Federico Pistono

I will be attending the Drupalcon in Copenhagen.

DrupalCon is the twice-yearly gathering of Drupalistas to learn about, discuss, and contribute to Drupal, networking with other Drupal community members in the process. Last year in Paris was an awesome experience, and I was very happy to hear that this year's choice was Copenhagen, a city I love and had the chance to visit more than once.

Ninja-coding! :D

Today, while at work, I received a call from Microsoft from a lovely lady. Here's how it went, more or less.

M$: "Hi, I'm calling on behalf of Microsoft customer service, we are doing a series of interviews in order to make our client's web experience better."
me: "Ah-ah."
M$: "I would like to ask you a few questions regarding the software you use and what kind..."
me: "So, this is basically a market research."
M$: "it's just an interview, we don't want yo sell you anything!" (laughs)
me: "OK, write this down then: we use only open source software, and we don't deal with companies that keep the source code closed."
M$: "So, you are not interested?"
me: "When and if Microsoft decides to release its source code, we might."
M$: "What do you mean 'source code'?" (she's confused)
(I pause for a few seconds)
me: "I mean the code the software runs on."
M$: "Could you hold the line for a minute please?"
(music runs on, me and my colleagues are rolling on the floor laughing)
M$: "Hi... ehm... nevermind, thank you for your time."

The British band Muse were invited to perform their last single, "Uprising" form the ambum "the Resistance" on the Italian TV show "Quelli Che Il Calcio". Muse were told they'd have to lip-sync. So, Matt Bellamy switched places with drummer Dominic Howard, and bassist Christopher Wolstenholme "played" guitar and keys. Then lead singer Dom was interviewed, he referred to "the drummer" several times, as if he was just an anonymous guy in the band, the brainless presenter Simona Ventura of course did not realise anything that was happening.

The perfect way to get a revenge over these idiots. Oh yes, we do love Italy, but not its TV.

True.

This is so true.