In this unhappy day for my country something happened that made me get a little bit better.Tonight at the TV I saw an interview to Tiziano Terzani* that impressed me much.Even if the interview was taken only 2 months before his death, he was still able to comunicate his great energy, spirital power and happyness. I never heard someone speak about facing such an hard desease with his tranquillity. He is watching you in the eyes, involving you in an intimate talking in which you can’t not to feel passionate.Here an extract: “…A cancer? I have numerous, here and there. And the amusing thing is that we are living together since seven years. Futher more, I and them are a single thing and I would be a stupid thiniking: they kill me, I kill them. We will leave together because we grew together: and for this I think the cancer has been a blessing for me, in fact I was fallen into the life routine and this cancer saved me …“ * Tiziano Terzani was an Italian journalist and writer.For 30 years was correspondent for Der Spiegel and collaborated with Il Corriere della Sera and La Repubblica. He is author of many books like: A Fortune-Teller Told Me, Behind The Forbidden Door: Travels in Unknown China and Letters against the War.		In questo giorno triste per il mio paese, è successo qualcosa che mi risolleva un pochino il morale.In TV è passata un’intervista a Tiziano Terzani* che mi ha molto impressionato.Anche se l’intervista risale ad appena due mesi prima della sua morte, Tiziano è ancora in grado di comunicare la sua energia, la forza del suo spirito, la sua felicità. Non ho mai sentito nessuno parlare di una così difficile malattia con così grande tranquillità. Lui ti guarda negli occhi, ti coninvole in una conversazioni intima a cui non ti puoi non appassionare.Ecco un estratto: “…Un tumore? Ne ho vari, un po’ di qua, un po’ di là. Ma la cosa divertente è che ci convivo da sette anni. E poi, io e quelli siamo una cosa sola e sarebbe stupido pensare: loro ammazzano me, io ammazzo loro. Ce ne andremo insieme perché siamo cresciuti insieme: e con questo trovo che per me il cancro è stato una benedizione, perché ero ricaduto nella routine delle vita e questo cancro mi ha salvato….“ * Tiziano Terzani è stato giornalista e scrittore. Per trent’anni è stato corrispondente di Der Spiegel e collaboratore de Il Corriere della Sera e La Repubblica. E’ autore di numerosi libri, tra cui: Un indovino mi disse, La porta proibita e Lettere contro la guerra.
Photo: Vicenzo Cottinelli. Florence, May 24th, 2004.

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OK guys, we got it! Now we have a browser that always come with us, and with all our bookmarks, history, saved password, etc.
You only have to mix up two of the coolest stuffs the Internet is offering these days: Portable Firefox (by Portable Apps) and Google Browser Sync.

Portable Firefox is a great version of the popular browser that you can use without installation: you simply have to put it in a folder and it runs. A typical use is on a usb pen. Every where you can carry your pen you can use you Firefox.

Google Browser Sync is an extension I desired so much that I was about to develop it by my self. Fortunately the guys from Google (thank you so much for being) came first and now we all have it (obviously for free…). This extension use your Google account to store many of the settings of your browser: bookmarks, history, cookies, last opened tabs and even your stored password if you want. When you run it the first time, it connects to Google, downloads the settings and apply changes if any. Then periodically, or when you close the browser, store your configuration in your Google account.
This is simply great. Not only because my two PCs, at work and at home, (and now my Portable version too…) share my bookmarks and all the other settings. But also because when I rebuilt my machine (I do it often on the notebook I use for work) I got my Firefox set up in seconds.

Does anyone is still using IE?

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