Looking back on old stuff we considered important (or fun) enough to show everybody first thing when they reached my Home Page...
My goold old "Welcome!" image ;-)
Before Genova G8 Meeting, 20-22 July 2001
After Genova G8 Meeting, 20-22 July 2001
19 September 2001
14 October 2001
16 November 2001
5 December 2001
Thanks to our "mean" system managers, my WWW page long-time URL hasn't been reachable for a few months now, so I decided to provide here a NON-UPDATED mirror to the vast audience eagerly wanting to know about me:-) While, again due to so-called security measures, some features of the original page are not available here, most things work! Enjoy, then, and let's hope the future will bring us peace, of course, love, maybe, but also "nicer" system managers willing to do their job and thus let us do ours!
6 April 2002
25 Aprile 2002
Ma noi s'è letta negli occhi dei morti
E sulla terra faremo libertà
Ma l'hanno stretta i pugni dei morti
La giustizia che si farà
Franco Fortini, Canto degli ultimi partigiani
29 October 2002
I saw the front line boys
popping their pills
Sick of the mess they find
On their desert stage
And the bravery of being out of range
Yeah the question is vexed
Old man what the hell you gonna kill next
Old timer who you gonna kill next
Roger Waters, The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range, from "Amused To Death", 1992
25 December 2002
It sometimes seems rather shallow to keep talking about Xmas when there's a
dangerous, deranged and deluded idiot with his finger on some very dangerous
buttons. And yes, that's George Bush I'm talking about, not Saddam.
I forgot whom ... or was it just me!?;-)
11 February 2003
Stop War!
Fermiamo la guerra!
4 August 2003
It's now clear that our "mean" system managers really like "shutting down"
web pages without any prior advice. Thus, once again
my WWW page long-time URL
hasn't been reachable for a few weeks now! Please patiently wait while I
find a way to overcome the limitations imposed on my institute's official
web server due to institutional so-called security measures.
21 August 2003
Thanks to the collaboration of our system managers, my web page is now
fully functional! My most sincere apologies go to those whom my previous
(and, following a long-standing www tradition, definitely flaming) message
may have offended.
27 August 2003
My days in Padova seem to be over! In (tentatively) early November,
I'll be moving to London and start working within the
Astrophysics Group
of Imperial College on
a two-year PDRA contract focusing on Extragalactic Infrared
Astronomy with ISO/SIRTF/Astro-F and on Herschel Software Development!
21 September 2003
Breaking News: on 3rd November, I'll be flying to London (on a
RyanAir plane, thus any
finger-crossing on your part will be gratefully acknowledged:-)
to start my PDRA within the
Astrophysics Group
of Imperial College!
It was all, as I was warned at the very outset, one "bel casino".
And standing there, drenched by the rain, I realised that I didn't
want to live, couldn't even imagine living, anywhere else.
Tobias Jones, "The Dark Heart of Italy: Travels Through Time and Space Across Italy", 2003
12 November 2003
So now is the time for you to speak
All you lovers of liberty
All you lovers of the pursuit of happiness
All you lovers and sleepers
Deep in your private dream
Now is the time for you to speak
O silent majority
Before they come for you
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Speak Out (Parla Chiaro),
from "Blind Poet (Poeta Cieco)", Giunti, 2003
Waiting for Mr. Bush to come and meet Mr. Blair here in London...
29 November 2003
For technical problems (hopefully) soon to be solved, you'll find that
some features of my recently-moved web page won't work! Sorry about that...
9 December 2003
Thanks to Helen, my web page is back at full speed!
20 April 2004
The trouble is that there's something slightly absurd
about accusing Berlusconi of being a Fascist.
It's ridiculous to say that Italy isn't a democracy.
Then again, it seems equally ridiculous to say that it is.
Tobias Jones, "The Dark Heart of Italy: Travels
Through Time and Space Across Italy", 2003
16 February 2005
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder
respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", 1946
5 September 2005
The man who tires of London tires of life.
For there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel Johnson
Leaving London and back to Montebelluna/Padova "for a while"... no comment, folks!;-)
Anticipating Italian National Elections on 9 April 2006
And in case you wondered...
...but thanks for asking!;-)
9 July 2006
17 February 2007
It is all too easy to attribute to the political class, both of left and right, the sole
responsibility for the failures of a State or a society. In the last analysis, the strength
of a democracy in a single country does not depend only upon the capability or the integrity
of its ruling elite, but also upon the culture of its families and the energy of its citizens.
Paul Ginsborg, "Italy and Its Discontents : Family, Civil Society, State (1980-2001)"
Anticipating Italian National Elections on 13 & 14 April 2008
Just when even I thought we wouldn't ever go back "there"...
Berlusconi will probably fail: his own incapacities, the mediocrity of his government,
resistances both passive and active, and - last but not least, the economic conjuncture,
seem likely to bring him down in the national elections of 2006. But the political and
cultural trends of which he is one of the most striking expressions are here to stay,
and they weigh heavily upon our collective democratic future.
Paul Ginsborg, Postscript, From "Silvio Berlusconi : Television, Power & Patrimony", 2005
