Read this blog post and really laugh out loud.
Thank you Bud for your great invention! 
“Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much… the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.”
-Douglas Adams
Glitch Brings New Worries About Facebook’s Privacy – NYTimes.com.
I must confess that, aside from the very easy-to-upload-&-share photo albums, Facebook has been rather useless lately. I ignore all applications, games, send a heart, send a dinosaur, send a stone, etc. Plus, quite a few of my friends have been experiencing issues with the chat and the messages. We mostly stick to emails, then as far as I’m concerned, Facebook is only for spreading the word about news or links I get from organisations I follow, or to put some funny line in my ‘status’.
My class was on a 3 days field trip last week and well, posting the various collections of photos on FB and commenting was very funny. And yesterday I found (or she found me, rather) an old friend I haven’t talked to in 5 years. Impressive, indeed…
But at the end of the day, if every week you have to check on your privacy settings and be careful nothing you didn’t want to disclose suddenly goes public for whatever glitch the FB gurus didn’t fix… really, it becomes a drag.
Now, Twitter instead, is a quick and easy way to either stay in touch with people in between a proper email or phone call or meeting, or receive news from all over the world and spread them too. No applications, no silly games or zoo animals to entertain. It’s just one person posting short messages. Period.
If images is what you want to share online, there are a bunch of photo-sharing services for Twitter and they are quite straight forward, simple to use. What you will share on Twitter, will be public or private. Not selectively viewable by a list of friends, which suddenly goes public anyway without you even knowing it. I’m not sure this problem in particular ever happened on Facebook (private lists going public), but as someone commented in the article on The New York Times, we could very well start doubting whether to trust Facebook or not. The Privacy settings are so many and there are applications that only work with “completely public” settings. Users might be confused as to which restricted information will go public and some may even disclose previously private information unwillingly.
Then, I guess Facebook will remain a news-spreader tool as far as I’m concerned. Twitter has replaced texting with those I cannot text. Skype and emails are still my favourite. But none can beat meeting and talking face-to-face! 
Risotto allo zafferano con piselli
I love this recipe, I could live on that… and alas, too many other recipes!
Here we go:
Ingredients:
- 1/2 white onion, finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon of olive oil
- salt, black pepper
- saffron powder
- 1 cup of rice
- 1/4 glass of white wine
- 1/2 can of sweet peas
- fresh parsley
- pecorino romano or parmigiano cheese
In a pan, gently brown the onion with the olive oil.
Add the rice (I used arborio rice today), stir and then add the white wine. Let evaporate, stirring, then add about 0.6 grams of saffron, just the tip of a teaspoon. Stir constantly and cook at medium heat. Keep adding hot/warm water now and then, so it doesn’t stick to the pan. Add salt to taste.
When the rice is 2/3 cooked, add the sweet peas. Keep stirring and add water if needed.
When the rice is almost done, add some parsley and stir a little until the rice is done.
Serve with grounded black pepper and freshly grated parmesan cheese.
NB: this time I had Pecorino Romano cheese, which is a lot more ‘salty’ than Parmigiano, then I added a little less salt during the cooking.
I decided to transplant only the biggest sprout for now and as I was finishing my cereals this morning I thought of how to recycle the plastic milk container I had just emptied. Here it goes…
1. First, cut the container in half
Step 1
2. Then make a little hole in the holder, from the side of the (green) cap.
Step 2
3. Leave the cap semi-unscrewed, so that it can let water pass through without losing any compost. Then insert the half with the cap, upside down into the other half of the plastic container. The cap should touch the bottom without any problem.
Step 3
4. Now you can put some compost in the container, transplant the sprout (or any other little plant you want to try to grow with this McGyver pot) and pour some water in the little hole that was the original container loop holder.
Step 4
You can pour until the water reaches the unscrewed cap and filters through it, moisturing the compost mix. If you think you poured too much water or after some time the compost seems too moist, no problem: just lift the inside of the DIY hydroponic container and get rid of the excessive water.
I’ll keep you posted on the progress!
