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		<title>h 10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since we are using a decimal numbering system, we have the impression that ten and its multiples are somehow more &#8220;important&#8221;. So it happens that our goals are usually expressed in multiples of ten. Coming to the point, my h-index has become 10 in these last weeks. The h-index is a metric to evaluate a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.myrta.eu/posts/h-10-shameless-self-promotion/</link>
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		<title>beside PowerPoint</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PowerPoint is symptomatic of a certain type of bureaucratic environment: one typified by interminable presentations with lots of fussy bullet-points and flashy dissolves and soundtracks masked into the background, to try to convince the audience that the goon behind the computer has something significant to say. It&#8217;s the tool of choice for pointy-headed idiots with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.myrta.eu/posts/beside-powerpoint/</link>
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		<title>icy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In spite of months of &#8220;silence&#8221;, I am still alive. As I had promised, I have updated the design of the web to fit the current season (well I didn&#8217;t do so for the summer and the autumn&#8230;). In the icy-header now you can see frozen branches of the trees in my backyard (@Amsterdam) against [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.myrta.eu/posts/icy/</link>
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		<title>spammed away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the third day I have to moderate a bunch of spam comments. Together with the &#8220;usual xxx&#8221; spam I am also receiving 8-10 spam comments per day with links to car rentals and to offers for expensive cars (well this is what they pretend to be, of course I did not check). This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.myrta.eu/posts/spammed-away/</link>
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		<title>physics and voting systems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When back in Italy it is unavoidable to get involved in Italian politics. This time &#8211; I have been in Italy the first two weeks of this month &#8211; wasn&#8217;t an exception. And this time the matter of the politicians&#8217; squabbles was the vote of the senators-for-life. In fact, since the difference of seats between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.myrta.eu/posts/physics-and-voting-systems/</link>
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		<title>SUV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really don&#8217;t like SUV (sport utility vehicle). I think they are cumbersome and useless, occupy too much parking space and consume too much fuel. Among SUV, I particularly dislike Porsche Cayenne. Here, aesthetic reasons add up to what I already said — I find it ugly. So I was really delighted when I read [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.myrta.eu/posts/suv/</link>
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		<title>glasshouse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a couple of days I devoured Glasshouse, a Science Fiction book by Charles Stross.The reason I like SF is that it is all about imagining possible scenarios for the far future and imagining how human behavior, habits, values would change as a consequence. The reason I like Charles Stross&#8217; books (and Glasshouse in particular) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.myrta.eu/posts/glasshouse/</link>
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		<title>Y2!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is already (more than) one year that myrta.eu is up and running. For this occasion, the site got a new look, while the content stays -for the moment- unchanged. Not without regrets I removed the glorious but useless “click your star” portal. Now you access directly the home page that coincides with what is [...]]]></description>
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