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An interesting website: Russians are weird people and that’s something no one could doubt. But at same time, they are smart and -sorry- mobster. And there is a website where you can find all this things together: it is Rutracker.org. Basically, it is an information center of free Torrent files that contains everything you can imagine. I visit that website because I can find useful computer programs that, normally, are too expensive; and those kind Russian people upload it for free. I really love them. In Chile, get these programs, even in a legal way, it is a difficult thing because they are “music samplers” made by a littler number of companies. But in Rutracker.org is so easy to have them. In that website everything is a click away! I have to warn you, anyway. There is a little problem. The page is in Cyrilic script, the Russian language. But the solution is to auto translate the website by the google navigator. It is not good at all, but it is helpful. Another thing yo...
Last summer I read an interesting book. It is called "Letter to Theo", by Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh, are you sure? He wrote a book? Well, in fact, Van Gogh never wrote a book even though firstly he fell in love with literature. I mean, before painting. But in his long way of adventures, meanwhile he discovered what he wanted to do, a lot of letters were sent to his brother, Theo. That is what this book is about. In them, Van Gogh told Theo the admiration and attraction he felt to God, how he understood art, about the character and qualities that should have an artist, about his illness, his poverty, etc. But I liked this book not only because the interesting things Van Gogh talks about. What I really loved was understand the deep world inside him and all the wonderful things he did in life, even when nobody had taken care about it. In many senses, Van Gogh opened new ways to art and to understand the life of humans in modern society: the loneliness, desperation and sad...