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Today is the 25th of April – and Italy celebrates the end of the Fascist regime and the end of the Nazi occupation of Italy.
On that day partisan and allied forces entered Turin, the city where my family had lived during the war years.

Today is a National Holiday, and it is the day I remember my grandfather, whose codename was “Il Povero” (“The Poor Man”) and that fought with the partisans for the liberation.
He had done his part because he believed it was the right thing to do, and he did not expect any compensation – but for his efforts he was awarded a small refund of a soldier’s pay, and was then downgraded from engineer to janitor when he got back to work for FIAT.
Apparently somebody did like the Nazis and the Fascists, after all.

Anyway, here’s for my grandfather and for his generation.
And for everybody else.
Let’s put the pressure on…

Looks like my bad luck streak with my PC is continuing: after the problems with the video, today it was the turn of the browser (Firefox), that for unknown reasons decided to freeze my system completely every time I tried to scroll a page.

The problem can apparently be solved by dumping all the Firefox personal files in the .mozilla folder – but that means losing all my passwords and personal settings.
Quite a drag.

So, considering I had to start from scratch anyway, I decided to test a fresh-off-the-press new browser – it’s called Vivaldi, and it was developed by some of the people behind the original Opera.