<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533</id><updated>2011-12-29T17:21:25.814+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Ruokaa</title><subtitle type='html'>Andrea's blog. 
About Finland, Italy, life and food.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>102</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-7333865650391601447</id><published>2009-12-08T23:40:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T23:40:15.287+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Kaksi vuotta</title><content type='html'>Exactly two years ago, on December 8th 2007, I left Finland.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many things have happened since then, but there is no single day which ends without me remembering a situation, a feeling, a face of my times in Helsinki.&lt;br /&gt;After two years I'm still grateful for the opportunity I had: the work experiences, the friends I made, the places I saw, the different cultures I met, make me feel really privileged.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And you might be surprised that I can still remember some words in Finnish!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-7333865650391601447?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/7333865650391601447/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=7333865650391601447' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/7333865650391601447'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/7333865650391601447'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2009/12/kaksi-vuotta.html' title='Kaksi vuotta'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-3805978185926795658</id><published>2009-08-28T18:07:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-08-28T18:10:55.035+02:00</updated><title type='text'>N900 is out</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-n900"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Congratulations my friends.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-3805978185926795658?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/3805978185926795658/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=3805978185926795658' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/3805978185926795658'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/3805978185926795658'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2009/08/n900-is-out.html' title='N900 is out'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-4255327131722498813</id><published>2009-07-21T23:19:00.010+02:00</published><updated>2009-07-21T23:49:28.642+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The real business</title><content type='html'>I'm meeting many people who claim to know how to make business. But only few succeed.&lt;br /&gt;I should learn from them.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/SmY2hAz4vDI/AAAAAAAAAG8/Gr4YMSMXCM4/s1600-h/15125_idraulico.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 269px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/SmY2hAz4vDI/AAAAAAAAAG8/Gr4YMSMXCM4/s320/15125_idraulico.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361032347212364850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-4255327131722498813?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/4255327131722498813/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=4255327131722498813' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/4255327131722498813'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/4255327131722498813'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2009/07/real-business.html' title='The real business'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/SmY2hAz4vDI/AAAAAAAAAG8/Gr4YMSMXCM4/s72-c/15125_idraulico.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-4930545409445951123</id><published>2009-06-02T22:45:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-06-02T23:03:11.934+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Andrea is back</title><content type='html'>My long silence might make you think that I decided to stay in Oceania: well, I was tempted, but eventually I had to come back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fact is that last months have been quite interesting for me.&lt;br /&gt;New life as a married man, new house, new job.&lt;br /&gt;Days are very busy, time flies and I always felt too tired to drop some lines to my blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But yesterday something happened: almost by accident (just for testing purposes) I put on my new PS3 the DVD of the good old times in Finland, and suddenly a very important piece of my life furiously appeared: hundreds of faces, stories, landscapes invaded my mind. Finally I had some minutes to stop and think, and I realized how many things happened lately, and how far I'm feeling those days, while it's actually just 1.5 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friends, I'm missing you. Kuutamokatu I'm missing you. Itamerenkatu I'm missing you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't worry: I'm not regretting anything, but on the other side I cannot hide that there is always some nostalgia when I think to my days in Finland.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's why I decided to win my laziness and get back to my blog: I'm sure it will be a good way to feel still "connected".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welcome back Andrea.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-4930545409445951123?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/4930545409445951123/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=4930545409445951123' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/4930545409445951123'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/4930545409445951123'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2009/06/andrea-is-back.html' title='Andrea is back'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-1832744996702380949</id><published>2009-01-01T11:59:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-03T12:26:51.546+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The long wait for the New Year</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/SV9LM7B0spI/AAAAAAAAAFY/T0HcR8-CG4k/s1600-h/DSCN2309.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/SV9LM7B0spI/AAAAAAAAAFY/T0HcR8-CG4k/s320/DSCN2309.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287027172932104850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More than 12 hours waiting for the midnight, most of them laying under the strong Australian sun.&lt;br /&gt;We found a great location: at the opera house, right in front of the harbour bridge. Thanks to a nice young couple from Hong Kong we also got a place in first row. The show was terrific: the 12 minutes of fireworks left everybody openmouthed, and very happy.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-1832744996702380949?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/1832744996702380949/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=1832744996702380949' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/1832744996702380949'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/1832744996702380949'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2009/01/long-wait-for-new-year.html' title='The long wait for the New Year'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/SV9LM7B0spI/AAAAAAAAAFY/T0HcR8-CG4k/s72-c/DSCN2309.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-5878806529734981144</id><published>2008-12-31T00:02:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-31T00:07:20.723+01:00</updated><title type='text'>NYE08@Sydney</title><content type='html'>The countdown has started.&lt;br /&gt;Everybody is very excited here in Sydney, looking for a good place to see the famous fireworks show. We're planning to camp on the Opera House area, let's if we're still in time for that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, happy new year!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-5878806529734981144?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/5878806529734981144/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=5878806529734981144' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/5878806529734981144'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/5878806529734981144'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2008/12/nye08sydney.html' title='NYE08@Sydney'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-8690078973504952989</id><published>2008-12-30T12:04:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-03T12:21:13.662+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Blue Mountains</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/SV9J9KsipHI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/3SxCP6vKaqI/s1600-h/DSCN2236.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/SV9J9KsipHI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/3SxCP6vKaqI/s320/DSCN2236.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287025802748273778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Today we went for a tour to the Blue Mountains: we could see the wonderful wild landscapes of Australia, and meet the most popular animals.&lt;br /&gt;I got to touch a koala and feed a kangaroo!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-8690078973504952989?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/8690078973504952989/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=8690078973504952989' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/8690078973504952989'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/8690078973504952989'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2008/12/blue-mountains.html' title='Blue Mountains'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/SV9J9KsipHI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/3SxCP6vKaqI/s72-c/DSCN2236.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-2826467588353167794</id><published>2008-12-29T12:31:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-03T12:32:38.306+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Sydney Aquarium</title><content type='html'>Today we walked around the city and eventually visited the very interesting Aquarium at Darling Harbour. We just discovered a new species: the dugong. He's a big water mammal (somehow similar to a seal) with a funny face and he's very fond of lattuce!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-2826467588353167794?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/2826467588353167794/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=2826467588353167794' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/2826467588353167794'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/2826467588353167794'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2008/12/sydney-aquarium.html' title='Sydney Aquarium'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-8134058102447734805</id><published>2008-12-28T12:33:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-03T12:37:28.950+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Honey Moon - Last stop: Sydney</title><content type='html'>So, Christchurch was our last city in New Zealand.&lt;br /&gt;After a nice tour on the hills around the city, we visited the Antarctic Center (very interesting interactive museum about Antarctica). They even put us in a polar storm (in a room at -8 C): interesting, but nothing compared to the real experience of a Finnish cold winter day...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then we flew to Australia, saying hello (for ever?) to New Zealand, where we really had a great time.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-8134058102447734805?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/8134058102447734805/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=8134058102447734805' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/8134058102447734805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/8134058102447734805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2008/12/honey-moon-last-stop-sydney.html' title='Honey Moon - Last stop: Sydney'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-5217515497217788488</id><published>2008-12-24T11:05:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-24T11:06:37.960+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Merry Christmas!</title><content type='html'>From Te Anau&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-5217515497217788488?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/5217515497217788488/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=5217515497217788488' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/5217515497217788488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/5217515497217788488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2008/12/merry-christmas.html' title='Merry Christmas!'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-9177220377595669813</id><published>2008-12-12T19:21:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-19T19:23:01.539+01:00</updated><title type='text'>309 Road and Whangapoua</title><content type='html'>Our host in Coromandel (at Jacaranda Lodge) is called Robin. She's a nice lady, very talkative, and likes cooking. She prepares amazing breakfasts, where everything is really fresh (coming from her garden) and homemade (she even bakes the bread and makes muesli and cereals!).&lt;br /&gt;Today, following her suggestion, we drove to road 309 and visited the waterworks park (very funny place with different kind of water machines built using objects from everyday life, including a WC), some nice falls and a kauri forest. Kauri is the typical tree in New Zealand, and has a very large trunk.&lt;br /&gt;In the afternoon we lied on the wonderful beach of Whangapoua, where I was shocked by the beautiful combinations of colors (sea, sand, rocks).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-9177220377595669813?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/9177220377595669813/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=9177220377595669813' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/9177220377595669813'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/9177220377595669813'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2008/12/309-road-and-whangapoua.html' title='309 Road and Whangapoua'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-8825298331461567502</id><published>2008-12-11T19:19:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-19T19:20:51.180+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Honey Moon - Third Stop: Coromandel</title><content type='html'>Drove to the Coromandel Peninsula, on a spectacular road which offered us unforgettable views.&lt;br /&gt;Coromandel is a small pretty town: we took a ride on the Driving Creek Railway, ate smoked fish and mussels and visited some small shops.&lt;br /&gt;I am amazed how big mussels are in New Zealand: so big that I feel a bit uncomfortable eating them.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-8825298331461567502?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/8825298331461567502/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=8825298331461567502' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/8825298331461567502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/8825298331461567502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2008/12/honey-moon-third-stop-coromandel.html' title='Honey Moon - Third Stop: Coromandel'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-3920505277488023001</id><published>2008-12-10T19:13:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-19T19:18:16.703+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Waiheke</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/SUvlJ36rY-I/AAAAAAAAAFI/rL6wvktJ2NA/s1600-h/P10-12-08_02.42.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/SUvlJ36rY-I/AAAAAAAAAFI/rL6wvktJ2NA/s320/P10-12-08_02.42.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281566945813685218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wonderful island just in front of Auckland. We took a nice walk from the ferry harbour to the beautiful Palm Beach, where we ate strawberries and apricots; afterwards we visited the Cablebay vineyard, where we tasted 7 different wines.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-3920505277488023001?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/3920505277488023001/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=3920505277488023001' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/3920505277488023001'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/3920505277488023001'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2008/12/waiheke.html' title='Waiheke'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/SUvlJ36rY-I/AAAAAAAAAFI/rL6wvktJ2NA/s72-c/P10-12-08_02.42.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-4702191833568157346</id><published>2008-12-09T19:11:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-19T19:13:02.402+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Honey Moon - Second stop: Auckland</title><content type='html'>Finally we are in New Zealand.&lt;br /&gt;At the immigration check point the customs opened all my bags to make sure my shoes were clean... They care a lot about their ecosystem, and don't want people to import insects and bacteria.&lt;br /&gt;Auckland is a nice city, and we are staying in a beautiful bed and breakfast.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-4702191833568157346?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/4702191833568157346/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=4702191833568157346' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/4702191833568157346'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/4702191833568157346'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2008/12/honey-moon-second-stop-auckland.html' title='Honey Moon - Second stop: Auckland'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-4776792400781903695</id><published>2008-12-08T19:04:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-19T19:10:28.828+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Honey Moon - First stop: Hong Kong</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/SUvjZQWlMXI/AAAAAAAAAFA/EcX6DieR8VM/s1600-h/P08-12-08_08.34.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/SUvjZQWlMXI/AAAAAAAAAFA/EcX6DieR8VM/s320/P08-12-08_08.34.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281565011047952754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the way to New Zealand Cathay made us stay in Hong Kong. So, even if very tired and sleepy, we decided to take a tour in the city.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-4776792400781903695?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/4776792400781903695/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=4776792400781903695' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/4776792400781903695'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/4776792400781903695'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2008/12/honey-moon-first-stop-hong-kong.html' title='Honey Moon - First stop: Hong Kong'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/SUvjZQWlMXI/AAAAAAAAAFA/EcX6DieR8VM/s72-c/P08-12-08_08.34.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-3268815241163009854</id><published>2008-12-06T19:36:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-15T19:40:32.968+01:00</updated><title type='text'>W-Day</title><content type='html'>Back to blogging. The last months were very busy for me, with all the arrangements for "The" day, the new house and so on. Now, maybe thanks to the wonderful and relaxing  landscapes of New Zealand, I find some time to realize what happened...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The" day went perfectly: we got the grace of nice weather, in days in which the rain is flooding Rome, and everything went as planned. Having all our relatives, many friends (also from abroad) was an extreme joy for us, and even though we missed some people, we felt they were with us with their thoughts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No pictures yet, but I'll post some later.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-3268815241163009854?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/3268815241163009854/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=3268815241163009854' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/3268815241163009854'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/3268815241163009854'/><link 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Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=7539490711990414430' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/7539490711990414430'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/7539490711990414430'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2008/07/061208.html' title='061208'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-8501958365140384413</id><published>2008-07-08T23:28:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-07-08T23:35:50.995+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Even more productive</title><content type='html'>Some days ago they also blocked gmail and google talk at my office.&lt;br /&gt;Now I can really concentrate on my job.&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday, for example, I spent three hours trying to find a workaround  to make gtalk work...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-8501958365140384413?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/8501958365140384413/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=8501958365140384413' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/8501958365140384413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/8501958365140384413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2008/07/even-more-productive.html' title='Even more productive'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-1824342962033427902</id><published>2008-07-06T23:28:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T12:51:58.667+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Benvenuto Paolo!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/SHE7ZEpr7VI/AAAAAAAAAD0/ZyN-_4Wf4os/s1600-h/Fiocco.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/SHE7ZEpr7VI/AAAAAAAAAD0/ZyN-_4Wf4os/s320/Fiocco.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220018745030470994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm really happy for another good &lt;a href="http://famiglia-marchetti.blogspot.com/2008/07/17-welcome-paolo.html"&gt;news.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welcome Paolo!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-1824342962033427902?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/1824342962033427902/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=1824342962033427902' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/1824342962033427902'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/1824342962033427902'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2008/07/benvenuto-paolo.html' title='Benvenuto Paolo!'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/SHE7ZEpr7VI/AAAAAAAAAD0/ZyN-_4Wf4os/s72-c/Fiocco.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-2223103105001423909</id><published>2008-06-29T14:41:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T14:46:13.535+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Improving productivity</title><content type='html'>At work they decided to block the access to many web sites.&lt;br /&gt;Now that  I can't access technical blogs, university sites and AS Roma links I feel much more productive: I'll be able to have more coffee breaks.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-2223103105001423909?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/2223103105001423909/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=2223103105001423909' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/2223103105001423909'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/2223103105001423909'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2008/06/improving-productivity.html' title='Improving productivity'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-8816324073392739648</id><published>2008-05-25T21:14:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-25T21:19:41.705+02:00</updated><title type='text'>30</title><content type='html'>Today I'm 30.&lt;br /&gt;Got a nice birthday cake from my mother, toasted with some good sparkling wine and realised that it might be the time for the important decisions. &lt;br /&gt;Is the fact that I just bought an apartment a sign?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-8816324073392739648?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/8816324073392739648/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=8816324073392739648' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/8816324073392739648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/8816324073392739648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2008/05/30.html' title='30'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-6029240461364012007</id><published>2008-05-24T10:05:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-24T10:14:43.839+02:00</updated><title type='text'>5 x 1000</title><content type='html'>Questo post è dedicato a chi sta in Italia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se ancora devi consegnare la tua dichiarazione dei redditi annuale (CUD, 730, Unico) e non hai scelto a chi devolvere il 5x1000 delle tue tasse, ti consiglio di scrivere questo numero nella casella relativa al sostegno delle ONLUS:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;97165630589&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In questo modo aiuterai le attività dell'Associazione di Volontariato &lt;a href="http://www.worklink.it"&gt;Worklink&lt;/a&gt;, di cui sono fiero fondatore, che da 10 anni opera nel campo dell'orientamento e della formazione delle persone in cerca d'occupazione, e che sempre più convinta promuove la conoscenza e l'utilizzo delle tecnologie Open Source.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-6029240461364012007?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/6029240461364012007/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=6029240461364012007' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/6029240461364012007'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/6029240461364012007'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2008/05/5-x-1000.html' title='5 x 1000'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-844684139137117460</id><published>2008-05-24T09:29:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T12:51:59.024+01:00</updated><title type='text'>A tourist this time</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/SDfMJcnx-nI/AAAAAAAAADk/fNDb70zO0NQ/s1600-h/dscn1254.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/SDfMJcnx-nI/AAAAAAAAADk/fNDb70zO0NQ/s400/dscn1254.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203852357123832434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are busy and lazy times, and I'm updating my blog too rarely.&lt;br /&gt;So I still need to tell you about my first Vappu in Finland as a tourist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Helsinki really welcomed me, with wonderful weather and sunny days.&lt;br /&gt;I'm happy I managed to meet many people, even though I still missed some.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are some of the things I did:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Got the latest updates from my &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Italialaiset&lt;/span&gt; friends while sharing some good Italian food and wines, and had nice chats in Lauttasaari while drinking a beer, like in the good old days.