I’m sure everyone is pretty comfortable with the concept of a digestive (liquor). But did you know that you can take a digestive sugar? As I showed Shelley this past weekend in Milan, there exists something as wonderful as zucchero matricale, “medicinal/digestive sugar” here. Sugar that you can, nay, you MUST eat to make sure…
Last Minute at La Scala (Teatro alla Scala)
A few weeks ago, my friend got tickets to a recital by Mariella Devia, an Italian soprano at Teatro alla Scala. Since you remember that I sang for years (and currently can only torture my co-workers), I love live music, choirs and opera. Many of my friends studied music or are professional musicians and I…
Equal opportunity has been achieved: FemCamp obsolete?
I have to write about this only because it’s so incredible. I stumbled upon this post and two things struck me immediately. Well, three things if you count the breasts as separate entities. First, the banner image which I find pretty unnecessary. Second, the content of his post makes it seem that much more incredible….
FemCamp: A Mortadella Party?
Saturday I attended the (first) FemCamp (a BarCamp) in Italy, at Bologna. The location was prime, inside a tech lab for women, TechneDonne. I’ve heard some say that the easiest way to describe a BarCamp (in Italy) is chaos. They are totally correct. But I don’t see how having low expectations of anything will help…
FemCamp, Moo Notecards, Me in Italian Glamour
Tomorrow I’m heading with Michelle down to Bologna for the first FemCamp, a BarCamp for women and technology and new media. Don’t know what BarCamp is? It’s basically a series of “unconferences” – informal get-togethers organized by the participants themselves, using an online wiki that anyone can edit or add to. The topics are proposed…
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