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A new year, a quiet page to fill.

The calendar has turned and 2026 is here — another chance to slow down, take stock, and start small. I don’t have grand proclamations to make, just a few modest intentions:

• Pay more attention to the small things that make days good.
• Finish the little projects that have sat half-done for too long.
• Read more, write more, and notice the world without always trying to fix it.

This site will continue to be a place for notes, tinkering, and things I find worth saving. I expect fewer fireworks and more steady steps: short experiments, tiny wins, and the occasional long walk.

After a long time with Hexo, I’ve decided to switch to Hugo for my personal site. It’s faster, simpler, and fits better with how I want to manage my content going forward. I haven’t decided yet whether I’ll migrate all the posts — we’ll see. I’ll start by adding a few older posts to test the layout.

For now, I’m keeping things minimal.

“Un silenzio che non offre promesse continua a riempire lo spazio all’infinito. Ma io non ho fretta. Non c’e’ bisogno di affrettarsi. Io sono gia’ pronto. Posso andare in qualsiasi posto. E’ cosi? Esattamente Cosí.”

Haruki Murakami - La ragazza dello sputnik

Solo tre personaggi, solo tre solitudini. Struggente e malinconico. Difficile prendere un libro in mano dopo averlo letto e avere quasi paura di riprovare le stesse emozioni. Il finale e’ un crescendo che ti porta ad un vero stordimento emozionale. Non c’e’ nulla di assurdo, nulla che ti lasci presagire qualcosa di molto strano se non una visione “orientale” del mondo. Dopo aver letto Norvegian Wood/Tokyo Blues, lo stile di Murakami non mi era nuovo. Le sue metafore e l’introspezione dei personaggi fanno parte del suo modo di raccontare.

I’m sick. There are elections out there and I’m bored under my blankets.

I can’t sleep and the geek in me asks if my too simple blog needs to be revamped. For a long time I’ve thought about a simple content manager written in some interesting language (ie ruby) using flat text files for persistence. Not much different from blogger that I’ve used until today, but that involves reinventing the wheel. Again.

Well yes, GPS devices are useful for runners too and this Garmin Forerunner 305 I believe is one of the best on the market.

What is it useful for? Very much so. First of all to understand the pace we are keeping at any moment without having any kilometer reference point. The only valid technology for this purpose is the use of the GPS system which provides us with very precise data on speed and elevation. There are devices on the market like the Nike+ for iPod, but being equipped only with an accelerometer they need to be calibrated and will never be so precise.