Google launched today its search engine in blogs, the Google Blog Search . And soon this years'April Fools Day joke, Google gulp will become a reality, instead of a joke! Now, don't get me wrong, I've always liked Google. But this 'Google Supremacy' is starting to make me feel a bit uncomfortable, I' m starting to wonder if Google will be soon asking me.... 'where do you want to go today?' .....


Google inaugura hoy su buscador de palabras en blogs, el Google Blog Search . No, si al final sera verdad que lanzan la bebida Google Gulp en lugar de ser otra broma del dia de los inocentes del anio pasado! No me malinterpreteis. A mi me ha gustado Google desde el principio. Pero este punto al que llegamos de la 'Supremacia Google' me esta empezando a incomodar, hasta que un dia de estos acabara preguntandome... "hasta donde quieres llegar hoy? " ....


The weather today:
Mostly Cloudy
20C
UV Index: 1 Low
Wind: From the Southwest at 15 mph
Dew Point: 18C
Humidity: 88%
Visibility: 6 miles

We would like to enrol to a scuba-diving course next year. For this year, however, we have just decided we'd like to go to the woods and pick some mushrooms ! It may seem a VERY easy and 'soft' option compared to scuba-diving. However, have a good look at any book on edible mushrooms and you will see that for each edible mushroom there are at least three very poisonous lookalikes. I would then say wild mushroom picking (and eating them) is riskier than scuba-diving.

El anio que viene nos gustaria matricularnos en un curso de submarinismo . Para este anio, de momento, lo unico que hemos decidido es que iremos al bosque a buscar setas ! Lo de las setas parece una opcion bien facil y sin riesgos, comparada con el submarinismo. Pues no. Echad una ojeada a cualquier libro donde se de una clasificacion de setas comestibles. Bien pronto vereis que, por cada seta comestible, hay por lo menos dos muy similares pero venenosas. Por eso digo que buscar setas en el bosque (y comerlas, por supuesto) es un deporte de alto riesgo, mucho mas que el submarinismo.


The weather today:
Mostly Cloudy and Windy
19C
UV Index:3 Moderate
Wind: From the West Southwest at 23 mph
Dew Point: 17C
Humidity: 89%
Visibility: 7 miles
Barometer: 1,022.0 mb

Are you fascinated by the rivalry between Steve Jobs (Apple) and Bill Gates (Microsoft)? Now you can enjoy all the complexities of their relationship in a new New York....musical! Nerds The Musical is a 'musical software satire', an "outrageous epic take on the parallel stories of computer pioneers BG and JS, two technological geniuses as they blaze a path from 'garage inventors' to warring titans of the computer revolution".
And I say : what else do you expect for 15 US dollars? of course first you'll have to fly to New York...

Os fascina la rivalidad entre Steve Jobs (Apple) y Bill Gates (Microsoft)? Pues ahora podeis disfrutar de una manera amena y divertida de las complejidades de esta relacion en un nuevo....musical de Nueva York!!! Nerds The Musical ('nerd' en ingles es similar en signicado a 'freak, freakie' o 'friki' tal como se ha espaniolizado la palabra) es un 'satirico musical de software', una "increible epopeya basada en las historias paralelas de los pioneros de la computacion, genios de la tecnologia Bill Gates y Steve Jobs, mientras forjan su futuro, desde 'inventores de garage' a titanes guerreros de la revolucion computerizada".
Y digo yo : Por 15 US dolares que mas quereis? Claro que primero hay que volar a New York, eso si...

