MY FAVOURITE PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY.

...my cell phone!!

Yeah! Have you forgotten it´s a machine, and not a part of you??

In my case, the cell phone has became the most unmissible thing to carry on. Even more important than my underwear! (just joking). My parent gave me my first cell on 2002´s christmass. Sorry, Santa Claus. It would be my first year as a college young boy, and they didn´t want to set me free: "Peter, this gift is to report us who are you with, where, what are you ´gonna do, etc. Not for chatting with friends or girlfriends"... "You just have $10.000 pesos a month on calls and don´t you waste any peso!!. Of course, I spent it on a week, and not specificly to my parents! I was the cell men. During the years, muy budget didn´t change. Every time I talked with somebody on my cell, it was like this: 1.Hi! 2.Where are you. 3.What are you ´gonna do 4.Call me, my minutes are dying!! Tuuu tuuu tuuuu. Everybody hated me, I was the minute´s thief.

So, when my brother got into college in 2005, we had a serious chat an concluded on this: Dad, change the cell plan!!!! And he did. Since that, my life has completely changed. Now I talk to my friends and doesn´t call me "the pahantom", can ask girl´s number (and call them), and do so many things that before I was unable to do! I love my cell.

But there has been many changes since 2002 on the cell technology! Now my cell haves a 2.0 megapixels, radio, mp4, mp3 lector, video camera... smaller and lighter!! Of course that exists the top of cells like blackberries or the new Iphone. But that´s bussines man´s stuff. I love my cell, because it´s a thing that I can easily carry on, and I´m always available to comunicate with anyone, in any part of the world, and if I don´t want to talk with anybody, I just turn it off. I also like because it´s a multifunctional machine: Phone, Clock, alarm, radio and music player.

Well, hoping that cell phones get smaller with the time, I end this technology review, and including a link that provides information about the history of cell phones development.

Click on http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa070899.htm

MY FAVOURITE WEBSITE

My favourite website.

http://www.facebook.com/

Facebook is a site were you can make your own profile, have groups, friends, and upload your own photos to the web. It´s like a blog, but different: It´s more secure and private. When you build your own profile, you select or search to your friends and they are the only ones that can see your pictures, videos, etc . You can chat with then and haves a sistem "wall to wall" that allows you to write on your friend´s walls and comunicate with them. Also, for those who likes to play more and have fun, you have a hole series of games that can be played on the web. It´s really funny, beause you tagg your friends and when someone makes a comment on your photos, the web e-mails you and tells you about it.

I knew about Facebook around 5 months ago because of one cousin and I visit the page like at least 2 times a day. It´s too cool and keeps you in touch with your people. It´s very special to me, because on the weeks I don´t have much time to spend with my friends or cousins, and this is a way to keep in touch. Also I use the web to upload pictures of a house that I designed, so It´s a very good platform to show it and it´s on a folder that shows the entire construction process, so I think that it´s a big help for me and everyone that are interested in architecture.

That´s all. If you´re interested, click on:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=3967&id=559116059

BBC Learning English

Four people, a cat and a flat.

Hi everybody! This task is to write a comment about the BBC Learning English page, so I´ll tell you about my own impression.

When I just opened the page, there were too much information! Too much written and a little of pictures... Not so friendly to start! I think that the page needs to show up more some links or themes, because every link is as the same than another!

Well, that was just talking about the first impression. (talking about design). The contents of each link is very complete! You have a picture of the subject, the written grammar dialogue and the listening part - which is very good because the english is talked very slowly and easy to catch -. It also haves the quiz part and it´s very interactive and easy going. Obviously the page haves several levels depending of the user´s knowledge. It´s really like a real english class and helps us to improve our english.

It´s good to be on the free web so everybody can learn some english. Good iniciative and hope that everybody can join the page.

Well, that´s my comment. For more information, click http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/

My favourite book.

LA SOMBRA DEL VIENTO

by Carlos Ruiz de Zafón, 2001.

First of all, I´m not a very good reader. Sincerly I don´t have much time for that. Two years ago, endind the spring, my girlfriend gifted me this book . Thanks!! -I said-, but thinking ... when I´m gonna read it ?!! She loves to read so she told me: "Pedro, don´t be lazzy. You know that in Panguipulli (it´s my favourite place to spend the summer, in the south of Chile) you have a lot of time on afternoons doing nothing. It would be so much better if you seat and read a while... you will be so greatfull if you do it". So I did it ! And now I´m very happy for doing it, because it opened me a new field of entertainment.

"La sombra del viento" is the Carlos Ruiz de Zafón´s first novel, in 2001. This novel has been very succesfull, selling more than 7 millions copies and translated to 36 lenguages. The book is about a boy envolved in love, drama, ghost and spiritual forces. It´s not like Harry Potter story. It´s so much better than that. No special effects; when you read the pages you can´t stop ... Everything is so real! His father is a librarian that owns his own shop, haves some very unique friends that haves a club. One day his father takes him to the " Cementery of forgotten books" and tells him- "you must select just one book of these millions and you can take it for your self"-. So the boy -Daniel- chooses "La sombra del Viento". When he gets home, started reading the book and finishes at the morning. He was fascinated! The author was Julian Carax, so the boy; alucinated by this book and author; beggins the search of another book of Carax. In the way, a hole enigmatic, dramatic, lovely and intrigant story happens surprising the lector when you less spect it.

