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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 MedellÃn 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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Halloween 2005!
I’ll post Haloween pictures sometime this week. In the meantime let me introduce you the son of Beelzebub:
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Playing along with NIN!
This weekend I borrowed my friend’s (Gustavo) mixer and mic and setup a mini recording studio in my bedroom where I keep my drumset. Then I recorded myself playing drums in the Nine Inch Nails song ‘The hand that feeds’, using the GarageBand file I downloaded a few months ago. I only spent a few…
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Chichipanguanorrea ranks again #1 in Google for ‘daniel jaramillo’!
Almost a year ago I posted in this blog that if you search my name on Google, Chichipanguanorrea was the first hit. Back then I was using HostRave as my host provider and SimplePHPBlog. I also mentioned that I wanted to add a counter to my website to monitor traffic. I installed BBClone and it…
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Re-election aproved in Colombia
Yesterday the Colombian Constitutional Court has approved the immediate presidential the re-election, which implies that present president Alvaro Uribe Vélez, can be a candidate for the presidential elections of the 2006. This produces me joy and preoccupation at the same time. The good thing is that the present president has great acceptance rating in the…
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Reelección aprobada en Colombia
El dÃa de ayer, la Corte Constitucional Colombiana ha aprobado la reelección presidencial inmediata, lo cual implica que el actual presidente Ãlvaro Uribe Vélez, puede postularse para las elecciones presidenciales del 2006. Esta noticia me produce en parte alegrÃa y en parte preocupación. Lo bueno es que el presidente actual tiene gran aceptación en el…
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NIN fuckin’ rocks!
I was very dissapointed that I missed Nine Inch Nails’ concert at Austin a couple of months ago. I heard about the concert too late and no tickets were available. So when I heard that they were coming to San Antonio (SBC Center), I got all excited about it. I asked my friends and only…
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World Cup: the dream is over
For the second time in a row, Colombia has failed to qualify to the World Cup. In the last round Colombia beat Paraguay 1-0, but Uruguay won their game against Argentina 1-0 as well. At the end Uruguay made 25 points and Colombia 24. It is very sad that a very talented generation of Colombian…
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World Cup: second last chance!
Things didn’t improved for us much this saturday since Colombia and Chile tied 1-1 and Uruguay and Ecuador tied 0-0. These results leave Uruguay in 5th position with 22 points and Colombia and Chile with 21. This wednesday is the last chance. The games are going to be: Paraguay vs Colombia Chile vs Ecuador Uruguay…
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World Cup: last chance!
This weekend the south american qualifiers for the World Cup Germany 2006 are going to be pretty much defined. Argentina (31 points) and Brasil (30) are already qualified. Ecuador (26) and Paraguay (25) are almost there. And then the real battle is between Uruguay (21 points, -6 goal difference), Colombia (20 p, +7 gd) and…