Weaver - トキドキセカイ (Tokidoki Sekai)

Lyrics:
世界ができて何年だっけ？　それぞれが一度きりの偶然
その中で出会えたんだ　同じ時を生きたんだ
僕らで作り出した邂逅　時間空間光を越えて
歩き出す時の回廊　そんな奇跡は信じないか？

時は常に　淀みなく流れてくまま
だって壊れてる　巻き戻しもできない
信じてるか？　信じてるよ
やっとここでまた出会えたよ　キラキラ
側にいることこそが証拠だろ

闇の中に身を潜め
あなたに会える「時」を待った
光が僕の手をひく時を　そうだ
刻み込まれた時の制約
心はそれを突き破ったんだろ
不安にさせたかい？　僕もそうだった

(ここで記憶はなくなるだろな
巡り会う瞬間はどんな顔さ？
愛しあって求め合った
時はきっと戻らないんだ
もう一度出会えりゃいいな)

終わりは来ない　鮮明だし　痛みも伴う
だって夢じゃない　永遠に続いてく
ねぇつまりさ　はいカットで　終わるよな物語じゃない
まだまだ　辿り着くその先は　時を越え…

闇の中に身を潜め
あなたに会える「時」を待った
光が僕の手をひく時を　そうだ
イメージの作る光景も
心はすべて突き破って
怖くたって　震えたって　光を目指す

気が付けばこんな単純なことだった
「時」を越える思いがあったんだ

「初めまして」の再会だって
あなたはそれを知らなかったんだろ？？
そんな顔でやっと出会えたよ

Attempt of translation (not very sure about it!! Gomen!)

In which year has the world been made?
Was it all a coincidence?
We met in this world, alive at the same time,
it started with a casual meeting
across time and space

Walking in that corridor
Could you believe that miracle?
Time never stops
Scattered everywhere
I can’t have anything back
Do you believe it? I do.
In the end we meet here once again
Everything around us is shining
Is that a sign?

In the darkness I hide myself
Waiting for the moment I’ll meet you
The light arrives when you take my hand
It’s really like that

We had to walk slowly in a crowded place
My heart got attached to that and was broken
Were you so worried?
I was too.

Here the memories should vanish
During that casual meeting,
whose face was that?
We exchanged a request for love
Time certainly can’t go back

Meeting you again would be so nice
The end is not approaching
Even the pain is getting less strong
But it’s not a dream
It’ll go on forever

And you know, in the end
There was a stop
The story is not over yet
Finally arrived at this point
Time is over

In the darkness I hide myself
Waiting for the moment I’ll meet you
The light arrives when you take my hand
Really
Even the image created by the landscape
Breaks my whole heart
Even if scary, even if I’m trembling,
I’ll keep following the light
If I can do it

That was a simple thing
But there were more thoughts than time
When we said “nice to meet you” at our new meeting
You must have known that
I’ve certainly already met your face.

>>>> I posted the romanized lyrics on LyricWiki! <<<<

Come far funzionare la Olicard 100 della Tim su Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)

Un post in Italiano perché credo questa cosa possa interessare per lo più utenti Italiani.

Ovvero.. come far funzionare la Internet Key della Tim Olicard 100 su Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix!! (Almeno.. ha funzionato per noi, ma è stata dura >.<).

1. Occorre inserire la nostra Olicard nel netbook e questa verrà vista come volume usb. Dentro ad essa vi sono i driver necessari al suo funzionamento. Dalla cartella Linux → Ubuntu, installare il pacchetto .deb cliccando anche su “Install Package”.
Fatto questo è consigliabile smontare il volume e riavviare il sistema operativo.

2. Una volta riavviato il pc inseriamo la chiavetta, smontiamola e scriviamo sulla shell il comando lsusb. Questo ci permette di vedere tutti i volumi collegati al nostro pc tra cui la nostra chiavetta della Olivetti.

3. Fatto questo scriviamo sulla shell:
sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0x???? product=0x????
Dove al posto dei punti esclamativi inseriremo i numeri che erano risultati scrivendo lsusb relativi alla olicard con questa formattazione xxxx:xxxx.

