Cristiano Giardina

Here is a sneak peek at the new layout I am currently designing for my personal website.

I had in mind an old-world/piratesque look and, obviously, there had to be some wooden planks, a piece of parchment and ink..

I am pretty happy with what I have so far, even though I feel I might have gone a bit overboard and over-designed this theme, making it way less usable than I’d like it to be.

Please, oh please, if there are any expert designers out there, comment with suggestions on improving this! Also, I am not really sure I’ll be able to code this properly, so any CSS cheat/tip/hack for the most “difficult” elements is appreciated as well.

Thank you!

Le Poète est semblable au prince des nuées
Qui hante la tempête et se rit de l’archer;
Exilé sur le sol au milieu des huées,
Ses ailes de géant l’empêchent de marcher.

– Charles Baudelaire

08-08-08

Life without poetry is not worth living.

It is just a brutal and banal travesty.

Find poetry in everything you do.

Such a powerful picture..

I feel that any comment I could ever make would be unnecessary.

Non votero`.

Alcuni me ne chiedono il perche`.

Mi permetto di citare Seneca a riguardo:

“Dominus eligitur: quid tua, uter vincat? Potest melior vincere, non potest non peior esse qui vicerit”

“Si elegge un padrone: che ti cambia, chiunque vinca? Puo` vincere il migliore, ma non puo` che essere il peggiore chi avra` vinto”

If you use Wordpress, you should absolutely upgrade to the latest and greatest version 2.5.

It features an immense amount of new stuff and it’s just brilliant. I especially like the way it now handles pictures and media, a field where I found previous versions were a bit lacking.

You should check out the cool screencast by Matt, and the list of new features.

Enjoy!

What is it that people want?

It is clearly impossible to answer this question, as there are probably as many answers as there are people in this world.

Or maybe nobody really knows what it is they want. Maybe we’re all just living our lives on an inertia that springs from our “survival instinct”, with no real purpose.

It takes a lot of courage to be “genuine”. It takes a lot of courage to do what you really want to do. And it takes a lot of courage to dive into it, when you finally get your chance.

Life is pretty straightforward, and yet everything feels complicated.

It’s the irony of human existence..

Cosi` meraviglioso e` lo sguardo di una donna
quando il suo cuore palpita di desiderio
Gli occhi aperti, spalancati, profondi,
rivelano la sua fragilita` e la sua passione
Il petto freme d’amore davanti a
quel viso cosi` determinato e serio,
dove la dolcezza della bambina e l’ardore della donna
si incontrano.

Labbra cosi` dolci, cosi` soffici, cosi` perfette..
Sospiri carezzano i volti contratti dalla serenita` del desiderio.

Il tempo si ferma davanti al buio lucente di quei pozzi oscuri

Knowledge is like money that allows you to buy anything without ever taking it out of your wallet.