June 2008

Ero convinta

June 29, 2008

di non fare chissa` quali valigie; partendo con troppo poco, come al mio solito, sapendo che questa sarebbe stata un’ottima scusa per fare acquisti. Ero piu` che decisa di fare cosi, finche` mia madre mi disse “Ti Stai Trasferendo” Vado a fare le valigie

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Tuscany Gallery

June 28, 2008

The full set of photos from our trip to the Chianti region, including shopping in Greve and at Falorni.

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Sono Stanca

June 27, 2008

e senza vacca sacra. I’m tired – and without a sacred cow.

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Gallery: Introbio and Villa Migliavacca

June 27, 2008

Another day trip in the Lake Como region, to a small mountain town called Introbio. Of “particular interest,” as Italian tourism guides say, is Villa Migliavacca. According to the sign: “Built in the 1920s for the Milanese Antonio Migliavacca, pioneer in advancing tourism in Valsassina, it is the work of architect Bottoli, also Milanese. The [...]

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Photo Gallery: Erve, March 2008

June 26, 2008

One beautiful day in March, Enrico and I went up to Erve, a village quite close to where we live in Lecco – as the crow flies. But we had to drive, and then hike. I’m not much of a hiker, so we only walked for about an hour, but that was plenty of time [...]

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Gallery: Bergamo’s Historic Villas

June 24, 2008

From our visit to Bergamo and its historic villas.

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Lecco to Bellagio by Boat: A Beautiful Day on Lake Como

June 23, 2008

The ferry runs from Lecco (on Lake Como’s southeastern tip) only from spring to fall. The slow boat to Bellagio (one and a half hours) is the best way to see this branch of the lake. With its steep, craggy mountainsides plunging down into the water, it’s reminiscent of a Norwegian fjord. The boat hops [...]

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Doing What I Do Most

June 17, 2008

Travel, travel, travel…

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Translating Blogs and Finding New Friends – Worldwide!

June 16, 2008

About a year ago, Dan Maslowski had a simple-but-brilliant idea to increase the reach of some of Sun’s Open Solaris Storage blogs: translate them! Sun’s globalization team was initially cautious: they already had their hands full translating interfaces and documentation, and weren’t sure where this blogging thing fit into their scope of work. But they [...]

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Rajdhani Thali: Great Food, Great Price

June 10, 2008

Last day of shopping in Delhi, Ross and I still had presents to buy, and it had been impossible to get the neo-graduates out of bed at a reasonable hour. So we found ourselves facing a line of state emporiums that were mostly closed for lunch. After a few minutes’ glance around one or two [...]

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Woodstock Celebrations: Parents’ Banquet 2008

June 10, 2008

download for iPod Part 1, including some very interesting speeches by parents about why they sent their kids to Woodstock, and what they think their kids got out of it. Part 2 : Music! The very talented senior jazz band, with Rossella singing, begins around 2:30 minutes. download for iPod Deathless comment: “We expect everyone [...]

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Bollywood, Bangalore

June 9, 2008

One of my reasons for coming to Bangalore was to work with the Sun Cluster team here on some short films. They had great ideas (no, I’m not going to tell you what they were – don’t want to spoil the fun before the films are edited and released), loads of enthusiasm, and the talent [...]

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The Streets of Bangalore

June 7, 2008

^ words to live by? Jun 7, 2008 I did not get a chance to see any of Bangalore’s tourist sights this trip (I vaguely remember having seen them back in 1980, when I went onWoodstock’s Winter Tour all over India). But I did get out and about a bit, sadly on my own since I [...]

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A Goodbye Song for Woodstock School

June 6, 2008

Aidan Lewis and band perform “Freebird” as a farewell song at a Woodstock School end-of-year assembly.

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Inside Sun IEC

June 5, 2008

In my visits to various Sun campuses, I enjoy comparing and contrasting Sun lifestyles worldwide. Sun’s India Engineering Center (IEC) occupies most of the Divya Shree Chambers building off Langford Road in Bangalore. Lunch (always a major preoccupation with me) is provided at the 5th-floor canteen, which gets very crowded around 12:45. There’s a buffet [...]

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Visiting Sun Bangalore

June 4, 2008

After seeing my daughter graduate from Woodstock School last week, this week I’m visiting Sun’s engineering center in Bangalore, to meet colleagues – and film them! I haven’t been to Bangalore since 1980, when it was a sleepy little town. No more! The ride in from the new airport (just opened last week) took an [...]

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Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines 22

June 3, 2008

Left: Free gift: map of northern Lake Garda Nudists at Pradello Two commuters wounded Disco party for dog Johnny – photo Right: Young person dies in a car run over by a train Insert: housing market

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Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines 21

June 2, 2008

Upper left: Health: “golden” consultations at the hospital and local health authority: they spend 2.3 million Departments and services at the Manzoni [hospital] up for bidding by private interests? Tragedy: mother of three dies in the crash Left: Free gift: the map of the pre-Alpine lakes 350 thousand euros to the extortionists: gas station owner [...]

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