4. Ora andiamo sulle Connessioni di rete, che troviamo sulla barra in alto oppure nel menu System, selezioniamo Mobile Broadband e clicchiamo su Add. A questo punto dovrebbe già riconoscere il nostro dispositivo e possiamo quindi proeguire a dargli le informazioni mancanti, sul gestore telefonico, etc. Per Tim l'APN da indicare è ibox.tim.it e il numero *99# è lo standard e va lasciato com'è. Gli altri campi possono rimanere vuoti.

5. Fatto questo proviamo a togliere fisicamente la chiavetta e reinserirla. Se tutto va per il verso giusto dovrebbe inizialmente vederla come disco e un istante dopo scomparire e risultare come modem. Torniamo in alto sulle connessioni di rete sulla barra in alto, clicchiamoci su con il tasto sinistro del mouse e dovrebbe apparire il nome della connessione. Cliccandoci sopra dovremmo riuscire a connetterci. A volte il primo tentativo non va per il meglio, a quel punto conviene togliere e reinserire la chiavetta e riprovare. Purtroppo pare sia necessario ad ogni riavvio ripetere il punto 3.
Per ovviare a quest'ultima scocciatura è possibile creare uno script che ricordi la riga di comando in automatico.

6. Anche se a questo punto la connessione sembra andare, Firefox sembra avere dei problemi a riconoscerla. Per risolvere anche questo problema occorre aprire nuovamente la shell e digitare:
sudo gedit /etc/resolv.conf
Che aprirà l'editor di testo e il nostro nuovo file. Ovviamente anche l'uso di un altro editor di testo va bene.
A questo punto scriviamo nel documento le seguenti due righe:
nameserver 213.230.130.222
nameserver 213.230.155.94

Salviamo e chiudiamo. Tuttavia sarà necessaria un'altra operazione affinché questo file di testo non venga automaticamente modificato. Quindi di seguito sulla shell scriviamo:
sudo chmod a-w /etc/resolv.conf

Quest'ultimo comando impedisce che il file possa essere modificato.
Ora proviamo a connetterci a Internet e ad aprire Firefox e tutto dovrebbe funzionare!
Buona fortuna!!

Un ringraziamento alle persone che scrivono nel forum di Ubuntu.it!!

EDIT
Grazie ai commenti di Rogier mi sono accorta che le precedenti istruzioni erano incomplete poiché in effetti abbiamo dovuto fare degli ulteriori passaggi affinché non fosse necessario ripetere il comando modprobe ad ogni riavvio.

Ecco delle ulteriori istruzioni per cercare di ovviare al problema:
Consiglio, invece di usare il comando:

sudo chmod a-w /etc/resolv.conf

di usare questo:

sudo chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

che è più forte e non dovrebbe permettere al file di essere modificato.

Per non dover ripetere il comando di modprobe, scrivere nella shell:

sudo gedit /etc/modules

e aggiungere al documento:

sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0x???? product=0x????

con i relativi codici vendor e product.

Salvate il file e ora dovrebbe caricarsi automaticamente all'avvio!

----------------------

English version ~ In case someone needs it!

How to make the Interner key Olicard 100 (offered by the provider TIM) work on Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix version (This worked for us at least!).

1. You need to insert the Olicard in your netbook and it will see it as a usb key. Inside it there are some drivers neccessary for Linux. In the folder Linux → Ubuntu, you'll find a package .deb, click to install it and also on the button 'Install package'.
After this I sugget you to unmount the key and reboot the operating system.

2. When it has loaded again, insert the usb-key, umount it and write on the shell the command lsusb. This will show you all everything connected to the netbook, included the Olivetti key. .

3. After this, write on the shell:
sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0x???? product=0x????
Where instead of the question marks you'll write the numbers and letters that appeared on the results given by the command lsusb, in the format xxxx:xxxx.

4. Now let's click on the Network Connections, on the bar on the top of the screen of in the System menu, select 'Mobile Broadband' and click on Add. At this point it should recognise the device so we can go on and insert the missing information about the provider, and so on,
Tim's APN is ibox.tim.it and the number 99# is standard. The other fields can be left unfilled.

5. After that we can take off the key and insert it again. If everything is ok it should be seen as a usb device for a moment and then disappear and become a modem. Let's go back to the Network Connections and there clicking in the bar with the left button we should see out connection's name.
Clicking on it we should manage to connect to the Internet. Sometimes if it doesn't work the first time it's better if we take off the key and try again. It seems that at every reebot it's necessary to repeat point 3.

