October 4th, 2008
Scena 1: dal parrucchiere
io: – I’d just have a plain short cut
lui: – are you italian?
io: – yes…
lui:- you have the typical accent…
Scena 2: dal medico, parlando con il segretario (evidentemente autoctono)
io: – I haven’t a previous address in the UK because I’m Italian
lui: – you mean you are not british?
io: – yes…
lui: – you have got an impeccable accent!
A parte che vorrei che avesse ragione il segretario, evidentemente ubriaco, sono frastornato dal parallelismo delle due conversazioni…
Categories: London, Personal |
Tags: english, lingua | 8 Comments
September 22nd, 2008
When I see stuff like Aging project I just wonder how diligent they were to manage to do it without a digital camera, at least in the first part of the 17-year-lasting project…
Categories: Tech |
Tags: english, tech | 1 Comment
September 21st, 2008
My poor neighbour! He’s washing by hand his two little cars, using a hoover.
He hasn’t enough space in his garage to take them both inside, so he has to make the cleanings one car at time.
His Lamborghini goes first, then his Ferrari.
Categories: London, Personal |
Tags: english, london neighbours | 3 Comments
September 18th, 2008
[WARNING: If you are not a nerd, please jump to the following post 
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For some reason, when exporting rss feeds from Sage, a Firefox plugin, to an OPML file it does not save the feed (i.e. the xml/rss/atom/whatever) link, but the feeds themselves, i.e. the content of the feeds.
If you have the same problem, here’s a fast-and-dirty solution.
- export your Firefox bookmarks in HTML format, in a file called, say, bookmarks.html
- using a bash shell, extract the feed lines into a file called feeds.xml doing
cat bookmarks.html | grep FEEDURL > feeds.xml
- create the following script called “scriptfeed.sh”
#!/bin/bash
echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>"
echo "<opml version=\"1.0\">"
echo "<head><title>RSS Subscriptions</title></head>"
echo "<body>"
while read line
do
temp=`echo $line | awk -F"<" {'print $3;'}`
feed=`echo $temp | awk -F"\"" {'print $2;'}`
url=`echo $temp | awk -F"\"" {'print $4;'}`
text=`echo $temp | awk -F">" {'print $2;'}`
echo "<outline text=\"$text\""
echo " title=\"$text\""
echo " type=\"rss\""
echo " xmlUrl=\"$feed\""
echo " htmlUrl=\"$url\"/>"
done < feeds.xml
echo "</body>"
echo "</opml>"
- Give the script the right to execute
chmod +x scriptfeed.sh
- Launch the script on the output file, say, exp.xml
./scriptfeed.sh > exp.xml
I know, it’s dirty and tricky, but it works
Categories: Tech |
Tags: awk, bash, english, google reader, rss, sage, tech | 1 Comment