I red it in a couple of weeks (a recod to me) and i stood fascinated. It´s an amazing book and I assure you´ll love it.

Here are some awards of this book "La sombra del Viento".

More information on http://www.lasombradelviento.net/

Recived awards:

España
Premio de la Fundación José Manuel Lara al libro más vendido
Premio de los Lectores de La Vanguardia en 2002

Premio Protagonistas
Finalista del Premio Llibreter 2002

Finalista del Premio de Novela Fernando Lara 2001

Estados Unidos

Borders Original Voices Award
Gumshoe Award, New York
Public Library Book to Remember
BookSense Book of the Year (Honorable Mention)
Barry Award, Joseph-Beth and Davis-Kidd Booksellers Fiction Award.
borders original y la torre mundial

Francia

Premio al mejor libro extranjero en 2004

Prix du Scribe
Prix Michelet
Prix de Saint Emilion.

Holanda

Premio de los Lectores.

Noruega

Bjornson Order al mérito literario.

Canadá
Premio de los libreros de Canadá/Quebec.

Joaquín´s Life Map.

Everyone calls him "caco". No ones knows the real reazon of his nickname but I will tell you.



One of his first memories is beeing sitten in the toilet and helped by his very very old nanny. His stomach wasn´t working very well so he has to spend a lot of time of his youth in the bath. So his bigger brother called him "caca". Joaquin didn´t like this nickname, so they discussed and ended with "caco". Finally, 2 years later, went to the doctor and concluded that he was a milk alergic. Since that moment, Caco has been the happiest person in the world and has became alergic at toilets (just kitting). So the milk wasn´t his thing.



Then he went to school, he made a lot of friends and girlfriends (they are so funny, because they belive en UFOs and they call themselfs "marciano amigos". I don´t know if you have seen the movie "Dude where´s my car", the scene of "Zoltan", when the adore some kind of god? Very likely). The craziest thing that he has done, is skiing at "El Manzanito" in La Parva Ski Center.



He´s very proud of beeing an Architecture Student at Universidad de Chile and very happy. During his career he has beeing distinguished in several ocations and he is very proud of that.

Well, hoping that his group, the marciano amigos never end, I finish his Life Map at the moment.

MY SEASON SONG.

It`s a Bob Dylan theme of his fourth Album " Another side of Bob Dylan" (1964):

It Ain`t me, Babe

Well, althought it´s not my favourite song, sometimes I share the lyrics like hell. The song is about a men that doesn´t want to be with certain women because she wants a men that doesn´t have eyes, hands, arms or hart for anyone else!! He feels like prisioner and he´s not for slavery. He wants true love. He wants to love, smile or hught whenever he wants! Not to be forced to do it all the time. He´s not the onde she wants. It doesn´t mean that he´s a bloody selfish ; it´s just that he wants a real relationship. Love and hate. No one is strictly unconditional.

Well, the lyrics are just much powerfull than my explanation, so you should download it from any place on internet and listen to it.

Here are the lyrics:

It Ain´t me, Babe

Go 'way from my window,

Leave at your own chosen speed.

I'm not the one you want, babe,

I'm not the one you need.

You say you're lookin' for someone

Never weak but always strong,

To protect you an' defend you

Whether you are right or wrong,

Someone to open each and every door,

But it ain't me, babe,

No, no, no, it ain't me, babe,

It ain't me you're lookin' for, babe.

Go lightly from the ledge, babe,

Go lightly on the ground.

I'm not the one you want, babe,

I will only let you down.

You say you're lookin' for someone

Who will promise never to part,

Someone to close his eyes for you,

Someone to close his heart,

Someone who will die for you an' more,

But it ain't me, babe,

No, no, no, it ain't me, babe,

It ain't me you're lookin' for, babe.

Go melt back into the night, babe,

Everything inside is made of stone.

There's nothing in here moving

An' anyway I'm not alone.

You say you're looking for someone

Who'll pick you up each time you fall,

To gather flowers constantly

An' to come each time you call,A lover for your life an' nothing more,

But it ain't me, babe,

No, no, no,

it ain't me, babe,

It ain't me you're lookin' for, babe.

Lost in Transportation.

A very funny episode happened in Stockholm yesterday. Looking like a comedy movie, Bill Murray was caught by the police driving a golf cart under the influence of alcohol. Wether he was driving very slow, the police stopped him and asked to blow the machine. Obiously he refused. The thing is that he was participating of a Golf tournament staying in an hotel than has golf carts. After dinner, Bill took the cart and went to a Disco, half a mile from the hotel. He was caught returning from the party and I imagine with some few whiskys inside!. He could be charged against him (and included prison) only in the blood test results says he was drunk (20mg of alcohol per 100mg of blood). Poor Murray I understand and aplause him to have the guts for go to the party in a golf cart! I would love to join him.

More information on http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2154039,00.html