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2001

Aug 27, 2001: I am finally the #1 Fabrizio on the planet according to Google! I have been looking forward to it since Joel Spolsky noted that he was more relevant than Billy Joel...
Jun 24, 2001: Tom DeMarco (Why does software cost so much?): My least favorite metric of the 20th century is dietary cholesterol as a predictor of early heart attack. The relationship, if there is one, is extraordinarily weak [...]; Kary Mullis (Dancing Naked in the Mind Field): No one has any hard evidence that all this stuff about good cholesterol and bad cholesterol makes any difference.; Similar viewpoints in my recent reading...
Jun 17, 2001: Italian soccer: Juventus is behind Roma, this year's winner of the coveted Scudetto; let's celebrate by visiting AntiJuve.
Jun 15, 2001: Great report of a trip to Northern Italy on Epinions: it looks like he had some real Pesto Genovese! We have been to Europe 4 times and this was the best trip, yet.; New World Syndrome: the Micronesians victims of an epidemy of obesity, brought by USA eating habits.; Tunisia, the Roman Africa: Tunisia's Culture Minister, Abdelbaki Hermassi, says, Our reference groups are the French and the Italians, not the Algerians and Libyans.; Some more beach reading from the Atlantic Monthly.
Jun 12, 2001: New recipe: Aromatic Pesto (Pesto di erbe aromatiche in Italian)
Jun 11, 2001:: Is your mailbox being vandalized? You need a Maginot mailbox.; The Real War vs. plaster saints engaged in a sanctified crusade.; My recent beach reading.
May 28, 2001: Back in Italy I saw a friend after four long years. The first thing he said: Thanks for recommending Tom Sharpe's books!. Riotous Assembly was a riot indeed...; How it started: Alessandro Levi Montalcini ten years ago lent me The Throwback. Not for puritans.
May 12, 2001: Kary Mullis' Dancing Naked in the Mind Field will blow your mind. Guaranteed.
May 1, 2001: Inside joke: Ping! I love that duck! -- scroll down to Reviewer: A reader from El Segundo.
Apr 29, 2001: At the last minute during my Italian trip I snatched a copy of Umberto Eco's latest work, the picaresque novel Baudolino.; One night I read the first chapter, which is outrageously funny -- it will be hard to render in English, though, as it is written in mediaeval Italian interspersed with Latin, Piedmontese and Genovese.; There are even expressions that are typical of the Piedmontese province of Alessandria, where Umberto Eco was born.
Apr 15, 2001: I am back from Italy... I followed a Slow Food itinerary, after more than one year of deprivation here in California. Among the nice places I visited:; Savona: Vino e Farinata; Borgio Verezzi: Da Caxetta; Briaglia: Trattoria Marsupino; Milano: Hostaria Pascone; Verona: Osteria al Duomo; Verona: La Corte Vecia; Castiglione delle Stiviere: Hostaria Viola; Pianezza: Locanda del Musicante
Mar 16, 2001: Felice Benuzzi, an Italian officer in a British POW camp during World War II, is positively bored to death. Mount Kenya looms on the horizon.; So he decides to take a little vacation (read: escape) and climb Mount Kenya with a couple of friends. They are lucky enough to survive, and tell us the story in No Picnic on Mount Kenya
Mar 14, 2001: Inventing the AIDS Virus is a must-read book by Peter H. Duesberg. He thinks that the HIV virus is not responsible for AIDS. Other scientists, including some Nobel prize winners, agree.; If he is right, this will be a big blow to the scientific establishment, lost in a wild goose chase. A very lucrative chase! Alternative AIDS theories refutations
Mar 3, 2001: Eric Schlosser grilled on his Fast Food Nation on the O'Reilly Factor. Cool!
Feb 20, 2001: AntiJuve: the most important Italian soccer website, ever.; In punto di morte, cambio squadra e tifo Juventus: almeno muore uno di loro.(Anonimo Fiorentino); (On my deathbed, I'll switch teams and become a Juventus supporter, at least one of them will die.)
Feb 19, 2001: EuroChocolate opens in my hometown, Turin. Hmmm... perhaps it was not a good idea to move to California!
Jan 28, 2001: New recipe: Spaghetti Crudaiola (Spaghetti alla Crudaiola in Italian)
Jan 23, 2001: ChunkJoiner is featured in Dr. Koch's book Die besten Internet-Programme für den Macintosh, available in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Not bad for an application that I haven't updated since 1997!
Jan 18, 2001: Even Joel Spolsky calls it the awful hamburger chain: why is it that some of the biggest IT consulting companies in the world do the worst work?
Jan 6, 2001: Why McDonald's fries taste so good: Eric Schlosser explains how American processed food loses all its flavor, and how a little-known part of the chemical industry puts it back in.
Jan 5, 2001: Unhappy Meals: Eric Schlosser, an award-winning investigative journalist, about his book, Fast Food Nation: the dark side of the all-American meal.

