Category Archives: Life

Leaving

Posted on January 2, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

packing again, me and Marta are leaving tomorrow for Berlin. we’ll get back in seven days, with a ton of photos.

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Health

Posted on December 29, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

As usual, I’ve got a flu at the end of the year. This really sucks, because due to the slight fever and the cold, I had to cut back hacking time; the re-write of the source dialog in Dictionary has … Continue reading →

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Maybe this Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

Only a few minutes into Christmas, and a few hours before the traditional lunch and dinner of this day. In the last four days I feel like I’ve already eaten more than I usually eat in a month. On Tuesday, … Continue reading →

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Birthday

Posted on November 22, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

0x19 years. Presents so far: Dancing Barefoot and Just a Geek by Wil Wheaton, from Marta (at midnight) money, from my parents and relatives (I love it) the new Back to the Future pack from my former high-school mates (we … Continue reading →

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Dancing Barefoot

Posted on November 16, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

Marta, as an early (a week early) birthday present, bought me Dancing Barefoot, the first book written by Wil Wheaton. It arrived today, and I literally devoured it in an hour. Wil writes gorgeously. I found myself smiling, grinning or … Continue reading →

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Dictionary Applet

Posted on October 9, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

With almost everyone in Boston, both the mailing lists and IRC channels are really quiet; feels a little weird – but I think it’s mostly envy for not being able to go to the other side of the pond and … Continue reading →

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Scary Voice Over

Posted on September 26, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

Since last tuesday, I’ve done little to nothing on the “hack” side; I’ve began a little project in Perl that should resolve in a backup manager (it’s called Hudson), but mostly I’ve done some code polishing to the libegg/recentchooser code, … Continue reading →

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Yarrr!

Posted on September 19, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

T’ me, Yo, Ho, Yo, Ho, It’s "Talk Like A Pirate" Day! That time in September when sea dogs remember That grown-ups still know how ta play! When wenches are curvy and dogs are all scurvy And a soft-wear patch … Continue reading →

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Wild life

Posted on August 9, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

You can’t say to have done any good deed, unless you saved a week old cat from death.

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Check out

Posted on August 9, 2005 by Emmanuele Bassi

I’m back from Amsterdam with a ton of pictures (most of them really ugly: I’m not much of a photographer), that will be uploaded on Flickr, if and when I find the time/bandwidth. Since my parents first, and my brother … Continue reading →

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