Paolo Redaelli personal blog

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English acronym mania

There’s a thing of English – well, actually American English, or even better “technical English” – they I find quite disturbing: the custom of creating acronyms at every steps. See this example Concrete Block (CMU) Sizes, Shapes, and FinishesConcrete blocks, also known as Concrete Masonry Units or CMUs, provide very durable structural and non-structural partitions.…

Voglio il lieto fine!

No, spiace, questo Broken Tales proprio non potrà mai piacermi. Un gioco di ruolo che parla di Fiabe oscure ribaltando le prospettive: i cattivi cercano redenzione mentre i buoni vengono sedotti dalle tenebre, e nulla nelle storie è come ve lo siete finora immaginato. … C’era una volta un bambino che salvò il mondo delle Fiabe e ottenne…

Almost a model

This photo of the Bastei Bridge is so beautiful and catchy that seems artificial, almost a model:

Bastei Bridge above the Elbe River in Saxon Switzerland National Park, Germany (© Reinhard Schmid/eStock Photo)

I must thank Peter Levi and his Variety, an automatic wallpaper changer, downloader and manager for the Gnome desktop

“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being “false,” “untrue,” yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.”

― Clark Zlotchew

The lamentations of colord and gdm3

I recently installed a machine dedicated to transmit live Holy Masses from my parish and I discovered a subtle malfunctioning of the hardware that sometimes makes it unusable: the Solid State Disk becomes read-only. As you can imagine, almost everything stopped working. Also logging, of course. As I had to hunt it out and catch…