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August 2010

So, partly out of boredom and partly out of spite

Falling ill at the end of August has a particular flavour of historical nemesis.
Anyway, even though I write very little, I manage to write on both blogs.
So much for those who wish me ill (it seems that the list has grown very long recently, but I am a fervent devotee of the religion of live and let live,...

Jesus saves. Buddha does incremental backups

Premessa: quello che sto per raccontare naturalmente è documentabile, e lo racconto soprattutto perché cose simili possono capitare e bisogna sempre essere pronti ad ogni evenienza. In altre parole, backup, backup, e ancora backup, non se ne fanno mai abbastanza. Nel mio caso, la previdenza c'è stata e infatti racconto...

Lactacyd: why?

This is a little story that has been going on for about ten years, but for which I still haven’t found an answer.

Let me start at the beginning: in 2000, I went on holiday to Spain, and to my amazement, I saw but did not buy a 1000 ml pack of Lactacyd liquid soap, the only soap I can use to wash because of my allergies....

Listening to the holidays

A parte mezza giornata di pioggia, sole, sole, sole. Non ho intenzione di ammorbare nessuno dicendo dove siamo stati, cosa abbiamo fatto, quanto sono state belle le vacanze. Niente filmini, poche foto su Flickr (e non mi offendo se nessuno le guarda). Al posto del filmino, ecco un minuto di...

Unavailable for holidays

Hello, my name is xlthlx, and I have a problem: I am stressed.
I plan to solve this serious problem by making myself unavailable for more than two weeks, from 7 to 22 August inclusive, to be precise.
It’s not that I won’t have a mobile phone, or that I won’t have a connection, or that I won’t look at my e-mail;...

A good game is short-lived

The domain of The Ice Cream Shop at the End of the Universe will expire on 04/09/2010.
It was nice, but I won’t renew the domain; the whole site has been moved to the address gelateria.xlthlx.it (and will be visible shortly).
Miss Fiordilatte says hello to all the other ice cream flavours and reminds them not to forget their towels....