The weather today:
Haze
18C
UV Index: 1 Low
Wind: From the South Southeast at 7 mph
Dew Point: 15C
Humidity: 84%
Visibility: 5 miles
Barometer: 1,024.7 mb

Quoting from The Guardian article Keep your face straight: passport grins pass into history : "It sounds like something from an Orwell novel: British citizens who hope to be allowed to leave the country are no longer allowed to smile. But this new seriousness really did come into effect at midnight: forthwith, if you want to get out, then keep your mouth shut.
In fiction, this interdiction on grinning would result from some tyrannical ban on happiness. In fact, it's a practical matter: the new biometric recognition scanners purchased to improve security at border controls are only able, due to some idiosyncracy of their digital instructions, to recognise straight faces. So, from this morning, potential travellers must produce in the curtained booth or photographer's shop what the official form calls "a neutral expression with your mouth closed".

I guess this new regulation is not bothering the British at all. For all I know, they are not exactly known for their bubbly and smiley personalities. Except when drunk, of course. And that doesn't last for long because they will soon become violent and aggresive. Try a little expedition on a Friday or Saturday night to any British city centre and you will agree. The panorama is something out of the Escape from LA film. Unfortunately, without Kurt Russell .


Cito del articulo de The Guardian:
No te rias : pasa a la historia el sonreir en el pasaporte : "Suena como salido de una novela de George Orwell: los ciudadanos britanicos que quieran salir del pais tienen prohibido el sonreir. Esta nueva impuesta seriedad entro en vigor en la medianoche de ayer. De ahora en adelante, si quieres salir al extranjero, cierra la boca. Si fuera una novela de ficcion, esta nueva norma resultaria ser una tiranica prohibicion a la felicidad. En realidad, en una cuestion practica: los nuevos scanners biometriocos adquiridos por los aeropuertos para mejorar la seguridad tienen sus limitaciones y solo pueden 'leer' fotos de caras serias. Asi que, desde esta maniana, quienes deseen renovar su pasaporte deberan presentar fotos con lo que, oficialmente se describe como "una expresion neutral con la boca cerrada".

Lo cual, en mi opinion, no debe preocupar demasiado a los britanicos, que no gozan, precisamente, de reputacion internacional por su caracter alegre y sonrisa permanente. Excepto cuando van borrachos, claro. Aunque en esos momentos tampoco les dura demasiado la sonrisa, porque, mayoritariamente, son de lo mas violentos. Un paseito un viernes o sabado por la noche por cualquier ciudad britanica y me dareis la razon. Las escenitas son del tipo 'Escape from LA', lamentablemente sin Kurt Russell .

The weather today:
Partly Cloudy
21C
UV Index: 2 Low
Wind: From the Southeast at 10 mph
Dew Point: 14C
Humidity: 67%
Visibility: 7 miles
Barometer: 1,020.7 mb

I like this type of floor for my bathroom....
More amazing photos like this in Worth 1000 .

Este tipo de suelo me gusta para el banio...
Mas fotos como esta en Worth 1000 .


The weather today:
Mostly Cloudy
25C
UV Index: 4 Moderate
Wind: From the East Northeast at 5 mph
Dew Point: 15C
Humidity: 54%
Visibility:6 miles
Barometer: 1,009.1 mb

Half the country's population watching the cricket and I am playing Florence Nightingale (XD those of you who personally know me can laugh here) to my sick other half... my perfect excuse for today's lack of ideas !


Medio pais viendo el cricket y yo de Florence Nightingale (XD los que me conoceis personalmente, ya podeis reir) de mi enferm@ media naranja.... excusa ideal para no postear hoy nada decente!


The weather today:
Sunny
21C
UV Index:5 Moderate
Wind: From the West Southwest at 5 mph
Dew Point: 14C
Humidity: 67%
Visibility: 9 miles
Barometer:1,012.2 mb

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There's nothing nicer that a beautiful sunny day in summer with a big plate of "moules marinieres avec frites" (mussels with French fries, although it sounds chicest in French, doesn't it? XD) in France. Or wherever you are, who cares, seafood is ALWAYS good!


Que mejor que pasar un soleado dia veraniego en Francia, almorzando "moules marinieres avec frites" (mejillones a la marinera con patatas fritas, vaya, pero es que en frances queda tan chic! XD). O que caray, aunque no sea en Francia, un plato de marisco SIEMPRE apetece!


