… so while I was taking a break from computers to move to a new house (I’m still packing and unpacking things), a few notable things happened: Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 has been released, Google released its new browser Chrome and my colleagues from the Italian Enterprise Support Group have started a team blog! So if you can at least read Italian I suggest you to keep an eye on it, knowing that smart people you can expect a lot of good content from them ? Carlo Quote of the day: I was always taught to respect my elders and I’ve now reached the age when I don’t have anybody to respect. – George Burns

As my fond readers might remember, I already rambled about the possibility of changing the blog title last year; nothing has really changed since that post, except the fact that every now and then I’ve been playing with the idea but at last I always put it back in a drawer with the promise to go back to it, sooner or later. A couple of days ago I by chance found a site with a few quotes from Dr.House. This is a TV series which I didn’t want to see for quite some time because I don’t really like those “first aid” movies (E.R. is another example) and also I guess because I’m always a bit reluctant to “follow the crowd” and didn’t want to find myself watching something just because it is so popular. But then on a sleepy evening, too tired (or should I say lazy?) to go outside and with nothing interesting to watch on TV, I decided to give this “Dr. House thing” a try… and I liked it ?. Maybe it is for his care and acumen concealed as cynism, or the fact that they proceed with some analysis, make assumptions while trying to understand…

Carlo Quote of the Day: Sincerity is the highest compliment you can pay. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

As I guess many of you have noted, I’m not native English speaking so even if I try to write in a simple and appropriate form to the context of this blog (and I should apoligize for my mistakes), I sometimes find miself wondering how to exactly express in English what I have in mind and is of course easy to me to say in Italian… Well, one of the beauties of working in a virtual team spread across different EMEA countries (and also the possibility to get in touch with people practically from all over the world, whereaver Microsoft has an office), is the possibility of get in touch with all of those different people, languages and cultures quite easily (such as emailing, IM or ringing someone). So, taking advantage of this opportunity, I emailed Doug to ask his opinion on the title of my blog, because I’ve been wondering for a while now it the title really makes sense in English 🤔. I didn’t want to use the word “ramblings” because it sounded a bit stale, and I tried to find something with a similar meaning (“rambling from a developer”) but a bit more refined… but how does it…

Carlo