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Archive for August, 2007

My first 118 images on Flickr

Posted by skandymicky on 2007, August 28

Here are my first 118 images from Flickr.
As you know Flickr has many limits for not PRO users. With the aid of FlickLeech I copied and pasted all my pictures on this page, so that I’ll always be able to recover my images. Pity this doesn’t work with protected pictures.


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Snail festival at La Serra (SP) – sagra delle lumaghe a La Serra

Posted by skandymicky on 2007, August 23

For some this is probably revolting but I must say they are not bad at all. I’m talking about snails of course.
I gotta say: eating them is much easier when you are surrounded by a couple of thousand people all claiming this is the best meal ever. They appear disgusting and while eating them you cannot help but thinking of the little trail they use to leave behind, but they taste all right. If you get a chance I recommend trying.

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La Serra si trova sopra Lerici (SP) e andando là si gode di un fantastico tramonto sul golfo dei poeti.

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Day at Cinque terre and love path

Posted by skandymicky on 2007, August 22

This time I went to Cinque Terre with my girlfriend and since she is not lazy at all we made the whole path from Monterosso to Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and Riomaggiore. For the last time I was in Riomaggiore follow this link: –> link
Here is the first glimpse of the sea out of Monterosso train station.

Monterosso

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Sight of Monterosso from the love path

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This was not a cloudless day. I liked a lot the shadow of clouds over the sea

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Vernazza from the love path

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A very hot girl fighting the waves in Vernazza

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Vernazza - waves III

Another maybe even hotter girl

girl in Vernazza

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Seagull over Vernazza’s clouds

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The path

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I have also a very special video here. The small rocks make a particular sound in Manarola/Corniglia and the only way to make it audible to you was a video:

NOTE: I’ve just updated the video! Apparently I forgot to put the audio there during the processing

A picture from Corniglia

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A picture from Manarola

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A butterfly

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Some idiots thought this funny

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Coppa del mondo Germania 2006 a La Spezia

Posted by skandymicky on 2007, August 20

Da qualche giorno nella Palazzina delle Arti della Spezia è in esposizione la Coppa del mondo di calcio vinta dall’Italia al Mondiale di Germania 2006. Non che mi interessi il calcio, ma ci ho fatto un salto ugualmente con un amico

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Nicolò’s house – goodbye party

Posted by skandymicky on 2007, August 18

A friend of mine is moving out from his house. Some of the alcohol was going to get wasted and he decided for some reason to give a party in honour of his house. I got there 10 minutes after the party was started and here is what I’ve found:

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Shortly later, someone (Paolo) decided to take off his bell…

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War is raging between Paolo and Davide

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The war left some marks in the and of the night

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What better way for ending a peaceful alchool night then a swim with pattino?

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Swedish girls – photostream and videos

Posted by skandymicky on 2007, August 14

Some of you’ll think this is totally cool, while others horrible. Either way I’ve been spending some time on Flickr and youTube on the lookup for other Sweden supporters around the web and I came up with this guy who is probably much more sex focused than me but nevertheless had the great idea of merging his experience inside swedish disco into pictures and videos streams.
I hope the half of you finding it disgusting won’t hate me for that, and the other half won’t think that’s all about Sweden there is.

So: here they come.
One of the most amazing photostream: –> link
Same guy, but with videos: –> link

Have a little sample of both:

atreidesz4 - View my 'Ragazze Svedesi - Swedish Girls' set on Flickriver
Watching these pictures I think of what it means to live in Sweden as I did for almost one year. It remembers me the reason why I hate italian discos where there are 70% boys and the girls behave like princesses. It makes me sad because I’ve had so much fun over there even with not that cool kind of girls, because they are nice and easy talking and always smiling and drinking like men.


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Honestly: I’ve never been more then a few weeks away from Sweden and I don’t know how long I’m going to be stuck here. Let’s hope this won’t be too long.

Not bad, ha?

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e pioggia fu’

Posted by skandymicky on 2007, August 8

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Finally the sunny hell has been broken by a true summer lightning storm. Yesterday night I was kinda hysteric without any plausible explanation, so this morning I discovered a new mighty power on me: when rain is coming I can tell, just like animals can. Ain’t that cool?
If you fear some kind of nature calamity is approaching and you’d happen to see me migrating… well… I told you!
I took the chance to shoot some artistic photos (right before migrating)!

