Now olympic games are over. This is the official classification

Pos	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronce
1	United States	35	38	29
2	China	31	17	14
3	Russia	27	27	38
4	Australia	17	16	16
5	Japan	15	10	12
6	Germany	14	16	18
7	France	11	8	12
8	Italy	9	11	11
9	Great Britain	9	9	12
10	Cuba	9	7	11
11	Ukraine	9	5	9
12	South Korea	8	12	9
13	Hungary	8	6	3
14	Romania	8	5	6
15	Greece	6	5	4
16	Norway	5	0	1
17	Netherlands	4	9	9
18	Brazil	4	3	2
19	Sweden	4	1	2
20	Spain	3	11	5

And this is the way I think it should be, based on points: 3 points per gold, 2 per silver, and 1 per bronze:

Pos	Country	Points
1	United States	210
2	Russia	173
3	China	141
4	Australia	99
5	Germany	92
6	Japan	62
7	France	61
8	Italy	60
9	Great Britain	57
9	South Korea	57
11	Cuba	52
12	Ukraine	46
13	Romania	40
14	Hungary	39
14	Netherlands	39
14	Spain	39
17	Greece	32
18	Brazil	20
19	Norway	16
20	Sweden	16

End of summer in Madrid, I love it.

Clubbing: some pub crawling on Tuesday night... Sangría at Cuevas del sésamo until 2 am. Then we tried to go to La Boca del Lobo (the name of this superb pub remembers the old name of Lobo [wolf] street, currently Echeagaray), but it was closed. Finally went to the always crawled why not?. On Thursday, typical Madrid Thursday discos were almost empty, so we went to Duom (Arena), a new, cool and fancy session. Instead of having dancers in the stage, they were actors doing live performance (of course in silence, because of the loud techno-house music). A little controversial that they repeated several times a sequence of everyone taking cocaine. Yesterday we went to Ohm, another classic house club.

Music: Yesterday I found something wonderful. In 2000, Fernando Trueba (the Spanish director that won an oscar with Belle epoque) producted and directed Calle 54, a documentary film about Latin Jazz (that should be called caribbean jazz) starring Gato Barbieri, Chucho & Bebo Valdes, Tito Puente, Paquito D'Rivera, Chano Dominguez, Michel Camilo, etc... After this film, he produced Lágrimas Negras, a recording by Bebo Valdes (Latin jazz pianist) and Diego "El Cigala" (a flamenco singer or cantaor) featuring classical boleros, coplas, etc... played with latin jazz styled and sung in flamenco style. The result is awesome, and this recording is a must. So my discovering is a live recording of Lagrimas Negras past year at San Sebastian Jazz Festival with El Cigala, Bebo and his son Chugo

Caravaggio: At London's National Gallery I was impressed by this Caravaggio's painting:

After one month, I'm back from London. I really enjoied this one-full-month vacation, because I didn't worked there at all. Basically I were going out and clubbing every night. Lot of wonderful bars and clubs. Also lot of quiet museum stuff and theatre.

But one of the best things in London summer are BBC promps: Jassons with the Bayeriche Rundfunks Orchestra playing Dvorak Strauss, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky music. Gidon Kremer, Maxim Vengerov and Joshua Bell three of the top world violinist in 5 days!. Anne Sofie von Otter, Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony, Gergiev conducting Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Alfred Brendel last concert...

One litte storie example of my relation with Britishs: when I were in the Royal Albert Hall for a prom concert, I asked someone in the staff for the right queue:

• Me: "Is this que Arena queue"
• Staff: Do you mean Arena? (Pronounced slowly as )
• Me: Oh, yes I'm very sorry but I am used to pronounce ancient greek and latin words in original pronounciation

The worst in London is coffee. They don't know how to make coffee and all coffee shops are starbucks, costa and nero. Starbucks is the 5 adventages coffee:

• They don't serve you, it's self service
• They put the coffee in bad paper glasses
• The coffee itself is awful
• They don't allow you smoking
• It's stupidly expensive

Lot of book reading action: Pantaleon y las visitadoras by Mario Vargas Llosa (really, really great and funny), A man in full, Tom Wolfe (his second book after The bonfire of the vanities), Herodoto History. I also read a book that everyone is reading now (included those people not used to read) and everyone is saying that it's exiting: The Da Vinci Code. But IMHO It's boring, badly writen, with stupid and plain characters, predictable, incongrouent....

In the GNOME side, we are now in Beta 2, so I urgently relased gconf-editor and bug-buddy with two bugs fixed and lot of translation updates.