“Mens sana in corpore sano” (Healthy mind in healthy body) said the Latins: it’s a couple of weeks I decided to stop the progressive enfatment of my body; my “a slimmer Matteo” project is formed by two different tasks:
Gym at the club (at least twice per week)
Reduced fat insertion
The first point is really tough. During work days I have a 9-8 work schedule which leaves really tiny spaces for everything else then family; I managed this with an anticipated office entry at 8.40 on Wednesday (which syncronizes with my needs to buy car parking weekly ticket right on that day) quitting the office at 6pm (this often needs some meeting scheduling magics my side): I’m at the fitness club at 7pm and 8.30 pm I’m entering home. Bright.
Point two requires less time management but a whole lot more mind (and stomach) management. I love food at least as much as I love sex, thus you kind imagine how it could be difficult to say “no thanks, I’m ok”; I’ve also been educated to think abou myself as one of the winners of the biological lottery which made possible for me to live in the “right” part of the world, so I really dislike leaving food in the dish. Sum this with the fact that, at least one or two times a week I have job lunches/dinners where the quality and quantity raise their pick and you should have a clearer view.
I’ve been able to limit the fat insertion by choosing to drink one glass of wine each day as a maximum and preferring low fat foods like chicken or vegetables (it’s hard my friends, it’s REALLY hard).
Starting last week I’m tracking my wheight using google docs: you can take a look at my progress here (an RSS feed is available to those of you who really want to be ALWAYS updated). I’m tracking fitness club usage and business lunches too to evaluate whether or not they influence my wheight loss.
Update: Given the fact I haven’t received any support from you, my dear reader, I’d like to point you out that today, October 17, 2007 my weight is more or less 76,5 Kilos; (see graph) which is 4,5 Kilos less then my weight ath the time I started this post and 7 Kilos (!!) less the weight I had after summer vacations.
Meet Winy Maas
If you’re in the projecting/building/planning business for citizens and cities and be around Milan (Italy) next 29 May you really should follow this month Meet The Media Guru event with architect, urbanist and writer Winy Maas.
Where
Mediateca di Santa Teresa
Via della Moscova 28 Milano (map)
Quick video interview about Second Life/Web 2.0
Web 2.0 The Human Network has been son kind to record an interview with yours truly during the “Il nuovo potere dei consumatori sul web” (The new power of consumers on the web) event in Milan (see my post here).
Today they’re publishing the interview both in their blog and on YouTube.
Slides on Gabetti/Second Life
I’ve recently spoken (together with Rita Tornari, the Marketing Director of the Gabetti Group) at an interesting event in front of a huge public of Marketing/Communication Directors here in Milan about social webs and user generated content.
Our speech generated some feedback from bloggers and I’m trying to keep track of all the posts and replying to them when possible. To do so and track the discussion I’ve fired up a brand new coComment subscription (I’ve met Laurent Haugh at LIFT06, just before he started-up the company): you might want to follow the (mostly in Italian) discussions on my coComment public page.
And obviously you can take a look at the slides on Slideshare (Rita’s slides are written in Italian, mine aren’t written at all: but you might enjoy beautiful photos .
Should you have any question or inquiry on the Gabettipresence in Second Life just drop a line using post comments.
Mash-up camp - live blogging
I’m at the Polaris Centre in Pula, near Cagliari in the marvellous island of Sardinia, to speak at a research-driven event named Mash-up camp organized by the guys at CRS4. The event is based on the Mash-up and spacial web applications subject and its aim is to animate and shake the local companies on the subject of innovation and research.
I’m going to live blog each event (surprisingly I’m the only guy I see just two guys - yours truly included - with a laptop connected to the open wi-fi lan here).
Stefano Pezzi - Core Soluzioni Informatiche
Stefano comes from Bologna, his company , CORE, is partnering with CRS4 (who’s hosting the seminar) some other companies in Sardinia to work at the SIT project for the Regione Sardegna.
The SIT project aims at the creation a database to host and communicate geographical data of the Sardinia Region giving the chance to use these data in touristic and city planning applications.
Stefano’s presentation is very VERY technical (probably too much, IMHO) he describe the whole layer structure of the SIT app and the usage possibilities. The whole application is based on standards both W3C and ISO while Stefano admints that some of the services aren’t standards yet such as the tools for path retrieval and the tiled map service.
The intersting thing is that they developed a Javascript API set to interface outside applications with the SIT framework: when the project started Google Maps (and its API) weren’t on the market and they wanted to build something that would have been reusable and extendable. Nice move! (but what about porting the APIs to something more compliant with the current de facto standard?).
Stefano immediately starts with a humorous intro on himself (his a friend, and I can assure his ALWAYS a laughable guy) and then introduce the difference between Mobile Web 2.0 and Mobile 2.0.
He says tha if we speak about Web 2.0 is because Web 1.0 existed, so since we speak about Mobile 2.0 it is because mobile 1.0… existed? sure? Who really used WAP? NOBODY! With wap we were entusiasts with the devices not with the applications; we were just trying mobile!
