I’m watching soccer on TV and I’m interested, but somehow not so riveted that I can’t write at the same time. Anyway, the game hasn’t started yet — I guess it’s the same pre-game nonsense we sit through in the States. At the moment, an army of commentators are talking at us. One of the [...]
Yesterday we took quick day-trip (a few hours, really) by train to a town on the sea called Viareggio. It has a long beach that I guess is entirely open to the public, although, for as far down the shore as we could see, you have to walk through a beach-front business to gain [...]
From Piazza Napoleane
Originally uploaded by MrWoodleigh.
Mrs. W. and I like to sit on one of the benches below the large trees that line 3 sides of Piazza Napoleone.
If I ever learn any Italian, it will be a modern miracle. My problem is verbs — I don’t use them because that would involve conjugation, a requirement that strikes me dumb. A man who cannot express action, I somehow manage to be understood at times, like when I said "Un pane piccolo con sale" [...]
Apartment entranceOriginally uploaded by MrWoodleigh.
This is the entrance to our apartment in Lucca. We’re up one flight.
It’s a bit odd because it hasn’t much of a sitting room. The best room is the big bedroom which is, well, big. Airy, too. I’m propped up on the bed now. Two fans are whirring and a breeze is blowing through the balcony door. It’s siesta time and Mrs. Woodleigh, having set up the [...]
Lucca is quite interesting and unlike other Tuscan or Umbrian towns we’ve stayed in in two obvious ways: it is completely surrounded by broad walls (much more on these below) and it’s quite flat. Flat can be boring, but flat is good for me this year, as I recover from knee surgery, and [...]
Turnitin.com compares student papers to text stored on the web and to text within papers already turned in at the site, looking for “lifted” phrases. The company might be performing a valuable service for students and teachers, but their practice of storing the submitted works (in an effort to build up their database [...]
From O’Reilly, A Guide to Podcasting.
From Audio Activism, a recipe for podcasting from a WordPress 1.5 blog. Should work here.
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I just tried a couple of iPhoto plug-ins/programs designed to post photos to Flickr.com. [When I get my tablet PC this summer, I'll work on how to get Picasa photos to Flickr or look into Google's coming Picasa Web service. Google owns Picasa. Yahoo! owns Flickr.]
The first one I tried, PictureSync, bombed with script errors [...]
