As I previously announced, I purchased a brand new domain for my stuff.
The blog is changing during the months, becoming more than a blog but less than a site.
That’s because I decided to buy the domain BD-things.net, because this site contains all of my things, files, thoughts, projects, publications.
The old address daniel.graziotin.net now redirects permanently here and every link should have been updated/rewritten. Please contact me if you encounter problems.
I also took BD-blog.net which points here, too, but I won’t renew it the next year.
Some things are different now, but you won’t notice it
I obviously lost my decent position at Netcraft’s Most Visited Web Sites rank list, but I don’t care. It will be funny to advance with the new domain and reach a even better position!
I hope there will be a new beginning and a brand new life with BD-things!

BD-blog is currently at position 32755 in Netcraft Most visited web sites ranking. This means that I earned about 20k positions in just one month! This is thanks to the link of my review of GOS published on Distrowatch!

BD-blog site ranking, top 30000

I’m very happy with these results but now I want to begin a new race with a brand new domain name! I’m tired of bd-things.net, event if it brought me such great results and knowledge around the Net.
I will announce the new domain name very soon.

According to Netcraft, BD-blog recently broke the wall of top 50k in the most visited web sites. And finally, the RiskRating of the url reached score 0 (I don’t know why, but it had a minimum RiskRating for almost two years).
Anyway, here is the screenshot of the site rank:

I’m so happy about it!

Time for a review. Thanks to the always useful DistroWatch.com service, I discovered a new Gnu/Linux distribution, called gOS. gOS stands for Good Os, born in 2007 in California. The version I’m reviewing is the so-called “gOS 3 ‘Gadgets’”, their third release. gOS 3 Gadgets BETA is based on Ubuntu 8.04.1, and the final release is to be expected in the next 1-2 months.
This distribution is built around Goggle apps and services, comes with Google Gadgets for Linux pre-installed, as well other nice programs, like Google Picasa, Wine, Mozilla Prism for Google web applications and Wbar as launch bar. I’ve never heard about this bar, it’s very quick and light. Good choice! The distro also includes proprietary codecs for multimedia content.
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VERSIONE IN ITALIANO
Dear Msn buddy, I’m going to change account.
For technical and political reasons I won’t continue to either use Microsoft Window Live Messenger or its protocol MSN Messenger.
I’m going to use Jabber/XMPP.
I would like to keep in touch with you and my other 200 contacts, so I decided to Read the rest of this entry »

Farsi le passeggiate nell’habitat di quelliDiDesign può davvero trasformarsi in una piacevole sorpresa!
Quella che a prima vista sembrava una semplice mostra di bizarri aggeggi creati magari durante dei laboratori si è rivelata una vera e propria esposizione di lavori per un esame di facoltà, da DIECI crediti *_*
Qui il link al pdf che presenta l’esame.
I lavori presentati variavano dalla bicicletta - carriola a tre ruote (o quattro? non ricordo) correlata da filmato dei nostri cari colleghi photoshopposi che ci giravano in un boschetto, al cubo di vetro rivestito di alluminio che dimostra che il sole effettivamente scalda le superfici, al kit per vomitare quando si è ubriachi.
Tutte opere serissime e che evidenziano l’ormai ben recepito rapporto bellezza/utilità radicato nelle menti dei designers.
Ma il lavoro, la sublime opera titanica che ha maggiormente colpito i freddi circuiti di noi informatici è stata la tuta “Nerd”, creata per chi passa la maggior parte del suo tempo davanti a un pc (noi).
Ecco la foto:

A dir poco fantastica, permette a noi informatici di mangiare e bere i nostri cibi tipici (secondo l’autore RedBull e orsetti gommosi) senza doverci alzare dal pc!
Ovviamente per i più ignoranti era presente una spiegazione dell’opera:

Ora la grande questione sorge spontanea..quelliDiDesign:

• Stanno proponendo una pacifica convivenza con un dono sincero, bizzarro e ilarico
• Si dichiarano vinti e si prostrano ai nostri piedi con un dono che, secondo loro, dovrebbe placare la nostra ira funesta
• Ci pigliano per il culo a loro volta?