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WordPress

I moved from blogspot to wordpress because the latter seems to be the most widely used and features richest system. The procedure has been easier than I have imagined: I simply used the Manage/Import function and followed the instructions.

The first impression is more than positive: everything is extremely user-friendly, there is no need to read manuals or ask people how to do things. It will take some time to get used to this new environment and learn the new features. I am also thinking to move my articles from my clan web site to here…

CO2 ‘highest for 650,000 years’

This morning I have been reading these news. It is not like I haven’t been aware of the bad situation of our planet, it’s just that we have been submerged by news like that, and what surprises me the most is the reaction: feeble indeed I’d say. I mean, this should be the top priority of every single intelligent person in the world, after all this is the only place we have to live.

We don’t have other places to go when this will be gone, and we don’t know when the process will start being irreversible (if it hasn’t already happened). Nevertheless, there is still people who seem careless about the problem, and not only don’t actively do anything to settle it, to try to find a solution, but it even not welcome the proposals made by the others (like USA did with the Kyoto protocol).

People do not realize the situation, I don’t know whether it is because they are basically selfish, or because they are unable to think large-scale, to see the whole world like their own house and not only like their neighborhood; unable to think in terms of centuries and of humanity, not in terms of years and individuals. Maybe this is a limit of the human being, a thing which will inevitably lead him to his own destruction.

Fertility vote collapses

The referendum has failed to reach the 50% turnout figure necessary for it to be valid. Only about 25,9% of Italian voters cast their ballots in the two-day referendum.

Excluded those unable to reach the polling places for external causes, the result has proved that about 74,1% of Italians are either persons who don’t give a damn, or ignorants, or arrogants (those who deliberately didn’t vote to impose their opinion on the others).

This is a clear demonstration Italy has a system which facilitates these kind of persons to rule the destiny of the country; how can there be hopes of progress in such conditions?

Turnout has been affected by a call for abstention made by the Catholic Church. I feel a strong sense of discomfort and also some kind of disgust thinking about it. Taking advantage of the disengagement and the indifference often shown from Italians in occasions like this one to induce the abstension seems deeply immoral to me, especially from an Institution which cannot be regardless about the morality.

Assisted fertility

Italians are being called to the polls on Sunday and Monday (12th and 13th of June) in a referendum on revoking controversial rules on assisted fertility. The ground rules of Italian referendums are that, irrespective of the proportion of “yes” and “no” votes, more than 50% of registered voters have to turn out in order for a ballot to be valid.

What is happening is that those contrary on revoking such rules have been promoting a campaign to boycott the referendum in order to invalidate it so that, joining to those who will not go to vote, they will have better chances to have things on their side.

I believe that for such a delicate and complex topic it cannot be stated what is right and what is wrong, in an absolute way, otherwise there wouldn’t be the need for a referendum. Therefore I think it is right to do what the majority of people believe and hence is very important that everyone will go to vote.

I will do what I consider to be fair and what my conscience tells me is right. I will go to vote not with the claim of being from the right side, nor with the hope to win: I have full respect of both the positions and I will truly and sincerely accept the decision of the majority whatever it will turn out to be.

I totally disapprove the act of boycotting the poll: this attitude is despotic, arrogant and anti-democratic. The people who will act like that will impose their opinion on the others, and this is intolerably unfair, independently on which side will turn out to be the right one.

My first post

Yeah! My first post, I am so excited about it

It has been a long time that I wanted to create a personal blog of mine, a place where I could write everything I like… my thoughts, my ideas, my little computer/technological/scientic discoveries, my favourite quotations, books, songs, interesting news, funny things, jokes, puzzles, health and sport information, and all the “appetizing” things which I discover day by day which, thanks to this blog, will be available to a broader audience.

I chose this layout among others because it is graceful: the green color recalls the nature and I have heard it is a color which relaxes the eyes… it communicates peace, trasparency, clarity.

Many thanks to DOOMenico for having pointed out to me this well made blog system.