10 Things You Should Do Immediately After Installing Ubuntu

Primeros pasos tras la instalacion.

BloGTK

Desde Ubuntu...una vez escrito el post se va FILE>Connect. Abajo, a la derecha, se visualiza el boton POST ENTRY, click y listo!

Bachillerato 1: Actividades U1

Ejercicios suplementarios y un reading correspondiente a la Unit 1.

Bachiller 2 Readings: Tenses

Cuatro ejercicios de lectura para practicar TODOS los tiempos verbales.

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Online Magazine for Learners of English

This publication offers learners of English an opportunity to express and publish their ideas in English to an online audience.

Hi-tech brings families together

New technologies are forging bonds among families and bringing people together.

1º Bachiller Activity: Introduce Yourself

Es una actividad optativa pero recompensable en forma de NOTA para esta 1ª evaluación.

Escribe unas 120 palabras acerca de tí, mencionando aspectos como:

• where you live
• friends and family
• your class and what you are learning in your english class

Para publicar tu escrito pincha en COMMENTS, aquí abajo, a la derecha...

20 Essential Works by LEGO

These 20 essential works of LEGO art illustrate just what can be accomplished with a little inspiration and a LOT of LEGO bricks.

Computer Happiness is...

1. Use as little software as possible.
2. Use software that does one thing well.
3. Do not use software that does many things poorly.
4. Do not use software that must sync over the internet to function.
5. Do not use web applications that should be desktop applications...

A Famous Proverb

He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool, shun him.

He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a child, teach him.

He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep, wake him.

And he who knows and knows that he knows is wise, follow him.

(I will add one extra line...
He who knows, but keeps it to himself is a genius, ask him.)

Cool Photoblog

Elders with Style
"...Our aim is to take photos of elders with a unique sense of personal style that has developed with age".

100 Linux Tips And Tricks

You should be using Linux already ... free and powerful

Buy Nothing Day in UK

To buy, or not to buy, that is the question...

Protecting Antarctica from Tourism

Global warming has given rise to a new niche in tourism: ‘climate tourists’. As icecaps are melting and coral reefs are vanishing, people are rushing to see the natural wonders of the world in increasing numbers -- afraid to miss out on the disappearing beauty of towering glaciers, rugged snow-covered mountains and icebergs. The newfound eco-consciousness has caused a surge in eco-tourism, particularly to the Antarctic. Ecologists are concerned about growing visitor numbers and the impact on the environment. But contrary to popular belief, local researchers are not opposed to tourism.

Upper-Intermediate News: Are You a Shopaholic?

The lives of some people are focused on shopping. They repeatedly make purchases regardless of need or cost. Some of these people buy things on impulse. Some of these people have closets with unopened purchases. Some of these people have accumulated huge amounts of credit card debt. If this sounds like you, then you may be a shopaholic.

Put the following sentences into Passive Voice

1 They are going to rebuild the Town Hall.
2 The police have arrested the thieves.
3 Jane gave me a present for my birthday.
4 They are building a new car park in the neighbourhood.
5 I went to the hairdresser and he cut my hair. (HAVE causativo)
6 A professional photographer will take all my wedding photographs.
7 Everybody should read this article carefully.
8 Bob sold the house in the hill to Mr Brown.
9 Someone stole Ann's purse in the underground.
10 Someone must tell him about the accident.

English PAU

Un buen lugar para buscar ideas y ayuda de cara al examen PAU.

Join the following sentences with a relative.

1. Jan gave me the phone number of a woman. The woman makes jewellery.
2. You should visit the botanical garden. Fifty varieties of roses are grown there.
3. Russell Crowe was in the film "Gladiator". He also starred in "A Beautiful Mind".
4. I work in a doctor's office. It is a very busy office.
5. My grandmother gave me some poems. My grandfather had written them.
6. He is the scientist who does AIDS research. His research has helped many people.
7. I usually like Madonna's music. She has just released a new CD.
8. Our teacher will mark our tests next week. She'll have more time then.
9. In northern Canada it is extremely cold all winter. There is a hotel there made of ice.
10. It will take many years for new trees to grow. The old trees were cut down in that place.

