The New York Times has a very interesting article about where americans put their money, and how their spending habits change during the time (the graph is in fact drawn from the Consumer Price Index, one of the possible measures of inflation). The graph by itself is quite self-explanatory. My comment is below. [image source] Housing is 42% of spending, transportation is 18%. Together they form 60% of US spending. It means that cities of the future (ecologic, efficient, cost-effective) can be the only way for the U. ... Read more

Read this article on LighterFootStep about the new SunRGI concentrated solar product. The principle is old and simple: concentrate solar power, using magnifying lenses, and put a photovoltaic cell under it. They added a cooling heat sink to dissipate the enormous amount of heat generated. Watch this video for a demonstration: Hope to see this technology soon! Maybe it will save us from Data Center pollution.

jogging, then having a veggie dinner, then reading, then bed. # @mafe pure io. sarà un virus? #

Today I spent some hours with good friends at a kite festival at Lake Trasimeno in Italy. (picture is Creative-Commoned on Flickr.com). Had a very good time, despite my morale is low.

Today, may 3rd 2008, my blog has 20 feed readers, 3 technorati reactions… …and my twitter account is followed by 60 people (and I’m following 102). I’d like to make this blog more popular, and my goal for the end of the month is: 20 100 feed readers; 3 10 technorati reactions; 60 100 followers on twitter. Let’s see if I’m able to do that. If you love me, spread the word about this blog, tell your friends, and if you use a feed reader, subscribe to my feed! ... Read more

Today I went at the presentation of a special book, “Il nuovo rinascimento di Assisi” (the new Renaissance of Assisi), which is about the last ten years of reconstruction (after the 1997 earthquake), and development. I contributed a lot to this book, dedicating hours and hours of my free time to it. Giorgio Bartolini, former Mayor of Assisi, thanked me in a very nice way, with a copy signed by him. ... Read more

Second Life, if you don’t know it, is a three-dimensional online world, in which you can portray an “avatar” (a virtual alter ego) an explore this virtual world, interacting with people, building things. In Hindu philosophy, an avatar (derived from the Sanskrit word avatāra) refers to the incarnation (bodily manifestation) of a divine being (deva) into planet Earth. If we can call our real life “first”, this “second” one refers to our “incarnation” in the virtual world. ... Read more

Had a great dinner for Alberto’s birthday. Discovered that Maira’s Bday is the same as mine, may 15th. Great! #

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@JasonCalacanis easy: Amazon AWS, you can grow in minutes, and you can outgrow your extimates of 75 without worries. http://aws.amazon.com # Twitter power! http://tinyurl.com/6x9p53 # at home in Assisi, doing some various stuff. I’ll soon go jogging. #