Thursday, June 25, 2009

Italian politics stink

It's not a case that I never met a foreigner that loves Berlusconi. Therefore I am starting to believe that there should be some sort of blindness among the Italians, and they are unable to see what is going on and re-elect the Little Dwarf (as the opposition calls him).

Recently there has been a sex scandal involving "our" President. Some goodlooking ladies from the South declared they were paid to attend Berlusconi's dinner in an institutional building. They said they flew from Puglia to Rome to sit at the table with Mr. B., that there were about 30 ladies all dressed in black, and that Mr. B. entertained himself with them.
They saw the main moments of Mr. B.'s political career, like him meeting important people, all accompanied with the hymn of Mr. B's parties "Meno male che Silvio c'è" (Luckily Silvio is here). The ladies all moved their arms with the music, and Mr. B. gave them precious little gifts such as bracelets, pendants, necklaces,...

As you know, Mr. B. is sort of Murdoch in Italy: he owns most of the TV channel, of the magazines and newspapers. As he is in charge as the political leader of Italy, he now holds control even of the public televisions (other 3 channels).
All of his TV channels never reported about the sex scandal, and of all the 3 main public channel, only RaiTre talked about it during the News.

The Vatican is coming strictly at him, so Berlusconi said (to one of his magazines, of course) that these girls are paid from his opponents and that he has never ever paid a woman, because "it would be no fun".

I happened on a page on facebook against the very-righty newspaper "Libero", of Berlusconi's camerade.

In red "Sex in the ballot boxes"
in big "We are all Berlusconis"
in Italics "Not to lose these last elections, the Left Party focus on the bed affairs. But Italy is tolerant. Anyway, only a few can cast the first stone."

...

In the meantime one of the girls involved in the scandal was burglared of all her clothes (anybody remembers Monica Lewinsky?) and another one's car took fire last night.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

We're one but we're not the same - Nokia N97 comparison price

After just a few weeks from the Nokia N97 release I compared the various prices of this piece of technology&design.
Prices are taken from Nokia Online Stores.

Nokia Online Store US €503 ($699)

Nokia online store UK € 590
Nokia online store DE € 649
Nokia online store FR € 699
Nokia online store IT € 599

note: the Freanch version includes a bluetooth earphone.

Monday, June 22, 2009

Learning More About Energy Choices

If you have taken the time to read the paper that I wrote for EM443 in the fall of 1991, you will see that I had some pretty significant conceptual errors in my understanding of both turbo machinery and the politics and history of energy industry developments. I was definitely naive and had a lot to learn. Fortunately, I was in a great place to learn and had access to a world class university

Sunday, June 21, 2009

The Adams Engine™ Story From the Beginning

The Adams Engine™ started off with a Boolean search on the following string - "nuclear AND gas turbine". Amazingly enough, there were dozens of hits with articles about various projects and conceptual designs that combined the benefits of nuclear reactors producing the heat and Brayton Cycle gas turbines turning that heat into useful power. I did that search in the fall of 1991, while auditing a

Monday, June 8, 2009

Yummy blogs: BAKERELLA

I discovered this blog a while ago, looking for luscious recipes.
It features a lot of pretty and yummy recipes, all sweets, mainly chocolate based (could you blame the author?) but certainly good looking more then the average cake.

The author is a great cooker and she's pretty good at photographing, too. This blog is really a pleasure to watch and taste!

BAKERELLA's blog


another blog from the same author: LOVELY LITTLE CAKES