6. Even if now the connection seems to work, Firefox may have some problems dealing with it. To solve this problem we need to open the shell once again and write:

sudo gedit /etc/resolv.conf
That will open the editor and our new file. Of course other text editors work fine too.
Let's write in the file this:
nameserver 213.230.130.222
nameserver 213.230.155.94

Let's save and quit. Although, we need to do one last thing to be sure that the file won't be automatically edited. So we'll write on the shell the command:
sudo chmod a-w /etc/resolv.conf

This last command makes the file impossible to edit.
Let's try to connect to the Internet, open a Firefox page and hopefully everything should work!
Good luck!!

--------- EDIT January 14th 2010

Thanks to Rogier I noticed that the previous instructions had some flaws cause the modprobe command had to be repeated at every reboot.
So here are some further (and hopefully more useful) instructions:

In order to make it work better I suggest to use instead of the command:

sudo chmod a-w /etc/resolv.conf

this one:

sudo chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

that is stronger, and in that way the file should not be edited anymore.

About the modprobe, type in the shell:

sudo gedit /etc/modules

and add to the document:

sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0x???? product=0x????

with the correct vendor and product codes.

Save the file and it should now be loaded automatically at every reboot.

Impressionist art in Villa Manin

Hi!
I went to an art exhibition today and I really enjoyed it. Luckily the weather was very fine, a sunny, cool day, more similar to Spring than to the beginning of Autumn.
The exhibiton took place in the beautiful villa Manin Passariano in Codroipo (Udine) and contained mainly impressionist and realist paintings.

The paintings were not as many as I thought they would be, but there were some really beautiful pieces of art mainly by French, Russian, Hungarian, artists. There were also very famous artists like Monet, Renoir, Pisarro, Serov, Levitan, Courbet, Van Gogh, l'ecole de Barbizon.

The impressionist and the realist paintings were not divided in two separated areas but organised in different themes like: water, farming, portraits, etc, and even if this could be quite confusing at first, I liked this choice, it gave a nice organisation to the exhibition.
Some impressionist paintings had a wonderful light and bright colours, at the right distance you could say the movement contained in the scene and all that brushstrokes and stains took the form of a field with flowers, a railway, a forest.
I'm not the biggest fan of Realist art but there were some really impressive pieces, especially some landscapes, so realistic to seem photographs.
Behind the Villa there was a big, beautiful garden where we took a nice walk; a big lawn and many trees created a very relaxing atmosphere, there were two little lakes, squirrels and some statues.

Here there are some of the paintings that I loved the most:

Pierre Auguste Renoir - Monet Painting in His Garden at Argenteuil


Monet - Morning On The Seine


Monet - Tulips field in Sassenhein near Leiden


Jòsef Chelmonski - Jay in the forest

Goodbye!!! (^___^)/~

Chéri - a short review

Hi!

Here I am, writing a short review of the film Chéri. It wasn't easy to find it after the italian release, because it was scheduled only in a few cinemas.

I've been completely satisfied by this adaptation, it is a beautiful, beautiful film!!
They respected the plot completely and took into account all the little decorative details that made the story unique and original and gave importance to the development of the characters' personalities. The characters were just perfect!!!
Michelle Pfeiffer was wonderful and brilliant, she gave to Léa her strong personality, her beauty, her motherly attitude and her frailty. I had a huge surprise with Rupert Friend, finding out he was just the perfect Chéri I had imagined reading the book. Perfect, both in beauty and in attitudes. He had the perfect looks, the perfect childish attitude, the charm and the weakness of a spoiled child. Felicity Jones played the part of Edmée and she surely was the right choice. After seeing her in Northanger Abbey she was perfect in the role of the little, unexperienced yet patient girl.

The scenography was beautiful and as I said for the book, everything seemed a XIX century's painting, with bright colours, a sweet and shallow atmosphere with a soft light and a quiet movement, yet, able to show us the dramatic and subtle experience of Léa, experiencing love and all the pain it carries, for the first time now that is a grown up bautiful woman, and the one of Chéri, immature young man unable to find his way without her motherly attentions. The director was particularly good in showing us she signs of this nostalgia and the time that flows: a beautiful decaying rose in the garden that Léa admires in a moment of desired loneliness, her beautiful eyes in a mirror which reveals to us the signs of the old age that is approaching. Léa, so intelligent, so superior to all that shallow gossip and that 'vanity fair' feels like she's falling into mediocrity, and not even her will be spared by the rules of the world.

