Great news! (For me at least...)

Looks like I will be involved in a great (both big and challenging) C++ project!
I will be working in a team, using agile methods and UML modelling...
Since the "great times" with the Dev-Team, this is the most intriguing project. Surely I'll write on this soon.

Nice utilities

A couple of nice piece of software for windows:
RocketDock is a very nice bar Mac style, while Gantt Designer is a - wow! - Gantt diagrams designer... both of them were quite useful in my working enivonment, worth have a look!

Free online translation dictionaries

Very, very interesting. On http://www.wordreference.com/ it is possible to find a very useful translation dictionary, which is free and able to translate into English, Italian, Spanish, French and Portuguese. It's a very handy service!

And again I had a small problem with my Ubuntu desktop: by updating to the new kernel, the grub configuration was lost again, so I had to bootstrap again from CD and fix it by hand...

Il futuro è Symbian

Da poco mi sono finalmente dotato di uno smart phone con Symbian OS. Temo che presto dovrò cominciare a sfruttarne a fondo le caratteristiche, per giustificare a me stesso l'esoso prezzo di acquisto...

Useful Windoz utils

Recently I've been working mainly on Windows environments in C#. I've discovered the Windows Sysinternals utilities, which I find really useful - of course, Unix users are used to tools like these.
Have a look to the FileMon util, which lets you monitor all the file system access with nice quering facilities; the ProcessMonitor is a very nice utility too...