Jul
30

Freemail

2007 | Filed Under Technology and Gadgets, Thoughts | 1 Comment

Email is fantastic, of that I have no doubt.  Alas, though, its users are not always fantastic.

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Jul
29

Italian food

2007 | Filed Under Life in Italy | Leave a Comment

To round off the weekend, we ended up at a local restaurant this Sunday evening. The place, called Il Quadrifoglio (four-leaf clover), is located merely a stone’s throw away from our place and it does do some nice stuff. This time round we had a rather scrumptious plate of salmon with tagliatelle, scamorza cheese and weeny tiny octopuses. We washed this down with a nice white wine and followed it up, well, my son and I, with a very good fruits of the forest cream dessert. And coffee, of course. Then we came back home and I finished off yet another translation I’d been doing.

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Jul
27

Blair’s other legacy

2007 | Filed Under England, People | Leave a Comment

Many would have you believe that post-Blair Britain is a fabulous place. Many people have more money than they know what to do with and everything is hunky dory. Only, this is not necessarily true for 100% of the population, at least not according to the story which one of my students told me after a recent visit to London.

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Jul
27

Some stats

2007 | Filed Under This blog | 1 Comment

The number of views since I switched to Wordpress last year is now over 20,000. Total spam blocked now over 11,000 and growing.  My most popular post concerns traffic fines in Italy, with over 1,700 views.

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Jul
27

In you need to use Italian, you might find this site useful.

2007 | Filed Under Italian, Italy, Language | Leave a Comment

My written Italian is not that wonderful, (it is getting better, but it is not yet perfect…) and I tend to have problems remembering certain Italian verb conjugations. This means that I find this site is very handy indeed: http://italianverbs.googlepages.com/index.htm

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Jul
27

Gold fever.

2007 | Filed Under Fashion, Milan, People | 1 Comment

Nope, sorry, gold has not been found in Milan, so please don’t rush here.  However, gold is certainly on the streets.  Gold seems to be the in-colour for  quite a few Milanese women at the moment.  There are gold coloured handbags, shoes, belts, and tops.  Should you wish to demonstrate the Midas touch, you will be able to find gold coloured everything in Milan’s shops.  And it’s sale time, so you can go for gold, without spending a fortune.  You can even dress your little ones in gold too, if that takes your fancy.

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Jul
26

Playing with my site

2007 | Filed Under Work | Leave a Comment

A short time ago I had my main site englishisin.com moved over to a swish new server.  But, despite the new server, it seemed to load even more slowly than before.  This evening I have carried out a few modifications to the Joomla! backend in the hope of speeding it up a bit.  If you have spare moment maybe you could click here and then kindly let me know how long it takes before the site comes up on screen.  Thanks a bundle.

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Jul
25

The dangerous heart of Italy.

2007 | Filed Under Italy | 2 Comments

Italy can be quite a dangerous place.  In fact there are various ways in which people can come to an untimely end in this country.  In order of lethality these are driving, working, and stepping on toes.

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Jul
25

Another squirmy pavement day

2007 | Filed Under Italy, Milan | Leave a Comment

Yet another sweltering day in Milan. I had to use the underground too, which is not good at the moment. The metro is one big oven at the moment, and you don’t travel so much as cook. Not a wonderful experience, I can tell you.

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Jul
23

Some interesting statistics.

2007 | Filed Under This blog | 2 Comments

Around 497 comments left since I went Wordpress.  Almost 11,000 spamments left.  Mad or what?

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Jul
23

When bad is good.

2007 | Filed Under Italian TV | Leave a Comment

Vanna Marchi is a convicted swindler.  She conned people out of money, in a rather despicable fashion, and was convicted and actually sent to prison (Info about this lady is here, in Italian, alas).  Yet, this criminal has done her time and is now doing her very best to make a comeback as a TV personality, oh, and she has no regrets about her past actions.   Such a nice lady.  I’m sure her victims will be ever so happy to see her smiling face plastered all over the gogglebox here. Talk about rubbing salt into wounds (you’ll have to read the Wikipdia entry in Italian to understand this quip, sorry).

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Jul
23

Law makers and law enforcers.

2007 | Filed Under Italian politics | 4 Comments

The continual state of antipathy which exists between Italy’s law makers, the policitians, and the law enforcers, judges and magistrates, in Italy, continues to amaze me.  The Justice Minister, who you would think might act as an interface between the law makers and law enforcers, should possibly be called ‘Justice Minister, with special responsibility for protecting the interests of politicians’.  This is what the current chap seems to be doing and his predecessor appeared to do the same.  It’s an odd situation, to say the least.

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