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I visited the Nokia canteen and had some real Finnish coffee with my former colleagues, talking about the present and the future of Open Source.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I was in Merihaka for the Saturday match with my football friends (nice to see that &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;jalkapallo&lt;/span&gt; is growing in Finland: when we started two years ago we could hardly get 10 people to play, now they are partecipating to a tournament with two teams!).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Then, the small ones: I met Tommi for the first time, and Kanta who now walks and touches everything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I really felt at home those days: a further confirmation that friendship and love survive the distances.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-844684139137117460?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/844684139137117460/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=844684139137117460' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/844684139137117460'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/844684139137117460'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2008/05/tourist-this-time.html' title='A tourist this time'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/SDfMJcnx-nI/AAAAAAAAADk/fNDb70zO0NQ/s72-c/dscn1254.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-3945094289009277820</id><published>2008-04-29T23:46:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-04-29T23:56:29.838+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Back!</title><content type='html'>I'm still packing. Tomorrow morning I'm flying to Helsinki, to keep a promise made some months ago.&lt;br /&gt;I'm really excited at the idea of meeting my dear friends there.&lt;br /&gt;I'm also planning to visit the Nokia canteen, and take some new pictures...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-3945094289009277820?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/3945094289009277820/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=3945094289009277820' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/3945094289009277820'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/3945094289009277820'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2008/04/back.html' title='Back!'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-231137144657571535</id><published>2008-03-29T09:39:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T12:51:59.342+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Old friends</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/R-9Yho5oLhI/AAAAAAAAADc/Qx9hCQq9Pkg/s1600-h/DSCN1671_r.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/R-9Yho5oLhI/AAAAAAAAADc/Qx9hCQq9Pkg/s400/DSCN1671_r.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183459031064784402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some days ago I had a dinner with my former colleagues from Ericsson.&lt;br /&gt;I had not seen some of them for almost 4 years, and it was nice to meet again and getting up to date about our lives.&lt;br /&gt;We remembered together the good old days, and discussed about the current occupational problems in our country, where in many cases whom you know is more important than what you can do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-size: 85%;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Qualche giorno fa sono sato a cena con i miei vecchi colleghi dell'Ericsson.&lt;br /&gt;Non vedevo alcuni di loro da quasi 4 anni, ed è stato bello rincontrarsi e aggiornarci sulle nostre vite.&lt;br /&gt;Abbiamo rievocato i vecchi tempi, e discusso degli attuali problemi del lavoro nel nostro Paese, dove in molti casi chi conosci è più importante di quello che sai fare.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-231137144657571535?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/231137144657571535/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=231137144657571535' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/231137144657571535'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/231137144657571535'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2008/03/old-friends.html' title='Old friends'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/R-9Yho5oLhI/AAAAAAAAADc/Qx9hCQq9Pkg/s72-c/DSCN1671_r.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-2152721149521971347</id><published>2008-03-10T20:01:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T12:51:59.731+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Singing in the rain</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/R9W-1OULaeI/AAAAAAAAADU/ArU4r3jMEm0/s1600-h/bus_766.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/R9W-1OULaeI/AAAAAAAAADU/ArU4r3jMEm0/s320/bus_766.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176253168317327842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;I wish I could sing in the rain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;In Rome that is actually the last thing you would do, especially if you use public transportation to go to work.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;Rain is annoying because it makes you wet; therefore many people, as they wake up in the morning and see the drops on the window, decide to take the car for commuting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;This thing, together with the poor status of the roads and the blocked drains, makes the traffic even more congested on rainy days.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;Which vehicle you decide to take on rainy days doesn't really matter: it will be a long trip anyway. But, if you are one of the unlucky guys who uses public transportation, your experience will be much worse.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;Buses stuffed with people, everybody carrying really wet umbrellas, old ladies complaining about the government (there's a saying in Italy: "It rains, government thief") and children screaming for the lack of oxygen. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;Getting off the bus (or tram) is the most difficult part: people at the stop start closing their umbrellas, and you only have a couple of seconds to escape before they realize they are getting wet and start pushing inside before you are out.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;"&gt;Today was such a day. Good that in Rome it rains few times in a year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-2152721149521971347?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/2152721149521971347/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=2152721149521971347' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/2152721149521971347'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/2152721149521971347'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2008/03/singing-in-rain.html' title='Singing in the rain'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/R9W-1OULaeI/AAAAAAAAADU/ArU4r3jMEm0/s72-c/bus_766.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-1417638279394540448</id><published>2008-02-10T16:15:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T12:52:00.181+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Tervetuloa</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/R68XpH0B2GI/AAAAAAAAADM/Wviz_MSz9Zw/s1600-h/fiocco_azzurro.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/R68XpH0B2GI/AAAAAAAAADM/Wviz_MSz9Zw/s320/fiocco_azzurro.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5165373292856596578" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Welcome to the world &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/instezz/TommiNato/photo#5164716537472860722"&gt;Tommi&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;See you soon in Finland.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Benvenuto nel mondo &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/instezz/TommiNato/photo#5164716537472860722"&gt;Tommi&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Ci vediamo in Finlandia.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-1417638279394540448?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/1417638279394540448/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=1417638279394540448' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/1417638279394540448'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/1417638279394540448'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2008/02/tervetuloa.html' title='Tervetuloa'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/R68XpH0B2GI/AAAAAAAAADM/Wviz_MSz9Zw/s72-c/fiocco_azzurro.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-2297921781494611190</id><published>2008-02-10T14:36:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-02-10T16:14:57.022+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Getting busy</title><content type='html'>So, I'm back writing.&lt;br /&gt;Since I moved back to Italy (now I realize it's already 2 months) my life style has changed quite a lot. I don't have much free time: during the week I get out for work at 8 am and I'm back at 8 pm (when I'm lucky); still, I try to exercise a bit my body and I go swimming twice a week and play football on Thursdays.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Eccomi a scrivere di nuovo.&lt;br /&gt;Da quando sono tornato in Italia (mi rendo conto ora che sono già due mesi) il mio stile di vita è cambiato un bel po'. Non ho molto tempo libero: durante la settimana esco alle 8 di mattina e torno alle 8 di sera (quando mi dice bene); tuttavia tento di tenere in esercizio il mio corpo, e vado in piscina due volte a settimana e il giovedi gioco a calcetto.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-2297921781494611190?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/2297921781494611190/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=2297921781494611190' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/2297921781494611190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/2297921781494611190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2008/02/getting-busy.html' title='Getting busy'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-3400507688474269753</id><published>2007-12-31T09:56:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T12:52:00.415+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy New Year</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/R3ivd6IYfzI/AAAAAAAAACs/iDu9WaoHnmA/s1600-h/Happy2008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/R3ivd6IYfzI/AAAAAAAAACs/iDu9WaoHnmA/s400/Happy2008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150059102253645618" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-3400507688474269753?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/3400507688474269753/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=3400507688474269753' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/3400507688474269753'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/3400507688474269753'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/12/happy-new-year.html' title='Happy New Year'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/R3ivd6IYfzI/AAAAAAAAACs/iDu9WaoHnmA/s72-c/Happy2008.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-6472298309695999074</id><published>2007-12-29T20:41:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-30T01:46:58.614+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Pizza is back</title><content type='html'>So it's holiday time.&lt;br /&gt;Best wishes to you, my reader: I hope you are enjoying these days. As for me, I'm having many food experiences, getting back in touch with flavours I didn't remember to exist.&lt;br /&gt;One of the first things I did after arriving in Rome was going to a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;pizzeria.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look at the photo, I don't think I have to add any comments...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/2146378145/" title="DSCN7574 by Katso!, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2100/2146378145_622f21527d.jpg" alt="DSCN7574" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tempo di vacanze. Tanti auguri, mio caro lettore, spero tu stia passando bene questi giorni. Per quanto mi riguarda, sto avendo molte esperienze culinarie, rientrando in contatto con sapori che pensavo non esistessero più. Una delle prime cose che ho fatto dopo essere arrivato a Roma è stato andare in pizzeria.&lt;br /&gt;Guarda la foto, non credo di dover aggiungere altro...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-6472298309695999074?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/6472298309695999074/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=6472298309695999074' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/6472298309695999074'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/6472298309695999074'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/12/pizza-is-back.html' title='Pizza is back'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2100/2146378145_622f21527d_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-1263956698820396361</id><published>2007-12-19T23:41:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-19T23:45:04.368+01:00</updated><title type='text'>My first days in Italy</title><content type='html'>It's almost two weeks since I moved back to Rome, but I think I've not realized yet that I'm back permanently, and I'm still in the "holiday" mode, even if I've already started working.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My first feelings are quite positive, but I know it will take some time before I really understand what happened; however I'm already noticing some differences.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Commuting:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The route from home to the office used to take about 20 minutes in Finland; it's one hour in average here. Today I have waited at the bus stop for 1 hour and 5 minutes, but I hope that was an exception.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Lunch:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has definetely improved, but that's not a surprise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Weather and sunlight:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll skip this: it's not fair to compare Finland to Italy in December.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Workplace:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even though my current 53 room mates are pretty nice, honestly I'm missing a bit my double room in Nokia...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-1263956698820396361?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/1263956698820396361/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=1263956698820396361' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/1263956698820396361'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/1263956698820396361'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/12/my-first-days-in-italy.html' title='My first days in Italy'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-8014226140319010255</id><published>2007-12-08T06:44:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-08T06:54:20.280+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Thank you</title><content type='html'>For these 38 months, my friends in Finland.&lt;br /&gt;I'm already missing you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grazie per questi 38 mesi, miei amici in Finlandia.&lt;br /&gt;Già mi mancate.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-8014226140319010255?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/8014226140319010255/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=8014226140319010255' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/8014226140319010255'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/8014226140319010255'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/12/thank-you.html' title='Thank you'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-7211504382100022262</id><published>2007-12-03T22:32:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-03T22:39:20.985+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The last match</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.mardy.it/archivos/active/0/1080_small.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://www.mardy.it/archivos/active/0/1080_small.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Last Saturday my football friends organized a tournament in my honour: “Trofeo Ambrosioni”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Four teams competed to get the trophy: at the end the surprising performance of &lt;a href="http://www.mardy.it/"&gt;Alberto&lt;/a&gt; (3 goals scored) drove the “Mardy United” team to the victory. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.mardy.it/archivos/active/0/1079_large.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://www.mardy.it/archivos/active/0/1079_large.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;It was a really nice afternoon and I was really glad to see so many happy people there. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I’ll really miss the Saturday’s appointment with football: let’s hope that back in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Italy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; I’ll still have some time to play.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-size: 85%;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Sabato scorso i miei amici del calcetto hanno organizzato un torneo in mio onore: il “Trofeo Ambrosioni”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Quattro squadre hanno combattuto per aggiudicarsi il prestigioso trofeo; alla fine la prestazione stupefacente di &lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mardy.it/"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Alberto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (autore di 3 gol) ha trascinato il “Mardy United” alla vittoria.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;E’ stato davvero un bel pomeriggio e mi ha fatto molto piacere vedere lì così tante persone felici.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;L’appuntamento del sabato con il calcetto mi mancherà molto: speriamo che tornato in Italia avrò un po’ di tempo per giocare. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-7211504382100022262?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/7211504382100022262/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=7211504382100022262' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/7211504382100022262'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/7211504382100022262'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/12/last-match.html' title='The last match'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-4457006262092748613</id><published>2007-12-02T22:00:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-02T22:14:55.068+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Menen</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.galleria-incontro.it/images/vetrina/talani%20partenza.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://www.galleria-incontro.it/images/vetrina/talani%20partenza.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;If you have good memory you should remember that some time ago I was &lt;a href="http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/10/3.html"&gt;mentioning&lt;/a&gt; one thing I really had to do before leaving &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Finland&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;: swimming in the frozen water. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Well, if you read my previous &lt;a href="http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/12/kotka.html"&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; I just did it and, yes, the other piece of news is that I’m really gonna leave now.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Next Saturday I’m flying to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Rome&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;, to start a new phase of my life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Se avete una buona memoria dovreste ricordarvi che un po’ di tempo fa &lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;a href="http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/10/3.html"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;accennavo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;ad una cosa che volevo fare prima di lasciare la Finlandia: nuotare nell’acqua ghiacciata.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Bè, se avete letto il mio &lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;a href="http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/12/kotka.html"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;post&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;precedente, l’ho appena fatto e, sì, l’altra novità è che sto davvero per partire.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Sabato prossimo volo a Roma, per iniziare una nuova fase della mia vita.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-4457006262092748613?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/4457006262092748613/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=4457006262092748613' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/4457006262092748613'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/4457006262092748613'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/12/menen.html' title='Menen'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-71613134530216828</id><published>2007-12-02T21:53:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-02T21:58:53.314+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Kotka</title><content type='html'>Some weeks ago we went to Kotka for a team-building activity.&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the afternoon we rafted the river for almost two hours, rowing all out to support the engine (?!).&lt;/span&gt; Look at this cool guys:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/2081893824/" title="I superfighi by Katso!, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2301/2081893824_8943ec19e6.jpg" alt="I superfighi" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Later we relaxed in the sauna and…&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;…yes! I did it! I swam in the frozen river (+3 °C).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;The dinner was wonderful, with delicious meals that I’m proud to show you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/2081110453/" title="Salmone by Katso!, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2379/2081110453_1dca0b5005.jpg" alt="Salmone" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/2081111511/" title="Torta di mele by Katso!, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2064/2081111511_7769200dc3.jpg" alt="Torta di mele" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-size: 85%;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Qualche settimana fa siamo stati a Kotka per un’attività di team-building (non penso esista una traduzione per questa parola, e nemmeno serve, visto che in Italia queste cose non si fanno).&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Il pomeriggio abbiamo fatto rafting sul fiume per circa due ore, remando a più non posso per aiutare il motore (!?).&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Successivamente ci siamo rilassati in sauna e poi…&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;…sì! L’ho fatto! Mi sono buttato nel fiume ghiacciato (3 gradi).&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;La cena è stata davvero sorprendente, con delle portate deliziose che vi mostro con orgoglio.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-71613134530216828?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/71613134530216828/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=71613134530216828' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/71613134530216828'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/71613134530216828'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/12/kotka.html' title='Kotka'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2301/2081893824_8943ec19e6_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-5527996619773345544</id><published>2007-11-15T18:36:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T12:52:00.674+01:00</updated><title type='text'>N810</title><content type='html'>I had guiltily delayed this announcement for too long, but now here it is: ladies and gentlemen, the new Nokia N810!&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/RzyFD8bvthI/AAAAAAAAABs/QLhncca5QCY/s1600-h/nokia-n810-a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/RzyFD8bvthI/AAAAAAAAABs/QLhncca5QCY/s400/nokia-n810-a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133123978104124946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;The last generation Internet tablet offers now a real hardware keyboard and a GPS, with a great improved OS2008 which includes, among many other things, a new Mozilla-based browser, SIP support, full Windows Media playback and streaming, H.264 video decoding, RTSP streaming.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I always take this device with me and I use it every day; I’m really proud of being part of the great team which created it.&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Go and &lt;a href="http://www.nseries.com/index.html?l=products,n810#l=products,n810"&gt;buy&lt;/a&gt; it!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Ho colpevolmente ritardato questo annuncio per troppo tempo, ma ora eccolo qui: signore e signori ecco a voi il nuovo Nokia N810!&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;L’Internet Tablet di ultima generazione offre ora una tastiera incorporata ed un sistema GPS, con un eccellente sistema operativo OS2008 che include, tra molte altre cose, un nuovo browser, supporto per SIP, riproduzione e streaming di contenuti Windows Media, H.264 video e streaming RTSP.&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Porto questo dispositivo sempre con me e lo uso tutti i giorni; sono veramente fiero di far parte del team che lo ha creato.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nseries.com/index.html?l=products,n810#l=products,n810"&gt;Compralo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; subito!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-5527996619773345544?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/5527996619773345544/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=5527996619773345544' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/5527996619773345544'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/5527996619773345544'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/11/n810.html' title='N810'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/RzyFD8bvthI/AAAAAAAAABs/QLhncca5QCY/s72-c/nokia-n810-a.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-2927840417612904722</id><published>2007-10-05T18:52:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T12:52:01.021+01:00</updated><title type='text'>3</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/RwZth1qnitI/AAAAAAAAABc/vY2gzmXgvxg/s1600-h/tre_scimmiette.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/RwZth1qnitI/AAAAAAAAABc/vY2gzmXgvxg/s320/tre_scimmiette.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117898454662089426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Now they’re 3 (they say it’s the perfect number). On &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:date year="2004" day="5" month="10"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;the 5th of October  2004&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:date&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; I landed in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Helsinki&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; to start my Finnish adventure.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;One year &lt;a href="http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/10/kaksi-vuotta.html"&gt;ago&lt;/a&gt; I took stock of the past 2 years, and I can now give you an update:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;-&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:7;"  &gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I took part to the creation of another new Nokia product (N800)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;-&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:7;"  &gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I survived another Finnish winter&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;-&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:7;"  &gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I am almost bold&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;-&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:7;"  &gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I visited &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Sydney&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;San Francisco&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;, San Petersburg, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;London&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;-&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:7;"  &gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I met new friends&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;-&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:7;"  &gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Some other friends of mine got married&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;-&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:7;"  &gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;More graduated, or got a job&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;-&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:7;"  &gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;AS Roma won the Italian Cup and Supercup&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;-&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:7;"  &gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Juventus came back to serie A&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for the things that at that time I had not done yet, I still need to find the courage to swim in a frozen lake, but I can tell you that I finally met (I mean saying “hei” and exchanging a few words) someone (my neighbour) in the building where I live. It was nice as long as it lasted, but unfortunately he soon moved away. I hope it was not my fault…&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Regarding the food in the office, the canteen was actually renewed, but the real improvement came when I started to bring my own food from home.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Thanks again to all those who tolerated and supported me for one more year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;E sono 3 (dicono sia il numero perfetto): il 5 ottobre 2004 atterravo ad Helsinki per iniziare la mia avventura finlandese.&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Un anno fa avevo fatto già un &lt;a href="http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/10/kaksi-vuotta.html"&gt;bilancio&lt;/a&gt; dei due anni trascorsi, che posso oggi aggiornare:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;- ho partecipato alla creazione di un altro nuovo prodotto della Nokia (N800)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;- ho sopravvissuto a un altro inverno finlandese&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;- ormai sono quasi pelato&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;- ho visitato Sydney, San Francisco, San Pietroburgo, Londra&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;- ho conosciuto nuovi amici&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;- altri miei amici si sono sposati&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;- altri ancora si sono laureati, o hanno trovato un lavoro&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;- la Roma ha vinto Coppa Italia e Supercoppa&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;- la Juve è tornata in A&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Per quanto riguarda le cose che a quei tempi non ero ancora riuscito a fare, me ne rimane soltanto una:&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;-&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:7;"  &gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;trovare il coraggio di farmi il bagno nel lago ghiacciato&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Infatti ho finalmente conosciuto qualcuno nel mio palazzo (il mio vicino di casa), anche se purtroppo è durato poco, perché dopo poco lui si è trasferito altrove. Spero non sia stata colpa mia…&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Per quanto riguarda il cibo in ufficio, la mensa è stata effettivamente rinnovata, ma il vero miglioramento è arrivato quando ho iniziato a portarmi il cibo da casa.&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Grazie a tutti coloro che mi hanno supportato e sopportato per un altro anno ancora.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-2927840417612904722?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/2927840417612904722/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=2927840417612904722' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/2927840417612904722'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/2927840417612904722'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/10/3.html' title='3'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/RwZth1qnitI/AAAAAAAAABc/vY2gzmXgvxg/s72-c/tre_scimmiette.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-3898930461326826494</id><published>2007-09-19T19:24:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-19T19:31:28.878+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Today</title><content type='html'>After several months I ate again in the canteen: it was in Nokia House.&lt;br /&gt;I don't know if the reason is that I had no expectations or maybe that since all the big bosses seat in that building, the food is actually better; anyway the meal didn't seem to me that bad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you're asking if I will start again, the answer is no.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-size: 85%;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oggi dopo molti mesi ho mangiato di nuovo a mensa, a Nokia House.&lt;br /&gt;Non so se il motivo è che non avevo alcuna aspettativa o forse che il cibo era effettivamente di qualità migliore dato che tutti i grandi capi si trovano in quell'edificio, ma alla fine non mi è sembrata così male.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se vi state chiedendo se ricomincerò la risposta è no.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-3898930461326826494?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/3898930461326826494/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=3898930461326826494' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/3898930461326826494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/3898930461326826494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/09/today.html' title='Today'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-7892893512263096987</id><published>2007-09-09T22:16:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-09T22:33:10.992+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Holidays</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/1351359647/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1395/1351359647_f6aad605fd_o.jpg" alt="trip" height="379" width="482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back in Finland, after a couple of weeks spent in Italy.&lt;br /&gt;My holidays were good and busy: I travelled a lot and met many people (Flavio for the first time!).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The day after my landing I was already travelling to Milan to watch the “Supercoppa Italiana”. It was a good match and AS Roma won; as you can see below, people were very happy after De Rossi scored:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GyGJUIv_8Io"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GyGJUIv_8Io" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Afterwards I stayed a couple of days with my relatives in Fermo, then one day in Rome and next I headed to Otranto in Puglia. Nice city and wonderful sea with very clean water: the only problem was the wind which blew all the time and made me think of Suomenlinna…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/1352245002/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1333/1352245002_d12e124a83.jpg" alt="DSCN6871" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Otranto is a city full of history and the story of the 800 martyrs really touched &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Otranto"&gt;me&lt;/a&gt;. I wonder if nowadays it is easy to find someone who really believes in something to the point that he would die for it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After a few days in Rome my vacation was over.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tornato in Finlandia, dopo un paio di settimane in Italia.&lt;br /&gt;Le mie vacanze sono state belle ed intense: ho viaggiato molto ed incontrato tante persone (Flavio per la prima volta).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il giorno dopo il mio atterraggio stavo già viaggiando verso Milano per vedere la Supercoppa Italiana. E’ stata una bella partita e la Roma ha vinto; come si vede dal video tutti erano molto felici dopo il gol di De Rossi…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dopo ho passato un paio di giorni coi miei parenti a Fermo, poi un giorno a Roma e successivamente mi sono diretto ad Otranto, in Puglia. Una bella città, un mare stupendo con acqua molto limpida: l’unico problema è stato il vento che ha soffiato sempre gagliardo non facendomi rimpiangere Suomenlinna…&lt;br /&gt;Otranto è una città piena di storia e la vicenda degli 800 martiri idruntini mi ha colpito &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battaglia_di_Otranto"&gt;molto&lt;/a&gt;. Mi chiedo se di questi tempi sia facile trovare qualcuno che crede davvero in qualcosa a tal punto da morire per essa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dopo gli ultimi giorni a Roma le mie vacanze sono terminate.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-7892893512263096987?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/7892893512263096987/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=7892893512263096987' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/7892893512263096987'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/7892893512263096987'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/09/holidays.html' title='Holidays'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1333/1352245002_d12e124a83_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-2772726004815191954</id><published>2007-07-29T21:09:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-07-29T21:16:56.451+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Al Passito Prossimo</title><content type='html'>In the weekend I did some more video editing, working on the videos I shot during my first trip to the States. After almost one year the magnificient performance  of Alessandro is finally available to receive credits from all over the world:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kjQpJkWyxog"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kjQpJkWyxog" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nel weekend ho fatto un altro po' di video editing con Kino, e mi sono dedicato a montare le immagini del mio primo viaggio negli Stati Uniti. Dopo quasi un anno la sontuosa performance del mio amico Alessandro è finalmente disponibile per ricevere degno riconoscimento.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-2772726004815191954?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/2772726004815191954/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=2772726004815191954' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/2772726004815191954'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/2772726004815191954'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/07/al-passito-prossimo.html' title='Al Passito Prossimo'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-4067236195320255632</id><published>2007-07-14T07:13:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-07-14T07:22:05.338+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Better than in the canteen</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1401/804436931_e6a733a9d5_m.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1401/804436931_e6a733a9d5_m.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I visited Alcatraz.&lt;br /&gt;At one point we reached the dining room and the menu of the last lunch in the prison was still there. &lt;br /&gt;I really envied them.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-4067236195320255632?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/4067236195320255632/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=4067236195320255632' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/4067236195320255632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/4067236195320255632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/07/better-than-in-canteen.html' title='Better than in the canteen'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1401/804436931_e6a733a9d5_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-1402382368000311095</id><published>2007-07-14T07:01:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-07-14T07:12:45.353+02:00</updated><title type='text'>San Francisco</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1009/804436887_885ed9e393.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1009/804436887_885ed9e393.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Posting from the other side of the world with my N800.&lt;br /&gt;I came to San Francisco for business, and then I spent a couple of days as a tourist.&lt;br /&gt;The city is wonderful: many things to see and great genuine original italian food in North Beach. Yesterday I went on the Golden Gate bridge: it was a great experience, but I got a bit confused with feet and miles and eveentually I had to walk 4 kilometers extra...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-1402382368000311095?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/1402382368000311095/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=1402382368000311095' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/1402382368000311095'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/1402382368000311095'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/07/san-francisco.html' title='San Francisco'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1009/804436887_885ed9e393_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-6543442710933759065</id><published>2007-06-19T21:14:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T12:52:01.186+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Linux &amp; video editing</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/RngscYCmDFI/AAAAAAAAABU/-Nxe_X3GfBE/s1600-h/kino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/RngscYCmDFI/AAAAAAAAABU/-Nxe_X3GfBE/s320/kino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077857445861526610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday was a very important day for me: I created my first home-video DVD, entirely edited on my Ubuntu machine. &lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;It was a very interesting and satisfactory experience, even if not everything was so easy and straightforward.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;After some thinking I decided to use Kino (&lt;a href="http://www.kinodv.org/"&gt;http://www.kinodv.org/&lt;/a&gt;); I installed it and then I read &lt;a href="http://famiglia-marchetti.blogspot.com/"&gt;Michele&lt;/a&gt;’s tutorial (I hope it can be made available somewhere some time soon) to get started.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I acquired the video from my DV camera and I got a separate .dv file for each scene. Then I cut the bad and boring parts, I added some “special” videos, generated some titles for the most important chapters and created some special effects for the video transitions. Doing all this was acceptably easy (it took some time of course, but video editing is not a quick task).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;After that I moved to the audio. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;While for the video part there are many tools available (transitions, special effects, title creation) the audio part is not very developed yet. What you can do with audio is a bit limited: you can mix your own music to the original audio (or replace it) and fade in/out. The two most annoying things I found are these:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;-&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:7;"  &gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;if you want to mix some audios you need to convert all your audio files to WAV PCM 44.1 kHz (now I created a small script which does it for me)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;-&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:7;"  &gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;when you do audio mixing you can’t keep the two tracks separated, so if you realize that your music background is starting too late or too early you have to try again and redo the processing. In general, after mixing whatever you do will apply to the mixed audios. So if you want for instance to fade at one point just the music background and keep the original audio at full volume, that is not possible. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Adding the music background took quite a lot of time, because I had in some cases to repeat the same operation several times to get the best result.&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;After completing the audio I created one mpeg file for each chapter using the “Export” option in Kino, and then I was ready for the menu.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Creating the DVD menu is also not very easy: I used ‘Q’ DVD-Author (&lt;a href="http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/"&gt;http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/&lt;/a&gt;) as a starting point, but then I had to edit manually one XML file to get it really working as I wanted. After doing this the good thing was that by pressing just one button I was able to get the whole DVD file system generated on my hard disk.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Last thing was to create the ISO image and then burn the DVD.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Now I’m very satisfied, and I can watch the videos from my trip to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;England&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; on my TV!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-6543442710933759065?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/6543442710933759065/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=6543442710933759065' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/6543442710933759065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/6543442710933759065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/06/linux-video-editing.html' title='Linux &amp; video editing'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/RngscYCmDFI/AAAAAAAAABU/-Nxe_X3GfBE/s72-c/kino.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-4154810850523618554</id><published>2007-06-19T20:06:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T12:52:01.724+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Le cozze</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/Rngdd4CmDEI/AAAAAAAAABM/aKU6PyN5dt0/s1600-h/IMG_0281.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/Rngdd4CmDEI/AAAAAAAAABM/aKU6PyN5dt0/s400/IMG_0281.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077840978956913730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I need to keep a promise, so here you are a photo of a delicious speciality from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Bari&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;, which was cooked at my place a couple of years ago, when I was not blogging yet. &lt;/span&gt;Enjoy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Devo mantenere una promessa fatta, e quindi ecco qui una specialità barese, preparata a casa mia un paio di anni fa, quando ancora non bloggavo. Buon appetito!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-4154810850523618554?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/4154810850523618554/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=4154810850523618554' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/4154810850523618554'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/4154810850523618554'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/06/le-cozze.html' title='Le cozze'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/Rngdd4CmDEI/AAAAAAAAABM/aKU6PyN5dt0/s72-c/IMG_0281.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-7532375563352343610</id><published>2007-06-18T22:55:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-06-18T22:59:19.319+02:00</updated><title type='text'>England</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/565910848/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1425/565910848_dbea5a88ae.jpg" alt="18052007009" height="500" width="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I had not written yet about my trip to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;England&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Some &lt;a href="http://famiglia-marchetti.blogspot.com/"&gt;friends&lt;/a&gt; of mine live in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Cambridge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;, so I went to visit them and took the opportunity to see the country (I had never been there before). It was a nice trip: I spent one day in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;London&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;, visiting all the most important attractions, and everything went fine, except some problems I had when I came back to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Cambridge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;At the railway station the bus driver refused to let me in, because he had already closed the doors when I arrived (but he had not moved yet). I would have most likely run after it shouting at the driver if I had known that the next one was after one hour, but when I realised it was too late: I had to wait. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Meanwhile it started raining, and a pigeon also thought of leaving on my coat a “souvenir“ from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;England&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;. When finally the next bus came I was really happy to make it into it: I sat inside waiting for my stop. Suddenly, something incredible and unpredictable happened: one guy in the bus started arguing with the driver (a woman) because he had taken the wrong bus and wanted the money of the ticket back. The discussion went on for some minutes, until the guy decided to take the money by himself… The driver rang the siren (yes, the bus had some alarm system) and immediately some cars in the street stopped and people came to check what was happening. To make it short, the police were called, and the trip was cancelled. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Next one: one hour. Luckily Michele was so kind to come and pick me up with his car…&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Non avevo ancora scritto del mio viaggio in Inghilterra.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Alcuni miei &lt;a href="http://famiglia-marchetti.blogspot.com/"&gt;amici&lt;/a&gt; vivono a Cambridge, così sono andato a trovarli ed ho colto l’occasione per visitare un Paese in cui non ero mai stato. E’ stato un bel viaggio: ho passato un giorno a Londra dove ho visto le attrazioni più importanti, e tutto è andato bene, a parte qualche problema che ho avuto al mio ritorno a Cambridge. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Alla stazione l’autista dell’autobus si è rifiutato di farmi entrare, perché aveva già chiuso le porte (ma non si era ancora messo in moto). Molto probabilmente sarei corso appresso all’autobus insultando l’autista se avessi saputo che il prossimo autobus era dopo un’ora, ma quando me ne sono accorto era ormai troppo tardi: dovevo aspettare. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Nel frattempo è iniziato a piovere, e un piccione ha pure pensato di lasciare un souvenir inglese sulla mia giacca. Quando finalmente l’autobus è arrivato sono stato felice di riuscire ad entrare: mi sono seduto dentro, aspettando la mia fermata. All’improvviso, è successo qualcosa di incredibile ed inaspettato: un uomo nell’autobus inizia a litigare con l’autista (una donna) perché aveva sbagliato mezzo e voleva indietro i soldi del biglietto. La discussione è andata avanti per un po’ di tempo, finché l’uomo non ha deciso di prendersi i soldi da solo… L’autista ha suonato la sirena (l’autobus aveva un sistema di allarme) e subito alcune macchine per strada si sono fermate e delle persone sono venute a vedere cosa fosse successo. Per farla breve, hanno chiamato la polizia e la corsa è stata cancellata.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Prossimo autobus: un’ora. Per fortuna Michele è stato così gentile da venirmi a prendere con la sua macchina…&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-7532375563352343610?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/7532375563352343610/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=7532375563352343610' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/7532375563352343610'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/7532375563352343610'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/06/i-had-not-written-yet-about-my-trip-to.html' title='England'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1425/565910848_dbea5a88ae_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-2522652700765843027</id><published>2007-05-25T20:32:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T12:52:02.119+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Vecchiaia</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/RlcswgLka0I/AAAAAAAAAA8/32sg0CBjAJs/s1600-h/nonno1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/RlcswgLka0I/AAAAAAAAAA8/32sg0CBjAJs/s320/nonno1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068569117412584258" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Today I’m 29.  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;The age makes wiser, so this time I’m not gonna repeat the experiment of last year, when I asked my readers to leave a "happy birthday" message on this blog, getting only 3 comments… &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;font style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" size="2"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Oggi compio 29 anni.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;L’età rende più saggi, e così questa &lt;/font&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;font style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;volta&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;font style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; non ripeterò l’esperimento dello scorso anno, qu&lt;/font&gt;ando chiesi ai miei lettori di lasciarmi un messaggio di auguri sul blog, ottenendo solo 3 commenti…&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-2522652700765843027?