Category: Events

  • World Cup 2006 – Before semi finals

    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…

  • World Cup 2006 – First round summary

    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…

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

    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…

  • Summer Vacations ’06

    This past weekend I went to Monterrey, Mexico with Marcos and Eva. We stayed for 4 days and we did lots of cultural activities including seeing a live concert of Gustavo Cerati, a performance by the argentinian group De La Guarda, visiting the Marco museum which had an exhibit of Ricardo Legorreta and the Museum…

  • Juanes at the Austin City Limits

    When I went to the ACL live taping of Cafe Tacvba, I thought: “This is amazing and it is probably not going to happen again anymore”… well I just got back from seeing the ACL live tapping of Juanes. He is performing live tonight at the Bass Concert Hall and I didn’t got tickets to…

  • Well done Longhorns!

    The University of Texas (UT) football team won last night the Rose Bowl beating the University of South California (USC) 41-38 and became National Champions. This is a huge accomplishment for the team, for the University and its home town Austin. 1970 was the last time UT won the National Championship. I don’t particularly love…

  • Vacations in Colombia 2005

    Here are the pictures from my trip to Colombia in December. Sorry it took me too long to publish them, but my PowerBook’s hard drive almost died and I struggled for a couple of days to recover my data (including my pictures!). Finally Disk Warrior fixed my HD. I highly recommend this tool. Click here…

  • Diego’s wedding!

    Exclusive pictures of Diego’s wedding! Hello all, its 2am, I had already a few Whiskeys but I’m being nice and I’m posting the few pictures I took from Diego’s wedding for all of you loosers who were not cool enough to travel to Colombia. Pics here.

  • A darn good party!

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  • Four years in Austin at National Instruments

    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…