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Archive for May 2009

The last Tonight’s show with Jay Leno

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I just watched a video on YouTube about the last ‘Tonight Show with Jay Leno’. This ended yesterday after 17 years.
I remember the first time I saw that show, I thought “the Americans must be truly crazy”. Although I do still think sometime this way, after watching it I got what’s the fun part in it. Moreover I had fun while I was learning my English when I was just about to end my diploma (before being 18 years old).

Jay Leno’s Last Tonight Show

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30/05/2009 at 11:09 am

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Scirus the search engine for scientific research

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Via my stumbleupon bar in Firefox I just noticed Scirus, a scientific search engine. It seems fantastic. After my discovery of Wolframalpha.com yesterday, now it seems to me that there’s something else beside Google in the world of search engine.

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19/05/2009 at 1:44 pm

Welcome WolframAlpha.com THE NEW SEARCH ENGINE… Google better watch out

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I’ve just stumbled upon a news about this new, very new in all sorts of respects search engine. It’s www.wolframalpha.com
The article I red said that it won’t challenge Google cos it’s a totally different projects. This sort of thinking mades me remember of the times when very few people knew about Google. I remember those days in the internet there were just directories and the huge one was Yahoo!
Moreover I do remember people saying Google guys had no chance in beating Yahoo, Netscape and many others.
Well… we know how the story went now. Google guys have scratched everybody and everything on their path.
Just as I don’t like this googling everything (email, web, docs, pics, videos, etc) I just wish the WolframAlpha.com guys a very good luck and for what I’ve seen now, you’ve done a terrific job. Congratulations!

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18/05/2009 at 10:37 pm

U.F.O. over Tokyo

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strano-oggetto-01Just woke up this morning and after reading the Italian Zeus News newsletter I just found out this strange object apparently flying over Tokyo, seems like a huge breast, or some U.F.O. (Unidentified Flying Object).

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18/05/2009 at 7:50 am

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The bad side of Facebook exporter for iPhoto ‘09

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i just noticed that Facebook exporter for iPhoto ‘09 doesn’t let me save the photos onto Facebook once I deleted them on my hard disk. Is this fair and reasonable? I mean I can’t let my photo on my HD forever.

This is what happened. Yesterday I made a dvd copy of my recent photos and afterwards I deleted them from my HD. Today I notice that they are deleted from my Facebook account too. I don’t think this is normal.

Maybe I better be back to the old iPhoto ‘08 with Facebook and Flickr plugin.

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17/05/2009 at 1:35 pm

A family living in the bus

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This is a post I wanted to write long time ago. Almost a year ago I guess. Anyway it’s about a family living on a bus. When I hear it I thought this is quite strange. Then I realised it was just another way of living.

Today I visited their website www.usonthebus.com, so I know now that they’ve ended their experience cos “The needs of the family have changed since the concept of the idea some two years ago and the somewhat later than planned departure. We are currently finding a base in Oxford

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11/05/2009 at 10:34 pm

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My interview on thesop.org

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This my interview by Zoneziwoh Mbondgulo published on www.thesop.org

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03/05/2009 at 7:39 pm

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