@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ content-type: article
 timestamp: 1144560780
 tags: "italy|politics"
 -----
-<p class="float-right"><img src="http://www.berluscastop.it/v_imag/sodom1.gif" alt="" /></p>
+<p class="float-right"><img src="/images/ortolani-elections.gif" alt="" /></p>
 <p>Another five years have passed and here we go again: General Elections time!<br />
 	Today and tomorrow Italy <del>must</del> should vote for a new government, and the choice is <em>again</em> between
 	two main contenders to the Prime Minister's <del>throne</del> chair:</p>
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ Silvio's Show?'</em></a> in which the author examines the possibility that Berlusconi's five years of subtle
 	pseudo-dictatorship may end in favour the former president of European Commission Romano Prodi.</p>
 <p><em>Who are they?</em></p>
 <h3>Silvio Berlusconi</h3>
-<img src="http://www.consapevolezza.it/notizie/gen-mar-2002/imgs/berlusconi_corna_5.jpg" alt="" />
 <p>I can't imagine someone asking this question, at least I can't think of anyone who doesn't know Silvio Berlusconi as
 	the icon of the latest <em>national oddity</em>. <br />
 	Forthose who need their memory refreshed, here's a small collection of links featuring him:</p>
@@ -49,7 +48,6 @@ </ul>
 <p>Nice, isn't it? Of course he had to give those societies to some trusted administrators before becoming Prime
 	Minister&#8230; but let's not talk about this&#8230;</p>
 <h3>Romano Prodi</h3>
-<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/04/Prodi.jpg/200px-Prodi.jpg" alt="" />
 <p>Perhaps not as well known abroad as Silvio, but was recently the President of the European Commission for a while.
 	Here are some (more serious) links about him:</p>
 <ul>
@@ -76,7 +74,6 @@ new currency, back in the day, and also the one who was blamed for than after a few months when the <em>Euro
 		effect</em> occurred: prices went higher and didn't seem to be an <em>exact conversion</em> from Lire to Euro.
 	He was chubby enough (&#8220;mortadella&#8221; is one of his most recurring nicknames) to be quickly appointed as
 	scapegoat for the unpleasant situation.</p>
-<p class="float-left"><img src="http://www.dsmirandola.it/sg/img/berlusconi_corna.jpg" alt="" /></p>
 <p>Besides that, if someone asks me what's the difference between the two candidates, I'll answer: one is a politician
 	and devoted all his life to Politics, while the other partly devoted only the last 10-years-or-so to politics
 	because it seemed to be <em>a cool and worthwhile investment</em>&#8230;</p>

@@ -271,10 +271,6 @@ <p>&#8230;And we still have our other half of the honeymoon, too! Probably Miami Beach and Bahamas, next November.</p>
 <h3 id="photos">Photos</h3>
 <p>Our wedding photos were taken by <a href="http://www.patmccoole.ie/">Pat McCoole</a>, who did a truly amazing job
 	portraying the magic of our special day.</p>
-<p><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="600"
-		height="400"
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 <h3 id="trivia">Trivia</h3>
 <ul>
 	<li>On the wedding day, it rained non-stop from 12 am to 7 pm.</li>

@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ component</a><br />
     <a href="http://rossoft.wordpress.com/2006/03/16/image-auth-component/">Image Auth &#8211; <span
             class="caps">CAPTCHA</span> component</a>
 </p>
-<p class="float-right"><img src="http://xcite-online.de/spliceit/themes/SpliceIt/logo.png" alt="" /></p>
 <p><a href="http://www.thinkingphp.org/">ThinkingPHP</a> is another &#8220;technical&#8221; Cake blog, with interesting
     code snippets and thoughts about our favourite <span class="caps">PHP</span> framework. For those who don't
     know or don't remember him (yes, like me&#8230;), he's the author of <a
@@ -70,7 +69,6 @@ &#8211; and most notabily: Modularization of often used Code Segments</p>
 </blockquote>
 <p>i.e. something I should have checked before recoding this website. I'll definitely keep this in mind for the
     next release of h3rald.com.</p>
-<p class="float-left"><img src="http://rdos.rd11.com/img/rd11/rdlogo.gif" alt="" /></p>
 <p><a href="http://rd11.com/posts">Posts@ rd11</a> a.k.a. gwoo [and seth]&#8216;s blog. Moment of silence. Gwoo is
     CakePHP's project manager (respect+) and one of the lead developers of CakePHP and he also actually uses Cake
     for his website and blog instead of WordPress :)<br />

@@ -197,6 +197,3 @@ ActiveState to “[…] create an open source platform for building developer environments. ActiveState has
 	open-sourced elements of Komodo Edit, a free multi-language editor for dynamic languages based on Komodo <span
 		class="caps">IDE</span>, to create the Open Komodo code base&#8221;. A new competitor for Eclipse and Netbeans
 	will be available soon?</p>
-<p><a href="http://digg.com/programming/A_closer_look_at_Komodo_Edit"><br />
-		<img src="http://digg.com/img/badges/180x35-digg-button.png" width="180" height="35" alt="Digg!" /><br />
-	</a></p>

