The Italian hackmeeting is really awesome. There’s a bunch of cool people, and the building is awesome. It was apparently built by some guy with mafia ties as a fancy house in the city, but was confiscated by the government before construction was complete. It sat empty for years, but now it’s a squatted social […]
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Where was I?
October 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Hacker culture, Italy, Photos, Technology
I guess the last time I wrote was over a week ago now. As you may have noticed, the site was down for a few days, too. Between that, and the fact that I haven’t been any place with reliable internet, it’s been hard. I’m going to try to get caught up, but I think […]
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Frustration
October 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Italy, Technology
After the hackmeeting ended, my top priority was trying to get my computer situation resolved. I generally hate solving problems by just throwing money at them (although that’s usually remarkably effective at smoothing away life’s little irritations). Not only does it make me feel wasteful and profligate, it makes me feel stupid that I couldn’t […]
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Arrived in Milazzo
October 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Italy, Travel
NOTE: Unlike my other posts lately which were written on or about the day they were posted, this was actually written on the night in question (Thursday, October 2). I finally got out of Palermo. I’ve decided that I want to visit the Aeolian islands, which are a series of volcanic islands off the coast […]
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Lipari
October 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Italy, Photos, Travel
NOTE: Written on October 4. Yesterday started out lame, but wound up rather awesome. The train station people were very nice about not deliberately waking me up and rousting me out. A janitor came in around 7:30 I think, I sort of half woke up, but he didn’t say anything and even mopped around my […]
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