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    Olio di …what?

    The origin of “oliodisemi” and the seed container. Once upon a time, back in 1996 or so, a good friend of mine – nerdy genius few years ahead of us all – wanted me to make my first email address. He told me I would use it to write to people and I could not see the meaning of this cold “letters” to be sent via this new connected stuff over the landline. Yet, he kind of forced me and I considered that to be a random useless thing to do. Why not. Choosing my name would be too boring, I told him, so I asked my mum in the…