The Perpetual BetaMatteo Balzani’s weblog

Today my girlfriend asked me: “In your opinion, are we engaged or in a relationship?”

On a Facebook ad (yes, someone clicks on them…) I found this great website: BetterWorld.com.
It’s a bookstore selling used and new books but with a clear social aim: “to fund literacy initiatives worldwide”

When I see something like that I can’t help thinking “why on earth I didn’t think about that before?”.
I believe it’s a great initiative and I hope it will gain more and more visibility and importance. From now on I’ll buy my books here and only here.
They also have a blog and a Facebook page.

Let’s create a better world, one book at a time!

Yesterday I went, with other colleagues, to Luciano’s housewarming, in Utrecht.
Weather was shitty, as usual.
In the train I was, apparently, the only one without an iPhone, which is hard to stand :)

We had some drinks in the house, and some nice chatting about different languages and different cultures. As usual there were at least a dozen nationalities, from Brazil to Bulgaria to El Salvador. As usual too many Italians…

Then we went to a gay disco (don’t ask me why, it was Luciano’s idea!), but as someone said, it was “etero-friendly”.
It was good fun, even if the good music started at 2.30

At 2.40 we decided to go home, since the next train to Amsterdam was at 3.06, but we got lost and we ended up taking the 4.06 train instead :(
I went to bed at 5ish and now I’m illegally sleepy.

Now it’s time for a huge pancake!

Update: pictures here

Finally the 1st of July here in Holland the no-smoking law became official!