Finalmente è tornata la pioggia dopo quasi un mese di secco potente. Ieri sera ero praticamente isterico senza riuscire a comprenderne il motivo, quindi questa matina ho scoperto di avere un potere speciale: avverto l’arrivo della pioggia esattamente come gli animali. Incredibile, vero?
Se aveste il sospetto di una qualche calamità naturale e per caso mi vedeste migrare… beh… vi ho avvisato!
Ho colto l’occasione per scattare un paio di foto artistiche!

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Personally I do love rain, so much that fall is my favourite season. When the storm is on I like to watch it with the same hypnotic fervour people have when around a fire. I like walking in the rain (and singing sometimes) without umbrella; I have a special taste for rain wet hair (mostly in girls’ hair though). I like the smell of air when it’s raining (although I learned it’s not precisely healthy being mostly composed by Ozone), and I like to think of nature placating its thirst.

What’s more important I love the fact that when the storm breaks the sun gives back its bless.

Personalmente adoro la pioggia, tanto che l’autunno è la mia stagione preferita dell’anno. Mi piace starla a guardare con lo stesso ipnotismo con cui guardo il fuoco. Mi piace camminare nella pioggia senza ombrello e lasciare che mi bagni i capelli. Mi piace perché l’aria è più pulita quando piove, la natura si disseta e soprattutto, dopo la pioggia spunta sempre il sole.

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Best iPhone Apps at the moment [updated constantly]

Posted by skandymicky on 2007, August 7

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I decided to build a list of the best iPhone applications available. Two reasons for that. First of all there is a lot of blabbering about the limits of this mobile as a smartphone, and secondly out of pure curiosity.
Here is the list of what I’ve found and I needn’t remind this post is going to be constantly updated.


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Multiclient beejive: http://iphone.beejive.com Immagine IPB
Twitter: http://hahlo.com/
iPhoneChat: http://www.publictivity.com/iPhoneChat/
MSN: http://iphone-msn.com/
Yahoo: http://iphone-yahoo.com/
iTwitter: http://itweet.net/
Skype: http://skypeforiphone.com/

Voice Recording
iPhone voice recorder: http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/05/iphone-voice-recorder-utility/

Cooking
101 cook books: http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/iphon…pes-recipe.html

Movies
GoMovies: http://webologistdesign.com/gomovies/demo/index.php

Photography
Phlickr: http://www.chandlerkent.com/iphlickr/#_searches Immagine IPB

Blogs & Bookmarks
Digg: http://davidcann.com/digg/
i.del.icio.us: http://gobekdeligi.com/idelicious/

Remote Control

Telekinesis: http://code.google.com/p/telekinesis/ Immagine IPB
Concept Tonberry: http://www.blargsoft.com/tonberry/iphone/root.html

Feeds readers
iPhone connect: http://iphong.com/iphone/

Calculators
iMath: http://www.ivycall.com/iphone/
Unit Converter: http://www.tappingware.com/unitconverter/UnitConverter.php

PIM & ToDo
iPhoneTasks: http://www.iphonetasks.com/tasks/login
EasyTaskManagerOnline: http://www.easytaskmanager.net/iphone/index.html#_Login

Meteo
iWeathr: http://www.iweathr.com/iweathr/

News
iActu USA: http://www.widgetinfo.net/iphone/
iPhone news (google + yahoo): http://news-widget.com/iphone/

Travelling
nearest cheap gas station: http://www.gasapp.com/new.html

Office
iZoho: http://mini.zoho.com/ Immagine IPB

Clocks
CountDown: http://www.countdownr.com/mobile.html

eBooks
Google Reader: http://davidcann.com/iPhonify/GoogleReader/

Shopping
OneTrip: http://onetrip.org/apps/desktop.php?onetrip

Astrology
iScopes: http://www.astrology.com/iphone/iscopes/?par=ast|site|iphone

Most of these work all right with Firefox but I suggest you try them on Safari as well: –> link

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