Marco Barisione’s Weblog

I cannot understand if this email that Barclaycard (it’s not a scam, the email really comes from them) sent me is a sick April Fools’ joke or what: Dear Mr Barisione, You were recently upgraded to a Barclaycard Cashback card. As you’re registered with mybarclaycard to manage your account online, we’d like to let know [...]

Some lovely guy sent me this email: From: ****@gmx.de Subject: Freedom! Take your closed source crap out of this planet, nobody cares about it. — Freedom Lover — Jetzt kostenlos herunterladen: Internet Explorer 8 und Mozilla Firefox 3.5 – sicherer, schneller und einfacher! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/chbrowser Note the irony of using an email service that adds to [...]

During this week-end I finally found some time to start playing with Vala and Clutter. I would like to write a small game using them, but I’m not sure I will finish it because the more the time passes the less I seem able to write code in my free time. Now that I’m spending [...]

It has been a year since I moved to Cambridge from Italy. It feels weird, but things go well here so for now I’m not planning any other change. Clearly I need to cook a cake for this event .

Clearly IRC, Jabber, MSN, facebook, feeds, several news web sites, emails, etc. were not enough to waste all my time so today I started using twitter. Let’s see if I will get bored in some days or if I will become addicted.

I’m to lazy to write a full blog post on foss.in, so I will just say +1 on what Olivier said. What I can add is that I met a lot of competent people that are interested in Telepathy and Farsight, but some of them seem scared to communicate more with the developers. That’s just [...]

Can someone please explain me why the British railway system is as bad as the Italian one but much more expensive?

Stuart: Pierre-Luc Beaudoin and Alp Toker implemented video support in WebKit GTK using GStreamer months ago, but probably (I never tried it) it needs some more love before being fully working.

When you use a VCS that makes it easy to manage several braches, it’s easy to get conflicts in the .list file used to generate the C marshallers. I recently fixed this problem in WebKit stealing some code used at least by various Telepathy components and by avahi-gobject, and I want to share the solution [...]

Doesn’t this look like the GUADEC t-shirt? GUADEC was great and talks turned out to be more interesting than what I was expecting after all the decadence discussions, this is also proved by the fact that I managed to stay awake during all the talks despite having a party every day . Being in an [...]