Archive for April, 2008

TIM = Typical Italian Monopoly

2008.04.29

Telecom Italia Mobile, or TIM, really stands for Typical Italian Monopoly.
TIM customer service is a Kafka-esque battle beginning with the TIM defensive strategy which includes much delay and obfuscation; making the client wait on the phone (paying for the pleasure of receiving customer service) hoping that he/she eventually gets frustrated and goes away…unserved. […]

Filed under: Italian companies

So, you gotta car? I am partial to fire engine red myself…

2008.04.28

Filed under: Uncategorized, fast cars

From Italia to Utah with Love: Nuclear Waste

2008.04.18

I just read in my reliable International Herald Tribune that a company called Energy Solutions is petitioning Congress for permission to import 20,000 tons of nuclear waste from Italy to Utah. I wonder what all the Utah-ions think about this. Perhaps they are still too enthralled with Warren Jeffs and his ilk & […]

Filed under: Current events

Welcome back Silvi!

2008.04.15

Really, what took you so long? I was hoping you’d come back, mainly so I could continue referring to Italia as Berlusconia.
There was just nothing comparable I could do with Romano Prodi’s last name. That, and I miss seeing your smiling mug on TV all the time. One minor suggerimento from a […]

Filed under: Current events

Out of India…

2008.04.14

…just barely, we left India on Saturday at about 2 am after a rather terse airport encounter with security over a certain colleague who insisted on checking more than 3,000 kg. in luggage acquired during a month’s travels in Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
In somma, there was never a dull moment in India, and […]

Filed under: Art & culture

American Girl is on a work furlough in Chennai, India

2008.04.09

Greetings from “Incredible India,” (their travel motto, not necessarily always how I describe it). It is very hot and steamy here, but I am cloistered in a nice eco-hotel conference room during the day, discussing microfinance related laws.
Life in India, from what I observe is misery for about 80% of the population–the rest live […]

Filed under: Art & culture, Current events