Here’s another good film I just found by chance in a video rental shop (marked as "documentary"!). Why is it so hard to see these films on TV?
From left to right: Vitto, Mau, Roby, Raffa, Dani, Frustino (above Dani), Pierpi (magically added, since he was in Mexico at that time). Photo by Mau, unartistically modified by me.
Originally published sometimes back in 1999
Broken links have been updated
Nessuno di noi avrebbe scommesso sulla possibilità che uno scontro di questo tipo potesse mai avvenire, ma alla fine ce l’abbiamo fatta: il presente contro il passato, il futuro prossimo contro quello remoto, il trapassato contro il piuccheperfetto.
I have seen really nice films this year at the Espoo Ciné Film Festival:
As I was talking about different ways of getting a hangover, I decided to have a look at the real consumption of alcohol in some European countries. Here are the results.
Alcohol consumption per capita
Units: Liters of pure alcohol per adult (15 years and older)
| Country | ISO | 1963 | 1973 | 1983 | 1993 | 2003 | ||||||
| Czech Rep | CZE | 7.7 | 11.2 | 12.6 | 12.6 | 13.0 | ||||||
| Europe | 10.4 | 12.2 | 11.3 | 10.1 | 10.0 | |||||||
| Finland | FIN | 3.1 | 7.4 | 7.9 | 8.4 | 9.3 | ||||||
| France | FRA | 24.3 | 21.4 | 17.8 | 14.3 | 11.4 | ||||||
| Germany | DEU | 11.1 | 14.1 | 13.2 | 13.5 | 12.0 | ||||||
| Hungary | HUN | 8.6 | 11.9 | 14.6 | 13.1 | 13.6 | ||||||
| Ireland | IRL | 6.3 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 11.4 | 13.7 | ||||||
| Italy | ITA | 16.8 | 18.4 | 14.5 | 10.3 | 8.0 | ||||||
| Netherlands | NLD | 4.8 | 10.3 | 11.2 | 9.7 | 9.7 | ||||||
| Spain | ESP | 14.4 | 17.2 | 16.9 | 12.0 | 11.7 | ||||||
| Sweden | SWE | 5.3 | 7.2 | 6.4 | 6.5 | 6.0 | ||||||
| United Kingdom | GBR | 5.9 | 7.6 | 8.6 | 9.2 | 11.8 | ||||||
Source: Global Alcohol Database, World Health Organization (WHO).
Rationale for the statistics
Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one — and preferably only one — obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you’re Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it’s a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea — let’s do more of those!
Tim Peters, “The Zen of Python”
Drunk à la Cinderella: You get back home without a shoe.
Drunk à la Sleeping Beauty: You pass out for a hundred years.
Drunk à la Little Mermaid: Your feet are stuck to each other and smell like herring.
Hangover à la Snow White: You wake up in the morning with seven men.
Hangover à la Little Red Riding Hood: You wake up in the same bed with your granma.
I finally managed to create (for the envy of Mau, mainly) a new photogallery fully integrated in the blog, and also new pictures have been added.
Information for nerds: I have integrated Gallery2 in Wordpress using the WPG2 plugin, struggling a bit to make it work as I wanted (Gallery is really good and customizable, that is, bloody difficult to configure).
Have a look at the Littlecamels’ photogallery.
Vive la France, vive la république… et vive le vin!
Almost a year ago I was talking about free software, that is, how to be legal with your computer application licences and still not to pay anything.
So I decided to write a separate page about the free software I use in my laptop, because I know I’ll need that list to reinstall all of them the next time I break my hard disk.
