2008 (ENG)

This 2008 has been a great year. Because I have made a significant change in my professional life and I succeeded. I have met a great team and a fantastic project.

The illusion I began with in this adventure is still with me and it’s renewed constantly thanks to the people surrounding me.

I see the difficulties we have and those that could come, but none seems to me unworkable. I see them more like opportunities and challenges.

I like and enjoy what I do and the people I’m working with, and I am happy of the persons who share my personal and professional life.

I always remember colleagues and friends from my previous adventures, because they also have been crucial to me and they continue to be.

I am very thankful for this past year 2008 and very excited by the one starting in a few days.

2008

Para mí este ha sido un gran año. Porque he hecho un cambio significativo en mi vida profesional y he acertado. He conocido a un gran equipo de personas y un fantástico proyecto.

La ilusión con la que empecé esta aventura sigue conmigo y se renueva constantemente gracias a las personas que me rodean. Veo las dificultades que tenemos y las que pueden venir, pero ninguna me parece insalvable y las tomo como oportunidades y retos.

Me gusta y disfruto de lo que hago y con quien lo hago, y estoy feliz de las personas que comparten mi vida personal y profesional.

Me acuerdo siempre de los compañeros y amigos de anteriores aventuras, porque ellos también han sido cruciales para mí y lo siguen siendo.

En definitiva, estoy muy agradecido por este año que termina pronto y muy entusiasmado por el que llega.

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On eBook devices

I've been recently looking at those new eBook readers coming from different companies: Amazon, iRex, Sony, Bookeen, Hanlin and others. I was asking myself which one could feed my actual needs.

All of them are based on e-ink technology and, depending on the price (from $200 to $650) they offer more functionalities. For me, two things are the most important: 1) battery life and, 2) the chance to easily upload and storage all content formats (Word, PDF, txt, html, epub, etc.).

After reading different reviews and opinions, I decided to give a try to Sony PRS-505. I will let you know my experience with it in a few weeks.

Personal ambitions

I have read in a Spanish newspaper that Spanish teenagers would like to be civil employees or employees at a big department store.

This article does not seem to be important except by the fact that we consider those jobs tedious, monotonous and easy. Those occupations drive people to just comply with their assignments and work in automatic mode.

If this is so (of course there can be exceptions), it makes me think that this generation has a limited ambition or, worse, does not have any at all. It seems to me that values are changing.

To see that this is happening not only in the professional but in the personnel field also makes me feel sad. Many years ago I was coordinating, with some colleagues and friends, a university sports club. We used to have more than 1300 associates. Every year, we made competitions between faculties or within our own faculty and the participation was surpassed year after year. Months ago I was again in my beloved Faculty of Law and the club of sports had disappeared. Competitions do not exist anymore and the last census of associates shows twenty people.

If in the professional field we do not want to ambition too much, I can understand that (certainly, thats not me). But from the personal perspective, people without ambitions and motivations that help and drive them to improve their lives, I simply cannot understand. Unfortunately, this is happening with teenagers in Spain.