The Call

This election seems to me like an example of direct democracy but you need to be informed for it to work!

  • Info for all states (including all electorial contests for direct election of State Senate, State Assembly, Supreme Court and Court of Appeal judges, school and city officials, various municipal directors):
    smartvoter.org
  • California:
    voterguide.ss.ca.gov
  • MoveOn ballot endorsements:
    snipurl.com/zfke
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Telecom share(d) action

Mi viene quasi voglia di comprare azioni Telecom. Comprare azioni con la prospettiva di licenziare il consiglio d’amministrazione… ha senso, no?

20060913 0004 Wednesday # reported by ep # Filed under:

Mac OS X – Windows file sharing tutorial

Sotto gentile richiesta di Mat71 ho scritto un altro tutorial per MacTutorials.it, sito che sarà lanciato a breve da “noi di Antani:-D . Il tutorial riguarda la condivisione di file tra Mac OS X e Windows: come esempi pratici ho usato Panther e Windows Me, ma c’è una sezione che illustra le differenze relative ad Windows XP. Spero sia utile. Il target d’ascolto è l’utente “non troppo esperto” (qualunque cosa questa locuzione voglia dire).

Il tutorial verrà inserito nel sito MacTutorials.it, ma rimarrà presente anche su questo sito alla seguente URL: http://cubelogic.org/tutorials/win-mac-file-sharing.html.

20050416 1645 Saturday # reported by ep # Filed under:

PGP Tutorial per Mac OS X

Ho scritto un tutorial sull’installazione e l’uso di GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) su Mac OS X. Il tutorial spiega brevemente i principi d’uso del sistema di crypting PGP (GnuPG è una implementazione libera (e gratuita)), e copre tutti i passi dell’installazione di GnuPG 1.2.4 / 1.4.0, GPGMail, GPG Preferences, GPG Keychain Access su Jaguar e Panther, illustrando anche un uso minimale del sistema. Il tutorial farà parte dell’imminente sito www.mactutorials.it.

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Donations: Oxfam

Here’s good info about providing support to the tsunami victims: www.oxfam.org.uk

Please donate now to support Oxfam’s work with people affected by the earthquake and floods in Asia.

www.oxfam.org.uk/what_you_can_do/give_to_oxfam/donate/asiaquake1204.htm

If you are a UK taxpayer, the value of your gift can be increased by 28% under the Gift Aid scheme. On your behalf, we simply claim back the tax from the Inland Revenue – all you have to do is tick the box below.

For UK supporters: I would like Oxfam to reclaim the tax I have paid on all my donations made since 6th April 2000 and any further donations I may make. I pay and have paid income or capital gains tax (in the UK) equal to the tax that Oxfam will reclaim (currently 28p for each £1 I give). The tax reclaimed will be used to help fund the whole of Oxfam’s work.

Also, check out Oxfam America: www.oxfamamerica.org

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Indonesia help

A friend who lives in Indonesia sent me the link to the following weblog, containing resources, aid and donations information for quake and tsunami victims in Aceh & North Sumatra (Indonesia):

It’s part in English, part in Indonesian. Do whatever you can to help.

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Asia Tsunami: some reactions

There’s a list of official aid collaborations provided by all (or most) countries here.
The death count is now 125,000, and for the Indonesian ambassador in Malaysia, it could reach 400,000 _for the sole_ Indonesia. (link). I am totally blown away by what happened. :-(
I don’t know how I can possibly greet the new year with happiness. It’s just beyond belief.
A little, yet nice reaction to this tragedy: in Italy many towns cancelled the already planned new year’s eve parties because of the catastrophe in south-Asia. I’m just curious…. I wonder if other countries have adopted similar “anti-happiness” initiatives policies.
Today’s Apple home page is a shut-down page, reading “Out hearts reach out to those hurt by the Indian Ocean tsunamis.” and then “Help survivors and their families by making monetary donations to these organizations: American Red Cross, AmeriCares, Direct Relief International, Médecins Sans Frontières International, Oxfam, Sarvodaya, Save the Children, UNICEF”. (Google cache link)
Llamasoft’s forum partecipants are organizing a fund donation effort in the thread “Come on lets fuckin help them.“. The llamasofties are people you can trust. Please partecipate, donate a buck or two.

Update (4 Jan 2005): on the the Llamasoft forum 1100 uk pounds have already been donated by various forum partecipants.

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