as possible.
+
+Last but not least, my job is not easy and requires a
+good amount of commitment.  All my colleagues are extremely
+smart and more experienced than I am.  So I need to work
+twice as hard to keep up with them.
+
+A very nice workplace and very interesting assignments helps.
+And, most importantly, I know that what we're doing here is
+going to have a huge impact on the world.
+
+'''Andrea Grandi''': Your words give me no hopes for my future :(
+
+'''Bernie''': Are you planning to come here?  Cool! :D
+
+> All my colleagues are extremely smart and more experienced than I am
+
+More than you? It's not a place for me then :D
+
+'''Bernie''': It's worth trying even if you currently think you're
+not up to the job.  It's a very valuable experience even if you
+end up returning to your home country for some reason.
+
+'''Rasky''': But can you get a perm visa even without an university
+degree? I thought that was absolutely out of question... I knew that
+people without a degree could just get some 1-year temp visa.
+
+
+=== Thu, 17th ===
+
+==== More Pics ====
+
+Here are some more pics of MyOlpcDesk.
+
+=== Wed, 16th ===
+
+==== Office Space =====
+
+Here are a few pictures of the OlpcOffice!
+
+==== Hack Hack Hack ====
+
+I've been assigned a problem with an invalid serial port baud
+rate after resume from software suspend.
+
+I started investigating the hard way, until ChrisBall pointed
+me on IRC to talk with the KernelHacker DavidWoodhouse, who
+obviously had a solution in a few seconds.  Unfortunately,
+it didn't work as we expected and MitchBradley of OpenFirmware
+joined the conversation to help.
+
+Having all the subsystem gurus available to fix your bugs makes
+things a lot easier...  Hehe, I think I like it ;-)
+
+And so tomorrow I'll get back to work on a MandelBug with the Xorg's
+driver for the AMD chipset.  When XVIDEO is enabled and you
+rotate the display with XRANDR, sometimes the X server crashes,
+sometimes it just hangs and sometimes it survives with a corrupted
+display.  And the bad news is that gdb also hangs.
+
+How will I fix this?  Easy: I'll go looking for the driver authors
+first thing tomorrow and beg them to send me a fix :-)
+
+By the way, lately I've been hanging regularly in #olpc on FreeNode.
+My nick is _bernie.  Come over to see what's going on!
 
-'''Tip:''' as always, start from the bottom and proceed bottom up to keep time flowing in one direction.
 
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