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Today’s movie: ‘Driving through the Basque country’

Got back from the Basque country yesterday evening. Arrived in Madrid around 6.30pm with the temperature hovering around 34 C! The scenery there is amazing. Green is the best word I can think of for describing it. You can check out some of the photos I took of the Basque country here. We did a bit of walking in one the many forests and I also attempted to play Pelota Vasca. I don`t recommend it for the hands. I even learnt a few words in Basque, which bears no resemblance at all to Spanish, but unfortunately I seem to have forgotten what they were.

A bit of advice. If you ever plan on visiting the Basque country, I recommend that you take some form of identification with you. A Spanish friend of mine told me that because the Basque country is home to ETA, the terrorist group, the police in the area are quite fond of randomly checking people for identification. I didn`t take any form of identification with me but thankfully we weren`t stopped. In my defence, my friend didn`t tell me that I needed to take any until we were already halfway there 🙂

I´m off to El Pais Vasco (Basque country) for the weekend. We leave early tomorrow as it´s about a 4 hour drive apparently. I have never been to the north of Spain before so it should be fun.

Why doesn´t my iPod have a simple on/off switch? Answers on a postcard please.

Congrats to Gaurav, a friend of mine, who has just landed himself a job at Google. I am planning to visit California around October or November time so hopefully he will be able to organise a trip around the Google complex for me. Maybe I’ll take my resume with me too 😉

As promised, no more titles.

There was a software update available for iTunes on the Mac the other day. I’ve just noticed there appears to be a new button in the bottom left hand corner. When you move the mouse over it it says, “Show video full screen”. It’s not enabled and I am pretty sure it wasn’t there before. There doesn’t appear to be anything in the iTunes help that explains what it is for either. I wonder if Apple is planning on selling music videos through iTunes? It would be cool to be able to watch the video that acompanies a song. Currently the only way of doing this is to sit in front of the TV all day hoping that the video you want to watch appears on MTV.

[Update: apparently there are other ways of watching music videos other than sitting in front of your TV all day. Both Yahoo and Microsoft offer services that allow you to download and watch music videos. ]

I installed the Air Traffic Control Dashboard widget the other day. It provides an easy way of discovering wireless access points. It’s pretty neat. Check it out.