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Archive for March 2001

Italian popstars

Friday 30 March 2001

I've just shaved off my goatee completely. It feels quite odd, I think I had not seen my upper lip for the past 4 years.
Meanwhile, "Popstar" (Italian version of the "5 Divas" TV format ) has ended tonight with Lollipop (5 girls selected among thousands to fabricate a Spice-Girls-style-girl band and record) signing autographs upon [...]

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Back to the city

Thursday 29 March 2001

This is going to be more journal- than blog-like, but… boy what a day.
I don't know what has happened to me, but I think I just took the decision to move back to Milan, where I had been living and working up to a couple of months ago. It is a very painful decision to [...]

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I now own a piece of the internet

Wednesday 28 March 2001

That's it. I'd had enough juggling with free web space providers, website- and email-redirect services, and I took the big leap into ownership of my own domain.
I found it so easy and convenient to do that that I wonder why I haven't done it before.
So (if everything works out fine) it should be active in [...]

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We all love Geri

Wednesday 28 March 2001

She is featured on the cover of Attitude magazine. She fantasizes about lesbian sex. Her new single is a cover of the Weather Girls' 80's hit "It's Raining Men" and is featured in the "Bridget Jones' Diary" soundtrack. So Ms Halliwell has realized that three out of four of her fans is a gay man. [...]

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The dolls are live

Monday 26 March 2001

A little tinkering with the site, and the dolls page is now redesigned. I used a bit of JavaScript to open new windows, but I am a bit unsure about that. I wonder how many people have that disabled, and I don't know what might not work in that case. If you encounter any problems [...]

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HRT is good for me

Monday 26 March 2001

Yeepee! I just realized that HRT1 is showing the awards ceremony live. That's the Croatian National Television, my main source for movies and sitcoms in the original language (Italy dubs everything in Italian).
I live close enough to the border to catch that, so I guess it's sleep time for the PC - and no more [...]

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Oscar keeps me awake

Monday 26 March 2001

I mean, there must be better things to do at 4 AM like, I don't know, SLEEPING?
Oh well, it's gone now, might as well read some news. I wonder how the academy awards are doing (due to the time zone difference between Italy and the West Cost of the USA, it must have started about [...]

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3am

Monday 26 March 2001

This is way too early.

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Sexy British

Friday 23 March 2001

I totally agree with Keith on Dylan. Cute guy. Great design (And an accent to die for!)

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Does it work?

Friday 23 March 2001

Oops!… This means that I've been saving my pennies pointlessly for the past 8 years. Darn. But I can confirm that the last sentence is true (I wouldn't know about the liposuction bit, though)

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No ice-skating for me to watch

Friday 23 March 2001

I just found out that the ice-skating world championship is on at the moment.
There was a time when I used to watch that on TV all the time, and then rush to the ice-rink and try (pathetically) to do the same. Now the nearest ice-rink is one hundred miles from here, Italian TV refuses to [...]

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I want out

Tuesday 20 March 2001

Paris has now a gay man as a major, and a transgender woman (and former colleague of mine) elected to the city council.
Italy, on the other hand risks having an idiot as a prime minister next may (sort of our own version of Dubya). I am considering moving back to France as a political refugee…

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Madonna shocks again

Saturday 17 March 2001

First with Justify My Love, then Erotica. Now Madonna has managed to raise controversy once again with her latest video. As with the previous ones, I expect Italian television to play it non-stop regardless of what it displays - my country is full of contradictions…

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Problem solved

Thursday 15 March 2001

Problem seems to be solved by changing the Archive setting to "no Archive". Don't really need that right now as I've been posting for under a week.

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What is NullPointerException?

Thursday 15 March 2001

I'm having problems and a NullPointerException error message. Anyone knows what that could be?

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Through the barricades

Wednesday 14 March 2001

Well it worked. I'm on my way to the ultimate separation of style and content.
As per the atmosphere at home, We have not stuck our noses out of the main door since Sunday night, fearing that we could all be murdered by the evil brother so that he can get the whole inheritance…
Note to self: [...]

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Oh, Netscape…

Tuesday 13 March 2001

I just spent the whole afternoon testing my blog site with Netscape (I've only ever used Explorer) and it sucked!
I wonder how many people out there use Netscape, I don't care, I think it's fair to give them all a chance to see things as I meant them to look like.
I also removed all layout [...]

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About me

Tuesday 13 March 2001

Woke up at 3:30 AM (grrrr…) and started putting together a few facts about myself. You'll find them in the about page.
The list is not exhaustive yet, I'll fill in more info later. In the meantime, should you like me to answer any other questions, feel free to ask.

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And I am out

Sunday 11 March 2001

Yeepee! Just arranged to go out for a hike on my bike with friends. I suppose I'll update the about page later.
FYI "bike" as in "bicycle" not "motorcycle" - I'm not THAT butch ;-)

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The Wedding Planner

Sunday 11 March 2001

Went to see The Wedding Planner, that one being the only movie playing in my small town.
My conclusions:

J-Lo's butt looks enormous when swathed in cream-coloured silk, so I tried and concentrate on Matthew McConaughey, but
he is definitely not my type, although
he seems to be my boyfriend's type (he kept moaning and grunting whenever Matt was [...]

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Hello, world!

Saturday 10 March 2001

First post through Blogger.
I hope I have set everything up correctly - it was slightly complicated due to the fact that:

I have a free ISP and can't control much there
The address my ISP provided me with is RIDICULOUSLY long and so I had to use a redirecting service to get you all here

OK, let's see [...]

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