Andres Valera » Canada Experience http://blog.andresvalera.com Welcome to my personal blog... Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:37:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 The new Kia Koup http://blog.andresvalera.com/2009/07/30/the-new-kia-koup/ http://blog.andresvalera.com/2009/07/30/the-new-kia-koup/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:33:44 +0000 Andres Valera http://blog.andresvalera.com/2009/07/30/the-new-kia-koup/ Here is a picture of the new kia koup. I saw it today at Kia Corp parking lot.

In this tiny, tweet like post I’m testing the picture upload feature of the wp app for bb.

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After the first 25 falls we all (Laura, Francisco and I) start going down the hill in a pretty decent way, without falling.

Here is a video of Laura showing some skills

P.S.: this morning we all feel the pain of doing some snowboard for the first time.

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According to sources close to the situation, Rogers’ stores may now be getting just 10 to 20 iPhones each and are being told to exercise caution not to promise ample stock on launch day

More information AppleInsider

Source: BlogTO

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As usual we always pay more here in Canada.

Price Voice Data Sent Text Messages Incoming Text Messages Visual Voicemail
$60 150 minutes + unlimited evening and weekend 400 MB 75 Unlimited Unlimited
$75 300 minutes + unlimited evening and weekend 750 MB 100 Unlimited Unlimited
$100 600 minutes + unlimited evening and weekend 1 GB 200 Unlimited Unlimited
$115 800 minutes + unlimited evening and weekend 2 GB 300 Unlimited Unlimited
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The new BIG redesigned gives you more ways to reach your contacts in a single screen, and keep’s good track of your conversations, plus an even better sound quality.

If you are a frequently skype user, don’t miss the chance to try this new 4.0 version.


Download Skype 4.0 Beta

[Lifehacker]

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Saturday morning we all (my in-laws, my wife and I) woke up early, to leave the CRAPPY hotel I rent :s, and head on to Place-des-Arts our nearest subway station for the practice and pole position.

Once in the track I start testing the shutter speed of the A200 against the REALLY fast F1 cars to see if I catch a few of them freeze, so since it was a sunny day I start a 1/1000, but the details in the cars looks blurry, so I head on to the max 1/4000 and try to catch a car, but became extremely difficult because I want to take a close up to the car.

After about 45 pics with only an empty race track or a tiny part of the car I change the setting to continuous shooting and just wait for my lucky shoot and after a few laps with 130 of pics taken, I finally catch completely this gorgeous Ferrari at 1/400shutter speed.

Ferrari

On race day, I focus more on the race and less in the pics and stop worrying about the blur on the small details and took the pics at 1/1000

Here is a pic of Robert Kubica during his celebration lap.

Robert Kubica

To see the rest of the photos, click here

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[Gubatron]

]]> http://blog.andresvalera.com/2008/05/26/racismo-en-rusia/feed/ 0 We got the F1 tickets http://blog.andresvalera.com/2008/04/14/we-got-the-f1-tickets/ http://blog.andresvalera.com/2008/04/14/we-got-the-f1-tickets/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:35:10 +0000 Andres Valera http://blog.andresvalera.com/?p=27 We just got our tickets to the 2008 GRAND PRIX DU CANADA, Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve. Here are a few photos of the ticket.

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Aquí les dejo este video.

[Earth Hour 2008]

]]> http://blog.andresvalera.com/2008/03/28/earth-hour-2008/feed/ 0 I’m in Barack Obama contact list http://blog.andresvalera.com/2008/03/25/im-in-barack-obama-contact-list/ http://blog.andresvalera.com/2008/03/25/im-in-barack-obama-contact-list/#comments Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:43:53 +0000 Andres Valera http://blog.andresvalera.com/2008/03/25/im-in-barack-obama-contact-list/ Today I receive this email from Flickr je je

Flickr Mail to me
show details 3:23 PM (4 hours ago) Reply

Hi Andrés Valera,

Yay! Barack Obama has marked you as a contact too.

Here’s a link to Barack Obama’s profile :

http://www.flickr.com/people/barackobamadotcom/

And photos here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/

See ya!

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