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/2522652700765843027/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=2522652700765843027' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/2522652700765843027'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/2522652700765843027'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/05/vecchiaia.html' title='Vecchiaia'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/RlcswgLka0I/AAAAAAAAAA8/32sg0CBjAJs/s72-c/nonno1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-1790000179668172334</id><published>2007-05-22T18:54:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-05-22T19:05:53.900+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Hyvää ruokaa!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Sorry for the long silence but, as many of you have already noticed, I’m running out of topics since I stopped visiting the canteen (2 months, 18 days)…&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;On the occasion of my return to blogging I decided to offer you some nice views. Here’s a selection of some good (home-made) food I could taste in the last weeks. My everlasting gratitude to the cooks.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;P.S.: I'm opening a small contest here: tell me at least five ingredients for each dish in the photos and you'll win 7 days for free in Finland (including lunch at Sodexho).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font style=""&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;font style=""&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/509572864/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/219/509572864_e3016805eb.jpg" alt="12052007003" height="375" width="500"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/509572852/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/231/509572852_e230823ab9.jpg" alt="01052007337" height="375" width="500"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/509572728/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/199/509572728_b964b1ad27.jpg" alt="01052007333" height="375" width="500"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/509572720/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/194/509572720_944ff94ccc.jpg" alt="01052007329" height="375" width="500"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/509572712/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/208/509572712_8c86335bfc.jpg" alt="13042007318" height="375" width="500"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/509572698/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/201/509572698_6965a273a2.jpg" alt="13042007315" height="375" width="500"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;font style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" size="2"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Scusate per il lungo silenzio ma, come molti hanno già notato, sono rimasto a corto di argomenti da quando ho smesso di andare a mensa (2 mesi e 18 giorni)…&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;In occasione del mio ritorno alla “bloggatura” ho deciso di offrirvi delle belle immagini. Ecco una selezione di un po’ di buon cibo fatto in casa che ho potuto assaporare nelle ultime settimane. Con profonda gratitudine alle cuoche.&lt;/p&gt;P.S.: Apro qui un concorso: chi mi dice almeno 5 ingredienti per ogni piatto in foto vince una settimana gratis in Finlandia (inclusi i pranzi alla Sodexho).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-1790000179668172334?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/1790000179668172334/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=1790000179668172334' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/1790000179668172334'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/1790000179668172334'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/05/hyv-ruokaa.html' title='Hyvää ruokaa!'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/219/509572864_e3016805eb_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-5348112967261710720</id><published>2007-05-02T21:54:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-05-02T21:58:19.135+02:00</updated><title type='text'>No comment</title><content type='html'>Today, at around 2 pm, it snowed.&lt;br /&gt;I don't think I should add anything to this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-size: 85%;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oggi, intorno alle 2 di pomeriggio, è nevicato.&lt;br /&gt;Non penso ci sia nulla da aggiungere.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-5348112967261710720?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/5348112967261710720/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=5348112967261710720' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/5348112967261710720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/5348112967261710720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/05/no-comment.html' title='No comment'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-1821814092568533434</id><published>2007-04-30T19:46:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-04-30T19:53:22.154+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Saint Petersburg</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/478677058/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/180/478677058_112cd50990.jpg" alt="DSCN5821" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just back from a long weekend in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;St. Petersburg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;: it was wonderful.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;The city (at least the historical centre) really surprised me in terms of cultural and artistic heritage. I could write a long list of the things I liked, but above all those I would mention the Ermitage museum, with its huge collection of masterpieces, the Catherine’s Palace, with the marvellous &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;st1:placename&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Amber&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:placename&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Room&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;, and the Russian dinner, with the enjoyable performances of some local people.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/478677076/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/183/478677076_3957618112.jpg" alt="DSCN5753" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/478677068/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/198/478677068_5ab1034a57.jpg" alt="DSCN5796" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Ah, I was almost forgetting it: food. It was not really Mediterranean, but it was definitely better than the average quality in Finnish restaurants, and considerably cheaper.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;A suggestion for everybody: go there! &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Appena tornato da un weekend lungo a S.Pietroburgo: è stato bellissimo.  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;La città (almeno il centro storico) mi ha davvero sorpreso in quanto a patrimonio culturale e artistico. Potrei fare una lunga lista delle cose che mi sono piaciute, ma su tutte menzionerò ora l’Ermitage, con il suo enorme numero di capolavori, il palazzo di Caterina, con la meravigliosa Sala d’Ambra, e la cena russa, con simpatici rappresentanti del folklore locale.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Ah, dimenticavo, il cibo. Non propriamente mediterraneo, ma senz’altro meglio della qualità media dei ristoranti finlandesi e notevolmente più economico.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Un consiglio per tutti: andateci!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-1821814092568533434?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/1821814092568533434/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=1821814092568533434' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/1821814092568533434'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/1821814092568533434'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/04/saint-petersburg.html' title='Saint Petersburg'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/180/478677058_112cd50990_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-9147666940804811559</id><published>2007-04-01T19:57:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T12:52:02.283+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Uusi elämä</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/Rg_zRUzFY_I/AAAAAAAAAA0/UUMjBmEukvQ/s1600-h/pulcino.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048521186271912946" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/Rg_zRUzFY_I/AAAAAAAAAA0/UUMjBmEukvQ/s320/pulcino.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt;The day after tomorrow it will be one month since I stopped going to the canteen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;What changed since then:&lt;br /&gt;- I stopped complaining about the canteen (of course, I’m not going there any more)&lt;br /&gt;- I’ve been writing less on my blog (now I’m lacking of topics…)&lt;br /&gt;- I’m doing much more sport (swimming, football)&lt;br /&gt;- I‘m richer (I save 5 euros every day)&lt;br /&gt;- Sodexho is poorer (for the reason above)&lt;br /&gt;- I’m happier&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Dopodomani sarà un mese da quando ho smesso definitivamente di andare a mensa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Cosa è cambiato da quel giorno:&lt;br /&gt;- ho smesso di lamentarmi della mensa (per forza, non ci vado)&lt;br /&gt;- sto scrivendo meno sul mio blog (manca la materia prima)&lt;br /&gt;- riesco a fare molto più sport (nuoto, calcetto)&lt;br /&gt;- sono più ricco (risparmio 5 euro al giorno)&lt;br /&gt;- la Sodexho è più povera (per la regione di cui sopra)&lt;br /&gt;- sono più felice&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-9147666940804811559?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/9147666940804811559/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=9147666940804811559' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/9147666940804811559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/9147666940804811559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/04/uusi-elm.html' title='Uusi elämä'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/Rg_zRUzFY_I/AAAAAAAAAA0/UUMjBmEukvQ/s72-c/pulcino.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-7087339717003102023</id><published>2007-03-14T19:29:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-03-14T19:32:52.685+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Primavera</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;Today was sunny and warm (+7 °C); the snow has disappeared and the sea has melted: winter is over.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are two nice things you can do in winter: skiing and walking on the sea. This year I only skied twice and I never went on the sea.&lt;br /&gt;Disappointing. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Oggi la giornata è stata soleggiata e calda (7 gradi); la neve è scomparsa e il mare si è sciolto. L’inverno è finito.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ci sono due cose belle che puoi fare in inverno: sciare e camminare sul mare. Quest’anno ho sciato soltanto due volte e non sono mai stato sul mare.&lt;br /&gt;Che delusione.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-7087339717003102023?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/7087339717003102023/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=7087339717003102023' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/7087339717003102023'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/7087339717003102023'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/03/primavera.html' title='Primavera'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-6921129922192041929</id><published>2007-03-04T16:21:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-03-05T21:20:37.072+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Musta peruna</title><content type='html'>Many persons have been asking me about new delicatessen from the canteen, but I must honestly say that after Christmas I have visited the canteen only once a week, and as a consequence my meetings with the alien Sodexho specialities decreased.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last Friday was one of the lucky days I decided to eat in the canteen, and this is what I saw when I started the queue:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a title="Photo Sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/409982831/"&gt;&lt;img height="375" alt="Patate_rancide" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/168/409982831_6fa99f621e.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;After the frozen Wiener Schnitzel, the worm in the salad, this time was the potatoes’ turn.&lt;br /&gt;Black stains were stippling several potatoes, as you can see in the photo.&lt;br /&gt;This thing annoyed me a lot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By chance there was a man that day showing nice slides about Sodexho and the quality and genuineness of its food: I couldn’t avoid going there and asking him if he had seen the potatoes, but he was only able to answer that from next Monday everything would change.&lt;br /&gt;Next Monday? Meanwhile today do I have to eat rancid potatoes?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now I have some simple questions:&lt;br /&gt;- how can a boiled potato become black? I guess it was at least two weeks old&lt;br /&gt;- let’s try to think that those potatoes were there “by mistake”. How is it possible that none of the canteen’s employees had the good taste of taking them away?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feel once again humiliated and treated like an animal. Actually not even, because I can assure you that in some places animals get better food.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday night I watched “Supersize Me”, a movie/documentary about the bad food habits in the States (the main character decides to eat for 30 days only McDonald’s food).&lt;br /&gt;It was really shocking and, what an incredible coincidence, at one point the movie mentioned Sodexho, and it was not really for highlighting the genuineness of its food.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most probably I will never go to the canteen again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Molte persone mi chiedevano da un po’ di pubblicare qualche altra finezza della mensa, ma a dire la verità è da dopo Natale che ho deciso di andarci solamente una volta a settimana, e quindi i miei incontri con le specialità aliene della Sodexho si sono ridotti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Venerdì scorso era uno dei giorni “fortunati” in cui avevo deciso di visitare la mensa, e in foto vedete quanto mi sono trovato di fronte appena iniziata la fila.&lt;br /&gt;Dopo le cotolette servite congelate, i vermi nell’insalata, questa volta è toccato alle patate.&lt;br /&gt;Diverse patate presentavano delle macchie nere, chiaramente visibili nella foto.&lt;br /&gt;La cosa ovviamente mi ha disturbato notevolmente, e fatalità ha voluto che proprio quel giorno ci fosse un responsabile della mensa che mostrava delle belle diapositive sulla qualità e genuinità dei prodotti Sodexho. Non ho potuto fare a meno di andare da questa persona e chiedergli se avesse visto le patate, ma lui ha saputo soltanto dirmi che da lunedì tutto cambierà.&lt;br /&gt;Da lunedì? E io intanto oggi devo mangiarmi le patate rancide?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ora mi chiedo, semplicemente:&lt;br /&gt;- come fa una patata lessa a diventare nera. Vuol dire che è vecchia di almeno due settimane&lt;br /&gt;- assumiamo che quelle patate sono finite lì “per sbaglio”: possibile che nessuno dei dipendenti della mensa abbia avuto il buon gusto di toglierle?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi sento ancora una volta umiliato e trattato come un animale. Anzi, nemmeno, perché vi assicuro che in alcuni posti gli animali mangiano molto meglio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ieri sera ho visto il film “Supersize Me”, un film/documentario riguardo le cattive abitudini alimentari negli Stati Uniti (il protagonista decide di mangiare per 30 giorni solo al McDonald’s). E’ stato davvero impressionante, e ,incredibile coincidenza, ad un certo punto è stata menzionata la Sodexho (che sorpresa), e non certo per metterne in risalto la qualità e genuinità.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Probabilmente non andrò mai più a mensa.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-6921129922192041929?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/6921129922192041929/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=6921129922192041929' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/6921129922192041929'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/6921129922192041929'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/03/many-persons-have-been-asking-me-about.html' title='Musta peruna'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/168/409982831_6fa99f621e_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-4530320354730133802</id><published>2007-02-19T20:17:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-02-19T20:29:07.351+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Laskiainen</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;Yesterday afternoon Anne organized for all of us a celebration of carnival (&lt;em&gt;Laskiainen&lt;/em&gt;) in the Finnish style.&lt;br /&gt;We started with a snack: the Italian-Finnish “focacce” (Simone’s Italian recipe, Finnish implementation): &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a title="Photo Sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/395666745/"&gt;&lt;img height="375" alt="18022007300" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/157/395666745_8b94b65996.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Then, following the local habit, we went to slide down the hill, where all the other kids made fun of us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a title="Photo Sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/395666759/"&gt;&lt;img height="375" alt="Scivolate_20029" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/127/395666759_1f98658f1c.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;To restore our strength we later had &lt;em&gt;Laskiaispullat&lt;/em&gt;, handmade by Anne according to the original recipe, filled with whipped cream and jam, together with a cup of hot chocolate (the real one, not Nesquik).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a title="Photo Sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/395666752/"&gt;&lt;img height="375" alt="18022007307" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/129/395666752_258b674e56.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt; It was nice of Anne to give me a couple extra, so that this morning I could continue the celebration… &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ieri pomeriggio, grazie all’organizzazione di Anne, abbiamo festeggiato il carnevale (&lt;em&gt;Laskiainen&lt;/em&gt;) alla maniera finlandese.&lt;br /&gt;Il tutto è iniziato con uno spuntino: le focacce italo-finalndesi (ricetta italiana di Simone, realizzazione finlandese).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Poi, seguendo la tradizione locale, siamo andati a scivolare dalla collina, dove abbiamo subito gli sberleffi di tutti i bambini che scivolavano attorno a noi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dopo la fatica abbiamo potuto ritemprarci con le &lt;em&gt;Laskiaispullat&lt;/em&gt;, fatte da Anne secondo la ricetta originale, riempite di panna e marmellata, ed accompagnate con una tazza di cioccolata calda vera (quella densa e non il Nesquik).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E’ stata gentile Anne a darmene un paio in più, per continuare la festa stamattina…&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-4530320354730133802?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/4530320354730133802/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=4530320354730133802' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/4530320354730133802'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/4530320354730133802'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/02/laskiainen.html' title='Laskiainen'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/157/395666745_8b94b65996_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-1814805280025552703</id><published>2007-01-28T21:35:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T12:52:02.939+01:00</updated><title type='text'>linux.conf.au</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/Rb0Jm03-5II/AAAAAAAAAAk/y7Tmfaa3Keg/s1600-h/segway.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5025183321848472706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/Rb0Jm03-5II/AAAAAAAAAAk/y7Tmfaa3Keg/s320/segway.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Let’s continue talking about what I did in Sydney.&lt;br /&gt;From the 15th to the 20th of January I attended the linux.conf.au (&lt;a href="http://lca2007.linux.org.au/"&gt;http://lca2007.linux.org.au/&lt;/a&gt;), which is one of the most important linux conferences in the world (this is also proven by the number of participants: more than 800).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Driven by my interests, I was at the embedded miniconf on Monday, where, among other things, the Qtopia Greenphone was presented; then I followed the multimedia related presentations, like Jokosher, a multi-track studio for audio production (&lt;a href="http://www.jokosher.org/"&gt;http://www.jokosher.org/&lt;/a&gt;), the PulseAudio sound server (&lt;a href="http://pulseaudio.org/"&gt;http://pulseaudio.org/&lt;/a&gt;), MythTV (a personal video recorder: &lt;a href="http://www.mythtv.org/"&gt;http://www.mythtv.org/&lt;/a&gt;) and the streaming server Flumotion (&lt;a href="http://www.flumotion.net/"&gt;http://www.flumotion.net/&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;Among the “less technical” presentations I was particularly interested in one about promoting open source projects and another one about how to start an open source business. Is open source the future of the Information Technology?&lt;br /&gt;Among the “peculiar” presentations I must definitely mention the one on the open source Segway (&lt;a href="http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/meta/"&gt;http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/meta/&lt;/a&gt;), the urban vehicle of the future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The keynotes were very interesting, but I’ll write another post for them. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Continuiamo a parlare di quello che ho fatto a Sydney.&lt;br /&gt;Dal 15 al 20 gennaio ho partecipato alla linux.conf.au (&lt;a href="http://lca2007.linux.org.au/"&gt;http://lca2007.linux.org.au/&lt;/a&gt;), che è considerata una delle più importanti conferenze per linuxari del mondo, e ciò è dimostrato dal numero di partecipanti, più di 800.&lt;br /&gt;Seguendo i miei interessi, ho partecipato alla embedded miniconf del lunedì, dove è stato mostrato tra l’altro il Qtopia Greenphone, un telefono basato su linux, ed ho poi seguito le presentazioni relative a multimedia, quali Jokosher, uno studio multi-traccia per la produzione audio (&lt;a href="http://www.jokosher.org/"&gt;http://www.jokosher.org/&lt;/a&gt;), il sound server PulseAudio (&lt;a href="http://pulseaudio.org/"&gt;http://pulseaudio.org/&lt;/a&gt;), MythTV (per la registrazione di contenuti video digitali: &lt;a href="http://www.mythtv.org/"&gt;http://www.mythtv.org/&lt;/a&gt;) e lo streaming server Flumotion (&lt;a href="http://www.flumotion.net/"&gt;http://www.flumotion.net/&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;Tra le presentazioni meno “tecniche” mi hanno particolarmente interessato quelle relative a come promuovere progetti open source e a come iniziare un business basato sull’open source. Sarà questo il futuro dell’Information Technology?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tra le presentazioni “particolari” devo senz’altro menzionare quella su come costruire un Segway (&lt;a href="http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/meta/"&gt;http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/meta/&lt;/a&gt;), il veicolo metropolitano del futuro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le keynote sono state estremamente interessanti, ma a quelle dedicherò un post a parte.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-1814805280025552703?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/1814805280025552703/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=1814805280025552703' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/1814805280025552703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/1814805280025552703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/01/linuxconfau.html' title='linux.conf.au'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/Rb0Jm03-5II/AAAAAAAAAAk/y7Tmfaa3Keg/s72-c/segway.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-933938649711423010</id><published>2007-01-28T21:30:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-01-28T21:35:01.032+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Paloheinä</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a title="Photo Sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/372305947/"&gt;&lt;img height="375" alt="28012007265" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/152/372305947_1242638838.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a title="Photo Sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/372305955/"&gt;&lt;img height="500" alt="28012007266" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/159/372305955_336ec247cc.jpg" width="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Last week it snowed a lot, and this morning it was 10 °C with a beautiful sun: perfect conditions for going skiing for the first time this year.&lt;br /&gt;I was in Paloheinä with Janne and I had a lot of fun (but it will be a different story tomorrow, when all my muscles will start complaining).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;La scorsa settimana ha nevicato un bel po’, ed oggi c’erano -10 gradi con un bel sole: condizioni perfette per la prima sciata dell’anno.&lt;br /&gt;Sono stato con Janne a Paloheinä, e mi sono divertito molto (ma sarà diverso domani, quando tutti i miei muscoli cominceranno a lamentarsi).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-933938649711423010?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/933938649711423010/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=933938649711423010' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/933938649711423010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/933938649711423010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/01/palohein.html' title='Paloheinä'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/152/372305947_1242638838_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-8974099298635551033</id><published>2007-01-24T20:28:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-01-24T20:56:58.584+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Bar Coluzzi</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a title="Photo Sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/366248934/"&gt;&lt;img height="375" alt="19012007239" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/169/366248934_cd71c9c3c9.