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Giving New Life to the L400 Dash: A 5-Month DIY Journey

If you own a Mitsubishi Delica L400, you are probably familiar with the factory triple-gauge pod sitting right in the middle of the dashboard. In the older models, this little housing packs a compass, a volt meter, and a vehicle slope/attitude meter.

Over time, it is incredibly common for these factory instruments to fail. In my case, both the compass and the slope meter had been dead for a couple of years. I finally grew tired of looking at that wasted prime real estate on my dash. The volt meter was still working perfectly and is genuinely useful, so I set out on a mission: keep the functioning voltometer, scrap the broken gauges, and redesign the rest of the pod into a modular, future-proof anchoring system.

Here is how a quick weekend idea turned into a painstaking, highly rewarding 5-month engineering project.

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Northern and Central Italy trip – December 2025 – Part two

And here we are, the second part! Excited… to be part of this journey around Europe?
Sorry, it took me a while to organise the time; I will start now to share with you my little trip in the old country. Here you are, the second part of Italy.

Here are the towns we have been visiting between the five regions of Italy: Lombardy, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, and Umbria.

  • Bergamo
  • Sirmione
  • Padova
  • Venezia
  • Prosecco wine region
  • Bologna
  • Firenze
  • Pisa
  • Volterra
  • SanGiminiano
  • Siena
  • Castriglione al Lago
  • Perugia
  • Assisi
  • Gubbio

Enjoy and see you next week, which will be in Bulgaria!

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Stop Hiring More People to Fix Burnout. You’re Doing It Wrong.

I recently lost a LinkedIn post in my feed, but the argument stuck with me. A hospitality “professional” was discussing the industry’s massive issue with staff burnout and exhaustion. Their brilliant solution?

“Just hire more people to improve work-life balance.”

Let’s be completely honest. As someone with 32 years of experience in this industry—spanning completely different markets from Italy to Australia—I can tell you that this advice is not just wrong; it’s actually contributing to the problem.

Here is why adding more bodies to a broken system backfires:

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Riflessioni sulla politica Italiana Monti Napolitano e Berlusconi…

Ed ecco che il cerchio si chiude.
Le borse crollano più di un anno fà. Napolitano chiede a Berlusconi di lasciare la sua poltrona fino a che l’economia non si riprenda a sufficenza. Berlusconi non vuole e Napolitano gli promette un ritorno sulle scene dopo che il problema si sia risolto. Berlusconi ci pensa ma sono le sue società quotate in borsa a fargli prendere la via che lo porterà in silenzio per un anno. Continue reading “Riflessioni sulla politica Italiana Monti Napolitano e Berlusconi…”