Feeling Fantastic in Florence

What a great time we had on Sunday.

My first time as the main organizer of the event, and while it was a crunch at the end, the final result was fabulous.

Thanks for all the compliments, everyone.

I'd like to especially thank my brother, Jordan, who volunteered two days of his vacation to help out with setting up and breaking down!

Just cleaning up my Google Reader subscriptions, and I thought I'd post the feeds I find interesting for design and web technologies.

Mi sembra una cosa divertente, e Firenze Live sta organizzando attivita' simile.

I ragazzi di Switch sono attivissimi, da rap e hip-hop alla Casa della Creativita' all'organizzazione di eventi sportivi -- la domanda e': cosa e' che NON fanno!

I really like this image, as I think it really captures the essence of Carolina's character in her Talking Heads monologue.

We started rehearsals yesterday, and as always, it's exciting to see what sort of character will develop.

On musicroom.com, if you're a Windows user (or Mac, I think) and don't mind installing a plug-in, you can view and download legal copies of sheet music for a reasonable price.

Great idea!

Except I'm one of those silly people that use open source software -- so no Windows, and no sheet music.

Reading their fine print, it seems this silly practice is in place to keep nefarious evil pirates from making copies of legally purchased sheet music.

Oggi il mercato di S. Lorenzo era chiuso per sciopero. L'aumento delle tasse per occupare il suolo pubblico non e' andato giu' molto bene a chi lavora nei mercati. A sentir parlare loro e' stato un'offesa, anzi, un crimine di proporzioni enormi comesso da un comune che vuole solo rubare soldi da gente onesta che sta gia' soffrendo in mezzo di un crisi economico. Ma per favore.

Mi dispiace che mi chiamano solo quando c'è qualche problema.

Ieri, ore 17 -- sto tornando dai nonni.  Chiamata da un numero che non conosco.  La Repubblica, che vuole sapere che cosa ho da dire su un ragazzo americano caduto dal quarto piano perché ubriaco.

E io che c'entro?

Ma purtroppo, c'entro.  Come tutti noi che vivono a Firenze.  Abbiamo tutti una responsibilità verso questi ragazzi -- una responsabilità che purtroppo spesso va a farsi benedire.

The Talking Heads production (taking place every Sunday April - June and again in the fall) is a challenge -- an exciting one.

These monologues present a challenge from a theatrical point of view -- they were written for television, and they are great fun for the actors. What actor doesn't LOVE being all alone onstage.

Devo ringraziare Vanessa al British Institute e Emma di AngloInfo per aver segnalato la spendida serie di monologhi di Alan Bennett: "Talking Heads".

I've been collaborating with a group of professionals -- designers, marketing experts -- basically a loose confederation that works together on projects.

It's a great idea, and I'm happy to have become their guy for building web sites (of course, with Drupal).

As you do in a budding relationship, we've discovered a point of diversion.  Not quite a point of contention, but certainly a differing of opinions on a very basic aspect of our work -- how we get paid.