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Einstein Quiz Solved !

On 12/12/2007 the post started like this: “Einstein said that 98% of the people in the world cannot solve his riddle. Are you among the other 2%?”

So, ARE YOU??? follow me for the solution

Solution to quiz posted on http://www.macchetta.com/manolo/322/2007/einstein-quiz.html - the so called Einstein quiz - it s not very complicated.. it s just a bit long (15-20 minutes), so probably the 2% is the people who have enough patience to go on…
i m posting a walktrough, hoping you like. Please feel free to post comment and/ or give us more quiz… we love them!

get the einstein quiz solved (.xls excel file)

Summing up the quiz:

There are 5 houses in 5 different colors
In each house lives a person with a different nationality
These 5 owners drink a certain beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet.
No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same drink.
Further Details

1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
5. The green house owner drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blend lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.

The question is … WHO KEEPS FISH?

How __I___ solved it (in 15 minutes :-)

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Merry Xmas!

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Merry

Christmas

to all!!!Enjoy this

nice tree, enjoy your holiday

and all !I will be back in 10 days but

some post are coming anyway ( like the

long waited solution to the Einstein quiz, some

Nice present idea for next year, maybe some picture

from Peru.

Warm Hugs

- - - - - - Manolo - - - - -

-4 to Peru..

As some might know, this holiday i m going to meet my skool mate Elsa in peru.
She is half peruvian, half italian and has studied in my university ( Luigi Bocconi) before getting her
MBA in Menchester. After many year of posticipation today i decided to go to Peru.
I also got the book “fingerprint of Gods” by Hancock, just to enjoy more the Inka and Ozmecan megalitic buildings.

the trip highpoint will be the inka trail, which in a perfect timing i ll spend on NYE !!

i m leaving on the 25th,
26th Lima to rest from jet leg.
27 to 30 : Paracas / nazca
30 to 5: machupichu, cuzco, inka trail
6 till way back.. lets see.

you might wonder if 6 days in Cuzco / machu pichu aren’t too much… i wondered that too, then i found this picture:

courtesly of: http://globetrottingwayfarers.blogspot.com/2007/07/new7wonders.html

SEO and SEM and similiar

I am doing some experiments with SEO, robots.txt, meta word and web optimisation stuff on my other site www.genkisound.com . I ve read some internet articles, i m reading some book about that , and while it s MUCH more complicated than it seems the experiment are turning out well.

I ll give myself a couple more months on that site and I ll move my knowledge on this and other “commercial” site I am working on ( I ve a small business in doing personal and small companies homepage ).I have changed my permalinks so some url may be fuckd up .. soooorry

If someone is interested i ll do some PDF regarding that. ..
meanwhile i added a social bookmark below each post (feel free to add on you facebook page)

Dalai Lama in Milan

It s wicked how some of my most “intense” experience (Natural Park trip in Usa, my trip in Borneo, various love adventure :-) don’t find space on this blog. while I am not starting to brag now, i think some of them has to be written down, for future reading…

So here it’s - the Dalai Lama in Milano!
I am not buddist and I am kinda ignorant about it ( i remember i studied it, alomg with Shinto, for an exam on “japan’s religions” when i was studying Japanese at Ismeo… but it was early 90s :-|).
Not only I am (proudly) ignorant about it, but i didnt make any research before going to listen to him. I preferred to get it as it came.
did i make right? did i make wrong?

Day 01 morning
the Queue to enter the Palasharp was Huuuge and bad organised, we still manage to eneter in 30 minutes, due gate opening from organisation (wise idea). There was a shit load of people from many nationaities, Tibetans, French, German above all.  Age was ranging from people in their 20’s to geezer… very interesting. Few monks, few stereotypized people … mostly were normal looking.. very good!
His Holiness spoke in english and then traslation.
The traslator was very good in speaking but lacked the “energy” of the Dalai Lama, i ll come back on this later.
Basically: an interesting view of religion / teologism / philosophy… about rebirth and so onnice stuuf, i could have probably found it in a book, but this way it was much better… in the break i went to a Mall nearby to eat and have a look for xmas presents

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Einstein Quiz

Below is a quiz written by Einstein last century (we are in the 00’s babe!) . i remember the first time i did i spit blood on it.. so enjoy. this is the most difficult on this site to date.

Einstein said that 98% of the people in the world cannot solve his riddle. Are you among the other 2%?
Facts:

• There are 5 houses in 5 different colors
• In each house lives a person with a different nationality
• These 5 owners drink a certain beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet.
• No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same drink.

Further Details

1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
5. The green house owner drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blend lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.

The question is … WHO KEEPS FISH?

full solution (with tutorial) will be my Xmas present for you :-)

Haiku -

A lot of time ago, I wrote about Haiku ( and I also post some of mine..) but I never wrote what they are..

here it s and explanation, ripped from http://www.tatamido.it/haiku/cosa.html

 

Ci sono piccolissime cose nella vita che possono affascinare, una di queste è l’Haiku.

Cos’è un haiku?

Con il termine haiku si intende un componimento breve di 5-7-5 sillabe privo di titolo, fiorito anticamente in Giappone.

Non è una poesia vera e propria, non è un un aforisma, non è un detto. È solo un semplice gioiello che raccoglie in 17 sillabe un’emozione. È un componimento dell’anima, dove tante parole non servono, agisce la delicata e quasi insostenibile leggerezza di una carezza. È raffinata l’emozione di un Haiku, come è raffinata la semplicità.

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Arrgh my Ipod got stuck!

It has happened half a dozen time… what to do??

geekfishing.net tells us: If your iPod is frozen or won’t turn on, the steps to reset it vary by model. You can easily tell which iPod model you have if you’re not sure.

To reset iPod video, iPod nano, iPod mini, iPod mini (Second Generation), iPod photo, and iPod (Click Wheel)

1. Toggle the Hold switch on and off. (Slide it to Hold, then turn it off again.) - I never had this problem in my experience
2. Press and hold the Menu and Select buttons until the Apple logo appears, about 6 to 10 seconds. You may need to repeat this step. - Often this is enough ( keep it pressed for more that 10 secs)
3. If the above steps did not work, try connecting iPod to a power adapter and plug the power adapter into an electrical outlet, or connect iPod to your computer. Make sure the computer is turned on and isn’t set to go to sleep.
   This work when the above point 2 does not. be persistent, if you arrive at this stage your Ipod is __very stuck___ . If you connect your Ipod and Itunes* starts it is a good new, just keep the menu and select button!!
4. If this doesn’t work, then you need to leave the ipod on until its battery is completey drained. Plug it in and when it charges enough go to #1. Repeat as needed. - Reading various blog here and there - it always works..

* By the way uninstall that ITunes shit and download Yamipod : It’s a Freeware application enabling adding and deleting music from the device. you don’t need to install ( just unzip in a folder) so you can bring within you, in a folder in the Ipod!

PS if you found this post useful OR want to add some information, feel free to ADD YOUR COMMENT!

Travian: The long Night of the ninja

- if you just wanna awe with report download the PDF - travian : _gT vs Is4 - la lunga notte del ninja -
Se volete leggere i repor: sono tutti qui: http://forum.travian.it/showthread.php?t=17189

I ve been a mediocre player of this Travian game since S2.t2 ( a couple of years ago :-) coz i ve never been very constant in playing…. then this Server3 come out and it become the “champion league” of Travian: there were the winner of S1.t2, the loser of s1.t2 :-), the winners of s2, WHOLE s4 and so on…. basically all main allies joined in the same sector of the game and thus in a couple of months rules that sector.

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