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They are with us: Death Star over San Francisco

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Written by orangeek

Saturday 30 August 2008 at 6:43 PM

Posted in pop

current, sanfrancisco, sf, starwars

Banksy performance in New Orleans

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Via Boingboing I found three picture sets with Banksy performances in New Orleans (here, here and here).

Here you can find a special from TIME.

Written by orangeek

Saturday 30 August 2008 at 6:00 PM

Posted in pop

banksy, graffiti, neworleans

Lisbon!

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I forgot to tell you I'm in Lisbon.

Monday and Tuesday I'm going to attend a training here (the topic is "Anti Fraud Audit") and, since flight and hotel are already paid by my company, why I shouldn't take a couple of days off? I arrived yesterday. :)

I've a very short guide of the city and I'm following some of the advices Alberto gave me (via blog and email...thank you!)

Enjoy the pictures I'm taking and in the meantime take a look at these two pictures: a classical view of Lisbon and a narrow street that could be really found in Naples (dad with little son on a scooter and guy playing football :)

Lisbon!

Lisbon or Naples? :)

Written by orangeek

Saturday 30 August 2008 at 5:52 PM

Posted in bloggin

lisbon, travel

London by night... from above!

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You gotta see this... great photo collection provided by the bigpicture.com

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London from above, at night (19 pictures)

Written by orangeek

Friday 29 August 2008 at 11:42 PM

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bigpicture.com, london

Are you kind? do you open your wireless network?

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I have the same opinion as Bruce Schneier: I keep my wireless network open to let others passersby connect to the internet. I'm aware of the risks but I don't give so much weight to those. Actually, I'm just looking for a good solution to keep the network open AND limit the bandwidth used by others: I do want others connect to the internet for some email checking but I do not like people whose steal bandwidth for p2p. I think of that as being nice and kind: if you see I invite you for lunch, you shouldn't order T-Bone and expensive red wine unless I want that, right?

Any way, Bruce is now telling that there is more reason not to follow this advice: some terrorists in India used someone else's wireless network (which was open). News apart, I suggest you to take a look of Bruce's post and the links contained there. He links also the old post where he explained why you should open your wireless network and in the comments I found some interesting point of views.

Written by orangeek

Thursday 28 August 2008 at 8:08 PM

Posted in pop

fon, openwifi, openwireless, wifi, wireless