Archive for June, 2008
How can this still be accepted in 2008?
Posted by Fulvio | Filed under Blog
The woman you see in the picture is the lovely and caring wife of Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Now, I am not disrespectful of foreign cultures and traditions, but … how can THIS still be accepted in 2008?
1924 – The New York Times
Posted by Fulvio | Filed under Blog
I am glad his rehab worked out in the end. Oh, no, wait …
The Roman Church: Unable to have sex? You can’t marry.
Posted by Fulvio | Filed under Blog
I admit, I didn’t know about this. And I was pretty shocked to read that a young Italian couple from Viterbo, was prevented from getting married after the man was victim of a bad car accident and was forced on a wheelchair for the rest of his life. So, basically, according to the Roman Church, that should promote unconditioned love, one of the prerequisites to marry the woman you love is being able to have an erection. Amazing stuff. The guy pictured on the right is bishop Lorenzo Chiarinelli, who refused to meet the young couple and was the one responsible for denying the wedding. You can read the original article here. (in italian)
Congratulations Lorenzo, I’m not even sure why I posted your face on my blog wasting kilobytes of precious bandwidth, but I guess I want people to look in the face the guy that denied two persons truly in love with each other to have their marriage.
The couple was of course still able to get married by civil ceremony, because the Italian laws, strangely enough, do not require penis erections in order to be able to marry young couples.
CSI New York and Visual Basic GUI Interfaces
Posted by Fulvio | Filed under Blog
If you are not into computer / programming, this is not going to make much sense for you. For all the others … enjoy this masterpiece of technical dialogue straight from the CSI New York TV series:
“I’ll create a GUI interface using VISUAL BASIC, I’ll see if I can track an IP address.”
12 hours later …
“Sorry sir, I could not track the IP address but I managed to drag two checkboxes, five labels and three buttons over this frame window, and one of them even creates a “hello world” popup when you click on it!”