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;There in Australia the day always started well, with cappuccino and cornetto at Bar Coluzzi (&lt;a href="http://www.portrait.gov.au/exhibit/masters/p4.htm"&gt;http://www.portrait.gov.au/exhibit/masters/p4.htm&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Luigi Coluzzi, a Roman boxer from the San Lorenzo district, migrated to Australia in 1956, where he became middleweight champion. He was in the cast of the film “&lt;em&gt;Il nostro campione&lt;/em&gt;” (&lt;a href="http://italian.imdb.com/title/tt0048431/combined"&gt;http://italian.imdb.com/title/tt0048431/combined&lt;/a&gt;) and he is considered to be a forerunner of the espresso in Australia.&lt;br /&gt;He still drops in every morning at his bar in Randwick, where he entertains the customers with his stories and his songs, showing with pride the countless photos which decorate the walls and portray him with VIPs from all over the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He makes a cappuccino to be envied by the most famous Roman bars, and he is a true supporter and promoter of the Italian culinary tradition and culture. Unlike the pizzeria “Zia Pina” at The Rocks, which shamefully offers to its customers microwave-made pizza.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meeting Mr Coluzzi was a real honour, and I’m keeping with pride the card with a dedication he left me:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a title="Photo Sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/368249322/"&gt;&lt;img height="142" alt="scan0001" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/147/368249322_2a958ab77f_m.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Là in Australia la giornata iniziava sempre bene, con il cappuccino e cornetto del bar Coluzzi (&lt;a href="http://www.portrait.gov.au/exhibit/masters/p4.htm"&gt;http://www.portrait.gov.au/exhibit/masters/p4.htm&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Luigi Coluzzi, pugile romano di San Lorenzo, emigrato in Australia nel 1956 e diventato campione dei pesi medi, protagonista del film “&lt;em&gt;Il nostro campione&lt;/em&gt;” (&lt;a href="http://italian.imdb.com/title/tt0048431/combined"&gt;http://italian.imdb.com/title/tt0048431/combined&lt;/a&gt;) e considerato uno dei precursori dell’espresso in Oceania, ancora si presenta ogni mattina nel suo bar a Randwick, intrattenendo i clienti con i suoi racconti e le sue canzoni, e mostrando con soddisfazione le innumerevoli foto che decorano le pareti del suo locale, che lo ritraggono con personalità storiche da tutto il mondo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Offre un cappuccino da fare invidia ai bar più famosi della capitale, e ciò lo rende un vero sostenitore e promotore della tradizione e cultura culinaria italiana, a differenza della pizzeria Zia Pina di “The Rocks”, che vergognosamente offre ai suoi ospiti pizze fatte al microonde.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E’ stato un vero onore conoscere il signor Coluzzi, e conservo con orgoglio il biglietto con dedica che mi ha lasciato. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-8974099298635551033?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/8974099298635551033/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=8974099298635551033' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/8974099298635551033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/8974099298635551033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/01/bar-coluzzi.html' title='Bar Coluzzi'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/169/366248934_cd71c9c3c9_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-3116388169787407788</id><published>2007-01-22T22:11:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-01-22T22:17:21.229+01:00</updated><title type='text'>FOMS</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a title="Photo Sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/366256048/"&gt;&lt;img height="375" alt="355591766_0b4c0ec67a" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/183/366256048_e2f531622f.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;The FOMS meeting was very interesting and productive. I could finally see the faces of many people I only knew by name, and discuss with them about the latest status of open source multimedia.&lt;br /&gt;For those interested, here are some details: &lt;a href="http://www.annodex.org/events/foms2007/Main/HomePage"&gt;http://www.annodex.org/events/foms2007/Main/HomePage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and here some photos: &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/foms2007/"&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/foms2007/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Special thanks to the &lt;a href="http://www.annodex.org/events/foms2007/Main/OrganisingCommittee"&gt;organisers&lt;/a&gt; of this event.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wish free media formats like Vorbis (&lt;a href="http://www.vorbis.com/"&gt;http://www.vorbis.com/&lt;/a&gt;) and Theora (&lt;a href="http://www.theora.org/"&gt;http://www.theora.org/&lt;/a&gt;) could gain more and more popularity, and spread as a valid alternative to proprietary formats like WM and Real.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il FOMS meeting è stato interessante e produttivo. Ho finalmente potuto vedere le facce di tante persone che conoscevo solo per nome, e discutere con loro dello stato attuale della multimedialità open source.&lt;br /&gt;Per chi è interessato trovate qui qualche dettaglio: &lt;a href="http://www.annodex.org/events/foms2007/Main/HomePage"&gt;http://www.annodex.org/events/foms2007/Main/HomePage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;e qui qualche foto: &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/foms2007/"&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/foms2007/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un ringraziamento particolare va agli &lt;a href="http://www.annodex.org/events/foms2007/Main/OrganisingCommittee"&gt;organizzatori&lt;/a&gt; dell’evento.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spero che formati multimediali liberi come Vorbis (&lt;a href="http://www.vorbis.com/"&gt;http://www.vorbis.com/&lt;/a&gt;) e Theora (&lt;a href="http://www.theora.org/"&gt;http://www.theora.org/&lt;/a&gt;) possano acquistare una sempre maggiore popolarità, e diffondersi come valida alternativa a formati proprietari quali WM e Real.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-3116388169787407788?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/3116388169787407788/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=3116388169787407788' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/3116388169787407788'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/3116388169787407788'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/01/foms.html' title='FOMS'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/183/366256048_e2f531622f_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-6287433280835981875</id><published>2007-01-22T22:02:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-01-22T22:09:43.849+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Australia</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a title="Photo Sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/366248929/"&gt;&lt;img height="375" alt="10012007209" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/110/366248929_230a40e090.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;This morning when I woke up the thermometer was standing at -12.5.&lt;br /&gt;Only two days ago I was in a t-shirt under the burning sun, enjoying the austral summer…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stamattina quando mi sono svegliato il termometro segnava -12.5.&lt;br /&gt;Soltanto due giorni fa stavo in maniche corte sotto un sole cocente, a godermi l’estate australe…&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-6287433280835981875?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/6287433280835981875/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=6287433280835981875' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/6287433280835981875'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/6287433280835981875'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/01/australia.html' title='Australia'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/110/366248929_230a40e090_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-511803178351123988</id><published>2007-01-08T22:41:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T12:52:03.219+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Il terzogenito</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;I’m really glad to begin the new year with a good news: it was born!&lt;br /&gt;After 770 and 770 OS2006, let me introduce you to the N800: &lt;a href="http://www.nseries.com/n800"&gt;www.nseries.com/n800&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5017779856978089122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/RaK8MdBKFKI/AAAAAAAAAAU/AZh4hUTiMNI/s400/n800.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt;I’m proud to be one of his fathers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the way, tomorrow I’m leaving for Sydney, where I’ll attend the FOMS (Foundations of Open Media Software) Developer meeting and then the linux.conf.au.&lt;br /&gt;It’s gonna be great to meet so many Linux and Open Source lovers, discuss with them and show them our new creature.&lt;br /&gt;Southern hemisphere: I’m coming! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Sono davvero felice di poter iniziare il nuovo anno con una bella notizia: è nato!&lt;br /&gt;Dopo il 770 e il 770 OS2006, ecco a voi l’N800: &lt;a href="http://www.nseries.com/n800"&gt;www.nseries.com/n800&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sono orgoglioso di essere uno dei suoi padri.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A proposito, domani si parte per Sydney, dove parteciperò al FOMS (Foundations of Open Media Software) Developer meeting e poi alla linux.conf.au.&lt;br /&gt;Sarà bello incontrare tanti appassionati di Linux ed Open Source, discutere con loro e poter mostrare loro la nostra nuova creatura!&lt;br /&gt;Emisfero australe: sto arrivando!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-511803178351123988?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/511803178351123988/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=511803178351123988' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/511803178351123988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/511803178351123988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2007/01/il-terzogenito.html' title='Il terzogenito'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DedXoFKIhcw/RaK8MdBKFKI/AAAAAAAAAAU/AZh4hUTiMNI/s72-c/n800.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-947648002005340688</id><published>2006-12-21T22:16:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-12-21T22:24:10.639+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Joulu</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;Were you missing me?&lt;br /&gt;Don’t worry: here I am, with some new delicatessen from the canteen.&lt;br /&gt;A couple of days ago we had the Christmas lunch, and they proposed me the Italian salad!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Photo Sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/329427825/"&gt;&lt;img height="500" alt="ItalianSalad" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/329427825_524abe535f.jpg" width="455" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;I don’t remember exactly the ingredients, but it was made of pasta (overcooked, of course), mayonnaise, peppers and something else.&lt;br /&gt;I’ve never seen something like that in my country…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Never mind, Christmas is coming and I’m going to spend some time in Italy, where I guess I’ll have the opportunity to experience some “different” food.&lt;br /&gt;Talking about Italian food, yesterday I brought in the office a pandoro (if you don’t know what it is please go to Wikipedia); it was funny and surprising to see how a thing which is so common for me can be completely obscure to persons from other countries: a colleague of mine initially thought it was some kind of internet music service!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To all of you, my readers, happy Christmas and Happy 2007! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vi mancavo?&lt;br /&gt;Non vi preoccupate: sono qui, pronto a mostrarvi nuove squisitezze dalla mensa.&lt;br /&gt;Un paio di giorni fa abbiamo avuto il pranzo di Natale, e mi hanno proposto l’insalata italiana!&lt;br /&gt;Non ricordo esattamente gli ingredienti, ma c’erano pasta (scotta, naturalmente), maionese, peperoni e qualcos’altro.&lt;br /&gt;Mai visto niente di simile nel mio Paese…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ma non ci pensiamo: Natale sta arrivando ed io passerò qualche giorno in Italia, dove immagino avrò la possibilità di provare cibo “diverso”.&lt;br /&gt;A proposito di cibo italiano, ieri ho portato in ufficio un pandoro; è stato divertente e sorprendente vedere come qualcosa così normale per me possa risultare completamente oscura a persone di altri Paesi: un mio collega dal nome pensava si trattasse di un servizio di musica su internet!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A tutti voi, miei lettori, buon Natale e felice 2007!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-947648002005340688?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/947648002005340688/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=947648002005340688' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/947648002005340688'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/947648002005340688'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/12/joulu.html' title='Joulu'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/329427825_524abe535f_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-116370844344707425</id><published>2006-11-16T21:12:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-11-19T21:02:56.136+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Officially emigrant</title><content type='html'>Yesterday I got this letter:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a title="Photo Sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/298934798/"&gt;&lt;img height="500" alt="Ambasciata_mod2" src="http://static.flickr.com/99/298934798_d5fca5d7c1.jpg" width="374" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;While I was reading it, I started making some remarks…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. &lt;em&gt;Dear Mr Ambrosini&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- mmm, I guess there’s something wrong here&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. &lt;em&gt;we recorded you to the Registry Office of this Embassy with immediate effect&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- thanks, I’m happy to know that starting from today the Embassy officially recognizes me as an Italian in Finland. I applied for that in October 2004.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;em&gt;feel free to contact us for any additional information you might need&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;- thanks, it’s very nice of you. I’ll write to the address written in the heading to correct my name... But are you sure your email address is ambasciata.helsinki@&lt;strong&gt;etseri&lt;/strong&gt;.it? Mmm, shouldn’t it be ambasciata.helsinki@&lt;strong&gt;esteri&lt;/strong&gt;.it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's nice to feel home even here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ieri ho ricevuto la lettera riportata sopra.&lt;br /&gt;Leggendola, mi è venuta spontanea qualche riflessione…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. &lt;em&gt;Gentile Sig. Ambrosini&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;- mmm, mi sa che c’è qualcosa di sbagliato qui&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. &lt;em&gt;abbiamo provveduto ad iscriverLa nei registri dell’Anagrafe Consolare di questa Ambasciata con decorrenza odierna&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;- grazie, è un piacere sapere che da oggi l’Ambasciata mi riconosce ufficialmente come italiano in Finlandia: era l’ottobre 2004 quando ho presentato la richiesta&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;em&gt;Ci consideri a Sua disposizione per qualsiasi ulteriore informazione di cui dovesse avere bisogno&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- grazie, troppo gentili. Provvederò a scrivere all’indirizzo riportato sull’intestazione per chiedere la rettifica del mio nome. Ma siete proprio sicuri che il vostro indirizzo email sia ambasciata.helsinki@&lt;strong&gt;etseri&lt;/strong&gt;.it? Mmm, forse è ambasciata.helsinki@&lt;strong&gt;esteri&lt;/strong&gt;.it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E’ bello sentirsi a casa anche quassù.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-116370844344707425?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/116370844344707425/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=116370844344707425' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/116370844344707425'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/116370844344707425'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/11/officially-emigrant.html' title='Officially emigrant'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-116335620984409278</id><published>2006-11-12T19:26:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-11-12T19:30:09.856+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Pulla</title><content type='html'>I wouldn’t want too many people to stay away from my blog because of the horror-film-like images I posted during the past days. Then, in order to awake in you the good taste, I’m now posting the photo of Anne’s pulla(s), a delicious Finnish speciality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a title="Photo Sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/295543918/"&gt;&lt;img height="375" alt="Pulla" src="http://static.flickr.com/122/295543918_b0352d3fef.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Non vorrei che troppe persone si allontanassero dal mio blog per via delle immagini da film dell’orrore che ho postato nei giorni scorsi. Quindi, per risvegliare in voi il buon gusto, metto qui la foto dei pulla (ma ‘pulla’ è maschile o femminile? nessuno ha saputo spiegarmelo...) di Anne, squisita specialità originale finlandese.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-116335620984409278?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/116335620984409278/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=116335620984409278' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/116335620984409278'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/116335620984409278'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/11/pulla.html' title='Pulla'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-116301956338099323</id><published>2006-11-08T21:56:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-11-08T21:59:23.396+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Solidarity</title><content type='html'>Nice to know I'm not the only one: &lt;a href="http://blogs.gnome.org/view/lucasr/2006/11/08/0"&gt;http://blogs.gnome.org/view/lucasr/2006/11/08/0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E' bello sapere che non sono l'unico: &lt;a href="http://blogs.gnome.org/view/lucasr/2006/11/08/0"&gt;http://blogs.gnome.org/view/lucasr/2006/11/08/0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-116301956338099323?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/116301956338099323/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=116301956338099323' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/116301956338099323'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/116301956338099323'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/11/solidarity.html' title='Solidarity'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-116292512435291141</id><published>2006-11-07T19:40:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-11-07T19:48:16.606+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Hybrid time</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a title="Photo Sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/291661667/"&gt;&lt;img height="375" alt="05112006173" src="http://static.flickr.com/107/291661667_96c062b8ba.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;With the arrival of the first snow the hybrid period of the Finnish winter started. One day it snows, the day after the temperature grows and the snow melts, leaving on the streets a slimy slush.&lt;br /&gt;I wish the real winter came.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, it seems that the number of my readers is increasing.&lt;br /&gt;Thank you Agathe, for the interesting &lt;a href="http://www.battestini.net/gallery/album25"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; about Nokia’s canteen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Con la prima neve, è iniziato il periodo ibrido dell’inverno finlandese: un giorno nevica, il giorno dopo la temperature cresce e la neve si scioglie, lasciando una fangiglia melmosa sulle strade.&lt;br /&gt;Attendo con ansia l’arrivo dell’inverno vero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Intanto, sembra che il numero dei miei lettori stia aumentando.&lt;br /&gt;Tra questi, ringrazio Agathe per l’interessante &lt;a href="http://www.battestini.net/gallery/album25"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; sulla mensa Nokia.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-116292512435291141?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/116292512435291141/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=116292512435291141' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/116292512435291141'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/116292512435291141'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/11/hybrid-time.html' title='Hybrid time'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-116241412698619232</id><published>2006-11-01T21:41:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-11-01T21:48:47.016+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Sataa lunta!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a title="Photo Sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/286095029/"&gt;&lt;img height="240" alt="fioccodineve" src="http://static.flickr.com/112/286095029_9fb313cf40_m.jpg" width="224" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just to inform you that the snow arrived this morning.&lt;br /&gt;Winter has officially started.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Giusto per informarvi che oggi è arrivata la prima neve.&lt;br /&gt;Inizia ufficialmente l’inverno.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-116241412698619232?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/116241412698619232/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=116241412698619232' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/116241412698619232'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/116241412698619232'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/11/sataa-lunta.html' title='Sataa lunta!'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-116223747586369594</id><published>2006-10-30T20:31:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-30T20:47:41.046+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Halloween</title><content type='html'>Tomorrow is the Halloween Day, so in the canteen they thought to prepare a theme lunch.&lt;br /&gt;You see below the result:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a title="Photo Sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/283849026/"&gt;&lt;img height="500" alt="Halloween" src="http://static.flickr.com/106/283849026_76f560d135.jpg" width="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Actually they achieved their aim: it was really terrifying!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Domani è Halloween, così a mensa hanno pensato di prepararci un pranzo a tema.&lt;br /&gt;Potete vedere sopra il risultato; in effetti sono riusciti nel loro intento: è stato davvero terrificante!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-116223747586369594?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/116223747586369594/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=116223747586369594' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/116223747586369594'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/116223747586369594'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/10/halloween.html' title='Halloween'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-116163123261450847</id><published>2006-10-23T20:53:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T21:20:32.723+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Ruoka?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;Speaking of food, I promised some time ago some “delicatessen” from the Nokia canteen.&lt;br /&gt;Here you are: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a title="Photo Sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/277539575/"&gt;&lt;img height="500" alt="lasagna" src="http://static.flickr.com/95/277539575_88c22ee956.jpg" width="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Lasagna&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a title="Photo Sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/277539576/"&gt;&lt;img height="375" alt="dessert" src="http://static.flickr.com/90/277539576_74627c8a6f.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Dessert&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think I don’t have to add anything to this: the pictures tell everything.&lt;br /&gt;Now you’ll understand why in the USA I was able to eat this stuff:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Photo Sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/277539577/"&gt;&lt;img height="480" alt="bubba" src="http://static.flickr.com/103/277539577_9661e9cc9c.jpg" width="360" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;A proposito di cibo, tempo fa promisi qualche “chicca” dalla mensa Nokia.&lt;br /&gt;Eccovi accontentati con le foto sopra (lasagna e dessert).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Non penso ci sia bisogno di aggiungere altro: le immagini dicono tutto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ora capirete perché in USA sono stato capace di mangiare quella roba nella terza foto...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-116163123261450847?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/116163123261450847/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=116163123261450847' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/116163123261450847'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/116163123261450847'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/10/ruoka.html' title='Ruoka?'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-116042243534111506</id><published>2006-10-09T20:57:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-10-10T22:10:35.280+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Kaksi vuotta</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;Some days ago, on the 5th of October to be precise, was the second anniversary of my arrival here in Finland.