2000

Nov 14, 2000: Disk Charmer is now retired.
Oct 14, 2000: New recipe: Oven-Baked Lasagne
Oct 8, 2000: New recipe: Italian Chicken Cacciatora
Sep 17, 2000: New recipe: Italian Ragù
Sep 14, 2000: New recipe: Oven-Baked Rabbit
Aug 27, 2000: New recipe: Chocolate Mousse
Aug 20, 2000: Urban Legends and Italy, or Throwing Pasta Up On The Ceiling: can you create urban legends, or eradicate them? If you are a smart Neapolitan psychiatrist, the answer is yes.
Aug 19, 2000: Check out the Carton Rapid Race, where crazy Italian crews raft down an alpine river on boats built with cardboard and duct tape!
Jul 29, 2000: New recipe: Flan verdure
Jul 26, 2000: Added Search feature (courtesy of AtomZ).
Apr 30, 2000: New recipe: Torta di Carote (Carrot Cake)
Apr 15, 2000: Updated the Forward Delete page.
Mar 11, 2000: New recipe: Pesche agli Amaretti (Peaches Amaretto)
Mar 5, 2000: New recipe: Croquit (Potato Meatballs)
Mar 4, 2000: New recipe: Risotto ai Funghi (Risotto with Mushrooms)
Feb 19, 2000: The Torino Scale categorizes the Earth impact hazard associated with asteroids and comets. Torino is my hometown, in case you forgot.

1999

Dec 4, 1999: A letter of mine to "Italians" is (web-)published!
Nov 25, 1999: Some friends of mine are going to have my Tiramisu for Thanksgiving, so I translated the recipe in English: Tiramisu (with Marsala).
Nov 21, 1999: Added recipe for Farinata (a.k.a. Torta di Ceci).
Nov 20, 1999: Going to Italy for the millennium (like me) and unable to speak Italian (unlike me)? Help in English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese or Russian is available from the Cesare toll-free number.; Interested in looking at how your last name is distributed on the Italian territory? Check out Labo.; Looking for a phone number in Italy? Pagine Bianche even has reverse phone number lookup. Does not work with cellular phone numbers though.
Oct 6, 1999: Speaking about my hometown: Motorola is creating a European R&D Center in Turin, Italy.; Motorola opened a smaller research center in Turin a year and a half ago [...]. The expansion will create 500 new jobs over the next five years, according to Motorola spokeswoman Una Kent.; While this is good news for Turin, Motorola Employment does not even list it among the Italian cities where Motorola operates. (Of course if your browser does not support JavaScript you won't even get to the list.); It's not surprising to learn that Jared M. Spool, Web Usability guru, thinks that Motorola's website mostly does not work well.; Thanks to Alessandro Levi Montalcini and Tomalak's Realm for the links.
Oct 1, 1999: New Disk Charmer release.
Sep 25, 1999: By the way, did you know that Turin will host the 2006 Winter Olympics? Don't be fooled by CNN: the mayor's last name is Castellani.
Aug 7, 1999: Corby Kummer writes an amazingly accurate piece about my hometown: Touring Turin
The place to experience the height of northern-Italian elegance isn't where most people think.
Jul 25, 1999: Curious about what I've been doing lately? Well, cooking Ricette Italiane of course!

1998

Nov 4, 1998: Folder Icon Cleaner may not be compatible with Mac OS 8.5.
Sep 6, 1998: Forward Delete a Fabulous Freeware on MacTimes.
Aug 29, 1998: Disk Charmer in the MRP Essential Utilities.; Marco Piovanelli uses a QuickestMirror link with Style :-)
Jun 21, 1998: New Disk Charmer release.
Jun 8, 1998: New Disk Charmer release.
Jun 6, 1998: Apple's eight giant Macintosh symbols are now just a memory; I was there just in time... Thanks for the pictures, Rene!
Mar 26, 1998: The first SoCal Frontier User Group meeting will happen this Saturday!
Mar 24, 1998: New Disk Charmer release.
Mar 3, 1998: New Disk Charmer release.
Feb 28, 1998: The next Disk Charmer release will work around the Apple Menu Options bug and the Mac OS 8.1 disk corruption bug.
Feb 26, 1998: Disk Charmer in MacWEEK!
Feb 22, 1998: François Grieu reports that Mac OS 8.1 may corrupt certain kinds of disks created by Disk Charmer and other programs.
Feb 7, 1998: Added a note about the Quadra 840av and Disk Charmer.
Feb 4, 1998: New Disk Charmer release.
Feb 2, 1998: If you use ChunkJoiner, you should know about a little Finder bug.
Jan 20, 1998: Disk Charmer 3.1 will support the Mac OS Extended format, a.k.a. HFS Plus.
Jan 12, 1998: Disk Charmer and QuickestMirror in The Mac Shareware Top 10.

