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Today I turn 32. To look younger I even shaved my 5 months beard (actually, not the whole beard). This is the first post of 2009, and it’s also the first sign of activity after a long period of lifelessness: as a new year purpose, I’ll promise to post here with an acceptable frequency (and…
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Alive and well
Ok, I’ve finally found the time to upgrade this blog to WordPress 2.5.1 and update a bunch of plugins – many thanks to my summery insomnia. A brief summary about the last period, since the last post is over 7 months old: I’ve met a lot of interesting people, like Mike Schroepfer (photos) and Matt…
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Geek Porn
One of my two desks with one of my notebooks (see notes on Flickr page) 😀 Technorati Tags: geek porn
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Hiddy: slim down your spam queue on WordPress
It’s been over two months since my last post, sorry 😳 Let’s talk about a great Italian plugin for WordPress: Hiddy. Hiddy is a simple and light plugin that adds a field to the comments form: this field has a pseudo-random name (chosen among a set of “interesting” names, like e-mail, url, etc.) and is…
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Goodbye XPS M1330
This post will be the last update about my order of a Dell XPS M1330: last week I spoke with my assigned sales person and found that she had no ideas about the real shipping date of my already paid notebook (ESD was still September, 26th). Since I need a notebook with Windows Vista, smaller…
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Does Dell read blogs?
It seems so, or at least Dell reads blogs written in English since they skipped my Italian blog which has a lot of posts about the shipping delay of XPS M1330, much more visibility and a better ranking on Technorati. This morning I was checking my blog stats and I saw a strange referer: fusion.us.dell.com…
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Plugin manager for Firefox 3 (pre alpha 8)
In the current nightly versions of Firefox 3 (pre alpha8) there’s an interesting new feature: a plug-in manager, accessible as a panel in the Add-ons window. In this way users can manage their plug-ins, uninstall and disable them on the fly 😉 Technorati Tags: Firefox 3, plug-ins manager, pre alpha 8
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Dell XPS M1330, are you joking?
Today I took a look at the Order Status page for my Dell XPS M1330: Guys, are you joking? Three months to ship a notebook that I have already paid? Sr. VP Alex Gruzen wrote some days ago: When you order a system, the estimated ship date factors in our best currently available information, including…
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Add Technorati tags to WordPress posts
There are several WordPress plug-ins that allow to add Technorati tags at the end of your posts. In my experience with WordPress plug-ins, I tend to prefer the simpler ones for an elementary reason: usually reliability is inversely proportional to complexity 😉 On this basis I chose SimpleTags. SimpleTags allows to manage TAGS directly inside…
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Dell XPS M1330 and ship date
As I wrote in my first post, I’ve ordered a Dell XPS M1330 about a week ago (June, 29th). This is the configuration I chose: Intel Core 2 Duo T7300(2 Ghz, 4MB cache L2, FSB 800 Mhz) Windows Vista Business 3 years warranty NBD 13,3″LED display with webcam (on the Italian site you can’t choose…