Notes

Blizzard winter 2007. Yup, it is here.

Lately, I have been running into more and more Slashdot entries about newly released products to support sharing in one form or another. Just two of the latest one that surfaced: I Like (music-based) and Tubes (share anything from any device).

I am sure you all saw it already, but Steve Job’s keynote at MacWorld let me speachless. Besides AppleTV, interesting by itself—now there is a new Catalan TV (Vilaweb.tv) channel just broadcasting over the net that I will be able to watch at home in Urbana easily with one of those—Steve dropped the boom of the new iPhone—a phone+iPod+internet device. Smartphones and blackberries are facing a dark and uncertain future. I remember having a conversation with Kumara Sastry not long ago were he was complaining about not finding anything new on the cell phone market (he wanted to change his cell phone). Well, may be there is something new after all and from a kind of unexpected Apple ;) ...

Julio Medem has finished his new coming movie. The director of “La ardilla roja” (The red squirrel), “Tierra” (Earth), and “Los amantes del círculo polar” (Lovers of the Artich Circle)-–among others—has finished shooting “Caótica Ana” (Cahotic Ana) which should open Spring 2007. I just hope he has forgotten about the boring “Lucía i el sexo” (Sex and Lucía) and he has recovered his fascinating storyteller qualities. Anyway, lots of expectations every time he comes up with a new movie. Here is as summary of the plot of the movie from Julio’s unofficial web site. ...

I run into Antònia Font last summer, but I did not have the chance to buy their discs in Girona. I hope I can do it before going back to Urbana in a few days. Below you may find some of their videos on YouTube. Happy 2007 :D