@@ -60,12 +60,10 @@ </em><br /></blockquote><br /><br />This makes sense to me: Web 2.0 seems to be more user friendly, simply because a
 lot of non-geeks are browsing the web everyday and clicking on adverts.<br /><br />Once you import all your bookmarks,
 you'll have an almost exact copy of your bookmarks collection, now available online! If you don't want to share them,
 because you believe in anti-social bookmarking or you just want to have a backup, you can import all your bookmarks as
-"private", and you can toggle the status by clicking <img src="http://ma.gnolia.com/images/icons/privacy-on.gif"
-    alt="" /> or <img src="http://ma.gnolia.com/images/icons/privacy-off.gif" alt="" />, whenever you like: the magic of
+"private", and you can toggle the status by clicking the appropriate buttons, whenever you like: the magic of
 Ajax[14] will do the rest. <br />You can also rate your bookmarks from one to five stars, but <em>only</em> yours:
 ma.gnolia is not a pointless competition to be the one who links the most and best websites.<br /><br /><em>What if I
-    want to delete a bookmark?</em> Quick hint: <img src="http://ma.gnolia.com/images/icons/delete.gif"
-    alt="" /><br /><br /><em><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Yes, you can tag as much as you
+    want to delete a bookmark?</em> Sure you can, by clicking the delete button.<br /><br /><em><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Yes, you can tag as much as you
         like</span></em><br />No, there are no folders. Forget it. For me it started with Gmail[15] and it was shocking
 enough: there are no folders, but you can tag your messages. This can be disorienting for some, but once you have
 overcome the initial trauma, you will realize that tags can be better than folders in some cases. At any rate, Web 2.0
@@ -81,10 +79,8 @@ and gender, add an avatar, a webpage and so on, and you can create your own profile, just like anywhere else on the
 Internet.<br />Furthermore, Ma.gnolia allows <em>groups</em>: you can create, join, and leave a group of bookmarkers who
 share the same interests as you. Why would you want to do this? The answer to that question is simple and self-evident:
 because what is enjoyed by one person will likely be enjoyed by other people who share the same interests. Once you are
-part of a group you can send a bookmark to that particular group (<img
-    src="http://ma.gnolia.com/images/icons/send-to-group.gif" alt="" />), or at least that's that ideal; if you just
-want to send a particular address to only one person you can do so (<img
-    src="http://ma.gnolia.com/images/icons/send-to-contact.gif" alt="" />), provided that that person is already in your
+part of a group you can send a bookmark to that particular group, or at least that's that ideal; if you just
+want to send a particular address to only one person you can do so, provided that that person is already in your
 contact list, and to do so there's a specific button (not icon this time) in everyone's profile. <br />You'll notice a
 <em>Messages</em> link in the main navigation panel, and that's exactly where the bookmark (and only the bookmark) will
 go once you send it to your friend. At the moment you <em>cannot</em> send a traditional message to someone, unless you

@@ -14,22 +14,8 @@ liking.</p>
 <p>So I decided to try something different: bubbles! <a href="http://www.bubbl.us/">Bubbl.us</a> is an interesting
 	online flash application which lets you create bubbles. You can create bubbles and relationships between them,
 	change their color, their dimensions etc. And above all it's absolutely fun to use. I created two bubble
-	sheets, the first one to define how content will be organized in the next version of ItalySimply:</p>
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-		codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="450"
-		height="340" id="bblviewer"><br />
-		<param name="movie" value="http://bubbl.us/sys/view.swf?sid=26306&pw=yaeyI.megNtZcMTh3azVsVjhwVEt0TQ" /><br />
-		<param name="quality" value="high" /><br />
-		<param name="SeamlessTabbing" value="false" /><br />
-		<param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="always" /><br />
-		<param name="FlashVars"
-			value="_sid=26306&_title=ItalySimply%20v3%20-%20Content&_z=75&_pw=yaeyI.megNtZcMTh3azVsVjhwVEt0TQ" /><br />
-		<embed src="http://bubbl.us/sys/view.swf?sid=26306&pw=yaeyI.megNtZcMTh3azVsVjhwVEt0TQ"
-			FlashVars="_sid=26306&_title=ItalySimply%20v3%20-%20Content&_z=75&_pw=yaeyI.megNtZcMTh3azVsVjhwVEt0TQ"
-			quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
-			type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" height="340" allowscriptaccess="always"
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-	</object></p>
+	sheets, the first one to define how content will be organized in the next version of ItalySimply.</p>
+<p><em>Diagram no longer available</em></p>
 <p>The diagram identifies three main types of content:</p>
 <ul>
 	<li>Houses &#8211; basically what the site is about: house listing with information and pictures about houses for
@@ -44,22 +30,6 @@ <li>Categories</li>
 	<li>An internal search engine, allowing people to filter houses according to some criteria.</li>
 </ul>
 <p>The other sheet focuses on relationships between content and users.</p>
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 <p>At the far sides we have users and administrators, and in the middle how they interact between themselves or with
 	content, in particular:</p>
 <ul>