My review

About 2 weeks ago I bought a new laptop. It cost me a bit but not so much.
My older notebook was really old and heavy and its battery last less than 10 minutes when not plugged in. The last problem was related to the personal bad behavior to have the laptop always on the battery charge mode.
At the end I decided to buy a new, more portable and more powerful one.
My 'new baby' is an Aspire Timeline X 4820TG. I googled, as usual, a lot about this product before buying it. Some reviews and some forums. One of the main problem is that I didn't find so much results for my query. At the beginning I thought it wasn't a good news. But when I first turned it on I was totally surprised. The laptop is really light (even with the battery on) and it really last a lot.
I've not used it yet for work purpose just entertainment and videogames but I think that those stuff could also be considered as benchmarks. I really loved the way it automatically switch from a graphics driver to another one by simply pressing a button or whether the power cable is plugged in or not.
The only 'problem' I noticed is the twitch the display perform when jumping between the ATI graphic card and the Intel one. But I really don't mind about it because the difference is massive.
When the ATI card is on everything goes really good. Videos flow like streams and streaming run like Bolt.
Videogames as well totally changes, they are really smooth and fluent.
The display is a 14.1" LED and it could be very bright.
One of the oddest thing is the USB port placement. Well, it's odd only to me probably because I think they are too close to the user, I really preferred to be further (totally personal impression).
The battery has a strange but useful shape because when you put the laptop on a desk/table/couch/leg it will be just a bit raised up so that it won't start burn your legs when the CPU goes really high and it will also remain very fresh because the air could easily flow under the fan.
If I should vote for it I would say an 8.5.
That's why it's not perfect but I really love it.

Volcano's mind

It's been a while I wrote my last post.

I left one of the most beautiful cities in the world more than 7 days ago and I came back to my city where a lot of people were really waiting for me (my girlfriend, my family but also my boss).
Last Monday I went to the office and I started with a brand new project.
New project means a lot of new stuff to develop and think about.
I think it's quite good for me, I really need to start working on something completely new, I also need to start thinking on new ideas and new jQuery plugins and optimization.
So, my last week were really busy. A lot of stuff to do and a lot of friends and people to meet.

Fortunately (well, in some way unfortunately) last night I couldn't sleep very well. My mind started thinking on new projects (also personal one).
The work project was related to a GPS-system for bikers. For 'bikers' I mean people riding bycicle. I think could be really good to track and map people's route with additional data (such as traffic condition or streets' work). This project is strictly related to my next personal project, that means fixing my father's old bike and begin going to work with 2-wheels instead of 4 (that is for sure better for the environment and for my body).

I was thinking on some good idea. A sort of social app to share bike's route into the city and to receive suggestions from other bikers about a different route or a better one.

GPS is still in my mind but I think I'm going to find the right way to create something useful.

Bye bye London

Three months have already passed. Three months ago I started my temporary English experience here. I was so excited, everything seemed so new and shiny. These months were full of work, but I mostly enjoyed the people and the colleagues I met here. I found some new great connections. These guys are really fabulous, the quick beers together were awesome and the City is wonderful. For sure I'll be back one day to meet again these wonderful people and these amazing places. Right now I'm on the train that will carry me to the airport. I'm really sad to let everything and everybody I found here. Thank you, again, guys for everything happened in these months. See you soon, I'll promise!

Update: just arrived in Milan..back to my country.

The tweeting spam

I used Twitter for more than a year, and I'm still using it.
I have to say it's not my favourite social web service. A lot of people is following me and I follow a lot of people too but I think the main problem is the kind of discussion people talk about I don't really like. In these days I'm reading a lot of web magazine talking about tweets' power to raise revolutions (see Egypt or Spain for example) but I only read of these. None of the people I'm following really talked about this stuff. Probably it's mostly my fault because I'm not following the right people but at the same time I noticed that a lot of websites are spamming their tweets talking about their latest news. Another awful idea is the retweet use they are going through for any kind of sale offers or gifts as well just to gather more people to the website. Sometime, not so often, I read my timeline and it's totally full of crap. Offers and sales and news' retweets. So I was just wondering if I was totally wrong thinking of Twitter as some kind of brief real-time news aggregator or this wonderful service is probably used in the wrong way!
(Thank you G to asking me yesterday night if I am going to write something new on my blog. I really appreciate the question!)

Gordon Ramsay's TV shows

I think everybody know who Gordon Ramsay is.
Just to be brief, he is a famous, and rich as well, British chef who also made some TV shows such as "Hell's Kitchen" or the "F Word" (where 'F' means 'Food' in this case).

In the last weeks, the British television started to broadcast a new show called "Gordon's Great Escape". The show wants to be a journey around the world based on food culture different from the British/European one.
I think the show is quite interesting because let people understand what the other side of the world (in the last episodes they're talking about Asian food culture).
What really impressed me was the announcement just before the show begin (also) saying: 'This show could contain images not suited for everybody'.
For example, in the last episode the famous chef went to Vietnam and decided to try the real Vietnamese food so it began eating a snake from A to Z (as he defined). That meant start drinking the snake's heart until eating the snake's bone.

I have to admit that some images were really hard to see just because we're not used to see people eating those kind of animals or eating them in those ways.
What I really couldn't understand is that, in the last days in my morning newspaper, I read of a lot of people very angry about this TV program because of the images transmitted and mostly about the cruelty 'applied' to the snake.
Am I wrong saying that nobody forced you to watch that show?
It's like watching an horror movie and then complaining about the amount of blood shown.

The announcer at the beginning just said the images shown could be really 'hard', so it's up to you the decision whether to watch it or not.

So, please, people complaining about a TV show that don't fit your tastes at first learn how to change channel.