&lt;br /&gt;I feel like it’s yesterday when for the first time, naive I took a pizza “Margerita” in a Pizza-Kebab place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many things have happened since that day:&lt;br /&gt;- I realised (and it didn’t take long) that I should never order a pizza in Finland&lt;br /&gt;- I took part to the creation of two new Nokia products (N770 and N770 2006 edition)&lt;br /&gt;- I survived two Finnish winters&lt;br /&gt;- I have less hair on my head&lt;br /&gt;- I visited new places&lt;br /&gt;- I met new friends and some of them have left Finland already&lt;br /&gt;- Some friends of mine got married&lt;br /&gt;- Others graduated, or got a job&lt;br /&gt;- Italy won the World Cup&lt;br /&gt;- Juventus went to serie B&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But there is still something I’ve not done yet:&lt;br /&gt;- find the courage to swim in a frozen lake&lt;br /&gt;- get to know someone in the building where I live&lt;br /&gt;- improve the quality of food at the canteen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to all those who, here in Finland, and there (in Italy and in other countries) stood by me during these years, and helped me to feel good.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Qualche giorno fa, il 5 ottobre per la precisione, la mia presenza qui in Finlandia ha compiuto 2 anni.&lt;br /&gt;Mi sembra ieri quando per la prima volta, ingenuo ordinai una “Margerita” ad un Pizza-Kebab.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quante cose sono successe da quel giorno:&lt;br /&gt;- ho capito (ma non mi ci è voluto molto) che non bisogna mai prendere una pizza in Finlandia&lt;br /&gt;- ho partecipato alla creazione di due nuovi prodotti della Nokia&lt;br /&gt;- ho sopravvissuto a due inverni finlandesi&lt;br /&gt;- in testa ho sempre meno capelli&lt;br /&gt;- ho visitato nuovi paesi&lt;br /&gt;- ho conosciuto nuovi amici, e alcuni di essi hanno già lasciato la Finlandia&lt;br /&gt;- diversi miei amici si sono sposati&lt;br /&gt;- altri si sono laureati, o hanno trovato un lavoro&lt;br /&gt;- l’Italia ha vinto i mondiali&lt;br /&gt;- la Juve è andata in B&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ma c’è ancora qualcosa che non sono ancora riuscito a fare:&lt;br /&gt;- trovare il coraggio di farmi il bagno nel lago ghiacciato&lt;br /&gt;- conoscere qualcuno nel mio palazzo&lt;br /&gt;- migliorare la qualità del cibo a mensa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grazie a quanti quassù (in Finlandia) e laggiù (in Italia e altrove) mi sono stati vicini in questi anni, ed hanno a contribuito a farmi stare bene.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-116042243534111506?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/116042243534111506/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=116042243534111506' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/116042243534111506'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/116042243534111506'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/10/kaksi-vuotta.html' title='Kaksi vuotta'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-115999240810333469</id><published>2006-10-04T22:01:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-10-04T22:22:13.240+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Cavalcando la memoria</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a title="Photo Sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/260894367/"&gt;&lt;img height="219" alt="passito_contadino" src="http://static.flickr.com/93/260894367_8ca7589ea4_o.jpg" width="311" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;I spent my tourist days in the States together with my friend Alessandro, an Italian brain who emigrated to Philadelphia.&lt;br /&gt;We went together to Washington and New York, and we remembered the good days at the university when we were fighting for the hardest exams.&lt;br /&gt;We recalled the battle for the “Electronics I” exam, sealed by a historic blowout at Pastarito, and following the wave of the memories we composed the poem below:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To the next “Passito”&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;[1]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;(Philadelphia 30-09-2006)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I won’t touch any more the wooden desk&lt;br /&gt;Where as a student I stayed penitent,&lt;br /&gt;My hall F, which I don’t fail to remember&lt;br /&gt;For the glories and the horrors I feared&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the long nights spent awake&lt;br /&gt;Among mistaken and recorrected exercises&lt;br /&gt;Whereas Pappalardo dissolved the herd&lt;br /&gt;Like a resistor I resisted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although suffering from different exiles,&lt;br /&gt;Still great for fame and misfortune&lt;br /&gt;We meet again on the Columbian soil&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Without losing the electronic pique&lt;br /&gt;We bear the conspiracy of destiny&lt;br /&gt;Living our saying “I don’t succumb!”&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;[1] Passito is a famous Italian wine from Pantelleria, Sicily.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I miei giorni da turista in USA li ho passati insieme al mio amico Alessandro, cervello italiano emigrato a Philadelphia.&lt;br /&gt;Insieme siamo stati a Washington e New York, e abbiamo ricordato i tempi dell’università, quando insieme lottavamo per gli esami più duri.&lt;br /&gt;Abbiamo rievocato la battaglia per l’esame di elettronica I, suggellata da una storica mangiata da Pastarito, e sull’onda dei ricordi abbiamo composto la lirica che qui riporto:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Al Passito Prossimo (Philadelphia 30-09-2006)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ne' piu' mai tocchero' il ligneo banco&lt;br /&gt;Ove studente penitente stetti,&lt;br /&gt;Aula effe mia che ricordar non manco&lt;br /&gt;Per le glorie e gli orrori che temetti&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nelle lunghe notti passate in bianco&lt;br /&gt;Tra esercizi sbagliati e ricorretti,&lt;br /&gt;Laddove Pappalardo sciolse il branco&lt;br /&gt;Io come resistore resistetti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seppur patendo di diverso esiglio,&lt;br /&gt;Ancor belli di fama e di sventura&lt;br /&gt;Ci rincontriam sul suolo di Colombo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Non perso l'elettronico puntiglio&lt;br /&gt;Sopportiam del destino la congiura&lt;br /&gt;Vivendo il nostro motto: "Non soccombo!"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-115999240810333469?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/115999240810333469/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=115999240810333469' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/115999240810333469'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/115999240810333469'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/10/cavalcando-la-memoria.html' title='Cavalcando la memoria'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-115998632922374691</id><published>2006-10-04T20:23:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-10-04T20:27:56.663+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Back in Helsinki</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/1600/ESC_opening.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/400/ESC_opening.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here I am, back in Finland.&lt;br /&gt;The American week was very busy and really nice.&lt;br /&gt;The Embedded Systems Conference was especially interesting: I had the opportunity to see what is the state of the art in the embedded devices world, and I could meet many people.&lt;br /&gt;The instructor of the Linux classes was Bill Gatliff, a freelance consultant who showed great competencies (both technical and didactic) and a very strong opinion about Free Software.&lt;br /&gt;I was happy to see the growing ferment around linux based devices; 770 is a forerunner in this, being one of the first consumer devices of this kind.&lt;br /&gt;This means that what I’ve been doing for two years was, and is still, innovative.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the conference I spent a couple of days as a tourist in the USA, and it was a unique experience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eccomi di nuovo in Finlandia.&lt;br /&gt;La settimana americana è stata intensa e molto bella.&lt;br /&gt;L’Embedded Systems Conference è stata particolarmente interessante: ho avuto la possibilità di rendermi conto dello stato dell’arte nell’ambito dei dispositivi elettronici portatili, e di vedere molte persone.&lt;br /&gt;L’insegnante di tutti i corsi riguardanti Linux era un certo Bill Gatliff, che ha dimostrato grandi competenze (sia tecniche che didattiche) ed ha mostrato un’interessante e chiara opinione riguardo il software libero.&lt;br /&gt;E’ stato anche bello vedere che c’è un certo fermento attorno ai dispositivi portatili basati su Linux, e il 770 è in questo un precursore, essendo uno dei primi dispositivi per consumer di questo tipo.&lt;br /&gt;Questo vuol dire che il lavoro che sto facendo da due anni è stato, ed è ancora, innovativo.&lt;br /&gt;Dopo la conferenza ho passato un paio di giorni da turista negli USA, ed è stata un’esperienza unica.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-115998632922374691?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/115998632922374691/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=115998632922374691' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/115998632922374691'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/115998632922374691'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/10/back-in-helsinki.html' title='Back in Helsinki'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-115903114854092401</id><published>2006-09-23T19:00:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-09-23T19:05:48.553+02:00</updated><title type='text'>ESC</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/1600/esc_bostonlogo.1.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/320/esc_bostonlogo.0.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Tomorrow I’m leaving for the US.&lt;br /&gt;I’m going to Boston for the Embedded Systems Conference (&lt;a href="http://www.embedded.com/esc/boston/"&gt;www.embedded.com/esc/boston/&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;I’ll be able to meet many people who work with embedded devices and I’ll have the opportunity to follow interesting tutorials.&lt;br /&gt;I’m bringing with me my 770, in order to keep the contacts with the Old World (I’ll try to blog with it) and eager to show it to the conference participants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Domani parto per gli Stati Uniti.&lt;br /&gt;Vado a Boston per la ESC (&lt;a href="http://www.embedded.com/esc/boston/"&gt;www.embedded.com/esc/boston/&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;Avrò l’occasione di incontrare molte persone che lavorano nel campo dei dispositivi embedded, e l’opportunità di partecipare a tutorials interessanti.&lt;br /&gt;Porterò con me il mio 770, per rimanere in contatto con il Vecchio Mondo (proverò anche a bloggarci) e per mostrarlo ai partecipanti della conferenza.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-115903114854092401?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/115903114854092401/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=115903114854092401' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/115903114854092401'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/115903114854092401'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/09/esc.html' title='ESC'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-115790714992271513</id><published>2006-09-10T18:24:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-09-10T19:01:00.490+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Over the top</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;It’s true: I’ve not kept the promise made in my last post, and I was silent for more than one month.&lt;br /&gt;But don’t worry: now I’m back!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My holidays in Italy were obviously pleasant, and in addition to meeting my friends and my relatives, I also had the opportunity to visit some wonderful places.&lt;br /&gt;From the sea to the mountains, I tried to take all what the peninsula can offer, and even if the weather was not that great, I am back happy and satisfied.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the first time in the human history an Internet Tablet went over 2000 meters: 2473 to be precise, at the “Cima d’Asta” lake in Trentino. Here is the proof: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a title="Photo Sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/239387926/"&gt;&lt;img height="375" alt="cimadasta2" src="http://static.flickr.com/84/239387926_547a915e05.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;I challenge anybody to demonstrate he managed to bring Nokia 770 higher.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The return to Espoo was soft and gradual, with the company of my parents who stayed in Finland for some days. They got the chance to try the original Finnish pizza: I hope this experience has increased their pity on me, for the difficult gastronomic conditions I have to bear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a title="Photo Sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40975491@N00/239375753/"&gt;&lt;img height="500" alt="PizzaGrandiosa0001" src="http://static.flickr.com/98/239375753_e85b5df687.jpg" width="462" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;I started again at work, and new challenges are coming: I’ll try to be focused…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E’ vero, non ho mantenuto la promessa del mio ultimo post, e sono stato in silenzio per più di un mese. Ma non vi preoccupate, perché ora sono tornato!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le mie vacanze in Italia sono state naturalmente piacevoli, ed oltre a rivedere i miei amici e i miei cari, ho avuto la possibilità di visitare luoghi di estrema bellezza.&lt;br /&gt;Dal mare alla montagna, ho cercato di prendermi un po’ tutto quello che la penisola può offrire, e anche se le condizioni atmosferiche non sono state ineccepibili sono tornato contento e soddisfatto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per la prima volta nella storia dell’umanità un Internet Tablet è andato sopra i 2000 metri: 2473 per la precisione, presso il lago di Cima d’Asta in Trentino, e sopra c’è la prova.&lt;br /&gt;Sfido chiunque a dimostrarmi di aver portato il Nokia 770 più in alto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il rientro ad Espoo è stato morbido e graduale, con la compagnia dei miei genitori che si sono trattenuti in visita per qualche giorno ed hanno potuto così assaporare l’originale pizza finlandese: spero che l’esperienza fatta aumenti in loro il senso di compassione per le precarie condizioni gastronomiche in cui mi trovo a vivere quassù.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il lavoro è ripreso e nuove sfide mi attendono: cercherò di mantenere la concentrazione… &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-115790714992271513?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/115790714992271513/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=115790714992271513' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/115790714992271513'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/115790714992271513'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/09/over-top.html' title='Over the top'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-115420635782900867</id><published>2006-07-29T22:51:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-07-29T22:52:37.830+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Loma</title><content type='html'>It’s time to have some rest: holidays!&lt;br /&gt;I’m leaving tomorrow: the schedule is interesting, I’ll try to bring you up-to-date...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E’ ora di prendersi un po’ di riposo: vacanze!&lt;br /&gt;Domani si parte: il programma è interessante, cercherò di tenervi aggiornati…&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-115420635782900867?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/115420635782900867/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=115420635782900867' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/115420635782900867'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/115420635782900867'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/07/loma.html' title='Loma'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-115420536680061625</id><published>2006-07-29T22:33:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-07-29T22:44:53.380+02:00</updated><title type='text'>How was GUADEC?</title><content type='html'>I’ve not told you yet about my experience in GUADEC last June.&lt;br /&gt;It was the first time for me at the Gnome conference, and I must say it was a really interesting experience. I was happy to finally see people I only knew by email, and to meet many new persons, from all over the world.&lt;br /&gt;Among the presentations, most of them of high technical level, I was stricken by Luis Villa’s talk: &lt;a href="http://tieguy.org/blog/2006/06/29/gnome-is-people/"&gt;http://tieguy.org/blog/2006/06/29/gnome-is-people/&lt;/a&gt;, for the passion and emotion his words conveyed.&lt;br /&gt;I have great respect for people who put all their efforts in the things they believe in, and Luis is one of them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My tutorial went ok, and at the football tournament my team got the second place (I scored twice).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/1600/Guadec_pres.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/320/Guadec_pres.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/320/guadec_foot.jpg" border="0" /&gt;After the conference I spent the weekend in Barcelona and it was really nice. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ancora non vi ho raccontato come è andato il GUADEC in Spagna, a fine giugno.&lt;br /&gt;Era la mia prima volta a questa conferenza, e devo dire che è stata un’esperienza davvero interessante. Sono stato felice di poter incontrare persone che conoscevo solo via email, e di averne conosciute molte altre, provenienti da tutto il mondo.&lt;br /&gt;Tra le tante presentazioni, quasi tutte di alto livello tecnico, mi ha colpito quella di Luis Villa: &lt;a href="http://tieguy.org/blog/2006/06/29/gnome-is-people/"&gt;http://tieguy.org/blog/2006/06/29/gnome-is-people/&lt;/a&gt;, per la passione e l’emozione che trasparivano dalle sue parole.&lt;br /&gt;Ho un grande rispetto per le persone che mettono tutte se stesse in quello in cui credono, e Luis è uno di questi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La mia presentazione è andata bene, e al torneo di calcetto la mia squadra si è piazzata seconda (io sono stato autore di una doppietta).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dopo la conferenza ho colto l’occasione per trascorrere il weekend a Barcellona, ed è stato davvero bello.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-115420536680061625?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/115420536680061625/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=115420536680061625' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/115420536680061625'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/115420536680061625'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-was-guadec.html' title='How was GUADEC?'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-115376881331456010</id><published>2006-07-24T21:12:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-07-24T21:20:26.663+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Campioni del mondo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;After more than one month I’m writing again. I apologize to my readers (do I have any?) for this long silence, but the last month was so full of happenings that I didn’t have much time to write.&lt;br /&gt;I hope I’ll find some more time these days to tell you about events and emotions in these weeks I just spent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This night I want to start from the 9th of July, a day which most probably will remain engraved on the memory of many Italians.&lt;br /&gt;It’s the World Cup Final in Germany: Italy-France.&lt;br /&gt;The whole country stopped for a night, everybody staying breathless in front of the TV.&lt;br /&gt;I don’t need to tell here what happened during the match, because I’m sure everybody knows it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’d rather begin from the end, when Grosso scores the last penalty, freeing the joy of millions of people and putting an end to that feeling of mixed pleasure and sorrow which had been with us for those long 120 minutes.&lt;br /&gt;I know how it can be difficult for people who didn’t live those moments to understand the storm of emotions which follow one another during, and after, a football final.&lt;br /&gt;It’s difficult even for me to describe them, especially now, after some days.&lt;br /&gt;In fact, if I put myself back in the rational engineer’s shoes, I can’t explain well how 22 men (ok they became 21 eventually, after Zidane’s headbutting), running after a ball, manage to keep tense one hundred million people.&lt;br /&gt;This can’t be explained if you don’t take into accounts emotions: if you don’t think that our actions, and usually our thoughts as well, are driven not only by the brain, but also by feelings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some days ago a colleague of mine tried to convince me that when I say that we won the World Cup I’m wrong, because our players won it, but all the other Italians didn’t do anything for it.&lt;br /&gt;It’s superfluous saying that he’s an engineer too.&lt;br /&gt;His reasoning, cold and aloof, is faultless.&lt;br /&gt;But the problem is that he, the night of the 9th, was not there by the penalty spot, together with Grosso, pushing the ball into the goal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is why he can’t understand that we all won the World Cup.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is it the power of football?&lt;br /&gt;Power of passion, I would say. Football is just a means to set off, gather and join, people’s passion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dopo più di un mese torno a scrivere di nuovo. Chiedo scusa ai miei lettori (ne ho davvero qualcuno?) per il mio lungo silenzio, ma questo ultimo mese è stato così denso di avvenimenti che il tempo per scrivere è stato davvero poco.&lt;br /&gt;Spero in questi giorni di avere un po’ più di tempo, e poter raccontare vicende ed emozioni di queste settimane appena trascorse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stasera voglio cominciare dal 9 luglio, un giorno che probabilmente rimarrà impresso nella memoria di tanti italiani per molto tempo.&lt;br /&gt;E’ la finale dei mondiali di Germania: Italia-Francia.&lt;br /&gt;L’intero Paese si è fermato per una sera, col fiato sospeso di fronte al televisore.&lt;br /&gt;Non c’è bisogno che mi metta a raccontare qui la cronaca della partita, che sono sicuro tutti hanno seguito, e che comunque è disponibile ovunque.&lt;br /&gt;Quindi comincio dalla fine, da quando la rete si gonfia sul rigore di Grosso, liberando la gioia di milioni di persone, ponendo fine a quel sentimento misto di piacere e dolore che aveva accompagnato tutti per quei lunghissimi 120 minuti.&lt;br /&gt;Mi rendo conto che possa essere difficile per chi certe cose non le ha vissute, capire la tempesta di emozioni che si succedono durante, e dopo, una finale di calcio.&lt;br /&gt;E’ difficile anche per me descriverle, soprattutto a freddo, dopo alcuni giorni. Anzi, se ci penso bene, rientrando nel mio ruolo di ingegnere razionale, non riesco a spiegare come 22 uomini (sì, poi sono diventati 21, dopo la capocciata di Zidane) che corrono appresso a un pallone possano tenere in tensione cento milioni di persone (Italia+Francia).&lt;br /&gt;Ma il difetto di un discorso del genere è che non tiene conto delle emozioni: non prende in considerazione che le nostre azioni, e spesso anche i nostri pensieri, sono guidati non solo dal cervello ma anche dai sentimenti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L’altro giorno un collega in ufficio cercava di convincermi che quando affermo che abbiamo vinto i mondiali sono in errore, perché il mondiale l’hanno vinto i giocatori in campo, e tutti gli altri italiani non hanno fatto niente.&lt;br /&gt;Inutile dire che anche lui è un ingegnere: il suo ragionamento, freddo e distaccato, non fa una piega.&lt;br /&gt;Il problema è che lui domenica sera non era lì sul dischetto, insieme a Grosso, a spingere il pallone in rete.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per questo non può capire che il mondiale l’abbiamo vinto tutti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Potere del calcio? Potere della passione, direi. Il calcio è solo un mezzo per scatenare, raccogliere ed unire, la passione delle persone.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-115376881331456010?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/115376881331456010/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=115376881331456010' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/115376881331456010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/115376881331456010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/07/campioni-del-mondo.html' title='Campioni del mondo'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-115022629868373095</id><published>2006-06-13T21:16:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-06-13T21:18:18.706+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Germany 2006</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/1600/gol.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/320/gol.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; The World Cup has just started, and I couldn’t avoid to write a post about the first match of Italy, which played yesterday night against Ghana.&lt;br /&gt;As many of you know we won 2-0, with a quite convincing performance, even if I honestly have to say that our opponent was not that strong.&lt;br /&gt;But a good start is always important; now let’s try to keep the right track.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I mondiali di calcio sono appena iniziati, e non potevo evitare di dedicare un post all’esordio dell’Italia ieri sera contro il Ghana.&lt;br /&gt;Come tutti sanno abbiamo vinto 2-0, con una prestazione abbastanza convincente, anche se l’avversario non era proprio dei più ostici.&lt;br /&gt;Ma iniziare bene è sempre importante: speriamo ora di continuare sulla buona strada.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-115022629868373095?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/115022629868373095/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=115022629868373095' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/115022629868373095'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/115022629868373095'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/06/germany-2006.html' title='Germany 2006'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-114979610756390806</id><published>2006-06-08T21:37:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-06-14T06:58:50.276+02:00</updated><title type='text'>I'm back</title><content type='html'>Finally I’m writing again!&lt;br /&gt;These weeks were very busy, and I never managed to find a minute to update my blog.&lt;br /&gt;In addition to it, there must be some problems in Blogger, because I don't manage to attach pictures any more.&lt;br /&gt;But let’s start telling what happened during these days, starting from where I left you last time: my birthday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This year for the first time in my life I celebrated my birthday away from Italy. On one side that was a bit sad, because I was far from many persons who love me and who spent many birthdays together with me.