Last Saturday we went to the BBC to be part of the audience in a recording for a radio show. That's something we quite often do, since Marta discovered that you just need to apply and then you've got a pretty good chance of "winning" free tickets (espe...
Yesterday I was reading this story, which I think is kind of interesting. Apparently the fact that Wonga (a "high interest, short-term payday loan company") has signed a multi-million deal to sponsor Newcastle United FC has caused a massive c...
I've just seen that, as of today (I think, given I haven't checked the blog over the weekend), this is the most read post in the blog. It has taken over from another post, which was also discussing football [digression: I realise that by linking to the...
It often happens that a band are quite popular for a bit and then sort of disappear from your radar (or actually, pretty much anybody's radar). I used to like Turin Brakes in the early noughties; I also liked their name [digression: apparentl...
After a few errands, this afternoon I took Marta to the station (on her way to meeting some friends in London) and got back at home to prepare my presentation for next week talk at a conference in Turin (the last of the 4 to which I've been invited thi...
As of yesterday, I think, this blog is officially "twinned" with R-bloggers (this shouldn't be too surprising, seeing that they have been in my blogroll for a while).I like the concept of R-bloggers, which effectively acts as a repository of ...
Yesterday we met our friend Paolo after work. We hadn't seen him for a while, so it was nice to catch up. We were in Soho and we ended up having a bite in this little place (I know: the website is not really helpful at the moment, but at leas...
To keep up with the Olympic spirit, and on Marta's insistence, I think I've started doing some running. I've gone twice in a week: last Saturday we first went to Kent to pick up some stuff we bought off Ebay (in the process we first stopped by Tunbridg...
I've had a very intense day, yesterday. First, I went to the graduation ceremony. The main event was in Bedford Square Gardens (that's the best pic I could find, and it doesn't really make it justice...). The cool thing was that, while students, p...
