What was in my mind in February?

This is also the post N° 100! Time goes fast.

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Vocabulary – Numbers v02

When I started the vocabulary charts, I had an idea of what I want to get but the last charts are more developed than first ones. I decided to review all the charts to find mistakes and improve the information on them. In addition, I want to standardize the format of the chart, made them more printable. My goal is produce a small document that can be printed as a reference, and if it’s possible a mobile version of some of them. 

Here is the updated version of “Numbers”. Previous version is here.

Nokia N97

This is my new goal about smart phones: Nokia N97. This model has everything I want and more, including all the nice stuff that iPhone has but without the things I hate. Also, it has something that every PDA needs: the touch screen. That’s the thing I really miss from my previous PDA (Palm Zire 71).

I’m patiently waiting. Here is a promo video.

Brain Challenge vol 2: Stress Management

Days ago I got “Brain Challenge vol 2: Stress Management” by Gameloft and I spent my free time with it. Comparing both versions, some changes include a new girl who looks more scientist and a new skill, focus. Also counts we a test called “Stress test”, with 5 fixed tests but with an extra degree of difficult compared with the normal ones. 

Results in this version are displayed different. I miss the all-in-one chart with all the progress, but it has a bar chart to show the final status of the five skills. Here my status:

Vocabulary – Vegetables

Vegetables (English) – Vegetales (Spanish) – Gemüse (German) – Yasaimono (Japanese)

Pictures are from Wikimedia Commons (commons.wikipedia.org)

Doing home chores as a fitness routine

IQ test are part of my life since I was a child. For that reason and some health problems, I never have been a sporty person. Nowadays I don’t have a sport routine to keep me in shape but I’m lucky and don’t gain weight easily.

Although, for being in shape intellectually you should do some exercise time to time. Have a healthy body helps to your brain to receive everything it need to work properly. But my lifestyle do not left time for routines. Accidentally I found a way to do some physical effort: chores.

Doing chores is maybe my only physical activity, after go walking. In the past decades, people did not attend to gyms to be in shape, as everybody had a lot of physical activities and some lack of the technological advantages we have, like elevators, transport, VoIP, e-mails and more, those do our life easier and help us to safe time but make us sedentary.

Here is a table with some pros and cons:

Pros	Cons
No spend money on gym or sport equipment. Keep your home as a sweet home, two birds with one stone. Don’t have to follow a fixed schedule; you do it on your free time.	It is not a real routine, so it is hard to focus in a part of your body you want to train. It’s a lonely routine, if you like to be surrounded by people, it’s not recommended.

Vocabulary – Fruits

Fruits (English) - Frutas (Spanish) - Früchte (German) - Kudamono (Japanese)

Pictures are from Wikimedia Commons (commons.wikipedia.org)

Another disk died

My 80GB hard disk died. Fortunately I have 2, and the one who fail is the data-only one. This is a bad year for my disks. It looks like a failure in the circuits as I can hear the engine of the plates. Next days I’ll try to see if I can recover some of the data. 

For the first time I don’t feel so worried about losing information because I did not use the data in that disk for months and also I have an old backup. That’s good for me, less stress.

Business English Pod

Business English Pod  (www.businessenglishpod.com) is a website with a lot of helpful tips to develop soft skills and manage social relationships. This site provides a variety of resources, like videos (m4v format and uploaded in YouTube), audio in MP3 format (podcast) and e-Books in PDF. My favourite one is the podcast; I get those using iTunes and Podcasting from Nokia to listen them on the road. Very recommended.

Brain Challenge – Status (I did it!)

I cheated a bit. 3 days ago I was at 87% and today I reached 94%! I play two or three times per day, when I have chance. As I achieved my goal of get 80% on each area, I feel free to start looking forward to “Brain Challenge vol 2: Stress Management”.

Here are my charts. Soon I will have all the indicators almost in 100%.