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Susa and Bea came back! For a week and for a weekend, but it’s like they never left… Having them here together with us was just usual, since they always shared everything we enjoy. At the same time, their company is sparkling and crazy and we all here can get addicted to it soooo fast! […]

Oh my God, another. Yep, another Aerospace Engineer here in the buities group!
From yesterday afternoon, Wimi is officially part of the Anti-Space-Freak-Conglomerate, since he graduated with a CFD project on aircraft aerodynamics. Goed gedaan!

Saturday, 25th of February 2006, 12.16 GMT: a date to remember for the inhabitants of planet Earth, since at that moment we will be 6.5 billion people on its surface. These are the forecasts of the US Census Bureau, which is constantly monitoring US and World’s population. The estimate takes in account births and deaths, […]

As I promised, this time some good news: a new space freak is born, Miss Candy graduated Aerospace Engineer with an outstanding 9!

We all love her smile, and I can tell yesterday morning it was bigger than ever
After all the info about how enjoyable solar sailing is, we gathered all together to celebrate […]

After having discussed Beijin censorship and the role of 4 major players in the digital world, here is an intervention about what it could be the internet of the future.
The online magazine The Nation discusses which new policies could be introduced in the future, by will of the biggest phone, internet and tv content providers. […]

Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Cisco called to court in USA… for their censorship and cooperation with the Chinese government.
13 Chinese intellectuals and ex comunist party members denonciated the shameful behaviour through a brave letter: “Only a totalitary system needs news censorship… a violation of the constitution… freedom of speech has been reduced and proscription lists […]

Eventually, it happened. All the Windows users can finally seat back and relax: today a virus for Mac OS X 10.4 (the latest operating system) appeared.
It’s a worm, it arrives via ichat as a compressed archive. Opening it saves an image and creates some folders and infects some files, but not system files… and try […]

Never happened? To be sincere, I’ve never meet my dark side… the one that signs uncovered cheques, sells & buy millions in the stock markets, or uses his (my) name for illegal financial operations. But it can happen. Your dark side being someone that stole your digital identity to cover his own turbid activities.
In an […]

While the new Apple’s laptop get a free upgrade in their new dual-core Intel processors, bumping up to 2.3GHz in their 15″ aluminum machine, Microsoft announces a patch to address the issues of power drain on laptops running Windows on an Intel dual-core laptops. Well, Microsoft announces pretty much, but releases pretty little, and bugged.

Italians eat spaghetti and play mandolino. That’s a fact. I personally spend 4 meals per day eating bolognese (which in Italy is called RAGU’…) on vermicelli, and play every evening before going to sleep a bit of that funny instrument.
WRONG!
But it’s like this for every culture: how many times we heard prejudices and misconceptions about […]