&lt;br /&gt;But on the other side I had the affection and the kindness of my friends here in Finland, and that made me happy.&lt;br /&gt;For my birthday I did some celebrations; here are some pictures: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/annchristin/sets/72157594144311749/"&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/annchristin/sets/72157594144311749/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I got many nice presents:&lt;br /&gt;- a wonderful case for my Nokia 770, handmade&lt;br /&gt;- an Italy fleece, to wear when I’m watching the World Cup&lt;br /&gt;- some very good Italian wine&lt;br /&gt;- the Newton’s balance ball&lt;br /&gt;- a very useful tool to cover your eyes if you want to sleep when in summer the sun rises at 2 am&lt;br /&gt;- a green fleece&lt;br /&gt;- a new wallet&lt;br /&gt;- a black shirt&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moreover, some kind girls prepared wonderful cakes for me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finalmente torno a scrivere!&lt;br /&gt;Queste settimane sono state piene di eventi e non sono mai riuscito a trovare un minuto per aggiornare il mio blog. A ciò va aggiunto che per qualche motivo Blogger non mi consente più di inserire foto, e quindi per ora dovete accontentarvi di post privi di immagini.&lt;br /&gt;Ma cominciamo a ricostruire quello che è successo, partendo da dove eravamo rimasti: il mio compleanno.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quest’anno per la prima volta nella mia vita ho festeggiato il mio compleanno lontano dall’Italia.&lt;br /&gt;Da un lato è stato un po’ triste, perché sono stato lontano da tante persone che mi vogliono bene, e che hanno trascorso tanti compleanni con me.&lt;br /&gt;Dall’altro lato però ho ricevuto l’affetto e le attenzioni dei miei amici qui in Finlandia, e questo mi ha reso felice.&lt;br /&gt;Per il mio compleanno ho fatto un po’ di festeggiamenti; qui ci sono alcune foto: &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/annchristin/sets/72157594144311749/"&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/annchristin/sets/72157594144311749/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ho anche ricevuto tanti bei regali:&lt;br /&gt;- una bellissima custodia invernale per il mio Nokia 770, fatta a mano&lt;br /&gt;- una felpa dell’Italia, per vedere le partite dei mondiali&lt;br /&gt;- dell’ottimo vino italiano&lt;br /&gt;- il bellissimo pendolo newtoniano&lt;br /&gt;- la fascia scura per gli occhi per dormire d’estate quando il sole sorge alle 2&lt;br /&gt;- una felpa verde&lt;br /&gt;- un portafoglio&lt;br /&gt;- una maglietta nera&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Infine, delle gentili ragazze hanno preparato delle buonissime torte per me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-114979610756390806?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/114979610756390806/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=114979610756390806' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114979610756390806'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114979610756390806'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/06/im-back.html' title='I&apos;m back'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-114849841748496176</id><published>2006-05-25T08:00:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-05-24T21:23:56.613+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Syntymäpäiväni</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/1600/torta.0.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/320/torta.0.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Today is my birthday: 28 years.&lt;br /&gt;You can leave me a message &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=114849841748496176"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; if you want.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oggi è il mio compleanno: sono 28.&lt;br /&gt;Clicca &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;amp;postID=114849841748496176"&gt;qui&lt;/a&gt; per lasciarmi un messaggio se ti va.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-114849841748496176?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/114849841748496176/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=114849841748496176' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114849841748496176'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114849841748496176'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/05/syntympivni.html' title='Syntymäpäiväni'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-114832127890558529</id><published>2006-05-22T20:04:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-05-22T20:09:02.576+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Lordi</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/1600/LORDI_550x400_afp.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/320/LORDI_550x400_afp.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Finland has just entered the history of the world song.&lt;br /&gt;A Finnish rock band, Lordi, won last Saturday the 51st Eurovision Grand Prix, international song contest in which 24 different countries took part.&lt;br /&gt;The usually calm Finns (maybe also eager to forget the new defeat at the Ice Hockey World Championship) poured out all their enthusiasm celebrating all night long.&lt;br /&gt;I was waken up in my sleep by gleeful shouts; but at that very moment I didn’t really realize what was happening: I actually thought it was a nightmare or, to say it better, a dream.&lt;br /&gt;Well, I have to say I’m a bit disappointed that now this group of monsters replaced the blonde sirens as a symbol of the Finnish beauty…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;La Finlandia è entrata nella storia della canzone mondiale.&lt;br /&gt;Un gruppo rock finlandese, i Lordi, ha infatti vinto sabato scorso il 51° Gran Premio dell'Eurovisione, concorso canoro internazionale a cui hanno partecipato 24 diversi Paesi.&lt;br /&gt;I solitamente miti finlandesi (forse anche per dimenticare la nuova sconfitta ai mondiali di Hockey) hanno dato sfogo a tutto il loro entusiasmo festeggiando nella notte. Io stesso sono stato svegliato nel mezzo del mio sonno dalle grida di gioia. Ma lì per lì non è realizzato quello che stava succedendo: ho piuttosto pensato ad un incubo, o direi meglio ad un sogno.&lt;br /&gt;Bè, devo dire che però mi dispiace un po’ che ora questo gruppo di mostri abbia rimpiazzato le bionde sirene come simbolo della bellezza finlandese…&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-114832127890558529?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/114832127890558529/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=114832127890558529' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114832127890558529'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114832127890558529'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/05/lordi.html' title='Lordi'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-114781196271589072</id><published>2006-05-16T22:36:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-05-16T22:39:22.726+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Internet Tablet OS 2006</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/1600/1_770_internet_tablet_low.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/400/1_770_internet_tablet_low.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet OS 2006 was officially introduced in Stockholm:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://press.nokia.com/PR/200605/1051308_5.html"&gt;http://press.nokia.com/PR/200605/1051308_5.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This new software version supports VoIP and instant messaging (GoogleTalk compatible), new graphic, new media formats (WMA) and several other improvements.&lt;br /&gt;Many people have been working in different regions of the world to make this new product: I’m proud for playing my part in it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oggi è stata ufficialmente presentata a Stoccolma l’edizione 2006 del famoso Internet Tablet Nokia 770: &lt;a href="http://press.nokia.com/PR/200605/1051308_5.html"&gt;http://press.nokia.com/PR/200605/1051308_5.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Questa nuova versione supporta VoIP e chat (compatibili con GoogleTalk), una nuova grafica, nuovi formati multimediali (WMA) e diversi altri miglioramenti.&lt;br /&gt;Molte persone hanno lavorato in varie parti del mondo per la realizzazione di questo nuovo prodotto: sono fiero di aver fatto anche io la mia parte.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-114781196271589072?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/114781196271589072/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=114781196271589072' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114781196271589072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114781196271589072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/05/internet-tablet-os-2006.html' title='Internet Tablet OS 2006'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-114746651350346503</id><published>2006-05-12T22:23:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-05-12T23:47:05.093+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Vaaleanpunainen paita</title><content type='html'>The “Giro d’Italia”, one of the most important cycling competition in the world, has just started. Following the footsteps of the great cyclists who are competing these days in my country, yesterday I decided to go for a cycling adventure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Questa settimana è iniziato il Giro d’Italia, una delle più importanti corse a tappe mondiali.&lt;br /&gt;Sulle orme dei grandi ciclisti che in questi giorni si stanno sfidando nel mio Paese, oggi ho deciso di dedicarmi anch’io ad una impresa ciclistica.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My friend Luigi, before leaving last September Nokia and Helsinki to go back to his Milan, bequeathed me, among other things, his bike. During the long winter it was safe in Nokia’s underground; yesterday I decided to take it again: I pumped up the tyres and prepared my bike for the great debut.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Il mio amico Luigi, prima di lasciare la Nokia ed Helsinki per tornare nella sua Milano lo scorso settembre, mi lasciò in eredità, tra le altre cose, la sua bicicletta.&lt;br /&gt;Durante il lungo inverno è stata al sicuro nei sotterranei della Nokia, e ieri ho deciso di “rispolverarla” (nel vero senso della parola): ho gonfiato le gomme e l’ho messa a punto per il grande esordio di oggi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Here is the description of my adventure:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ecco la cronaca della mia piccola impresa:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;16:00 – Preparation&lt;br /&gt;I visit the Helsinki’s public transportation website and using Journey Planner I check the route: 12.6 km in total. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;With wise foresight I print the maps of the different legs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ore 16: Preparazione&lt;br /&gt;Vado sul sito dei trasporti di Helsinki e tramite il Journey Planner pianifico il mio percorso: 12,6 km in totale.&lt;br /&gt;Con sapiente previdenza mi stampo le mappe delle varie tappe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;First leg: Out of Nokia&lt;br /&gt;Start time: 17.30&lt;br /&gt;The first challenge is getting out from Nokia’s garage: I get some help from my friend Mikko who, thanks to his higher experience, shows me how to open the shutter. Once out, I have to face the first Mountain Grand Prix: the exit ramp. Even if with some problems, I manage to reach the road.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Prima tappa: fuori dalla Nokia&lt;br /&gt;Partenza: 17.30&lt;br /&gt;La prima sfida è uscire dal garage della Nokia: in questo mi aiuta il mio amico Mikko, che forte della sua maggiore esperienza mi mostra come aprire la saracinesca dell’uscita. Appena fuori mi aspetta il primo gran premio della montagna: la rampa del garage.&lt;br /&gt;Barcollo ma non mollo, e riesco a raggiungere la strada.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Second leg: through Lauttasaari&lt;br /&gt;Start time: 17.40&lt;br /&gt;I head for Lauttasaari, which provides cyclists with a bridge to cross the sea. It’s the first time I’m pedalling after many years, but I immediately feel comfortable.&lt;br /&gt;I have some problems in finding the right way, but thanks to the map I have with me I manage to keep the right track.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/400/Tappa1.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Seconda tappa: attraverso Lauttasaari&lt;br /&gt;Partenza: 17.40&lt;br /&gt;Mi dirigo con convinzione verso Lauttasaari, che fornisce un ponte ciclabile per attraversare il mare. Sono le prime pedalate dopo diversi anni, ma mi sento subito a mio agio.&lt;br /&gt;Ho un po’ di difficoltà a trovare la via giusta, ma grazie alla mappa che mi sono portato riesco a mantenermi in carreggiata&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Third leg: from Helsinki to Espoo&lt;br /&gt;Start time: 18.00&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/400/Tappa2.png" border="0" /&gt;I finally find the way out from Lauttasaari and I reach the cycle track which skirts the Länsiväylä, the highway which connects Helsinki and Espoo. The landscape is fascinating: the sea, the trees, the sky.&lt;br /&gt;I stop to take some pictures:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Terza tappa: da Helsinki ad Espoo&lt;br /&gt;Partenza: 18.00&lt;br /&gt;Trovo finalmente la via di uscita da Lauttasaari e finisco nella pista ciclabile che costeggia la Länsiväylä, l’autostrada che collega Helsinki ad Espoo. Il paesaggio è affascinate: il mare, il verde, il cielo.&lt;br /&gt;Mi fermo per qualche foto:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/320/Image%2805%29.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;My bike and the see in the background - &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;La mia bici e il mare sullo sfondo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/320/Image%2807%29.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;You can see the highway from the cycle track - &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;L’autostrada vista dalla pista ciclabile&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Fourth leg: the climbing up home&lt;br /&gt;Start time: 18.30 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/400/Tappa3.png" border="0" /&gt;This is the last part of my journey.&lt;br /&gt;I keep going along the highway for a while, before exiting towards Merituulentie.&lt;br /&gt;I’m a bit lost, but a sign reassures me: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/320/Image%2810%29_zoom.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;Olari: I’m almost done!&lt;br /&gt;I start thinking that is gonna be easy, but for the first time since I’ve been living here I realised that my apartment is on a hill…&lt;br /&gt;The last part turns out to be very demanding, but eventually I make it and, really exhausted, I park mi bike:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/320/Image%2812%29.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;It’s 19, time to start preparing dinner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quarta tappa: la scalata fino a casa&lt;br /&gt;Partenza: 18.30&lt;br /&gt;Inizia l’ultima tappa: quella che mi porterà a destinazione.&lt;br /&gt;Continuo per un altro po’ lungo l’autostrada, prima di uscire verso Merituulentie.&lt;br /&gt;Sono un po’ disorientato, ma un cartello mi rassicura: dice Olari, sono quasi arrivato!&lt;br /&gt;Penso tra me: “Ormai è tutto in discesa…”&lt;br /&gt;Ma, per la prima volta da quando vivo qui, mi sono reso conto di abitare in collina. L’ultima parte, forse complice anche la stanchezza, è un vero gran premio della montagna, per il più classico degli arrivi in salita.&lt;br /&gt;Ma alla fine ce la faccio e, ormai stremato, parcheggio la mia bici sotto casa.&lt;br /&gt;Sono le 19, ed è ora di iniziare a preparare la cena.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-114746651350346503?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/114746651350346503/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=114746651350346503' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114746651350346503'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114746651350346503'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/05/vaaleanpunainen-paita.html' title='Vaaleanpunainen paita'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-114711535636132621</id><published>2006-05-08T21:06:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-05-08T21:09:16.376+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Kesä, kesä, kesä!</title><content type='html'>Sunrise 5:01. Sunset 21:35 (but at 22 is still bright)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Summer has arrived!&lt;br /&gt;Yes, yes, summer!&lt;br /&gt;This morning I went to work wearing only a shirt.&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday I was walking around in Helsinki at lunch time, and at one point I realised it was warm: a feeling I had missed for almost one year!&lt;br /&gt;However, even this year spring flew, and went away in a couple of weeks.&lt;br /&gt;Are you interested in knowing how the weather is evolving over here?&lt;br /&gt;Visit Finnish Metereological Institute: &lt;a href="http://www.fmi.fi/weather/local.html?kunta=Helsinki"&gt;http://www.fmi.fi/weather/local.html?kunta=Helsinki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good summer to everybody!&lt;br /&gt;(Ok, now I try to appear excited, but I know that in a while the rain season will start…)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alba 5:01 Tramonto 21:35 (ma alle 22 c’è ancora luce)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E’ arrivata l’estate!&lt;br /&gt;Sì sì davvero, è estate!&lt;br /&gt;Questa mattina sono uscito e avevo addosso solo una maglietta.&lt;br /&gt;Ieri ero in giro per Helsinki all’ora di pranzo, e ad un certo punto mi sono accorto che stavo sentendo caldo, una sensazione che non provavo da un anno!&lt;br /&gt;In tutto questo, mi rendo conto che anche quest’anno mi sono perso la primavera, che è volata via in un paio di settimane.&lt;br /&gt;Volete seguire l’evolversi delle condizioni atmosferiche?&lt;br /&gt;Visitate il sito del Finnish Metereological Institute: &lt;a href="http://www.fmi.fi/weather/local.html?kunta=Helsinki"&gt;http://www.fmi.fi/weather/local.html?kunta=Helsinki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Buona estate a tutti!&lt;br /&gt;(Vabbè, adesso provo a fare l’esaltato, ma tanto lo so che tra poco inizia la stagione delle piogge…)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-114711535636132621?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/114711535636132621/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=114711535636132621' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114711535636132621'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114711535636132621'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/05/kes-kes-kes.html' title='Kesä, kesä, kesä!'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-114650525985291070</id><published>2006-05-01T19:31:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-05-08T20:10:29.896+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Vappu!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/1600/lakki.6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/320/lakki.7.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vappu takes place on the Labour’s Day and it’s a very important festival in Finland.&lt;br /&gt;If you want more information about it please refer as usual to Wikipedia: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vappu#Finland"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vappu#Finland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today everybody is wearing the typical university student’s white cap. Elderly people also proudly wear their cap, now yellowed with age.&lt;br /&gt;The event of the day is the picnic, which somehow also marks the beginning of the summer activities. Today I had a picnic with some friends of mine, in Seurasaari (&lt;a href="http://www.nba.fi/en/seurasaari_openairmuseum"&gt;http://www.nba.fi/en/seurasaari_openairmuseum&lt;/a&gt;), one of Helsinki’s islands.&lt;br /&gt;The food was good and the weather wonderful: I even managed to sunbathe a bit!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il Vappu è una festa molto sentita in Finlandia che coincide con (o sostituisce) la festa del lavoro.&lt;br /&gt;Per i cenni storici e maggiori informazioni su questa festa rimando come al solito a Wikipedia:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vappu#Finland"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vappu#Finland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In questa giornata tutti vanno in giro con un cappello bianco, che è il cappello tipico degli studenti universitari. Anche le persone anziane indossano con orgoglio il loro copricapo, oramai ingiallito dagli anni.&lt;br /&gt;L’evento della giornata è il picnic, che in un certo senso indica pure l’inizio delle attività estive.&lt;br /&gt;Oggi sono stato a fare il picnic con i miei amici a Seurasaari (&lt;a href="http://www.nba.fi/en/seurasaari_openairmuseum"&gt;http://www.nba.fi/en/seurasaari_openairmuseum&lt;/a&gt;), una delle isole di Helsinki.&lt;br /&gt;Il cibo era buono e la giornata molto bella: ho anche preso un po’ di sole!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-114650525985291070?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/114650525985291070/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=114650525985291070' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114650525985291070'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114650525985291070'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/05/vappu.html' title='Vappu!'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-114607806220883388</id><published>2006-04-26T20:56:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-04-28T13:14:26.583+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Being a Communicator</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/1600/Communicator.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/320/Communicator.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I attended a training. The title sounds cool: “Interpersonal Communication Skills”.&lt;br /&gt;I chose it because I would like to become a good Communicator, like the famous phone…&lt;br /&gt;This morning I learnt that I should move less my body when I’m talking to somebody, and if he is a Finn I should also keep a safe distance of 1 meter from him.&lt;br /&gt;Then I should wisely mix visual, auditory and kinaesthetic communication, in order to adapt to any possible audience.&lt;br /&gt;Finally, a good communicator is able to use patience and impatience at the same time. But this is too much for me, and now I’m getting really confused…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oggi ho partecipato ad un corso dal titolo interessante: “Comunicazione interpersonale”.&lt;br /&gt;L’ho scelto perché vorrei davvero diventare un buon comunicatore, come il famoso telefono (freddura di sapore inglese)…&lt;br /&gt;Quest’oggi ho imparato che dovrei muovermi di meno quando parlo, e se si tratta di un finlandese dovrei pure tenere una distanza di sicurezza di un metro.&lt;br /&gt;Poi dovrei saper mescolare sapientemente la comunicazione visiva con quella uditiva e quella cinestetica, in maniera da potermi adattare ad ogni possibile pubblico.&lt;br /&gt;Infine, un buon comunicatore sa usare pazienza ed impazienza allo stesso tempo. Ma questo è troppo per me, e comincio ad essere un po’ confuso…&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-114607806220883388?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/114607806220883388/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=114607806220883388' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114607806220883388'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114607806220883388'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/04/being-communicator.html' title='Being a Communicator'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-114582151406496634</id><published>2006-04-23T21:30:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-04-23T22:10:25.966+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Aitoa kevät</title><content type='html'>I' ve not written for a while, but around Easter I was quite busy.&lt;br /&gt;Don't worry: I’m going to bring you up to date on the situation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is what happened during these days:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) vacation in Italy: I saw the real spring, the one with 20 °C temperature and the trees in bloom. &lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/400/primavera1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/400/primavera2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/400/primavera3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) Guadec 2006: I got the confirmation I’ll be able to go to Spain (cool!); now I hope my talk is accepted. Meanwhile I enrolled for the football tournament…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) here in Helsinki the snow melted, and this morning it was +10 °C!!! (it’s almost summer). A new life is beginning…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E’ un po’ che non scrivo, ma intorno a Pasqua sono stato abbastanza impegnato.&lt;br /&gt;Tranquilli! Ora mi metto subito in pari aggiornando la situazione.&lt;br /&gt;Ecco cosa è successo in questi giorni:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) vacanza in Italia: ho visto la vera primavera, quella con 20 °C e i fiori sugli alberi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) Guadec 2006: ho ricevuto la conferma che potrò andare in Spagna (evvai!); ora spero che la mia presentazione venga accettata. Intanto mi sono iscritto al torneo di calcetto…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) qui ad Helsinki la neve si è sciolta, e stamattina faceva addirittura +10 °C !!! (è quasi estate). Una nuova vita sta per iniziare…&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-114582151406496634?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/114582151406496634/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=114582151406496634' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114582151406496634'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114582151406496634'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/04/aitoa-kevt.html' title='Aitoa kevät'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-114478534463464207</id><published>2006-04-11T21:54:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-04-11T21:55:44.653+02:00</updated><title type='text'>2006 Quality of Living Survey</title><content type='html'>MERCER Human Resource Consulting has published the results of a survey about the quality of living in more than 350 cities in the world.&lt;br /&gt;Zurich scores highest, while Baghdad ranks lowest.