My opinions on ...

• Scientific research in Italy (so far Italian only unless otherwise stated)
  • Opinions of a naive guy (1997)
  • The last reform procedure (1999) general and for CNR
  • The current reform procedure (2003) february preliminaries and june reality
  • The implementation of the reform for INAF (as of April 2004 inclusive of later updates to December 2004)
  • More considerations about INAF (February 2006)
  • Yet other considerations about INAF (January 2007)
  • And again a new reform of INAF (July-August 2007)
  • slowly progressing (January 2008)
  • or bending on itself (December 2008)
  • Yet another complex reform (December 2009)
  • with an addendum on the early work on INAF statutes (April 2010)
  • in the meanwhile a general document about Spending cuts and research in Italy (July 2010, in English and italian)
    see also a detail on mission expenses arrangement (Oct 2011 !)
  • and the recapitulation about INAF statutes (August 2010)
  • with a first addendum (October 2010) and a second addendum (May 2011) on the statutes of the other research institutions
  • see also my paper on the statutes on SAIt's Giornale di Astronomia (March 2011)
    and my "astrosiesta" internal talk on 150 years of science in Italy (in English)
  • a short note about the new "spending review" (August 2012, in English and italian)
  • a further note about the "stability law" (October 2012, in English and italian)
  • a quick and dirty statistic about ASN (National Scientific Habilitation; September 2013, in English and italian)
    updated with ASN results, January 2014
  • a letter (May 2014) in reply to the enquiry of the Government about the reform of the public administration
  • a note about an internal INAF discussion about the so-called exit from the public administration (Dec 2015, released May 2016)
  • a further note about the evolution of the exit from the public administration (May 2016)

• Programming languages ( Real Programmers Do It in Fortran ...oh yes, even CGI scripts.)
• The Unix (and other) operating system
• Editors and word processors
• Scripting languages
• Windows and window managers (mainly fvwm)
• Public domain software
• the Web
• Space (and astronomical) projects, how not to manage them
• Public transport (provisional location, italian only)

• and finally some apologues
• the series Where Man Wins Over the Machine
• and the noie (annoyances)