Today the two friends that came to visit me in Berlin flew back to Italy, so I won't probably go wandering around the city for a couple of weeks or so, since, but I still did not upload all the pics I took, so here we go: ;-) ... Read More

A couple of friends came all the way from Italy to Berlin just to visit me this week (well, actually their real plan is to test how good the German beer is... but I won't tell anyone), and so I took them for a nightly walk, just to show them ... Read More

Dear Readers, Clarkson's Blog is finally back to life, but it was hard, and not without losses. As everybody can see, there are some posts missing. I am still trying to recover the backup of the database I had done a few months ago, when I put the website on the new ... Read More

The ones who know me have already been informed of the change, but many are still waiting the first steps of it. What am I talking about? Well, after I don't even know how many years, and especially after the decision to open a personal company here in Germany (where I ... Read More

Since yesterday was my B-Day, I decided that even in these harsh economical times I'd award myself a little gift. Nothing too expensive, and bought from a good friend. Since a couple of days I am the proud owner of a brand new (never used) Nvidia 9800GX2 video card ... Read More

Yesterday, May 26, 2009 at 22hrs approx. my sister Monica gave birth to her second son, Giacomo, weighing 3kg and 150gr. Both mom and son are feeling well and healthy. As a new member of the family, Giacomo is more than welcome, makig also his father, Andrea, a very happy ... Read More

There's so much talking about these days about the European Commission awarding a multi-million dollar fine to Intel for having conducted monopolistic and fraudolent practices through the years 2002-2005, going from selling it's cpu's under production cost to forcing coercively OEMs to buy it's products instead of AMD's, convincing customers ... Read More

Image by haglundc via Flickr Well, I did it. I installed the Windows 7 RC a couple of days ago. Cannot tell, until now, how does it "feel", since I've had very little chance (time) to try it out throughly, but the first impressions I can give to ... Read More

Usually I am not that into overclocking records... Don't get me wrong, I myself have got some records stil unbeated (well, they are minor records, as the least overclocked cpu in the world, or the most unstable non-overclocked cpu, ecc... jokes aside, I really do have an overclocking record that ... Read More

Image via Wikipedia Long time ago, when liquid cooling was considered only an expensive hobby for overclocking enthusiasts, a reemerging USA company which has a bitten apple as a logo engineered and manufactured the first (to my knowledge) liquid cooled workstation. The name of the pretty beast was PowerMAC G5, and ... Read More