Volare (Nel blu dipinto di blu) - Domenico Modugno

August 15th, 2008

An enormous discographical success worldwide of the italian singer Domenico Modugno.

I bet everybody knows:

“Vooooooooooooooooolaaaaaaaaaareeeeeeeeee  oh oh,
caaaaaaaaaaaantaaaaaaaaaaareeeeeeeee oh oh oh oh” :)

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Quando quando quando - Tony Renis (Elio Cesari)

August 15th, 2008

A wonderful success worldwide of Tony Renis.
This song has been sung in many different languages and from many different artists, among which Michael Buble, Nelly Furtado, Jose Feliciano, Connie Francis.
This video looks meaningless, but the audio should be the original version of the song (1962).

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Quando dico che ti amo - Tony Renis (Elio Cesari)

August 15th, 2008

Tony Renis is an italian singer, actor and record producer. Its most famous success is Quando quando quando (which means When, when, when).
(The video in the linkabove - the images - seems meaningless, but the audio should be the original version of the song).

By the way here I posted another wonderful song of Tony Renis: “Quando dico che ti amo” (When I say that I love you).

It was sung at Festival di Sanremo in 1967 and it placed 2nd.

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In The Mood - Glenn Miller

August 14th, 2008

Another big American jazz musician of the swing era ;)

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Great Balls Of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis

August 14th, 2008

This man is 73 years old!!! Can you believe it? He is really great!
Have a look (almost at the end of the video) at his right leg! :)

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Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin

August 14th, 2008

Love this song so much! :)

Enjoy!

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Grazie Roma - Antonello Venditti

August 8th, 2008

This is a wonderful song about “Rome” and it is written by Antonello Venditti (80s).
This song is dedicated to the “Eternal City“, but is often used as anthem for the football club “A.S. ROMA” from its supporters, even though their official anthem is “ROMA ROMA ROMA“.

Being a supporter of “S.S. LAZIO“, I “shouldn’t” cite this song :)
S.S. LAZIO is the rival football team in the city, and in Rome badmouthing the rival team and praising your team is a must (a really important “rule”) :)
;p

But I love this song! :)

Enjoy! :)

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Colosseum at night

July 31st, 2008

Just a photo of the Colosseum I took 2 years ago in Rome at night! :) Hope you like it! Click on the photo to see a bigger size of it!

Ciao ;)

Colosseum at night

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Billboards That Look Back - “article in 10 words”

May 31st, 2008

by Marco De Cesaris

I am going to try a new way to summarize information.

I just read an article very interesting about (once again) surveillance society and advertising. But this time is about billboards.

Few months ago I realized a project for the module “internet technologies” and this project is a website called “content analyzer“. It is a basic/easy/simple way to analyze text. Mainly it retrieves the statistics of a document (e.g. how may words in the document, frequency of each single word, sorting by Alpha or Frequency). You can try it by yourself clicking on the link above.

Here the analysis of the original article (that you can find on nytimes.com)

“Billboards That Look Back”

Unique words:595
Total words:1443

Freq. Word

12 CAMERAS
10 BILLBOARDS
9 PEOPLE
8 ADVERTISING
8 DIGITAL
8 BILLBOARD
8 QUIVIDI
7 CAMERA
6 COMPANIES
5 TECHNOLOGY

————————————–
21 IS
18 IT
18 THEY
15 ARE
13 SAID
8 BE
7 SAY
7 I
7 HAS
7 YOU
6 WE
6 HE
6 COULD

I decided to take the first 10 nouns and all the verbs and subjects from the top list down to the last noun i chose (in this case “technology”).

You can choose as many words as you like, but to keep it as a summarization, i decided to stop at the first 10 nouns.

This analysis is really a basic one, and it can be modified/improved in many different ways.

Below is the complete statistical result:

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How to remove the index.php from the pretty permalink in WordPress 2.5.x

May 30th, 2008

I spent so much time on it and I am really tired.

I will go straight to the point:

1) FTP - Go on the main directory of your website (www.yourwebsite.com)

2) You should look for the file .htaccess (is an hidden file, so you should set your FTP client or your web-cpanel to show hidden files).

3) Open the .htaccess file, copy all the content and paste and save it in another file on your pc (this is helpful just in case things go wrong). Name this file “justincasethingsgowrong.htaccess”

4) Now delete the .htaccess file from your website.

5) Go on your WordPress admin panel and  set up  the pretty permalink as you like (without the index.php) and save it.

6) After saving, you will get a message that says you need to upload your .htaccess

7) create an empty .htaccess file and upload it in the main directory of your website (www.yourwebsite.com).

8) Try to access your website.

EVERYTHING SHOULD BE WORKING.

If it doesn’t, copy the code below inside your .htaccess (on the web):

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Save it and everything will be fine.

Now you finally got rid of the index.php

If you still have troubles, just go back to the file “justincasethingsgowrong.htaccess” that you saved on your pc, and upload again that file on the main directory of your website and rename it with “.htaccess” (but in this case you won’t have solved the problem).

Good luck :)

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