Monthly Archives: October 2011

Five recent deaths we should have mourned (and we didn’t)

When the brouhaha for the death of Steve Jobs just settled, here in Italy we are just ending another famous-guy-dies frenzy in the media: this time, a young guy who was particularly good at going in circles on top of a motorbike seems to have become the New National Hero to mourn -with people kludging

That’s all that needs to be said.

RIP Dennis Ritchie.

Why the death of Steve Jobs is good news

Among the comments on the Economist web site about the recent death of Steve Jobs, the vast majority praising the man like he was a saint and a spiritual guru, one shined for its insight: “A great quote from Slashdot: “From the fall of AOL to the rise of iComputing, we had a 12 year