This morning, I realized my Gmail storage size suddenly growed up from 2.9GB to 4GB. When I exited gmail and looked up to the free space counter, I saw it started counting from 2.9GB and then jumped to 4GB. I don’t know whether it is an error by Google or it really obeys their policy.

Other pages seems to remark this, and it seems the “progressive storage size enlargement” has not been so “progresive”.

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Today, after leaving my work, I met this scene: A bus had run into the tram. Fortunately, there’s been no casualties. Just four slightly injured, and nothing else (well, the train and the bus damaged, but that has solution ;))

You can see the bus derailed the train, but the bus was also side-displaced about 5 meters.

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I’ve just read in The Guardian an interesting article about a new concept car being developed by Ford and MIT.

This new car will be a two-passenger, designed with latest materials and its most interesting characteristic is it will be shared by everyone: You take one, and leave it once you reach the place you want to go. It resembles me a rented mini-car.

Among its most remarkable features are:

• It will be a small (two-passenger) and compact car.
• Electrical: Implies less acustic and more ecological (less pollution gasses).
• No engine. It will have engines whithin the wheels, called wheel robos, that will allow you to move in any direction, instead.
• No safe belt. The sit will came equipped with a kind of backbone with a tentacles that will catch the passenger in case of accident (in a similar way to an airbag, but from your back).
• The color, seat and panels layout will be customizable by the user para personalizarlo a to have a personalized car. That information might be saved in the card so, once inserted in a new car, it will be already customized and configured.

Another strinking idea is that cars will be stackable (see picture) like supermarket carts, so they will take little space when parked. Those parking places will be everywhere, so you will have one near the place to go (like today’s bus stations).
Otra idea muy interesante es que el coche será apilables, como los carritos de los supermercados, de manera que ocuparán poco espacio. Estos aparcamientos estarán disponibles por doquier, de forma que siempre tengas uno cerca del lugar a donde vayas.

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I got astounded after finding out that a mysterious carnivore’s been discovered in Borneo’s forests.

You can see the pict below. It’s similar to a Lemur, carnivore they say, and it has the size of a cat.

It seems our planet still have some little surprises like this one. If this happens to be true, it’s likely this sort of mammal is almost extinct, or it would have been discovered before.

Posted by Boriel as Biology, Science, News at 2.23 pm

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Delta tropical storm has passed. It looked like it was stronger than expected: In my city, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (the capital of the island), wind reached 140Km/h (almost 87 miles per hour), which resulted in several damages to cars, traffic lights, streetlights, trees, and pylons. This situation is generalized all over the islands, which at this moment is almost completely into darkness. Some parts, like my area have power lines restored.

In the higher areas of the island (Teide national park) anemometers measured strong winds much higher than 250Km/h (more than 155.25 miles/hour - stronger than Katrina); natural monument El Dedo de Dios (Finger of God) in the island of Grand Canaria has been destroyed. I think I’ve never seen something like that before.

I’ve taken some photos of my living area which will give a better idea of the current situation:

• Anaga avenue, with several trees pulled out, and curious people taking photos.
  

Remaining pics shows other views of my area and the avenue.
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