Join the following sentences with a relative II

1.We spent our holiday in Scotland last year. Scotland is in the north of Great Britain.
Last year we ...
2.People live in Scotland. They are called Scots.
The people ...
3.We first went to Edinburgh. Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland.
We first ...
4.Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh. He wrote the Sherlock Holmes stories.
Arthur Conan Doyle ...
5.Then we visited a lake. It is in the Highlands.
The lake ...
6.Loch Ness is 37 km long. People know it for its friendly monster.
Loch Ness ...
7.There we met an old man. He told us that he had seen Nessie.
An old man ...
8.We then travelled to a mountain. The mountain is near the town of Fort William.
We then ...
9.The mountain is the highest mountain in Great Britain. It is called Ben Nevis.
The mountain ...
10.I sent you a postcard. It was written on the summit of Ben Nevis.
The postcard ...

$40 a Bottle: Water, Not Wine

Care to See the Water Menu?
Absurdly Priced H20 Is the Latest Trend at a Luxury Hotel in London

ABC News: $40 a Bottle: Water, Not Wine.

Whites to be a Minority in 2050

According to the latest analysis by the Pew Research Center, non-Hispanic white people will become a minority in 2050!

Neatorama » Whites to be a Minority in 2050.

On Nudity

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

by Mark Twain

Kraft: ¿qué comemos hoy?

Minisugeruencias de un grande.

Flipping the Linux switch: Penguin on a (USB) stick

Ever wish you had your whole desktop on a flash disk? You know what we mean, you take a spreadsheet up to your 'rents, and you realize that they have no program to actually open your spreadsheet with. Or maybe you hop from computer to computer in several offices, and hate the fact that every computer you work on is just different enough to make it difficult to get things done.

Flipping the Linux switch: Penguin on a (USB) stick

Guía para disfrutar al máximo de Lost

Para placer de los fanáticos -los de la primera hora y los newbies- y para fastidio de los que se sienten afuera o no quieren saber nada con lo que la gilada celebra, Lost se convirtió en poco tiempo en un verdadero fenómeno de la cultura popular. Gracias a una buena trama -con muchos altibajos, es cierto, pero siempre con originalidad- y algo de suerte, la historia de los tripulantes que sobrevivieron al accidente del vuelo 815 de Oceanic Flight mantiene en vilo a muchísimas personas en todo el mundo.
Para los que recién comienzan con la nueva religión y para los que quieran seguir evangelizando, una Guía Intriga para disfrutar al máximo de Lost, unas horas antes de la vuelta de la cuarta temporada a los Estados Unidos este miércoles por ABC.

Son Cosas Mías!: Guía Intriga para disfrutar al máximo de Lost.

BELIEVE IN iSDK

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that is all. more news later.
props @ the usual suspects...

BELIEVE IN iSDK

That's the Ticket! Crowd cheers as Veyron gets parking fine

That's the Ticket! Crowd cheers as Veyron gets parking fine
Posted Jan 28th 2008 11:21AM by Noah Joseph
Filed under: Government/Legal, Supercars, Bugatti, UK

In some countries, folks cheer at the sight of an exotic supercar, while in others they assume the driver is a (expletive deleted). In which camp would you think England falls? We'd have hoped the former, but the crowd has spoken, and they're saying otherwise. When an evidently obscenely wealthy driver parked his Bugatti Veyron in a loading bay in downtown Manchester, a traffic warden wrote him a ticket while a gathering crowd stood by and cheered her on.
The same car was reported to have gotten another ticket in the posh Cheshire neighborhood of Alderley Edge, as well. The £60 ticket this time, which can be reduced to £30 if paid promptly, will probably not make or break the driver of the seven-figure hyper-exotic, but he should really be more careful about where he leaves his Veyron lying around.

That's the Ticket! Crowd cheers as Veyron gets parking fine - Autoblog.

Toca la guitarra

Toca la guitarra Curso de guitarra para ineptos - Sin oido y sin talento también puedes tocar

Toca la guitarra.

