Sep
30

La Rosticceria

2007 | Filed Under Life in Italy | 4 Comments

A ‘rosticceria’ is possibly the Italian equivalent of fast food, only this does not mean hamburgers or pizza and the like, but ‘real’ food.

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Sep
29

Welcome to the new look Blog from Italy!

2007 | Filed Under This blog | 2 Comments

I hope you like the new look, and you won’t find the ads too bothersome. Yes, this blog is going to have more of a focus on business, but in amongst the marketing stuff, you will find my usual posts. In fact, I’m going to create a new category that will be something like ‘Alex’s Stuff‘, and if you simply click on that link, you will be taken to all of my non-business posts.

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Sep
28

Sausage Crisis!

2007 | Filed Under 4-4-2 Pub | Leave a Comment

My good friends at the 4-4-2 pub in Milan, as I have mentioned before, are about to launch their full English breakfast. The launch is planned for the 28th and 29th of October, 2007. But the 4-4-2 has a problem, a big problem: that is they have no good frozen English sausages to serve up with their inaugural English breakfast. Alessandro the landlord urgently needs a supply of good frozen English sausages.

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Sep
27

Apologies

2007 | Filed Under Blogging, Me | Leave a Comment

Sorry about not having responded to some of the interesting comments left by my readers.  I’ve been a bit tied up with another project, and work.  Normal service will be resumed!

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Sep
26

Grey, wet, and dull in Milan today and breakfast.

2007 | Filed Under Life in Italy, Milan | 3 Comments

I almost cannot remember the last grey day here in Milan. It’s been so long. Anyway, to remind me that it is possible to have grey, wet, and dull weather in Italy, Milan today is suitably grey, wet and dull, with a hint of cool thrown in for good measure.

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Sep
25

Happiness - How happy are you?

2007 | Filed Under Me, Milan, Thoughts | Leave a Comment

On BBC World a few months back there was an interesting series about happiness and how it can be assessed. Unfortunately I did not manage to see the whole series, but I did like the idea of using happiness as a way of measuring of how well things are going in the world. It may seem simplistic, but it could well be highly accurate.

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Sep
25

Italy has Grillo, Myanmar/Burma has the Buddhist Monks, and both countries have unhappy people

2007 | Filed Under Italian news | 1 Comment

No, I know there is no comparison between the Italian oligarchy and the Burmese despots, but both are examples of the people being encouraged to revolt against arrogant, non-democratic leaderships.  Some of the Buddhist monks who are bravely attempting to right the wrongs in their country may well end up being shot.  The Burmese regime is known to be violent, and not too shy about opening fire on the unarmed, in true dictatorial fashion.  And monks have died before in Burma for having previously attempted to protest against the regime.

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Sep
23

Italians

2007 | Filed Under Culture | 11 Comments

What I love about Italians:

They are friendly, hospitable, generous, intelligent, good humoured, gentle, well-dressed, tasteful, and family oriented. And they don’t get drunk and vulgar. There are also many other positive characteristics too.

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Sep
23

Added some more photos to my Flickr collection.

2007 | Filed Under Digital photography | 4 Comments

Hop on over to Flickr, if you wish, and look at the ‘Black and White’ set, where you will see some Black and white images of runners. I used a slow shutter, 1/25 to 1/40 to capture the motion of the runners. Just experiments really.

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Sep
21

Interesting

2007 | Filed Under Italian politics | 3 Comments

I’ve had a visitor from beniculturali.it - the site of the Italian Cultural Activity Ministry.  And guess what was looked at, albeit very briefly, yep - my Beppe Grillo rattles the establishment post.

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Sep
21

Why has nobody since Marx and Trotsky come up with an alternative socio-political philosophy?

2007 | Filed Under Thoughts | 2 Comments

This is a question I have put to myself on the odd occasion. The odd occasion that provoked this question once again was that of V-day in Italy and what appears to be an attempt to introduce a new, freer form of democracy in Italy, maybe. Grillo has stirred up a considerable furore as a result of the use of mass communication - a form of mass communcation, perhaps the last, that cannot easily be stifled.

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Sep
21

Spamtastic!

2007 | Filed Under Blogging | Leave a Comment

This is part of a spamment that Askimet blocked:

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