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I just disabled the forwarding of my shared Google Items on my personal blog.

It looked like a good idea at first, but sometimes I just want to share stuff without adding a comment, and having the whole article reproduced in my blog, even if fully credited, just didn’t feel right.

I’m sorry for cluttering your RSS readers with stuff you probably could read elsewere.

If you’re still interested in my picks, and my ramblings about them (English and Italian) you can follow me on Google Reader or check out this web page:

http://www.google.com/reader/shared/michael.sacchi

And since this is my personal blog, without agenda or purpose, I can say something about me, since it’s been a while since my last update.

I started working, as a contractor hired by a third party, for a major mobile carrier in Italy. My job doesn’t require outstanding skills, but I get to have a peek of the inner workings (both technological and organizational) of a pretty big corporation. And I get paid for that, which is not bad.

I got an iPhone and I’ve got mixed feelings about it. I love it but a few things really annoy me. I might write a stupid review, just to fill up some bits on this server.

I also got a Google Wave invite, back in the end of July. I feel superguilty because I’ve got a lot of developer friends (AND I listen to Leo Laporte crying every week on Twit and TwiG that he still hasn’t got one..) that would die to give it a spin, and I barely touched it.
It’s still too unstable to be useful (and, for the time being, confined in a testing sandbox) and I don’t have the time and the energy to dive into the things I need to learn to exploit it as a developer.

Again, right before Google hands out invites for everyone and their dog I might write something about it.

Speaking of dogs, my dog (well, my family’s dog) died a couple of weeks ago. You probably don’t care, but I miss her and I thought I’d want to remember her, so it felt right to blog about it. Bye Backy.

It’s been a hectic summer, a moving and a new job. I didn’t get any real vacation, so I’m burned out already. In September. That sucks.
I scored a pair of ski on Freecycle so there’s a chance that I’ll be learning to ski this coming winter. That might make up for my lost summer vacations.

Oh. One last thing. In the last few weeks I’ve been obsessed by my spoken English. It’s never been very good but it’s getting worse and worse because all I do is read, sometimes write, but never actually say anything. So if you’re an English speaking friend of mine, feel free to call me on skype or something because I need help :)

I’m going to crash on the bed. I’ll be back soon.
Until then…

…Stay tuned, more to come.