THIS IS NOT A BLOG - It is a casbah. The word casbah (or qasbah) denotes the walled citadel of many North African cities and towns. This site hosts some personal facts and something on my opinion it's worth to be published on the web.
At the beginning I simply registered this domain to put my pictures, guitar tabs etc not to interfere with my serious sites. In those days my ambition was the weblog. After seeing lot of weblogs (for inspiration), I realized they are not for me.

I am currently restyling the site. Sorry for the missing parts.

I joined Facebook and Skype tribes (and my Skype's username is roldano_debastiani) while I closed my accounts at LinkedIn and Xing. Actually I consider the business oriented social networks a big waste of time, no matter what some friends of mine claim when speaking about Internet 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 and so forth.
Who's right? I don't know. It's a fact whenever you reach a goal, there's always someone who says: Oh, THAT step? It's passé, my darling.

I should start from my name and my family name (a unique combination of rare words).
Acrdncoig to a reecnt reaersch, it's not ipormantt how the sginle leettrs are ordreed in a wrod. The olny imrtapont tihng is the frist and lsat letetr are in the rghit palce.
We dno't raed snilge ltreets but the wolhe wrod. And so that's why most people call me Rolando or Ronaldo! Those are more common names than Roldano.
Concerning my family name I drawed a distribution map of De Bastiani in the Italian territory.
At the end, I tried to sketch my personality in (only) ten quotes.

I have been interested in China since my trip to Hong Kong in 1997. I currently work as commercial director at Nuovo Mondo International, a consulting company based in Shanghai (China) and Bologna (Italy).
My Chinese topics are published on a China affairs website. There's also a short resume of mine.
I am a student of Zhong Wen (Chinese language) and what you see below are the ideograms of my Chinese name (Ye Yi Fan).

Tribil Inferiore - Where my roots are.
CICAP (Comitato Italiano per il Controllo delle Affermazioni sul Paranormale - Italian Committee for the Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal) - I support CICAP (the Italian version of CSICOP) since 1997 maintaining the CICAP Emilia-Romagna group website.

"When someone is 55 percent right, that's very good and there's no use wrangling. And if someone in 60 percent right, it's wonderful, it's great luck, and let him thank God. But what's to be said about 75 percent right? Wise people say this is suspicious. Well, and what about 100 percent right? Whoever says he's 100 percent right is a fanatic, a thug, and the worst kind of rascal."
Quoted from The Captive Mind by Polish winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1980 Czesław Miłosz.

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind.... And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded with patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader, and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar.

This site has almost no graphics because I'm very much in favor of emphasizing the content (what I am trying to communicate) over the MEDIUM (the web page). My opinion on graphic abuse is here.
Why am I using English instead of the Italian? Because this is the language of the Internet and most people I know are able to read my basic writing. Where Italian is strictly required the page is in Italian and sometimes translated.