La Espiral de Frasier

[…] verdad que me tomó tiempo entender la explicación de esta ilusión óptica (vista en ALT1040), en que la imagen parece contener un gran espiral cuando en realidad con circulos dentro de otros […]

La Espiral de Frasier.

Más ilusiones ópticas en: http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/ang_fraser/index.html

Citas Célebres del Heavy Metal

- A quien nos llame maricones le pegamos una paliza y nos follamos a su hermana. (Poison, 1988)

- Nosotros nunca grabaremos un videoclip. (James Hetfield, Metallica, 1986)

- Cuando algun miembro deje la banda, nos separaremos. (Txus, Mago de Oz, 2003)

- ¡¡He vuelto de la muerte para joder a los medios de comunicación!! (Phil Anselmo, de Pantera, recién despertado de una muerte clínica por sobredosis).

** Imâginârium **:

Para entrar en Oxford y en Cambridge...

¿Lo sabe usted?

Prepárese para pasar una tarde entretenida. Esto no es el Trivial. Sólo un pequeño muestrario de las preguntas de acceso a las facultades de Cambridge y Oxford. Un reto para cualquiera.

¿En qué se parecen Enrique VIII y Stalin?
¿Cree que el feminismo ha muerto?
¿Cómo describirías a un habitante de Marte?
¿Cómo reducirías los crímenes cometidos por la arquitectura moderna?
¿Era impulsivo Romeo?

Un asesor para entrar en Oxford y en Cambridge

Cámara de 160 megapíxeles

«La marca Seitz Phototechnik ha revelado la cámara digital que ofrece la máxima resolución del mundo, la Seitz 6×17 que ha sido equipada con un sensor de 160 megapíxeles. Es capaz de tomar fotografías con una resolución de 7500×21250 píxeles y no es para cualquier persona, porque cuesta alrededor de 30.000 euros y para su utilización es necesario ser todo un profesional de la fotografía.»

Cámara de 160 megapíxeles

Los hechos, oficiales, de Windows Vista

Parece que Windows tomó la estrategia de hacer una campaña de hechos cuando el resto no funciona, ya lo probaros con los Hechos de Linux y ahora con los Hechos de Windows Vista que, seguramente, van a ser muy criticados.

1 La mayoría de las PCs con Vista boteea en menos de un minuto, además usando la función “Sleep” hace que arranque en apenas 6 segundos;

2 …

Los hechos, oficiales, de Windows Vista

Comparativa de buscadores de vuelos

Todos los buscadores de vuelos se pasan el día diciendo que consiguen vuelos más baratos que nadie, que sus búsquedas incluyen más compañías de bajo coste que los demás, que nos pueden llevar de A a B más barato que los demás.

Comparativa de buscadores de vuelos

Science Journal - WSJ.com

Scientists Are Still Searching in the Dark For the Secrets of Sleep
January 18, 2008

People have been trying to figure out why we sleep for almost as long as we have been conscious of being awake, tossing and turning in the dark.

Science Journal - WSJ.com

El Toblerone cumple 100 años · ELPAÍS.com

EFE - Ginebra - 18/01/2008

El dulce suizo Toblerone, inventado por Theodor Tobler y su primo Emil Baumann, cumple cien años en plena forma, ya que es el más exportado del país.

No obstante, los helvéticos acaban de descubrir ahora que la típica forma triangular de este chocolate no fue inspirada por los montes de este país sino por una llama, símbolo de los masones franceses. Así lo ha explicado recientemente el nieto de Theodor, el historiador Andreas Tobler, en una rueda de prensa mientras contaba que su abuelo pertenencia a esta orden.

El Toblerone cumple 100 años · ELPAÍS.com.

Las webs más insólitas del 2007

Los usuarios de Yahoo eligen un «cobrador del frac» on-line como el portal más original del año.

Las webs más insólitas del 2007

Disección de una rana...de punto!!!

