Paolo Redaelli personal blog

A civil engineer’s rant

That’s not mine. Our new building code is born old. Bureaucracy stubbornly requires the engineer to comply to impossible requirements: old gravel walls bound with insufficient amount of cement and without rebars should comply to ductility requirements of new steel-reinforced, new walls but you cannot rebuild it! Those are absurd, unfulfillable requirements but those bureaucrats…

They got an Elephant In the House

From: Microsoft Tries Hard To Play Nice With Open Source, But There’s an Elephant In the Room – Slashdot Esther Schindler writes: They’re trying, honest they are. In 2016 alone, writes Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Microsoft announced SQL Server on Linux; integrated Eclipse and Visual Studio, launched an open-source network stack on Debian Linux; and it’s adding…

Paolo Redaelli

[cml_media_alt id='1173']get-libreoffice-5[/cml_media_alt]Time has come to update those Libreoffice in our commercial office from the ancient 3.3 to the shiny LibreOffice 5

Unfinished

I found this photo on the website of professional association of architects of Monza and Brianza. It makes me feel sad: I personally designed the concretes used to built that unfinished tower.  Then I found this petition asking to demolish it. Then I don’t feel sad. Sadness turns into anger.