Miki

A brief CV

I am currently studying IT Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.

• August 2009 - won a study trip to Dublin, Ireland, together with 35 other Italian students who finished High School with maximum mark. It was a wonderful experience, surrounded by stimulating people. I won't be able to forget those days... Dun-An-Oir, Galway, the Guinness, and the windy Cliffs of Moher on the west coast, one of the most outstanding coastal features of Ireland. And... not only that.
• 2008 - High school diploma (Liceo scientifico PNI) - 100/100+L. Awarded a merit-based scolarship and added to the national INDIRE Register of Excellence.
• May 2008 - won an EU promoted contest with an essay about Altiero Spinelli
  - [IT]: Altiero Spinelli: la forza di un sogno
  Visit to the European Parliament and European Commission at Bruxelles. It was amazing to have a seat at the EU Parliament, wearing headphones with so many channels available to choose. There are 23 official languages spoken in the EU Parliament, and 506 possible combinations, since each language can be translated into 22 others. In order to meet this challenge, they have set up highly efficient interpreting, translation and legal text verification services. I was very impressed by that.
• September 2007 - become an Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP), certificate holder ID: OS-101-02045.
• June 2007 - University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations - FCE Grade A.
• May 2006 - won a contest by Jeunes Européens Fédéralistes (JEF), a week of conferences about European federalism (exclusive competence, shared competence, etc...) at Desenzano del Garda, Italy.
• June 2005 - won an EU promoted contest with an essay about the "Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe" (TCE): visit to Amsterdam and Den Haag. I attended part of the Milosevic's trial at International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and visited the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Software & web development

• iPhoneSMSExport - convert your text messages to CSV, HTML or PDF online, for free. [PHP/Delphi]
• Trovatel - Open Source project to perform direct and reverse phone numbers lookups (Italian numbers only). [Delphi]
• MyGoogle - a simple Perl-written program to search on Google. It outputs the results on the command line. The user can set the desidered number of results and the language.
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Quotes

Some assorted quotes... :)

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.

Søren Kierkegaard

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which; he simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both.

Buddha

No evil can happen to a good man, neither in life nor after death.

Socrates (Plato, The Apology, Sec. 41)

Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and god? "Thou shalt" is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, "I will." "Thou shalt" lies in his way, sparkling like gold, an animal covered with scales; and on every scale shines a golden "thou shalt." Values, thousands of years old, shine on these scales; and thus speaks the mightiest of all the dragons: "All value of all things shines on me. All value has long been created, and I am all created value. Verily, there shall be no more 'I will.'" Thus speaks the dragon.

Friedrich Nietzsche

April 1st: This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three-hundred and sixty-four.

Mark Twain

Posa la penna, piega il foglio, lo infila in una busta. Si alza, prende dal suo baule una scatola di mogano, solleva il coperchio, ci lascia cadere dentro la lettera, aperta e senza indirizzo. Nella scatola ci sono centinaia di buste uguali. Aperte e senza indirizzo. Ha 38 anni, Bartleboom. Lui pensa che da qualche parte, nel mondo, incontrerà un giorno una donna che, da sempre, è la sua donna. Ogni tanto si rammarica che il destino si ostini a farlo attendere con tanta indelicata tenacia, ma col tempo ha imparato a considerare la cosa con grande serenità. Quasi ogni giorno, ormai da anni, prende la penna in mano e scrive. Non ha nomi e non ha indirizzi da mettere sulle buste: ma ha una vita da raccontare. E a chi, se non a lei? Lui pensa che quando si incontreranno sarà bello posarle sul grembo una scatola di mogano piena di lettere e dirle –Ti aspettavo. Lei aprirà la scatola e lentamente, quando vorrà, leggerà le lettere una ad una e risalendo un chilometrico filo di inchiostro blu si prenderà gli anni –i giorni, gli istanti– che quell'uomo, prima ancora di conoscerla, già le aveva regalato. O forse, più semplicemente, capovolgerà la scatola e attonita davanti a quella buffa nevicata di lettere sorriderà dicendo a quell'uomo – Tu sei matto. E per sempre lo amerà.

Alessandro Baricco

Davvero ci sono momenti in cui l'onnipresente e logica rete delle sequenze casuali si arrende, colta di sorpresa dalla vita, e scende in platea, mescolandosi tra il pubblico, per lasciare che sul palco, sotto le luci della libertà vertiginosa e improvvisa, una mano invisibile peschi nell'infinito grembo del possibile... e tra milioni di cose, una sola ne lasci accadere.

Alessandro Baricco