Segovia

One week ago, we were on our way to Segovia from Cercedilla, a good 35~40 Km moving up and down…

God that was a long trip.

By that I don’t mean it wasn’t awesome, is just that it was tiring, really tiring

We left at 08:20 from our residence, took the underground to Atocha (Madrid’s main train station) to get the train to Cercedilla, from where we will start our journey. the thing is: we missed that train, so we took the one 5 minutes later to Chamartin (north of Madrid) where we met with Dani, waited 50 more minutes and got in the train.

The trip there was uneventful, Potter slept his way there because he did not sleep at all that night! other than that we were there in an hour or so.

once there, we started walking at 11:20 approximately, first across the little village

then the real thing started, a steep way up on an old Roman path full of rocks that will roll their way down if you touched them. awesome.

We hardly made it, and really beat, took a break to have some lunch

Once done, we started our “way down” (actually it was full of ups and downs, but anyways) that took us a hell of a lot of hours

Until we finally made it to Segovia! we met with a friend there and had a few drinks, a walk around the city and off to the bus station to catch a train back home.

It was really gratifying when we finally got there… more pics in the facebook album!

Servers and stuff alike…

You know, we have a problem. In my residence we’ve had some issues with the internet for as long as it’s existed, mainly because we get stuff 7 years after they come out.

Take wired internet for instance, it came out ages ago and it wasn’t until 5 years ago that we started having it. and now the issue is wireless.

You see, we only have 10 Mb of internet speed at the moment, which is exactly the same I have in my house, the only difference is that in my house there are 4 people and here we are 103! so you can imagine how long it takes to check my Gmail for instance (I get enough time to go to the toilet and come back) which is only worsened by the amount of people downloading stuff from P2P and such. This is going to end now.

I have gathered the techiest heads here and managed to get some ideas going, starting with the creation of a Linux server to filter all Megaupload, rapidshare…  connections, block P2P ports and avoid any sort of Spotify-alike program (Any other thing that you can come up with will be great)

the real issue is: how?

It’s probably going to be a Ubuntu Server Edition PC, but I have never set up a server myself and neither have any of the people that are going to help me. I know our friend Google is always there but I just read Ubuntu server had no graphical interface, so I have no idea how I’m going to manage (I’m not the best with Linux console).

Any revolutionary ideas on how to help or any program to get stuff working?

Ruined swimming pool

Remember in the last post I said that we were above 41º with a blazing sun above our heads? well, next day we had the biggest storm I’ve seen this year. It really was a HUGE storm, with all the wind and stuff.. actually it was a thunderstorm, so we had lightning, thunder, rain, wind and 35º of temperature: yay!

So next day, rain stopped and the sun stepped in again and after a morning in the library studying for math I headed (as usual) to the pool half hour before lunch to find it was not only closed, but also extremely dirty. not only the rain had completely taken the clarity out of the water, but the leaves and branches from nearby trees were floating around.

so yeah, not buying something to cover the pool now means the pool is closed for the rest of the year (or so it seems)

And here is the picture of the whole thing:

  Finally this is how it should look like (or how it looked like last year):