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2010 in review

Posted in Fun, tagged 2010, review, stats on 2 January 2011| Leave a Comment »

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,600 times in 2010. That’s about 6 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 29 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 31 posts. There were 7 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 1mb.

The busiest day of the year was October 30th with 68 views. The most popular post that day was Zebras do not have feelings.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were imtlucca.it, linkedin.com, statistics.bestproceed.com, and google.be.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for zebra, zebra face, зебра, zebra pictures, and zebras face.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1 Zebras do not have feelings August 2010

2 About me March 2009

3 How to run a MiniCluster based JUnit test with Eclipse August 2010

4 Publications May 2010

5 Petabyte scale Cloud Computing January 2010

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Experience is overrated

Posted in Fun, tagged experience on 29 December 2010| 1 Comment »

Experience is only a chance to learn: Experience is overrated, by Scott Berkun.

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Summer summary

Posted in Fun, tagged procrastination, summer, thesis on 5 September 2010| Leave a Comment »

Thesis Repulsion Field

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How can you resist?

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Geeks and Nerds

Posted in Fun, tagged comic, geek, nerd, xkcd on 17 August 2010| Leave a Comment »

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Zebras do not have feelings

Posted in Fun, tagged comic, zebra on 7 August 2010| Leave a Comment »

Be a zebra!

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VK.NET

Posted in Fun, tagged Italy, online, rpg on 17 March 2010| Leave a Comment »

VK.NET is a nice role-playing game for Italian speakers.

It uses a custom set of rules inspired by D&D, Ars Magica and other RPGs called X-TRA. The setting, Valiant Knights, is also custom-made by its creator and other volunteers (masters and players). The world of VK is Seral, a world where magic and gods have a heavy influence (high fantasy). The technological level of the world is similar to medieval times. Different races dwell on Seral, from humans to elves (Awelars) and dwarfs (Runtars), from rude barbarians (Loctars) to little halfling/hobbit like creatures (Hiyampas) and many others like dark elves (Zoroins) and scorpion-human hybrids (Enaliths).

To play, players use a text-based client (VNCPE) where they can describe the actions their characters do, speak for them, perform checks on abilities and fight. You need a lot of imagination to be able to enjoy this kind of game. It is more or less like a classic tabletop game, but can be played online. I often compare the experience to collectively writing a story, where you are in charge of a single main character.

If you can speak Italian, like RPGs and have a couple of free hours per week in the evenings, check it out!

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