I can’t tell you the number of social networks that I now belong to: first and foremost of course – honor due -, Facebook; then there’s Twitter, Google Circles, LinkedIn, Viadeo, Foursquare, and I’m still counting. Plusthere’s a bunch of Smartphone applications which I download, as they emerge, some out of need and some out of mere curiosity so as, as the French saying goes, not to die an ignorant. There’re those that I use regularly, and those that I do not even look at anymore; those that amuse me, and those that annoy me; those which I find useful, [...]

“I can resist anything except temptation”, Oscar Wilde Just like the next guy, I have my routine: same restaurants, same pubs, same discos, same mates, same shoe and clothing shops, same bakery, same holiday spot, same job, and same bed, … I guess I like to take roots; it makes me feel safe. It gives me a feeling of “belonging”. And just like the next guy, I also like to break out of my routine – boredom’s faithful ally. So I often catch myself looking out on to something else: to those places I’ve never been to but that I [...]