Monday, October 30, 2006

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I remember I remember Papa Luciani

I ... yes eleven and a half. Of popes and Vatican I was never interested much. My parents sent him to church, because "it did so" My mother was and is a believer and practitioner (although I struggle to understand what it means for her) while my father as a good communist did not understand the meaning and hunt on the church abuse DC and whenever there was occasion. Well, I mean, Paul VI had died. Never mind: the gray, the flatness ... the church in its conception "oldest" (ie, old). Nothing particularly interesting: a little 'as usual, frequent elections. But then ... the conclave. My first conclave. I was on vacation in the mountains of Piedmont, including a task for the holidays and an afternoon in my first games room, among all those computers that have captivated me. And here's the new Pope Mom, but this Pope is smiling. Everyone says, is a different Pope. It 's a good new Pope (also because the other, who had known him?). How nice to hear about the Pope It 's a good person. He speaks in plain language, makes you feel good even children. He says so many beautiful things, many good things. He would also disrupt the IOR and the intrigues of the church (understood in a negative sense), in addition to latinorum, I would have understood only many years later that summer but I was really pleased. For the first time the church "had a meaning, a reason to exist." Ma .. how? E 'dead? But how may be dead? After all ... a month? No. .. Already are a fan of Taurus, and lasted just beautiful things I mean. They poisoned him "they said. They made it out. Boh. The short and smiling parable of Albino Luciani was something I went straight to the heart, that beginning in autumn 1978. I remember JoinMe

Saturday, October 21, 2006

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swimming, fun games, competition, European cities, summer. So I remember, in short, the Games without Borders. As I was born were already on the air, and went on for many years. The teams of European cities and towns will compete in each episode tests involved in imaginative, often with the use of water, and puppets, foam, balloons and scenery. It was an international challenge, this was what effect. And then there were the judges, the historic ones: Gennaro Olivieri and Guido Pancaldi. After hours of time may seem like two idiots, but back then there were two types of armed ganzissimi whistle when announcing the File Rouge There was not laughing. Why, after all, us kids those fun races, unconventional and just made for the summer heat, after all, we lived as the serious challenges. And, I remember, my favorite announcer was Rosanna Vaudetti.

Thursday, October 12, 2006

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I remember the PC ... I remember the first beat

PC beat ... I'll be shot! 25 years, a quarter of a century .... This year marks the 25th anniversary of the introduction of the Personal Computer. Today there is more the case, all the PC call, the "box of wonders" that we lit in front of us and makes us as a window on the world. But not until the IBM launched the XT model (in 1981 exactly) the computer was a monster. My first experience of computers date back to (sigh) 1976 or 77 when I was a student of Engineering. So for me the computer (in fact, the calculator, note the capital C) that car was great (you do realize that would come barely in your living room) and a bit 'scary which were part cardboard cards properly and that prick in a few hours (yes, I said hours) was able to perform the calculation in Fortran structural complex of buildings. A machine that could afford to own only universities or large corporations. I remember only in my early 80's father, who had an engineering study in which structural calculations were performed (of course only with the help of calculating machines) you could afford a computer. " He was a Hewlett-Packard (HP today) without the screen, with "well" 64k of internal memory (no hard disk) and a large display less than a mobile phone today, but monochrome and capable only of alphanumeric characters. Cost then? Sixteen million pounds (1980, eh?). Would be easily enough to buy a Mercedes mid-range (for this we had only a Giulia). I still remember the nights spent waiting for data and type (after hours) the fateful "beep", indicating the end of the calculation. Out of the PC, there was the grand finale, a kind of Copernican Revolution. Initially regarded with suspicion, the PC began to take hold in the case thanks to the games, stuff that now would cry of sadness even an infant: Space Invaders, PacMan, all in monochrome. So I was a maniac of programming. I went up there with two small computers that are entered in the myth: the ZX Sinclair and Commodore 64 (then 128 and Amiga). The programming was in Basic primordial strictly monochrome screen (phosphor green or amber? "Was the only choice). In a couple of years the cost of the PC became less prohibitive. In 1984 Amstrad bought an XT with 640k hard disk of 10 MB (ten megabytes!) At a price "how" of 3 million and a half (roughly the price of a small car). The first PC on which I was able to work very professionally was an IBM AT office. It was about 1985 and the "monster" with 640 kb of memory "expandable to 1 MB well" with 20 MB of hard-disk was shared in the office by 6 * lucky * engineers. I was among those who understand a bit 'more and then I was destined to program in GW-Basic traendoci rigorous calculation programs for structural or thermal insulation. For the rest you wrote the letters (Word did not exist, the best was WordStar) and only the most enterprising used the spreadsheet (no, not Excel, then it was the most popular Lotus 1.2.3) or the first real DataBase, that was then and DBase II DBase III. The graphics? Still dot ... The graphical interface of the first color screens, no more than VGA 640x480 pixels (and it seemed a miracle). No one had ever heard of a mouse, a virus, let alone Windows, the first version of which cloning is the genius of Apple appeared only in the early 90's. I could tell even a lot of these my 25 plus years dealing with computers, devouring magazines, through sleepless nights to program in Visual Basic and C + + (and also, I confess, download music and video), disassemble, implementation, setting , repaired and reassembled dozens for friends and relatives. But I'll stop here, I would not make it too long. Just makes me smile thinking back a few days ago when talking to a little known by his thirties, my sentence on the fact that my daughter is pretty good at the computer did not believe that I would understand a pipe and had to rely on the expertise of Ba to carry on with this "box of wonders." Ah, Blessed youth ... Vaglielo to make people understand that the world is not started by then so little ... I remember de The finger and the moon

Saturday, October 7, 2006

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violent earthquake of my life I remember

23/11/1980 I had a fierce headache that day there, strange that do not suffer from migraines. It was a very hot day for November. The laws were at lunch, in-laws had arrived in the afternoon, Mom was returned from the church at 18 and had returned even my son, who had been on a trip with the boys scouts. On Sunday drew to a close, as every Sunday, with that bit of sadness and pain in the ass for the new week to deal with, work, home, children, swimming pool, catechism, grandparents, husband, sister, friends, etc, etc. The children were playing bingo on the floor, in a month would have been home, large sitting through the last coffee of the day, I ironed, like every Sunday afternoon. Suddenly, the headache disappeared as if someone had lifted a weight from the head, I had a little dizzy, I looked up and saw the chandelier in the kitchen and began to swing. Warned that the earthquake was the first swing. Courses to open the door to run away when it was all over. It took us all in the middle of the kitchen and suddenly burst open the balcony, I thought now open the floor and we all die. The quake lasted an eternity, I had the time thinking, other times, as I knew, had already passed. My mother cried, his invocation to the saint "San nepute Genna is my" begging for their grandchildren, that cry I remained imprinted in my mind a long time. When he finished the palace swing (and on the seventh floor was felt and how), went down and we went to seek refuge outside the church, just below the steeple, which was later declared unsafe. The traffic was crazy scenes of panic attempting to determine the order of other family members, we saw occur in front of my brothers-in robe, had been caught by surprise while they were showering. The safest place in the Vomero series was the stage, here we spent the night in the car. News for news, collapse, death, looting, Irpinia devastated. Accussi, accussi, accussi. The 24th was bitterly cold. I remember Didolasplendida