The weather today:
Sunny
23C
UV Index: 4 Moderate
Wind: from the South Southwest at 12 mph
Dew Point: 14C
Humidity: 57%
Visibility: 6 miles
Barometer: 1,010.8 mb

In 1918, hundreds of square kilometres in northern France looked like this. No, in fact, much worse, as the green grass was then mud and filth. All you could see were trenches and bomb craters after the bloody Battle of the Somme which lasted months : from the 1st July 1916 to the 18th November 1916.
Today it is a non-descript area in the North of France with many maize and potato fields. And many soldiers' cemeteries. Take any small road, far from the motorway and you will be shocked at the number of cemeteries and white graves. And these are only the soldiers they could bury. Many others lay somewhere there, without grave to remember their names. If any person with any desire of war were to be made to dig every single grave I saw in the Somme, I bet they would not seek war ever again.


En 1918, cientos de kilometros en el norte de Francia tenian este aspecto. O mejor dicho, peor que esto. Substituid la bonita hierba verde por fango y porqueria. Todo lo que se veia eran rincheras y crateres causados por la explosion de las bombas lanzadas por ambos bandos, desde que tuvo lugar la larguisima Batalla del Somme que duro del 1 de Julio al 18 de Noviembre de 1916. Hoy en dia es una zona sin mucha distincion en el Norte de Francia. Con somnolientos pueblecitos y campos de maiz y patatas. Y cementerios de soldados. Tomad cualquier carretera comarcal, dejando atras la autopista, y os sorprendera ver la cantidad de cementerios militares de blancas lapidas que existen en la zona. Y estos son los soldados a los que pudieron enterrar decentemente. Cuantos otros hay sin identificar, enterrados sin lapida que les recuerde! A los amantes de la guerra, aquellos que desean guerra a toda costa, si a cualquiera de estos se les obligara a cavar todas las tumbas que he visto en la zona del Somme, bien rapido se les pasarian las ansias guerreras!

The weather today:
Sunny
22C
UV Index:3 Moderate
Wind: From the East Southeast at 7 mph
Dew Point: 16C
Humidity: 69%
Visibility: Unlimited
Barometer: 1,007.5 mb

This is the view of the White Cliffs of Dover from Cap Gris Nez, Opale Coast, France. I loved seeing England from France in the morning and then crossing the Channel that same evening. Two countries set apart by the ocean in just one day..

Esta es la vista de las 'blancas colinas de Dover' desde el Cap Gris Nez, en la costa d'Opale, Francia. Por la maniana estabamos en Francia, viendo Inglaterra al otro lado. Por la noche cruzamos el canal de la Mancha en ferry y nos plantamos al otro lado. Dos paises separados por el mar en un dia...


The weather today:
Mostly Cloudy
19C
UV Index:3 Moderate
Wind: calm
Dew Point: 14C
Humidity: 71%
Visibility: Unlimited
Barometer: 1,012.5 mb

I hope you will understand. I've not been posting in the blog for the past two days. I was busy. I had to find a place to keep all the beautiful Moet-Chandon champagne bottles we bought in Epernay the last weekend! And when I say 'a place to keep' I don't mean down my throat exactly. Not yet....

Espero que lo comprendais. No he posteado en el blog durante los ultimos dos dias. Estaba ocupadisim@. Buscando un lugar adecuado en casa para colocar todas las preciosas botellas de champagne Moet-Chandon que compramos en Epernay el fin de semana pasado! Y cuando digo 'lugar adecuado' no me refiero a garganta abajo precisamente. Aun no...

The weather today:
Partly Cloudy
21C
UV Index:5 Moderate
Wind: From the Southwest at 6 mph
Dew Point: 14°C
Humidity: 66%
Visibility:Unlimited
Barometer: 1,024.7 mb

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