This is the crazy leaflet Luca made to attract the attention on our stage offer, while this is the serious version with the detailed description of the offer and the necessary requirements.
It’s actually a search for an extraordinary person!
Joel Spolsky in his book Joel on Software, recommends searching for brilliant and results-producing people, qualities rarely coexisting in the same person.
Experience in this case isn’t relevant, we know we can’t pretend too much from a student, but it’s clear we’re going to invest in this person so that he or she could take an active role in our entrepreneurial project and watch i-muse™ grow together.
Given the kind of job a female figure would have a great advantage, but this won’t be a discriminating factor.
A fine presence will instead, and this is not a joke!
Let’s say it: being fine-looking is pretty easy nowadays, it shows respect for yourself and for the people you need communicating with, while being smart is not at all in my opinion.
As the marketing guru Seth Godin wrote: your references are your curriculum, so if you’d like to send it to us write them down before anything else and then write why you’d like to get involved in the i-muse™ project.
Just a few words will be ok, the essential making all the difference!

Taking advantage of a couple of spring-like days to say the least, last week I went to Mantua on my Vespa where I’m attending a course by Regione Lombardia, the Saturn Project - support for the enterprise planet, aimed to support new entrepreneurial activities.
The course is intensive and well organized by the Centro Studi Castelli’s consultants. I’m appreciating the very practical setting and the direct application of the concepts to the entrepreneurial ideas of the twelve people attending it.
A really useful course for the administrative management of our i-muse™ project.
Since I had two contiguous days for the course I decided to sleep at the Ostello del Mincio, a really pleasant place and with the best website among the others of the Hostels in which I slept this summer during the Vespatour.
On Friday morning after visiting the exhibition devoted to Mantegna in Palazzo Te I had a walk in the Mantua’s historic center and now I put online a photo gallery with the title: La Vespa sul Mincio.

It really was a great satisfaction being able to tell for the first time how the entrepreneurial idea which led me, Guido and Luca to create i-muse™ was born and evolved.
Sara Della Torre, the journalist author of the article about our project published on Wednesday on the newspaper La Provincia, put perfectly into words the whole story.
During the interview I noticed that she was amazed by the numerous positive coincidences which took place during the evolution of the project, such as how I managed to involve Luca and Guido or how we created the logo.
We still have a lot to demonstrate, we know this very well, but probably what isn’t too much evident from the outside yet, or it’s a bit underestimated, is how much work we did until now to come to this point.
We’re now searching for a fourth extraordinary person. Finding him won’t be easy at all, so we start doing this early.
Thanks to the office at the Polytechnic things are moving pretty fast now!
We already have the website online: www.i-muse.info
We’re still working on it, but we hope you like it.
Meanwhile we can enjoy the compliments the nice article on La Provincia granted us.

Tell me the truth.. where are you storing your passwords to access sites, read email or log on to your PC?
In a simple text file or even on a paper note?
Well, in that case it’s useless hoping nothing bad will ever happen because it will happen!
It’s not good news but it’s statistic hard data: identity theft is an ever growing threat and the source of never ending hassles even before we could even notice it.
I did this sort of inattention too, then I understood and I began using a software to safely store my passwords and other personal data. It was fundamental for me that such software run on both the desktop and PDA and I choose eWallet by Iliumsoft since it seemed to me the best solution. It actually changed everything. Now my data is always safe and at hand when I’m around with my PDA: it’s all a matter of habits!
Now that they released version 5.0 they added a lot of improvements both to the graphics and the synchronization capabilities between the PC and the PDA, so it’s very easy to use.
Send Murphy’s Law to the hell and trash the paper notes with the passwords!
It’s a weak system for your security, much more than not keeping updated the antivirus or the operative system.
Before trashing them be sure to add the data to your favorite electronic wallet!

Could ever exist something better than doing charity while having fun?
I don’t think so, especially in these times, but it’s exactly what will happen on Sunday evening if you’ll come to the Teatro Sociale in Como where Flavio Oreglio, the great cathartic poet from Zelig, will perform in a musical show whose profits will go to Il Sole, the local Onlus devoted to distance adoptions and international cooperation projects.
Their project Reborning Flowers, aimed to give psychological support to child victims of rape in Addis Abeba in Ethiopia is having a difficult time due to the critical situation in the area and I think Flavio will talk about this during the show. One more reason to contribute to such a delicate project while spending a special evening, not only different.
The tickets go from 25 to 10 Euros.
Mrs. Olivia Piro, Il Sole’s president, yesterday evening told me she’s dreaming of a theater at full… let’s help her making her dream come true!

