Notes

Yup, it is snowing a bit here. The picture above was taken 10 minutes ago from my appartment window. You may not be able to appreciate it, but the visibility is very poor due to the snow fall and heavy gutsy wind. This blizzard has closed UofI. Here you have the chancellor’s e-mail. All classes have been canceled for Tuesday (Feb. 13) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. More than 5 inches of snow fell overnight, up to another foot of snow is possible by Tuesday night and a blizzard warning is in effect. U. of I. employees who have been designated as essential personnel are expected to report to work. This mailing approved by: The Office of the Chancellor ...

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. ...