The love story is not banal at all thanks to the particular personalities of the characters, it's painful and yet very sweet and passional. Colette with her small details of everyday life and odd conversations that occurs between people, creates for us a familiar atmosphere that seems still, unable to move toward the future.

I have only two critics to the choices made by the director:

1) Why using an omniscent narrator at the beginning and in the ending of the film? He probably added to the story the sensation of it being a 'tale', but I think it wasn't needed.. the images spoke for themselves, we didn't need a description of the characters' mind! And we're not at Colette's time, so a justification of events is not needed. I can see the narrator was useful in the very last scene, but then again,
2)Why even if the ending was perfect and just like Colette's Chéri's ending, the narrator felt the need to go on with the story and summarise in a sentence all 'The end of Chéri' (a following book in which the War arrives and the Belle Epoque is no more)? I thought the ending was perfectly dramatic and beautiful also without that.

Anyway, an intense, beautiful film, I'm completely satisfied.
The dvd is being released on 21 September here, on Amazon.co.uk and I'm surely going to buy it as soon as possible!! <3

Bye!

Never be the same - Becoming Jane

A fanvid, yes, another one!!! ^-^
This time... Becoming Jane
I love this film...



Bye!!!

You and me - Mr Bingley and Jane + films' reviews

Another fanvid I made ~ this time it's about Lost in Austen and in particular about Jane and Charles's relationships <3 because they're just so cute and they're my favourite characters in the book!!!
For further information see the video description <3

Enjoy ~ !

.. and now, a short review about the last film I've seen at the cinema: S. Darko.
Unfortunately it was quite disappointing. Despite all the bad reviews I had heard I went to the cinema trying to have no prejudices about the new film, but I can see why the new project was not blessed by the writer of Donnie Darko, Richard Kelly. Because Donnie Darko didn't need a sequel.
The plot of the new film had way too many things copied from the previous one and often they were not just sentences or similar things that could be useful to excite Donnie Darko's fans, they were entire scenes filmed just in the same way, only with different characters!! Not really original.
What's more, the characters were not very well developed, the conversations not brilliant and they didn't give me any particular issue to wonder about, maybe with the only exception of a phrase said by Jeremy, not too original though.
Unlike the previous film, this did not contain a real critic about society, except for some element against preachers and religion already present in Donnie Darko. Finally, someone can explain to me why, if in the previous film we have been said something about the Philosophy of Time Travels described in the book by Roberta Sparrow, now no one follows any rule to create a time vortex and just have nightmares that lead them in the past??
After seeing the film I was just confused and couldn't figure out was I was missing.. but I'm afraid that this film's plot is just too weak to be a real sequel of Donnie Darko and probably there's not really so much to understand.

Anyway, the next months seem to be full of great events for what concerns cinema and films!!
There are quite a few that I'm not gonna miss!! :D
For what concerns Italy, here in September there's the release of Cheri, with Michelle Pfeiffer and Ruper Friend and the Ice Age 3. The latter should be fun as usual, but I'm really curious about the first one. I've just read Colette's book, Cheri, and I enjoyed it quite a lot. It was poetic, sad and at the same time bright, soft and frivolous. Like the director said, Colette describes things like an impressionist. You see the mouvement of the light and the colours and everything is so sweet, so shallow yet so dramatic. I think that the choice of Michelle in the role of Léa is just perfect and Rupert seems to make a very good Cheri. I'm looking forward to see it ^^

Then, a new film directed by Tim Burton will be released on 09/09/09 but strangely enough no one is talking a about it now.. the title is 9 and it is an animated film, apparently very visionary and with a lot of action. Then in October it's the turn of Parnassus, a new film by Terry Gillian, another film full of visions, imagination, adventures starring the Heath Ledger in his last great performance, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law. The trailer is just amazing, I can't wait to see it!!!

Another film I'm waiting for in October is Dorian Gray, starring Ben Barnes. I'm a huge fan of Oscar Wilde's book and I think that Ben is so handsome he fits Dorian perfectly... even if I'm afraid the director did not respect the book's plot very much. The trailer seems more extreme and what's more they added a character that did not exist: Sir Henry Wottom's daughter. Why is that??