Web 2.0 is about building a platform: develop applications that can be mashed-up together; Mobile web 2.0 is uding Web 2.0 on mobile devices (eg. widsets); Mobile 2.0 means having native apps on the mobile devices that uses web 2.0 services and dedicated sensors.
What is now a barrier for a lot of applications (eg streaming on Mobile) is the cost of traffic; the mobile companies are now fully aware of this and are about to mass release flat mobile connections. So once the costs of connection won’t be a problem any more Mobile web 2.0 can really arise only if user experience and developing costs will be (at least) comparable.
The next step in mobile applications is to transform monodirectional phisical tags (such as Shotcodes) to bi-directional phisical tags users could write and modify (imagine a bi-dir tag at the supermarket were the choice of the product becomes social).
Marco Guiso - Interoperabile
Marco starts talking about openGIS, a system to create HTTP requests for geodata. This is another highly technical speech: I start doubting I’ll be able to properly blog the talk.
Marco’s aim wa to build a software that could “cannibalize” geodata available on the web from different sources. To do this he used AJAX, some OGG web services (SITR, Landsat5, 3D Marine, etc.) and Google maps.
My Grandfather passed away at 0:30 am of May the first at the age of 79, this post is written in Italian since he cannot read English. You might be interested in translating it using an automa. Probably not everything you’re going to read will be crystal clear to you, my loyal reader, but pls consider the intimacy of this post.
Ciao Nonno. E grazie per tante cose (mi raccomando, MI RACCOMANDO: non mangiare troppi tortelli di zucca dove sei ora!):
Grazie per avermi insegnato che la vita - sempre - va affrontata con un sorriso (lo sto facendo anche adesso immaginandoti seduto a tavola a rimpinzarti a dovere).
Grazie per avermi mostrato come le parole giuste dette al momento giusto sortiscono SEMPRE un effetto dirompente.
Grazie per avermi fatto assaggiare gli agnoli in brodo col lambrusco (dentro al brodo: il “bevrin vin” per gli intenditori. E - se per quello - anche le fragole col vino.
Grazie per avermi insegnato la partenza in salita con l’automobile e il freno a mano tirato senza dirmi di tenere “in alto” la frizione. Mi e’ bastato scoprire quel trucco per diventare un asso.
Grazie per avere sempre avuto una cieca e assoluta fiducia in ogni cosa detta da me (sinceramente, non sono cosi’ sicuro di aver parlato di reti wireless per i dati quando avevo 12 anni, ma ti concedo il beneficio del dubbio).
Grazie per avermi insegnato che la cosa piu’ divertente nell’imbottigliare e’ tirare dalle cannucce quando il vino non scende piu’… e continuare a tirare quando ricomincia a scendere.
Grazie per avermi fatto guidare la Bentley: un salotto su quattro ruote che credo mai mi capiterà di guidare nuovamente.
Grazie per avermi fatto da palo quando col Gioppe dipingevamo il graffito per Rachele.
Grazie per essere venuto sullo slittino con me, e aver pagato l’atto con 1 anno di riabilitazione per il ginocchio leso dalla nostra caduta.
Grazie per avermi insegnato a salutare - da lontano e sorridendo - con “Ciao Semo”.
Grazie per avermi portato il mio primo computer, un apple IIe che nell’86 era “vecchio” e che oggi sarebbe un fichissimo pezzo da museo (mea culpa mea culpa mea maxima culpa).
Grazie per tutte le manovre allo zoo di Pastrengo per permettermi l’inquadratura migliore degli animali (salvo poi scoprire che non avevo messo il rullino nella macchina fotografica).
Grazie per il giro sul camion dei pompieri (ricordo anche la bruciature sulle cosce dopo essere sceso dal palo con i calzoncini corti); giro superato forse solo dal tour sui mezzi blindati dell’esercito in riparazione.
Grazie per avere indossato il velo di Barbara al nostro matrimonio. Il migliore scatto di tutta la giornata. Mitica anche la gara con Lippo per arrivare primo al ristorante.
Grazie per il Nocino fatto da te nel 2001 (ne ho ancora). Continuero’ ad offrirlo agli ospiti di riguardo fintanto che non guarisco da questa dannata allergia alle noci.
Grazie per avermi fatto fare il primo volo aereo della mia vita.
Grazie per tutti i biglietti d’auguri scritti in Inglese. Beh, con la tua personalissima versione della lingua di Shakespeare.
Grazie per aver tentato di avviarmi alla carriera cinematografica. Non era forse ancora il momento, magari ci riprovo in futuro.
Grazie per la bici da corsa. Ma mille e ancor piu’ grazie per avermi insegnato che potevo tastare il “morbidissimo” tessuto della tua maglia quando ero stanco per farmi tirare.
Grazie nonno per avermi insegnato ad affrontare la vita con ottimismo e passione. Spero di essere abbastanza bravo da riuscire a trasmettere queste cose a Francesca, un giorno.
If you’re in the projecting/building/planning business for citizens and cities and be around Milan (Italy) next 29 May you really should follow