&lt;br /&gt;Helsinki is at position 29, while Milan (51st) is the highest ranking city in Italy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1             ZURICH                     Switzerland&lt;br /&gt;2             GENEVA                    Switzerland&lt;br /&gt;3             VANCOUVER              Canada&lt;br /&gt;4             VIENNA                     Austria&lt;br /&gt;5             AUCKLAND                New Zealand&lt;br /&gt;6             DUSSELDORF             Germany&lt;br /&gt;7             FRANKFURT               Germany&lt;br /&gt;8             MUNICH                     Germany&lt;br /&gt;9             BERN                        Switzerland&lt;br /&gt;9             SYDNEY                     Australia&lt;br /&gt;11            COPENHAGEN             Denmark&lt;br /&gt;12            WELLINGTON             New Zealand&lt;br /&gt;13            AMSTERDAM              Netherlands&lt;br /&gt;14            BRUSSELS                 Belgium&lt;br /&gt;15            TORONTO                  Canada&lt;br /&gt;16            BERLIN                      Germany&lt;br /&gt;17            MELBOURNE               Australia&lt;br /&gt;18            LUXEMBOURG            Luxembourg&lt;br /&gt;18            OTTAWA                   Canada&lt;br /&gt;20            STOCKHOLM              Sweden&lt;br /&gt;21            PERTH                       Australia&lt;br /&gt;22            MONTREAL                 Canada&lt;br /&gt;23            NURNBERG                Germany&lt;br /&gt;24            DUBLIN                     Ireland&lt;br /&gt;25            CALGARY                   Canada&lt;br /&gt;26            HAMBURG                  Germany&lt;br /&gt;27            HONOLULU, HI           United States&lt;br /&gt;28            SAN FRANCISCO, CA  United States&lt;br /&gt;29            ADELAIDE                  Australia&lt;br /&gt;29            HELSINKI                   Finland&lt;br /&gt;31            BRISBANE                 Australia&lt;br /&gt;31            OSLO                        Norway&lt;br /&gt;33            PARIS                        France&lt;br /&gt;34            SINGAPORE               Singapore&lt;br /&gt;35            TOKYO                      Japan&lt;br /&gt;36            BOSTON, MA             United States&lt;br /&gt;37            LYON                         France&lt;br /&gt;37            YOKOHAMA                Japan&lt;br /&gt;39            LONDON                    United Kingdom     &lt;br /&gt;40            KOBE                        Japan&lt;br /&gt;41            WASHINGTON, DC     United States&lt;br /&gt;41            CHICAGO, IL              United States&lt;br /&gt;43            PORTLAND, OR          United States&lt;br /&gt;44            BARCELONA               Spain&lt;br /&gt;45            MADRID                     Spain&lt;br /&gt;46            NEW YORK CITY,       NY     United States&lt;br /&gt;47            SEATTLE, WA            United States&lt;br /&gt;48            LEXINGTON, KY         United States&lt;br /&gt;49            PITTSBURGH, PA        United States&lt;br /&gt;49            WINSTON SALEM, NC United States&lt;br /&gt;51            OSAKA                      Japan&lt;br /&gt;51            MILAN                       Italy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La società MERCER ha pubblicato i risultati della sua ricerca sulle città con qualità della vita più alta.&lt;br /&gt;Per il 2006 la prima in classifica è risultata Zurigo mentre Bagdad è in ultima posizione.&lt;br /&gt;Helsinki ha raggiunto un buon 29° posto, mentre Milano è la prima delle città italiane, al 51° posto.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-114478534463464207?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/114478534463464207/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=114478534463464207' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114478534463464207'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114478534463464207'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/04/2006-quality-of-living-survey.html' title='2006 Quality of Living Survey'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-114470279340572016</id><published>2006-04-10T22:53:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-04-11T08:08:42.763+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Nokialaiset perunat</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/1600/perunat.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/320/perunat.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt;Minus one.&lt;br /&gt;One day more of Sodexho, and then I’ll be able to go back to an adequate food standard.&lt;br /&gt;Today it was too much for me: two out of three possible meals were based on potatoes. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;It’s a shame I didn’t have the phone with me, because It could have been a good opportunity to take some pictures to post here.&lt;br /&gt;But in any case, as Dirk says, nobody would have believed them. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Meno uno.&lt;br /&gt;Un giorno ancora di Sodexho e poi potrò tornare ad uno standard alimentare degno delle mie origini.&lt;br /&gt;Oggi non ce l’ho fatta: su tre pietanze da scegliere due erano costituite da patate. Peccato che non avevo con me il telefono, perché mi sarebbe piaciuto fare qualche foto da postare su questo blog.&lt;br /&gt;Ma tanto, come dice Dirk, nessuno ci avrebbe creduto. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-114470279340572016?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/114470279340572016/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=114470279340572016' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114470279340572016'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114470279340572016'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/04/nokialaiset-perunat.html' title='Nokialaiset perunat'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-114461316552415117</id><published>2006-04-09T21:54:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-04-09T22:06:05.536+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Le elezioni</title><content type='html'>Today and tomorrow we have elections in Italy.&lt;br /&gt;This is the first time Italian citizens living abroad can vote.&lt;br /&gt;I also managed to vote, with a bit of trouble, last Thursday.&lt;br /&gt;According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Finland there are 1062 Italian electors, but only 522 of them voted (49.15%).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oggi e domani in Italia si vota per rinnovare il Parlamento.&lt;br /&gt;Questa è la prima volta che i cittadini italiani residenti all’estero possono votare.&lt;br /&gt;Anche io ci sono riuscito, con un po’ di fatica, giovedì scorso.&lt;br /&gt;Secondo il Ministero degli Esteri, in Finlandia abbiamo 1062 elettori; di questi soltanto 522 hanno votato (49.15%).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-114461316552415117?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/114461316552415117/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=114461316552415117' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114461316552415117'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114461316552415117'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/04/le-elezioni.html' title='Le elezioni'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-114461585916479480</id><published>2006-04-08T18:40:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-04-26T18:10:59.996+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Tommaso</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/1600/tommaso1.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/400/tommaso1.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today many people were in Parma for the last goodbye to Tommaso, a two-years-old child who was kidnapped and then killed with pitiless cruelty.&lt;br /&gt;His story deeply shook the public opinion, and many persons today are wondering whether such a horrible crime may deserve death penalty.&lt;br /&gt;I wonder if persons able to do such an inhuman action would really stop in front of the prospect of being punished with death; haven’t they maybe already arrived beyond any human capability of experiencing any feelings?&lt;br /&gt;Does something or someone exist, who could avenge Tommaso’s death?&lt;br /&gt;I think at the very end it is him himself who eventually defeats a so big evil, with the love and tenderness the image of his face is stirring in millions of people, together with the hope, or the certainty, that his life has not ended here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/400/tommaso2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oggi tante persone erano a Parma per l’ultimo saluto a Tommaso, un bambino di nemmeno due anni rapito ed ucciso con spietata crudeltà.&lt;br /&gt;La sua vicenda ha fortemente scosso l’opinione pubblica, ed oggi molti si chiedono se di fronte a tanto orrore non sia lecito prevedere la pena capitale.&lt;br /&gt;Mi chiedo se persone in grado di compiere un crimine tanto spietato potrebbero davvero fermarsi di fronte alla prospettiva di esser puniti con la morte, o se forse tali individui non siano già giunti al di là di ogni umana capacità di provare alcun sentimento.&lt;br /&gt;Esiste qualcosa o qualcuno che potrebbe vendicare la morte di Tommaso? Forse è proprio lui alla fine a sconfiggere tanto male, con l’amore e la tenerezza che l’immagine del suo volto sta suscitando a milioni di persone, unito alla speranza, o la certezza, che la sua vita non è finita qui.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-114461585916479480?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/114461585916479480/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=114461585916479480' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114461585916479480'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114461585916479480'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/04/tommaso.html' title='Tommaso'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-114461242649561759</id><published>2006-04-06T21:46:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-04-10T23:01:49.133+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Kevät</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/1600/botticelli-primavera-1482.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/400/botticelli-primavera-1482.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Spring has come.&lt;br /&gt;How can I say that? Easy:&lt;br /&gt;- the snow is melting&lt;br /&gt;- it started raining&lt;br /&gt;- at 8 pm there’s still light&lt;br /&gt;- I can see people wearing T-shirts in the street&lt;br /&gt;- They announced it during the weather forecasts on YLE1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, I think it’s a good news. Isn’t it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;E’ arrivata la primavera.&lt;br /&gt;Come faccio a dirlo? Facile:&lt;br /&gt;- la neve si sta sciogliendo&lt;br /&gt;- è iniziato a piovere&lt;br /&gt;- alle 8 di sera c’è ancora luce&lt;br /&gt;- comincio a vedere le prime persone in mezze maniche per strada&lt;br /&gt;- l’hanno detto alle previsioni del tempo su YLE1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beh, mi sembra una buona notizia. No?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-114461242649561759?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/114461242649561759/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=114461242649561759' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114461242649561759'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114461242649561759'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/04/kevt.html' title='Kevät'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-114460263713901216</id><published>2006-03-31T21:06:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-04-09T19:12:09.973+02:00</updated><title type='text'>GUADEC</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/1600/guadec.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've just completed my proposal for GUADEC 2006: &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/1600/guadec.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/200/guadec.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://guadec.org/node/258"&gt;http://guadec.org/node/258&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope the idea is appreciated and the talk accepted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This year GUADEC takes place in Vilanova i la Geltrú (Catalonia - Spain), at the end of June.&lt;br /&gt;I’ve never been at GUADEC, and I would really like to participate this time. I’m sure I could meet a lot of interesting people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ho appena finito di scrivere la mia proposta per il GUADEC 2006:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://guadec.org/node/258"&gt;http://guadec.org/node/258&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spero che l'idea sia apprezzata, e la presentazione accettata.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quest'anno GUADEC si svolge a Vilanova i la Geltrú (Catalonia - Spagna), a fine giugno.&lt;br /&gt;Non ci sono mai stato, e mi piacerebbe davvero partecipare questa volta. Sono sicuro che potrei incontrare un sacco di persone interessanti.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-114460263713901216?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/114460263713901216/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=114460263713901216' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114460263713901216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114460263713901216'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/03/guadec.html' title='GUADEC'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-114449252635846155</id><published>2006-03-28T21:33:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-04-08T12:35:26.360+02:00</updated><title type='text'>DSP</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/1600/DSP.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/200/DSP.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to Wikipedia, a digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor designed specifically for digital signal processing, generally in real-time.&lt;br /&gt;It’s widely utilized for multimedia applications, and this is the reason why I’ve been playing a bit with it for the last two years.&lt;br /&gt;These days I’m doing some DSP hacking and I’m having my small satisfactions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Secondo Wikipedia, il Digital Signal Processor (DSP) (processore di segnale digitale), è un particolare tipo di microprocessore ottimizzato per eseguire, in maniera estremamente efficiente, sequenze di istruzioni molto ricorrenti nel condizionamento di segnali digitalizzati (come ad esempio somme, moltiplicazioni e traslazioni).&lt;br /&gt;E’ molto utilizzato per applicazioni multimediali, e questo è il motivo per cui ho potuto giocarci un pochino negli ultimi due anni.&lt;br /&gt;In questi giorni sto prendendomi le mie piccole soddisfazioni scrivendo un po’ di codice per DSP.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-114449252635846155?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/114449252635846155/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=114449252635846155' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114449252635846155'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114449252635846155'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/03/dsp.html' title='DSP'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-114449213970335813</id><published>2006-03-25T14:24:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-08T12:28:59.703+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Hiihto</title><content type='html'>Finnish winter is not that bad: besides walking on the sea you can also have some fun with the skis. Today is a beautiful day and this morning I decided to go skiing in the forest next to my place. Sliding on the track among the snowy trees was a great experience, as well as a good physical exercise. But because of my short training I’m now exhausted…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/320/Image%2811%29.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;L’inverno finlandese non è poi così male: oltre alle passeggiate sul mare ci si può anche dilettare con gli sci. Oggi è una giornata bellissima e così stamattina ho deciso di andare a sciare nel bosco sotto casa. Scivolare lungo il percorso tra gli alberi innevati è stata una gran bella esperienza, oltre che un buon esercizio fisico. Visto il mio scarso allenamento, però, ora sono distrutto… &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-114449213970335813?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/114449213970335813/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=114449213970335813' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114449213970335813'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114449213970335813'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/03/hiihto.html' title='Hiihto'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-114449182963670938</id><published>2006-03-18T12:18:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-08T12:23:49.653+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Kaksi viikkoa</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/1600/2%20settimane.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/320/2%20settimane.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My Amaryllus is in bloom. Two big and red flowers: wonderful.&lt;br /&gt;It didn’t look so promising a couple of weeks ago; but sometimes if you don’t penetrate below the surface you can’t really realise the value of what’s inside.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L’amarillo è fiorito.&lt;br /&gt;Due grandi e rossi fiori, bellissimi.&lt;br /&gt;Non era così promettente un paio di settimane fa, ma a volte se uno si ferma alla superficie non riesce a capire il valore di quello che c’è dentro.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-114449182963670938?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/114449182963670938/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=114449182963670938' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114449182963670938'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114449182963670938'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/03/kaksi-viikkoa.html' title='Kaksi viikkoa'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-114390849712072798</id><published>2006-03-11T12:18:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-01T18:21:37.120+02:00</updated><title type='text'>L'Amarillo cresce</title><content type='html'>Today it’s one week since Amaryllus started living at my place, and as you can see it had a very rapid growth:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/320/1%20settimana.jpg" border="0" /&gt;Ok, it’s not really beautiful yet, but isn’t it better than last week?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oggi è una settimana che l’Amarillo vive da me, e come potete vedere dalla foto ha avuto una crescita molto rapida.&lt;br /&gt;Ok, non è ancora una meraviglia: ma non è meglio della scorsa settimana?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-114390849712072798?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/114390849712072798/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=114390849712072798' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114390849712072798'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114390849712072798'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/03/lamarillo-cresce.html' title='L&apos;Amarillo cresce'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-114390827423362187</id><published>2006-03-04T15:13:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-01T18:17:54.246+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Amaryllus</title><content type='html'>I had wanted a living being at home for some time, and this morning I finally decided to go and buy a plant. I went to the shop, and among many possibilities I selected this one:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/320/1%20giorno.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;its name is Amaryllus.&lt;br /&gt;It may look a dumb and meaningless plant, but this is the exact reason why I chose it. I’m sure it hides something good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Era da un po’ che volevo un essere vivente dentro casa, così stamattina ho deciso di comprarmi una pianta.&lt;br /&gt;Sono andato al negozio, e tra tante possibilità ho scelto quella in foto.&lt;br /&gt;Si chiama Amaryllus (Amarillo per gli amici).&lt;br /&gt;Ai più può sembrare una pianta stupida e insignificante, ma io l’ho scelta proprio per questo, perché sono sicuro che nasconde qualcosa di buono.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-114390827423362187?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/114390827423362187/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=114390827423362187' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114390827423362187'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114390827423362187'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/03/amaryllus.html' title='Amaryllus'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-114390324173964770</id><published>2006-02-27T20:38:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-01T17:00:59.663+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Noi siamo la storia</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/1600/capitano_festeggia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/400/capitano_festeggia.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Yesterday was an unforgettable night.&lt;br /&gt;AS Roma won 2-0 the derby against SS Lazio, reached the eleventh victory in a row, and made Italian football history.&lt;br /&gt;Our captain, from the edge of the field, saw his team-mates to a new triumph and then celebrated the record together with the whole city.&lt;br /&gt;Thank you guys! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Ieri sera è stata una serata indimenticabile.&lt;br /&gt;Dopo il 2-0 nel derby contro la Lazio l’AS Roma è entrata nella storia del calcio italiano, raggiungendo l’undicesima vittoria consecutiva.&lt;br /&gt;Il capitano, con le stampelle a bordo campo, ha accompagnato i suoi compagni verso il nuovo trionfo ed ha poi festeggiato insieme a tutta la città.&lt;br /&gt;Grazie ragazzi!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-114390324173964770?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/114390324173964770/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=114390324173964770' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114390324173964770'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114390324173964770'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/02/noi-siamo-la-storia.html' title='Noi siamo la storia'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-114390299601488734</id><published>2006-02-25T20:40:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-01T16:51:45.253+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Merellä</title><content type='html'>For a Finn walking on the frozen sea is the most natural thing in the world, but for southern people like me, who are used to see the waves breaking against the shore all the year round, realizing that the water can stop is something mysterious and enchanting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I went for a walk on the sea, and I took some pictures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/320/SANY0097red.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/320/SANY0093red.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/320/SANY0099red.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per un Finlandese camminare sul mare ghiacciato è la cosa più naturale di questo mondo, ma per la gente del Sud come me, abituata a vedere le onde infrangersi sulle coste per tutto l’anno, vedere che l’acqua può diventare immobile è qualcosa di misterioso ed affascinante.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oggi sono stato anche io a farmi una passeggiata sul mare, e ho fatto qualche foto.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-114390299601488734?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/114390299601488734/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=114390299601488734' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114390299601488734'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114390299601488734'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/02/merell.html' title='Merellä'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-114390220088957383</id><published>2006-02-20T16:30:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-01T16:39:57.210+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Capitano</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="right"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/1600/totti_infortunio--309x215.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="right"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 322px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 215px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="215" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/320/totti_infortunio--309x215.jpg" width="355" border="0" /&gt;Today is a sad day for all the sport fans in the world.&lt;br /&gt;After the umpteenth attack to his ankles, Francesco Totti’s legs had eventually to give up.&lt;br /&gt;The verdict is cruel: fibula fracture.&lt;br /&gt;Heal soon captain!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oggi è un giorno triste per tutti i veri sportivi del mondo.&lt;br /&gt;Dopo l’ennesimo attacco alle sue caviglie le seppur possenti gambe di Francesco Totti hanno alla fine ceduto. Il verdetto è spietato: frattura del perone.&lt;br /&gt;Guarisci presto capitano!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-114390220088957383?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/114390220088957383/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=114390220088957383' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114390220088957383'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114390220088957383'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/02/capitano.html' title='Capitano'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463533.post-114020386265491054</id><published>2006-02-16T20:10:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-02-17T20:26:22.183+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Jääkiekko</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/1600/pattinaggio--200x200.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/1600/pattinaggio--200x200.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6158/2284/320/pattinaggio--200x200.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These days the news from the Olympic Games in Torino are filling many pages of the international press. Today’s schedule proposed an interesting hockey match: Italy vs Finland. Finns are traditionally very strong and outclassed very easily the Italian players who, as someone commented at the office, could hardly skate.&lt;br /&gt;But in the evening we got a good satisfaction, when we won the gold medal in the Men's Team Pursuit (Speed skating).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;In questi giorni le notizie dai giochi olimpici di Torino riempiono le pagine della stampa internazionale. Oggi il programma ha offerto un’interessante sfida di hockey: Italia-Finlandia. I Finnici sono tradizionalmente molto forti ed hanno facilmente surclassato (per 6-0) i giocatori italiani che, come commentava qualcuno in ufficio, riescono a malapena a pattinare.&lt;br /&gt;Ma la serata ci ha regalato una bella soddisfazione, con la medaglia d’oro nel pattinaggio maschile a squadra.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22463533-114020386265491054?l=andreambro.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/feeds/114020386265491054/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22463533&amp;postID=114020386265491054' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114020386265491054'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22463533/posts/default/114020386265491054'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andreambro.blogspot.com/2006/02/jkiekko.html' title='Jääkiekko'/><author><name>Andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05101537544781392066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
