Learning to fly: I WAS UNABLE TO ^pro

from 5th to 9th of October

... ou, por mieux dire, la vainqueuse est:

...was showcased today...

who will be the 100.000 visitor???

Dear friends,

as someone of you noticed, my presence on ipernity is very limited.

I'm ready to start my vacations: two weeks of mountain views, in Sudtirol, as always.

Returning home, the work vortex will bring me to new highs: the Company I work for had a two-fold increase in turnover and I have to run thru Europe to make my share in this increase, promoting and presenting our solutions (please: don't be shy if you have contacts in gas distribution/transport companies! thank you! ;-) ).

I also decided to give my share in politics, trying to have a better Italy for my children (I know... only Titans can undertake it!!!).

So don't take your breath while waiting for my return ;-)

A special thanks goes to [op] and all the friends that are keeping "Best of the Week" alive!

On July 14, 2009, Italian bloggers will muzzle themselves in the Web as well
as in Piazza Navona in Rome, at 7PM where they will meet to protest against
an Italian government bill (the Alfano decree) introducing a number of new
rules which will limit the freedom of expression in Italian internet.
The so-called "obligation to rectify" imposed to the manager of an information
site (blogs, social networks such as Facebook, Twitter etc) clearly appears to
be a pretext. In fact such imposition, in termsof bureaucratization of the network
and of very heavy penalties for users, shall make of the new decree an
internet-killer.
The practical effects shall be to cause the independent sites and blogs to
cease or materially reduce their publications. The apparent intent of introducing
criteria of responsibility hides the attempt to make life difficult or impossible
for bloggers and users of shared sites (for example: You Tube...)
The fact is that bloggers are already entirely liable, from a penal standpoint,
in the event of crimes such as insults, defamation etc: there is no need to
introduce unbearable penalties for "citizen-journalists" who do not intend to
submit themselves to the bureaucracy and the burdens contemplated in the
Alfano decree.
The plurality of information, regardless of the media, internet, newspapers,
radio and tv networks etc, is a fundamental right of men and citizens, on
which democracy and freedom are based. The Alfano decree is an attack to the
freedom of all media, from the major newspapers to the smallest blog.
For this reason we invite all Italian blogs and sites to a day of silence, in the
day in which newspapers and tv networks will also remain silent. It is a message
of all operators in the media world, who jointly shout to the political
world: "we don not want to be gagged".
We therefore invite all citizens with a blog or a site to publish this logo and
mantain it for the entire day of July 14 next.
Defending the press, the tv and radio networks, the journalists and the Web,
we firmly defend the basic freedom of information and the future of our
democracy.
Alessandro Gilioli
Guido Scorza
Enzo Di Frenna

... because I' like to meet you during my travels...

Je serai à Bruxelles dès 11.15 jusqu'à 18.15. J'ai un rendez-vous à Anderlecht. Je ne sais pas encore exactement à quelle heure, mais de toute façon j'aurai quelques heures livres. Envoyez-moi une ipermail s'il y a la possibilité de se rencontrer. Je vous donnerai mes numéros de mobiles.

Your Summer Travel shot on Bing's homepage

Anthony: look at this DVD and compare it with Trespass 8mm home footage... almost 40 years have past...

One of Sinéad's masterpieces...

Two of my preferred singers...

Thanks to Anthony and to the flu, I passed my morning searching for Gabriel/Genesis videos...

... in leave of absence ...

This is what remains of my beloved EF50f1.8:

and I don't know what happened to the body lens ring : I'm unable to remove the lens from the body.

Incidentally it was my preferred lens and the one with whom I took this shot:

"Monochrome summer 37286 little jewel" by Roberto Ballerini - traveling [?]

and many more... SIGH!!!

The Hottest Rock'n'Roll Festival on Earth...