The Romans had a pretty deep knowledge about the research for the harmony between mind and body to keep ourselves in shape and feeling active and lively. So why don’t try listening to our wise ancestors?
I was really missing this kind of harmony, but since I tried going to the gym to put back in shape my back aching due to long hours spent working with the PC I finally understood the true meaning of that phrase.
Recently it has been thanks to the Palestra 100 that I realized how much a pleasant environment can make the physical training even more pleasant.
The three months I spent there before leaving for the Vespatour have been really invaluable to engage in such an intensive and often tiring journey.
Because of this I’d like to thank the people who made the experience at the gym so pleasant. From Angelo Sguazzero, the director, a former hundred meter runner and athletic trainer in some Serie A Italian football teams, who with his interest for psychology applied to physical training really surprised me about things very few trainers even take into consideration.
Also thanks to his daughter Silvia, a former dance champion, and to Elisa I learned to do stretching by breathing correctly, something that has now become a good early morning habit. Not to speak about the other trainers and the fantastic SPA (Salus per aquam) area, a real relax paradise. If the hydromassage, the sauna and the turkish bath are not enough, there are Veronica e Tania, the two massagers able to make your back melt!
It’s not the cheapest gym in Como at all but it’s really worth its cost in my opinion.
These aren’t words written for convenience or hidden purposes, this is actually an appreciation for a place where I find myself at ease, so I’ll be happy if this post will be useful in promoting the gym.
I sent them one of the only two postcards (the other one is a bit more personal) I wrote and sent during the Vespatour to thank them for making me understand what actually means Mens sana in corpore sano.

When I told my friend Lydia I was planning the tour around Italy on my Vespa she recommended me not to miss the Marmore Falls. So on the way to Rome, starting from Melezzole di Montecchio in Umbria, where I slept one night at the fabulous Palazzo degli Anselmi, I decided to spend the afternoon at the falls.
I reached the area just a few minutes before they released the water, since they stop it at regular times to power the nearby hydroelectric power plant, so I had the chance to stare at the impressive increasing flux of water and the rainbow taking shape at the bottom of the first 90 meters long fall.
The air around the falls was crisp and fresh all the day. There was such a feeling of wellness that I totally forgot the bad cold I got during the previous days.
Actually they say there are negative ions in these areas due to the water falling over the rocks and these ions help cleaning the air by making bad particles precipitate.
When I read modern air cleaners/ionizers actually works exploiting this principle I ordered one and after two months in my bedroom I can say it really made a difference.
Now I installed the machine in the office and I attached on it the second picture of the falls you can see here.
I feel better just by looking at the picture and even the air feels better in a place where I’m now spending most of my time.
A big thanks to Lydia for his tip about the Marmore Falls!

I was really curious to see it since it’s the famous sculpture by Umberto Boccioni represented on the italian 20 cents Euro coins, whose bronze reproduction is now exposed at Palazzo Reale in Milan in an exhibition well organized by Laura Mattioli Rossi focused on the sculptural work of the futurist artist.
I managed to see all the pieces represented on the italian Euro coins, most of them during the Vespatour this summer: Castel del Monte near Bari on the 1 cent coins, the Mole Antonelliana in Torino on the 2 cents, the Colosseum on the 5 cents, the Birth of Venus in Firenze on the 10 cents, the Marcus Aurelius’s equestrian statue in Roma on the 50 cents, while I found the Vitruvian Man by Leonardo and Dante more than once during the section in Tuscany of the Vespatour.
We have lots of beautiful art pieces in Italy and now I can say they made the best choices for our coins.
The sculpture by Boccioni is really fascinating, starting from its name. It expresses a dynamism and a fusion between the human body and the surrounding air unique to say the least!
Even the comment by the curator I listened through the audioguide was great, but if there had been i-muse™…