1997

Dec 29, 1997: Networkable Mac Games recommends Folder Icon Cleaner in the Accelerate MacOS 8 page.
Dec 28, 1997: QuickestMirror reviewed on TechWeb.
Nov 10, 1997: Marco Piovanelli reports that QuickestMirror fails behind a proxy server, and Karl-Johan Norén explains why.
Nov 6, 1997: Ed "What the" Heckman finds the solution to a problem with Microsoft Internet Explorer.; Early next week I will move to the USA, where I will be working as a Software Engineer for Lasergraphics, Inc..
Nov 4, 1997: TidBITS publishes my article "Mirror, Mirror on the Internet: QuickestMirror", check out issue #403.; New QuickestMirror release.
Oct 31, 1997: The next QuickestMirror release will support Vremya by Kirill Levchenko.
Oct 29, 1997: New ChunkJoiner release.
Oct 19, 1997: New CDIconKiller release.
Oct 1, 1997: New QuickestMirror release.; CDIconKiller 1.4.1 has no effect on PowerPC-based Macs under System 7.6.1 and 8.0.
Sep 9, 1997: Netscape sometimes forgets registered protocols. Good to know if you use QuickestMirror (and Netscape, of course).
Sep 8, 1997: First QuickestMirror release.
Jul 4, 1997: New Disk Charmer release.
Jun 13, 1997: New MicroArchitecture Simulator release.
May 26, 1997: James Prescott about a CDIconKiller warning.
May 14, 1997: Peppino Ventura finds a bug in Disk Charmer.
Apr 30, 1997: New CDIconKiller release.
Apr 24, 1997: QuickestMirror beta testing begins.
Apr 6, 1997: System 7.5.5 and Disk Charmer page updated because of System 7.6.1.; SpeedDoubler news in the Disk Charmer page.
Apr 5, 1997: Completely revamped my website using Frontier.; CDIconKiller 1.4.1 announced.; Peppino Ventura has found a cosmetic bug in Disk Charmer.; Some additions to the RH Unabridged & Webster's Patches page were long overdue.; How to register mentions that Kagi supports PGP.; Leverrier and Neptune, a letter I sent to Scientific American.
Mar 8, 1997: QuickestMirror announcement.
Feb 24, 1997: Japanese Online Registration Forms are available now.; Updated the Disk Charmer page: see note about Ontrack Disk Manager Mac.
Jan 27, 1997: Preempting the Mac, the article of mine that appeared in MacTech Magazine, in the January 1997 issue.
Jan 3, 1997: New Disk Charmer release.; See you at the Netters Dinner?

1996

Dec 27, 1996: I found an eject bug in Disk Charmer; version 3.0.8 fixes this.; System 7.5.5 and Disk Charmer updated.
Dec 18, 1996: New Disk Charmer release.
Dec 14, 1996: Barry Cezell (sp?) and others found that somehow Disk Charmer refused to erase Zip disks; version 3.0.7 fixes this.
Nov 27, 1996: Rahul Sen Gupta reports this weird Finder bug, involving CDIconKiller and the Launcher control panel.
Nov 18, 1996: Peppino Ventura found that assigning long names to DOS and ProDOS disks caused problems with Disk Charmer; version 3.0.7 fixes this.
Nov 6, 1996: New CDIconKiller release.
Nov 1, 1996: New CDIconKiller page.
Oct 11, 1996: New Disk Charmer release.
Oct 2, 1996: Peppino Ventura found a couple of bugs in Disk Charmer, that are now fixed.
Sep 25, 1996: Other SpeedEmulator news in the Disk Charmer page.
Sep 21, 1996: System 7.5.5 and Disk Charmer: bug fixes may improve Disk Charmer's behavior on certain Mac models or in certain circumstances;
Sep 20, 1996: Added the MacUser ratings and trimmed down the home page.
Sep 9, 1996: Updated the Disk Charmer page: see note about the DR Emulator.
Sep 6, 1996: New Disk Charmer release.
Sep 3, 1996: Credit card owners can now register online: added the How to register page, useful even to my existing registered users.; Added the FaberQuencer page.
Aug 31, 1996: My pages now sport the familiar access counter.
Aug 30, 1996: Updated the Folder Icon Cleaner page: mentioned Disk Rejuvenator.
Aug 27, 1996: New Disk Charmer release;; new Folder Icon Cleaner release;; new FaberQuencer release.
Jul 30, 1996: By the way, want to win an almost free registration?

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