Fight the CoronaVirus through your PC from home
Are you at home and don’t know how to do it? Would you like to help out looking for a vaccine to treat COVID-19? Do you have a computer, even an old one? Okay … Have you ever heard of...
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Tuscan Bread Thermomix TM31
The story of “my” bread In times of crisis, it is better to make bread at home … so here is the recipe that I found on the net and that I slightly modified … to my liking 🙂 (this...
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Protected: Letter from an Italy in quarantine
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Protected: Letter to my relatives in England and America
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VIDEO Capo Santa Chiara of Genoa seen from the sea
Have you ever seen Capo Santa Chiara of Genoa from the sea …? If you have never seen it, with this video you can try what the fishermen and sailors who arrive near Capo Santa Chiara in Genoa see and...
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Possible an unhindered route from Russia to Pakistan?
Is this route really possible? In these days a RAI 1 quiz have asserted that a sea route from Pakistan to Russia was possible, right by right without colliding against any obstacle. I tried to run it with Google Earth...
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Continuously updated map on the Coronavirus 2020-nCoV by JHU CSSE
I just found this interactive map on the Coronavirus 2020-nCoV made by the JHU CSSE. I thought that this map on the evolution of the coronavirus could be interesting for my friends and I thought to do good thing to...
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A book about my father Mark Edward Kleckner
I learned recently, by chance that a book about my Father, Mark Edward Kleckner, was published, this filled me with joy and happiness. The book had been announced during the conference that was held in Urbino of which I speak...
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VIDEO What is the maximum factorial calculable with an iPhone 7 iOS 11 and 128 MB?
What is the maximum factorial that can be calculated with iPhone? I immediately tried to calculate it with iPhone and the Calc App installed in the basic system. We have seen that the maximum number that can be calculated is...
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VIDEO Panorama from the Lanterna (lighthouse) of Genoa
Wow, what a wonderful view …! In this very short 11 second video, you can see the view enjoyed from the middle of the structure of the Lanterna in Genoa. The video unfortunately does not take the eastern part of...
VIDEO – Textile ladder to reach mast top of a sailboat
What is that? Simple … it’s a textile ladder, with aluminum pegs, which is used to be hoisted, with the mainsail halyard to go up into the masthead. Very interesting the system that as shown in the video is sold...
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No audio, no Hackintosh sound 10.9.5 [SOLVED]
It’s been about 3 years since my Hackintosh, when it went on standby and exhumed, no longer produced any sound … conclusion? I spent about 3 years with a dumb Mac … let’s just say that he spoke very little...
Suddenly the mac os x 10.5.8 does not open some sites [SOLVED]
I happened today, doppo have revived my Mac OS X 10.5.8 Using both Safari and FireFox didn’t open some sites like Google or Apple, while Bing. Surfing the internet was slow and it took a lot to open web pages....
VIDEO – A sailboat with only one sail …
“Giornale Luce” of January 1935 From Stockholm … For the lovers of life on the sea: here is a model of yacht built with a new system that aims to reduce the veiling to eliminate the risk and the difficulty...
VIDEO – What is this strange U-shaped tree?
Wow … how strange …! But who invented it …? Well let’s start with those who invented it … a start-up in Riccione, where I was born, invented it, a town south of Rimini, on the Adriatic coast of Italy,...
VIDEO – SBS – System to enhance sailing navigation
It looks like a nice system for faster, safer and more stable surfing. The only flaw is having these two wings, which look a bit like hanging wings, but in reality when they are closed on the bridge they don’t...
What animal is this?
Can you recognize it …? – How the hell can I figure that Stephen out? Come on, you can’t see anything … – you’ll tell me … Yeah … you can’t know … you’re right … So I say I...
[VIDEO] When I say that I don’t like anchoring under active volcanoes …
This summer I returned to Sicily, We did beautiful strolls around all the islands, Vulcano, Lipari, Alicudi, Filicudi, Panarea, Salina, we went to make some beautiful visits to the wineries on the islands and for the fruit fields, we went...
[VIDEO] – Dolphins between Terrasini and Ustica
Arriving to the island of Ustica from Terrasini in Sicily, where we left in the morning with a beautiful sailboat, around eleven o’clock morning, we came across a beautiful pack of dolphins . It was a decidedly large pack. These...
Dolphins between Terrasini and Ustica
Arriving at the island of Ustica from Terrasini in Sicily, where we left in the morning with a beautiful sailboat, around eleven in the morning we came across a beautiful pack of dolphins. It was a decidedly large pack. These...
Alicudi a magical island, not like the other Aeolian islands
We came from Ustica, the Ustica auctioneer. We left the Ustica marina early in the morning and set the sails in such a way that we could make a nice, light and fluid navigation. There was a beautiful sea breeze...
LBS Tension Model B
Have you ever dismasted and then re-raised? Or, have you ever noticed that you have a soft rigging? Have you ever had the need to measure the rigging tension of your sailboat? Well, to do that there is an instrument...
Visit to the Lanterna (lighthouse) of Genoa
I remember years ago, the quay tale of a Miami motor yacht commander, who asked what that new lighthouse was down there. The sailors of Milan replied to him that he was the Lantern and this said that knowing the...
