April 2015

The old and the new face of NetMassimo Blog side by side

About four and a half years after its birth, for the first time I changed the theme of my NetMassimo Blog. This was necessary in order to adapt it to the new requirements related to a proper display on mobile devices. The spread of such type of visits also prompted Google to consider the correct view of a site on mobile devices as a parameter in its search ranking.

Apollo 23 by Justin Richards

The novel “Apollo 23” by Justin Richards was published for the first time in 2010.

When the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond stumble upon an astronaut in a space suit in a mall, they suspect that something strange is happening. By using the sonic screwdriver, the Doctor finds a quantum displacement and the two travelers take the Tardis to go to the Moon to investigate. There they find a secret base.

Nobody could think that there may be intruders on the Moon so the Doctor and Amy can easily pass for a scientist accompanied by his assistant. Their help seems needed because the quantum displacement equipment isn’t working properly. The Doctor discovers that someone sabotaged it and that’s just the first oddity.

Screenshot from the original video game Descent

A few days ago the fundraising campaign for “Descent: Underground” ended. It’s a video game of the first-person-shooter (FPS) type, a reboot of the classic video game “Descent”. The fundraising was conducted using the crowdfunding method on the famous Kickstarter website. In order to proceed with the funding it was necessary to raise $600,000 and they raised $601.773.

Tomorrow, Saturday, April 18, 2015 the NBA playoffs 2015 are starting. In this season injuries heavily influenced some teams’ performance. The result is that three of the four Conference finalists from a year ago, Oklahoma City Thunder, Indiana Pacers and Miami Heat, haven’t reached the playoffs. Instead, all teams of the Shouthwest Division reached them, a sign of the Western Conference’s high level.

Nokia announced that it reached an agreement to buy Alcatel-Lucent for 15.6 billion Euros (about $16.6 billion) in a share exchange. In the end Alcatel-Lucent’s shareholders will own 33.5% of the combined share capital while Nokia’s shareholders will own the remaining 66.5%. The company involved is the “true” Nokia, not the Devices & Services unit sold to Microsoft in 2013.