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Photoblogging Corner: Some Shots of California

Luca Filigheddu — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:38:16 +0000

Some photos taken by myself in the last two weeks.

Sunset, Santa Cruz (CA)

The Painted Ladies, San Francisco (CA)

Foggy, B&W Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco (CA)

Pebble Beach, Monterey (CA)

You Have Mail!, Sausalito (CA)

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Work in Progress…

Luca Filigheddu — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:38:27 +0000

The theme of this blog is being updated… please be patient until this job gets to the end. I’ll post when finished.

SmugMug Filmstrip Screwed Up by WP 2.6.1

Luca Filigheddu — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:55:22 +0000

Image via CrunchBase, source unknown

Regular readers will notice that the SmugMug filmstrip on this blog’s homepage is no longer shown. I guess the reason for this is the upgrade to WP 2.6.1 I made today.

I’m looking into it, but I’m likely going to perform a complete new makeover to this blog. Stay tuned!

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Testing Qumana

Luca Filigheddu — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:48:32 +0000

This is just a test of the blog editor Qumana. I never tried it on my Macbook before and I’m checking if it could be better than Ecto. Any advice?

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Will 2.5 Jump-start WP’s Publishing Tool?

Martin Varsavski Didn’t Get It

Luca Filigheddu — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:27:50 +0000

Martin Varsavski surprised me a little bit when I came across his post about honesty of italian people and, in particular, people from Sardinia where I was born, live and work.

But if Spain has been doing so much better than Italy over the last 20 years, I believe that this is mainly because on the average Spaniards are more honest than Italians and this shows all the way from the guy who rips you off in the Porto Cervo bar, because he argues that you sat in the VIP section of his mediocre bar (50 euros for a mineral water) to electing Silvio Berlusconi as President.

The funniest part of the story is that his examples are about Cala di Volpe, a place located in the middle of the “emerald coast”, very well known as the place where all billionaires go and well known as the most expensive part of Sardinia (if not Italy).

Martin is complaining about a 30 euros taxi and about a 50 euros mineral water, basically saying that italians are not honest and want to rip tourists off. They don’t rip tourists off, it’s all about tourists who have been so stupid to go there as well as very bad travel agencies which didn’t advise/warn them. But most tourists are savvy enough to get a hotel 10km far from that place and to get there for sightseeing only.

The point is that it is an area of Sardinia where rich people go and everyone knows you can easily pay 10.000 euros for a night at the Cala di Volpe hotel or 30 euros for a coffee. So why did Martin take that place as an example to state that Spanish people are more honest than Italian ones?

Martin, while you are free to start a discussion about this subject, I have to say that the example you are using to sustain your thesis is completely off topic and doesn’t really fit with what you are pointing out.

I hope you haven’t been so “stupid” to pay such amount of money for hotels or coffee. If you did, you cannot complain about that, since soccer players who earn 1 Million/month really don’t complain but just have fun while they stay there. You made the decision to go there instead of other more beautiful places in Sardinia, where you pay 70 cents for a coffee and 1.5 euros for mineral water, not me. Not far from there, you can easily find out that someone (who usually remains anonymous) paid for your coffee because you are a tourist and that’s a way to tell you “welcome”. Did anyone tell you about that?

This is just to highlight that people from Sardinia are not only honest, but even more kind than what you can ever think of. I’m sorry Martin didn’t get it.

But, again, Costa Smeralda is not Sardinia (ant it’s far from being Italy!) but an area originally built by the Aga Khan for rich people like him.

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Light blogging…

Luca Filigheddu — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:27:46 +0000

I apologize if I’m not that responsive in getting back to you or if I don’t promptly follow up on news that you send me. I’m just at home on “vacation”… Well, not really, since my wife is working in this period and I stay at home with my sons… 21 months and 2 months old… Available time is close to 0, sorry.

I’ll try to catch up as soon as possible…

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For Andy

Luca Filigheddu — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:14:18 +0000

For Andy.

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Daniele, first photos

Luca Filigheddu — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:59:03 +0000

My cute newborn Daniele, 10 hours old!

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Welcome Daniele, born today!

Luca Filigheddu — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:45:29 +0000

I’m happy to announce that Daniele, my second son, was born today June 19th at 12.28 CET.

3.780 kg, a big baby! Mom and son are very well.

Photos soon…. not slept tonight, so now it’s time to get some sleep, two hours at least!