Un rant sulla vicenda Alitalia...

Per chi avesse perso l'inchiesta del Sole 24 Ore su questa vergognosa vicenda italica, consiglio di leggere lo sfogo di Marco Beri --propongo 'sfogo' come traduzione di 'rant'.

Esperanto at the Nanjing University language festival...

Language festivals are events that are becoming more and more popular. This year a major language festival happened in an important University of China, at Nanjing, which was a success for the Esperanto course. As an English teacher reported:

But the truly eye-popping surprise was Esperanto. I always knew what Esperanto is but I never thought I would ever live to see it used at all, let alone used as a real language of conversation. I was dead wrong. The faculty staff speak Esperanto, not English, amongst each other. Of all the classes taught this weekend, mine (English) were easily (and understandably) the largest. But number two was Esperanto. Number two! Then followed by everything else. I had, until recently, absolutely no idea, not the foggiest, that Esperanto had any real currency. Wrong.

Who will inform Chomsky? :)

An alternative to wget for Mac...

If you are trying to cope with web site mirroring with curl and wget and you are looking for something more mac-like, give a look to SiteSucker. It works well.

Norme editoriali: non solo bibliografia

Spesso studenti e amici mi chiedono consigli su come redigere i propri testi scientifici o accademici in generale. Se sfortunatamente non usano LaTeX (se non XeTeX, cosa dirgli? Be', Francesca mi ha passato le
le norme editoriali della casa editrice Olschki, che sono in italiano e in inglese, e sono di indubbia qualità sopraffina.

Ci sono anche consigli di videoscrittura, utili per chi non ha dimestichezza con testi più lunghi e più formali di un'email con un computer...