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2500 words

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Can you write 2500 words a day?
El reto era escribir 2500 palabras. El motivo parte de una conversación con Lucia sobre una página que…. bueno entre la frase inicial y esto que escribo ahorita pasaron unos 30 minutos, pues antes de adentrarme a escribir 2500 palabras, preferí instalar en mi PowerBook una configuración de teclado [...]

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Merry Christmas from the Ugly Elf!

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

This year ugly Santa is not gonna be able to wish you a Merry Christmas, but instead he is sending one of his Elves to do so. You can even watch the ugly Elf dancing!

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5 years living in Austin

Friday, November 3, 2006

I moved to Austin 5 years ago (Nov. 3rd 2001) and started working for National Instruments on Nov 12th. Back then I had a short-term (5 years) and a long-term (20+ years) plan: the short-term plan was to get my masters at UT and to save a good amount of money to start my own [...]

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World Cup 2006 – Jogo Feio

Monday, July 10, 2006

Another World Cup is over and that only means that we have four boring years ahead!
Today the Italians won their 4th World Cup 24 years after they won their last one back in 1982. I must say that the Italian team was very compact and well organized in defense. They played very good as a [...]

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World Cup 2006 – Before semi finals

Tuesday, July 4, 2006

The World Cup 2006 is almost over with only four games left.
It’s going to be an all-european teams semi final which proves again that European countries are very strong when they host the World Cup. Only Brazil has been able to win a WC in Europe when they did back in Sweden 1958.
The semi finals [...]

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Un saludo para mi gente linda

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Un saludo para mi gente linda al mejor estilo parlache.

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World Cup 2006 – First round summary

Friday, June 23, 2006

Group A
Germany had a very solid first round winning all three games. Ecuador, after having great performances against Poland and Costa Rica played a regular game against Germany.
Group B
England finished at the top of its group but they didn’t looked unbeatable after the game with Sweden. Sweden improved some from its first game and it’s [...]

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World Cup 2006 – Now that we’ve seen all the teams…

Thursday, June 15, 2006

This is how I would classify the different teams
Candidates to win the WC: Brazil, Spain, Czech Republic and Germany.
Brazil obviously is everyone’s favorite, although they didn’t have a great game against Croatia. Spain smashed Ukraine and has a very strong team, with very young players on the attack. The Czechs are not a surprise: they’ve [...]

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Depenalize abortion

Friday, May 12, 2006

Yesterday the Colombian senate decided to de-penalize abortion in one of the following three situations:

The pregnancy occurred because the mother was rapped.
The fetus is malformed
There is risk for the mother to die during the pregnancy.

The Catholic Church in Colombia announced to be against the de-penalization and threat to excommunicate the senators. I think the Catholic [...]

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Four years in Austin at National Instruments

Friday, November 11, 2005

On November 3rd of 2001 I moved to Austin, Texas to start a new stage of my life, to write a new chapter. The 23+ years I spent in Medellín since the day I was born were over. Actually it sounds more dramatic than what actually was: I was very excited with the challenge of [...]

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