Others films released in November/December are Hachiko, a dog's tale starring Richard Gere (the trailer made me cry already), Avatar directed by James Cameron and... last but not least, coming on 5th March 2010 is Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland!!!
I'm waiting from this film since it was announced and I think it's going to be fantastic!! I really would like to see it in 3d at the IMAX (possibly in London, eheh) and the cast is great *-* Johnny Depp, Helena Boham Carter, Anne Hathaway..
Burton seems to have made a mix between Alice in Wonderland and Through the looking glass (like Disney had already made in his cartoon), all in his unique and particular dark and visionary style.

Well, goodbye until the next video!! =)

The End ~ A Dr Who fanwork

I made my first fanvid and it's about Doctor Who season 2!! ^__^
Being my first music video it not very accurate, but I had a lot of fun!
Enjoy ~



Credits: The song is "The End" from the videogame "Drawn to Life", sung by Hayley Chapman and David J. Franco, the lyrics are in the description.
All Doctor Who's copyrights belong to BBC ^^

Login: L’Editoriale di Riccardo Luna

Bell'editoriale dell'ultimo numero di Wired <3 (Italian only... sorry ._.)

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Graduation and other (useless) updates

It seems I'm not updating the blog from a loooong time! xD
No one should have missed it though ^^'' the problem is that social networks completely absorbed my on-line activity.. and I'm also lazy, of course.

Since last post some wonderful things happened!!!
For example I went on a short but exciting journey to Scotland ♥
It was a great experience since I was able to visit Edinburgh and Glasgow and to meet some friends who live there! It was really lovely and I'm looking forward to go back there and visit also other parts of Scotland *-*

Last week I even graduated!
After months of work my dissertation resulted quite a long work and even if I was very nervous about it, my professors appreciated it and gave me the highest votation ^-^
It was so satisfying! It really has been an important experience which gave me some self-confidence and some aspirations for the future, I didn't expect that, but it is such a good thing.
I also didn't want anyone around during the discussion (I get more nervous if people are listening >.< ) but in the end, I was so focused on my work I hardly noticed them and it was quite a good sensation being hugged and complimented once the discussion was finished, I must admit it. Compliments on my intellect makes me weak and I give in to happiness. Among the big news there's also my new kitty ^-^ aww, he's lovely. Lively and lovely.

Yesterday night I watched Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince. I must say that I'm a huge fan of the HP books but usually not very satisfied with the films adaptations. Despite this, this one was spectacular *-* some scenes were just perfect!!!
I enjoyed very much the initial scene filmed in London (London... I miss you), and the whole plot was very well balanced and structured and didn't leave too many things behind (only a few... but that can't be helped). Unfortunately there weren't enough scenes involving the Weasley twins ._. pity.


My current obsessions (they change from time to time) are: the Internet (but that's a constant), Youtube, Twitter, the Phelps twins, David Tennant, the English accents (that's also kind of a constant), Dark Cabaret music, Web Marketing, Python (the programming language). And I want to travel... to the Uk of course, or to Ireland.

Ooh and I bought my new archery bow finally!!
It's black... and cool *-*

I'm also going to see a Placebo's concert tomorrow! I'm excited about it but I hope the weather will be cooler than today, cause now it's impossible to stand -_-

What about holidays? I have no real holidays.. I mean, of course I have nothing to do (one of the reasons why I'm writing here), but I can't travel.. and I have to find a temporary job >.<>
I'm waiting for my boyfriend to come home.. so he will also lend me his notebook and I can watch Dr Who seasons in HD *-* .. that's what he promises me when I'm angry (I'm often angry, so I expect at least all Tennant's seasons please).

The positive note (at least for me) is that I decided to go on studying next year and apply for a Master degree in Information and Technology opened to students from other courses. I feel like this graduation experience opened my mind more than all the University courses as a whole did, and on a deeper level, I'm trying to learn and derive my strenght from my curiousity and my desire of knowdledge. That's what makes me go on in some hard moments and even if it sounds silly, it's a new awareness that helps me going on and relying on myself. I want to feel part of the world by learning and working with other people on things that are not merely made of words and opinions but that are built on a logical basis and that can innovate the world and get rid of old schemes. I'm not making my point very clear, I know, but it's not easy.
I feel like most of my knowdledge so far is a train without a proper rail.. it makes me feel incomplete.

Well, I think that this monologue can stop here... I was just annoyed by this non-updated blog!! xD

See you :) (?)