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Monthly Archives: August 2005

Flickr integration

I decided to give Flickr a try and created an account and installed a WordPress plugin in my site to support it. I need to say that the integration was very easy and I like the results. I also installed a plugin to export my pictures directly from iPhoto to Flickr.
Flick has some constrains on [...]

Shoking news - update

Finally I got my garage door opener fixed. A technician told me that mine, was a very old model and that he wont repair it. Instead he offered me to install and new one for $460. I told him that I saw the openers for $250 at Home Depot, so why pay that much? He [...]

Summer pictures

Pictures include Alejandro del Castillo birthday, Alejandro Zepeda and Sayuri’s not quite parents baby shower, Fados, a BBQ at my place and a salsa night at Copa.
And now, the trivia of the week: Who is this sexy girl?

NI Week - Day Three

Sorry for not posting sooner about the last NI Week day. I didn’t really spent much time there, since I only attended the morning keynote. It was given by Jeff Clarke, Senior Vice President of Dell Computer Corporation.
The main point in the keynote was ‘Standardisation’. When a technology becomes a standard, its cost drops significantly, [...]

NI Week - Day two!

Yesterday the Robolab mentoring went pretty well. I was assigned to a group of guys from an Ohio company called Inoveris that produces digital media (CDs, DVDs, …) and a professor. They were the Robolab challenge champions at NIWeek 2004, so I thought that they were not going to need much help from me. But [...]

NI Week - Day One

I always thought it was very cool when people go to a conference and daily log their activities. So I’m going to try to do the same.
I woke up early today and went with my sister, Marcos, Alejandro, Andres and Raffaele to Las Manitas Mexican restaurant to have breakfast. Then we headed to the convention [...]

Upcoming events

Aug 8 - Ana Maria is moving to Austin
Aug 16-18 - NIWeek
Sept 16 - Carlos Vives in San Antonio
Sept 18 - Molotov at Stubbs
Sept 23-25 - Austin City Limits Festival
Already got tickets to go on sunday. That day Fanz Ferdinand and Coldplay are the main bands.
Dic 16-26 - Vacations in Colombia!
Dic 17 - Diego Reyes [...]