national security
Originally uploaded by mudpig.

I have really nothing to add to this perfect Italian story. Newspapers ^(*) have said enough about it and everything is going exactly the way I have forseen long time ago.

I’ll blog about it as soon as it ends. And we all know how and where it will end

This is just a “say hi” post. Nothing about bikinis or mechanical raccoons.
Actually, I was going to talk about cyborgs, ninja squirrels, yellow submarines and cookie eating aliens, but I’m too tired right now. Will keep that for a future post.

voooolare… oh oh…. faaaallire… oh oh oh oh!!

Oh, I almost forgot: Hi!

^(*) This word should exclude any or most Italian newspapers, of course. Those are only "papers". No "news". They can’t call themselves "toilet paper" because the paper isn’t soft enough, and because Italians don’t care if you sell them crap and say it’s "news", but technically it’s toilet paper. Backed by the government.

to Use The Back Entrance…
Originally uploaded by Kıvanç.

So here I am back in Pisa, city of the leaning tower, the other leaning tower, the leaning building, the other leaning building, the other other leaning building, the leaning dog, the leaning mechanical raccoon and too few bikinis.

Yes, I am deep in bikini withdrawal. Please help me!

If that’s not enough, the ferry had a two hour delay and no excuses. I’m getting seriously p****ed of by that ferry company. I have been travelling on those damn ferries since I was born and it has been on time only a bunch of times.

So, I had to wait for the next train to Pisa too. A wonderful Italian train - which seems to come right from WWII. Not to mention that almost the whole train had no working air conditioning and half of the windows had been locked with screws (!!!). Thank you Trenitalia CEOs… thank you, but I really hope "you go to hell and you die".

Ok. Dinner time. And no bikinis

Sardinia
Originally uploaded by Csaba_Bajko.

Screw you guys, I’m goin’ h-yah!
See you back in Septemper.

piercing. bunny. hands.
Originally uploaded by Mike Wood Photography.

Dear Sergio Cofferati,

I appreciate your intent to make Bologna a "cleaner" city and I do believe that the "broken windows" theory might contain some truth, but let me explain you a few basic concepts.

Drinking a beer after 10 pm is not a crime, so forbidding the sale will only cause people to be more p***ed off and drink more.

Cleaning a car’s window shield is not a crime. If you are worried about some immigrant insulting car drivers at some crossroads, well, somebody ought to tell you that that’s already a crime. No matter if the guy is immigrant or comes from the moon, and no matter how he gets by.

I am free to get myself a piercing or a tattoo where the fuck I want! Did you get it? If some goddamn a*****e sells tattoos or piercing jobs with no concern to hygienic norms, he is already breaking some existing law!

Oh, and by the way… why don’t we just put some distinctive clothing on hippies and punks and whoever you don’t feel comfortable with?
Some very talented people and organizations already did this in the past with huge success! F**k tollerance and f**k helping people to meet and socialize. Let’s stuff them in some railway carriage and send them on a nice holiday.

Also, you could just shave yourself, wear some nice blue hat and yellow gloves and run around screaming "You Will Respect My Authoritah!", but I guess South Park fans would be rather p***ed off. Besides of you looking rather silly.

I’m sick of hearing people talk about "zero tolerance". They need to look up a damn dictionary.
We don’t need "zero tolerance", we need "zero crime" and "100% tolerance".

Yours sincerly,

a hippy that won’t be visiting Bologna very soon thanks to a ******** major like you

I stand up next to a mountain
Originally uploaded by Mark Witton.

Sorting is one of the most common operations done on a data structure and it’s one of the best examples for generic code and C++ templates.
Qt provides a handy qSort() method which comes in different flavours.
One is quite interesting as it allows you to use a custom sort function.

void qSort(RandomAccessIterator begin, RandomAccessIterator end, LessThan lessThan)

LessThen is actually a template parameter. I guess most of the times you will just use a pointer to a global function.
The drawbacks are that you cannot pass parameters to the sorting function, unless you use global static variables. And that’s rather ugly.

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Passing train
Originally uploaded by PhotoA.nl.

June 28th, 2008. Deutsche Bahn: no more paper.
July 15th, 2008. Trenitalia: no more trains.
Coming soon: No more airplanes.

Retired homeless fisherman
Originally uploaded by pedrosimoes7.

Did you notice the new roof?

Our beloved Pope Benedict XVI could not prevent himself from telling us happily that the Vatican Palace has a new roof.

I’m glad to hear that. And I bet there is quite a lot of “roof-less” and “food-less” people that will be damn happy to know that no raindrop will fall on his golden throne.

This is not intended to be another cynical critique to the holy Vatican City joint-stock company. I just get too pissed off when I have to hear this bulls***t on the news. On Italian news of course. Well, there should be some quotes around the word “news”, I guess.

Coffee … break !
Originally uploaded by Christiane Michaud.

Sorry folks, I was lying. This post is not about wynona. I’m really really sorry.
I have spent the whole day trying to build an apache module using Qt and qmake so I have to blog about my success.

I know, the guys at apache (btw. I’m really impressed by their work) advise against writing C++ modules or linking shared libraries, but I’ll have to do that for a project I’m working on at Clickout Ltd. so we’ll have to discuss those issues some day.

Nevertheless, the traditional mod_helloworld buit with no hassle on windows but there was no way to make it work on Linux/GCC so I had quite some fun figuring out the issue. So, here is a quick tutorial
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the end of a day behind goli otok
Originally uploaded by čolinica.

Somebody please tell me why most websites continue to send you the password right after you register to a website.
Now listen to me, please. That’s STUPID!! Did you get it? S T U P I D.

First of all, I know I have a bad memory… but I am still capable of remembering a damn password five seconds after some stupid web site asked me to enter it twice along with a dozen other useful personal information (where 99% of the users will just realize they have a brilliant imagination and end up filling the forms with nonsense).
Last but not least, I don’t f*** want my password to cross the whole web in plain text (yeah, somebody tell web developers thay mail usually travels unencrypted) along with my username and a link to the login page (why don’t we add my credit card number too?).

That’s weak. O____O

Hollywood Terence
Originally uploaded by Malenkov in Exile.

Geez I must have underrated human stupidity. Latest news from the Dolce Vita Country:

Shotguns are still hot.

Dear European Union, you better shut the f*** up or we will have Italy’s train company buy Alitalia because we don’t give a damn f*** about our own laws, let alone we respect yours. (*)

(*) I guess you’ll have to take a train in Italy at least once (and try not to shoot yourself in the foot afterwards) to understand the reach of this statement