My first Marathon

I have decided to try to run my first marathon on February 25, 2006 2007 (thanks Giuly). It is a very hard task, even if I run a lot of km each week, try to run for 42km seems something outside my possibility now (I have problems with my left knee).

I'll try the Verdi Marathon (Verdi is the famous composer and the marathon will pass just behind his house). Do you want to know why I run so much and why I'll try a marathon? Well ... read this book and you'll know:


The book is available in English and in Italian.

Me and Ernest

Ho appena finito di leggere "Il vecchio e il mare" di Ernest Hemingway. Sembra scritto per questo particolare periodo della mia vita... io sono si "giovane", mi sento forte, nello spirito e nel corpo ma mi sento sempre come se stessi combattendo contro il più grosso Marlin che abbia mai visto. Rispetto il dolore ed il mio avversario, rispetto la sofferenza ed i sacrifici... Spero solo che alla fine della mia "pesca", tutti gli squali che ci sono la fuori mi lascino qualcosa di più del simbolo della vittoria e della maledizione sconfitta.
Io voglio di più.


I just finished to read "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. It seems written for this paricular period in my life ... I am "young", I feel strong, both in my soul and in my body but I feel like I am always fighting with the biggest Marlin I have ever seen. I respect the pain and my opponent, I respect the misery and the sacrifices... I just hope that at the end of my "fish", all the sharks out will leave me something more than the victory symbol and the defeated curse.
I want more.

The countdown has started

The Pursuit of Happiness will be on theaters starting from December 15th. I can't miss this movie directed by Gabriele Muccino (with Will Smith and his son as main actors).


Official site is here.
Trailers are here.

I am sure it will be one of the best movie in 2006.
P.S. Song is Soar from Christina Aguilera.

SQLite3ProfessionalPlugin 2.0.2

The new version is ready and it has a lot of new features:

• Added the AttachDatabase and DetachDatabase methods
• Added the SQLCachedSelect method (via an RB module)
• Added html documentation about full-text search
• Greatly improved speed in the SQLiteRecordSet class
• Updated some examples

You can now choose between the sequential RecordSet returned by the SQLSelect method or the random SQLiteRecordSet returned by the SQLCachedSelect. In particular the source code of SQLiteRecordSet class is included so you can modify it to best suit your needs. For example you can decide to use a temporary disk based database instead of the default in-memory one.

The SQLiteRecordSet class is very powerful and a very fast MoveTo method has been included. More information in the official page.