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Sunday, May 20th, 2007

The last three days, you might've noticed a thick grey cloud layer above us. That what we have to deal with due to being a miniature continent. After a sunny hot week it's now all cloudy as if it was deep winter. The national institute of meteorology has predicted more clouds and possibly rain for tomorrow with temperatures between 17º and 24º degrees. Leave your speedos and bikinis at home, it's time not to sunbath ;)

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The story goes…

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

You wouldn't belive it, but apart from the 324 that arrived during the weekend, yesterday 6 'cayucos' (dugboats) arrived to our islands with the astonishing number of 464 illegal immigrants. 4 boats arrived to the 'Los Cristianos' port (Tenerife), 1 to the 'Las Carpinteras' beach in San Bartolomé de Tirajana (Gran Canaria) and another one to Arrecife (Lanzarote). I've said it once but this is really a tremendous job these days and i give a big 'thumbs up!!' for the Sea Rescue Team and the Guardial Civil Sea Patrol as well as to all the Red Cross and other volunteers that help out with these people, specially making it possible to rescue all the immigrants in time, no lifes lost this time. Great job guys!!

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Watch out for ‘the cab’

Friday, May 11th, 2007

On monday, Las Palmas mayor Pepa Luzardo and its citizen mobility & security councillor Paulino Montesdeoca presented the capitals' local police new acquisition. It's a new "high-tech" surveillance car which will allow to detect and process traffic infractions more easily. This acquisition is part of a security improvement plan i posted earlier about. (read more here) This new police car, which looks suspiciously like a New York cab, not really to oversee, is equipped with a GPS reciever, a high resolution camera, a license plate acquisition system, an optical character recognition module, a touchscreen and an entire PC in its trunk, being able to detect cars through their license plate. It'll be able to elaborate parking tickets and other infractions almost on its own. How you like that? Some will be pissed, others will think it's great, but it will surely avoid traffic jams in areas with dense traffic scaring drivers of ...

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Tejeda pics: pt2

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Here they are, the rest of the Tejeda pictures i posted yesterday. Oh and, by the way, Tejeda is highly recomendable visiting at any time of the year, specially after some rainy days when the weather is sunny again.

Thanks again to Josele, for the great pictures... ;)

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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

Hi there, finally i manage to post again. I'm really sorry for this unmeant break. Things came together all at the same time, construction works at home, refurbishment, college works,... :S I'll hopefully be able to manage it so this won't happen again. ;) As a matter of 'reward' i post you this awesome pictures a friend took for me of Tejeda, at our islands heart. I'll post some now and the rest on another post, since they're a lot. I was just as astonished as you'll be after going through them: