Continuing in the tradition of using song titles and commenting on today’s experiment at CERN, I am still waiting for the black hole. Okay, ther would have been other alternatives such as Supermassive Black Hole by Muse or Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden. All of which, however, has, amazingly nothing to do with what I have been doing today! 
Instead of worrying about the end of the world, I have invested in my future at the Politecnico and completed another stage of bureaucracy! This time the goal was to get access to a printer and an E-Mail account. With the much appreciated help of Davide, I accomplished both tasks in half a day! Must be a new World, ehm Italian Record. Apart from that I have worked some more on the survey paper, now being able to print the latest version to read it in paper. Then, I also read through a report by the guys that work on stream processing and I will annoy them tomorrow with some questions and feedback!
This is, indeed, all very interesting, but the real question that was on my mind today was, when is a cover of a song a good cover? After doing some lunch-time research on YouTube, I have come to a personal hypothesis. A good cover of a song is a performance that stands on its own and give the existing material a new spin. It can make you aware of something that has always been there, but you never noticed. Furthermore, a band covering a song should also make it “theirs” in the sense that the song should sound and fell as if it were written by the band originally. Actually, it pretty much the same criteria I would have for a good theatre or opera production. Well not entirely, but still… A very good example that I think illustrates what I am trying to say here is the following. (I admit it, I didn’t know that they had covered this song… Shame on me!)
Now, I am off to watch the Switzerland vs. Luxemburg football match! Hopp Schwiiz!
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