"Here global warming is a reality, not a prediction."

Many villagers of Ghoramara islands are really worried about global warming. Not in terms of what could happen in the future or about the predictions of it. They have to dramatically shore up their houses against the sea water, which everyday is attempting to drown all their possessions. Islanders know that everyday begins and ends in the same way. When the day get dark they have to climb up their thatched huts, and at the sunrise they go back to their “normal” routine in the ground. Furthermore, Ghoramara has lost a third of its land mass in the past five years. This entire problem is because of the melting of Himalayans glaciers, which everyday is raising the level of rivers and seas.

Victims of this rising of sea level are the priority refugees of the global warming. Even though these people have been helped for the Indian government, the government is more worried about its own interests rather than in the vulnerable people. Testimonies from worried people are commonly to hear, such as: 'We worry that the same thing could happen to us here. It feels like we have no escape from the sea'.

You can click here to read the article. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/30/india.flooding

Technology = a better world???

I'm not really fan of technology, but I can't deny that a lot of technological devices are important pieces in my daily life. My mother's laptop and wi-fi at home have become super necessary, handy and useful for me. I can't even imagine me in the "metro" or in a bus without my mp4 music. . . just because I hate every noise around me (people's comments indifferent for me, bus noise, etc)

I always ask myself what about our lives without those gadgets... will be complicated, horrible, awkward or just will be better in all terms. I don't know... I just know that if we could have knew that some people were going to do or create stupid things through Internet our world would be better... may be.

Let me give you an interesting poem that I found on the web...may be it sounds funny... but it's true.

Remember When

A Poem About Technology

A computer was something on TV
From a sci fi show of note.
A window was something you hated to clean
And ram was the cousin of goat.

Meg was the name of my girlfriend
And gig was a job for the nights.
Now they all mean different things
And that really mega bytes.

An application was for employment.
A program was a TV show.
A curser used profanity.
A keyboard was a piano.

Memory was something that you lost with age.
A CD was a bank account.
And if you had a 3 1/2" floppy
You hoped nobody found out.

Compress was something you did to the garbage
Not something you did to a file.
And if you unzipped anything in public
You'd be in jail for a while.

Log on was adding wood to the fire.
Hard drive was a long trip on the road.
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived.
And a backup happened to your commode.

Cut you did with a pocket knife.
Paste you did with glue.
A web was a spider's home.
And a virus was the flu

I guess I'll stick to my pad and paper
And the memory in my head.
I hear nobody's been killed in a computer crash,
But when it happens they wish they were dead.

My first time.. as a blogger.

Hi Dear Classmates!!!! :)
This is my first experience as a blogger... and I hope this help me to improve my writing and my way of comunication. Also this is the oportunity to share our thoughts and ideas, and the most important it is get to know better among ourselves.
Maybe you are asking yourself about the title of my blog... and that has a simple explanation: I don't ussualy do "normal" things... I like to be different from others as many ways I can.
Please... if you have any comment, just write it.
Thanks...