 

First Look at the NEW MacBook Air

First Look at the MacBook Air
Tuesday January 15, 2008 03:08 PM EST

After the keynote, we rushed over to the MacBook Air. We will be adding more photos to this post shortly. Brief impressions

- It is quite light and thin
- Multi-touch seems to work well
- Multi-touch acts differently in different apps. Testing in iPhoto, Finder, Safari. In Safari, three-finger swipe caused you to go Back and Forward in browser.
- Mac OS X 10.5.1
- Two DIMM slots While MacOS reports it as 2 slots, however Apple's site indicates that the RAM is soldered to the motherboard.
- 1 USB, 1 micro-DVI, an headphone. In drop-down panel... but does not appear to "collapse"
- Bright Display, Glossy
- Built-in battery is not user accessible
- A USB Ethernet dongle is available for $29
- The Solid State Drive option carries a $999 premium

Mac Rumors: First Look at the MacBook Air.

Mil Atlas de Europa

Recopilación de Atlas de Europa [inglés] de distintos tipos: geográficos, políticos, económicos, por países, por clima, por territorios, de regiones, de idiomas... sin comentarios…más de los que nunca vas a necesitar.

Recopilación de Atlas de Europa [en].

Top 50 Atheism Quotes

George Carlin

1. Religion easily has the best bullshit story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.

!!!!

Left of Zen » Top 50 Atheism Quotes.

How to Reform the US (and non-US) Educational System

You know at least 50% of the class will be paying attention :)

Vibrador para el Ipod

OhMiBod es una nueva generación de vibradores que combinan la elegancia del diseño con el ritmo de tu música preferida. Su microchip integrado permite que OhMiBod vibre al golpe y al ritmo de la música mientra la escuchas mide 5 1/2 pulgadas de largo y 1 1/8 de diámetro. OhMiBod viene con un aditamento adicional de múltiples velocidades para el su uso cuando el Ipod este apagado.

El ultimo accesorio para el Ipod, seguro que muchas y "muchos" le darán un buen uso a este accesorio, por el insignificante precio de $69.00 dolares podrá ser tuyo y no tendrás excusa alguna para decir que el Ipod es el mejor invento de todos los tiempo. Solo que eso sí hay que tener cuidado con alguna canción de System of a Down. No vaya a resultar contraproducente.

Vibrador para el Ipod

Posicionamiento web explicado

…
Google está continuamente rastreando la World Wide Web. Lo hace a través de un programa denominado Googlebot. Google mantiene una copia (caché) de la Internet. Google analiza esta copia de la Internet y genera un índice que utiliza para dar respuesta a las consultas de los usuarios.
El primer paso para tener un buen posicionamiento web es estar en el índice de Google…

…Google no tomará en cuenta tu web hasta que tenga al menos un vínculo desde un sitio web externo al tuyo. Si no le interesas a nadie, no aparecerás en los resultados de Google.

Posicionamiento web explicado.

English Grammar Reference and Exercises

English Tenses – Overview

Table of English Tenses

Diagram of all Tenses

Example Sentences for all Tenses

English Tenses Active

Pool of Exercises

Irregular Verbs

Simple Present (Present Simple)

Present Progressive / Continuous

Simple Past (Past Simple)

Past Progressive / Continuous

Present Perfect Simple

Present Perfect Progressive / Continuous

Past Perfect Simple

Past Perfect Progressive / Continuous

Future I Simple (will)

Future I Simple (going to)

Future I Progressive / Continuous

Future II Simple

Future II Progressive / Continuous

Conditional and Subjunctive

Conditional I Simple

Conditional I Progressive / Continuous

Conditional II Simple

Conditional II Progressive / Continuous

Subjunctive

All other Grammar Topics

Adjectives, Adverbs (Formation, Comparison)

Auxiliary Verbs (incl. Modal Verbs)

If-Clauses (Conditional Clauses / Sentences)

Infinitive, Gerund

Nouns (incl. Articles, Plural and Possessive Forms)

Passive Voice

Participles

Phrasal Verbs

Prepositions

Pronouns

Question Tags

Relative Clauses

Reported Speech

Short Answers

Word Order (Sentence Structure)

Confusing Tenses

Simple Present – Present Progressive

Simple Present – Present Perfect Progressive

Present Perfect Simple – Present Perfect Progressive

Simple Past – Past Progressive

Simple Past – Present Perfect Simple

Simple Past – Past Perfect Simple

Future Mix (going to, will, Simple Present, Present Progressive)

 

English Grammar Reference and Exercises.

Testing BlogJet

I have installed an interesting application - BlogJet. It's a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com

"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination." -- Albert Einstein

Six Creative Uses for RSS

In a previous post, Using RSS Feeds to your Advantage, I outlined in the importance of utilizing the RSS technology to help your company and to make surfing the web easier for the everyday user. 

 The following are six uncommon, yet effective, creative uses for RSS, in no particular order of importance.

Six Creative Uses for RSS

Curiosidades de Led Zeppelin

Interesante recopilación de distintos datos y declaraciones sobre Led Zeppelin, una de las más grandes bandas de rock de la historia.

Curiosidades de Led Zeppelin.

Dios, ¡qué pagina!

Todo dioses...

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El sonido de los Stradivarius, un misterio resuelto gracias a la tecnología

… uno de los científicos encargados de dicho estudio … había sugerido ya que un químico italiano de Cremona había fabricado un tratamiento con conservantes químicos para desprenderse de la carcoma de la madera. Ese componente podría haber servido para rellenar las grietas en la madera porosa, haciéndola más dura y afectando, a la vez, a sus “propiedades mecánicas y acústicas’’.

El sonido de los Stradivarius, un misterio resuelto gracias a la tecnología (I) : Todas.

Los gustos han cambiado mucho en 4000 años

 

BBC's list of 100 things...we didn't know

The 2007 installment of the BBC's list of 100 things we didn't know last year.
31. There is mobile phone reception from the summit of Mount Everest.
Here's the lists for 2006, 2005, and 2004.

The 2007 installment of the BBC's list of 100 things... (kottke.org).

Lentillas a la moda?

Lo último en complementos!!

The New York Times: 2007 en imágenes

The New York Times

El 2007 en imágenes.

Top de descargas de series en Internet

Top de descargas de series en Internet
por rwx el martes, 01/01/08 17:52 h.

De unos años a esta parte, se acabó la tiranía de la hora y media o las dos horas de película. Los formatos de cuarenta minutos que suelen tener las series triunfan en los intercambios P2P en Internet. Leo en TVlia (originalmente en Wired) que el ranking lo encabeza:

1. Héroes (2006 en la NBC y 2007 en España por SciFi y las cadenas autonómicas). Tiene pendiente de estreno un spin-off.

2. Prison Break (2005 en la FOX y 2006 en España por LaSexta)

3. Top Gear (BBC, no emitida en España)

Les siguen:

4. Smallville (2001 en Warner Bros y La2 en España de manera errática)

5. Mujeres Desesperadas (2004 en ABC y 2005 en TVE1 en España)

6. House, M.D. (2004 en Fox y 2006 en Cuatro)

7. Perdidos (2004 en ABC y 2005 en TVE1 en España. Actualmente La2). A la espera de su exitosa cuarta entrega, los mobisodes entretienen.

Anatomia de Grey (Cuatro), la veterana 24 (Antena3) y Dexter (Cuatro) completan esta lista de diez.

La compra de originales en packs por temporada también es un furor. Exclusivamente en España, 24, Perdidos y Escenas de Matrimonio, ocupan el ranking de más vendidos en el último mes.

Los blogs se multiplican con vídeos, avances de nuevas temporadas, argumentos no oficiales y entre bastidores, trabajo anónimo para los más fans que ven originales con subtítulos. ¿Eres amante de las series? Si quieres estar al día, no te pierdas el "Minuto a Minuto" de Espoiler.

Top de descargas de series en Internet - Weblog - BandaAncha.st.

A Bit of Poetry to Begin 2008

IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!


If by Rudyard Kipling

New Year: a new life for old things

and so we've come to the end...of 2007

and that can only mean one thing ... it's the time to vote for the ikea hack of the year! woo!

happy new year

..to all pupils and readers