I just got back a week ago from Santiago, Chile. I went to teach the WebSphere Adapters PoT that I created earlier this year. It was my first visit to the southern hemisphere, and quite a long flight.
Santiago is a nice city, similar in several ways to Mexico City (unfortunately including the pollution). Since it’s almost winter down there it was a bit cold, but bearable. In my free time I got to visit several historic sites mainly in downtown Santiago, and an area called Barrio Bellavista, but couldn’t visit any museums. I also visited some nicer neighbourhoods called Vitacura and Providencia. Continuing with my subway photo series, I took a few pictures of Santiago’s ‘metro’ which is quite modern compared to others on my “series”.

Enjoy the gallery by clicking on this panorama of the Cathedral. Please note that I decided to leave all captions in Spanish.

Santiago, Chile 2007 Gallery

I was in the San Francisco Bay Area earlier this year while interviewing for an Enterprise Sales Engineer position at Google. As usual, I took a few pictures of my trip.
Being an Apple Fan I couldn’t resist buying some expensive souvenirs at the Apple Company Store, and also decided to check if the Infinite Loop was truly infinite (it’s not :P).

Enjoy the gallery:

San Francisco 2007 Gallery

Update (2007-08-01): I have added a few pictures from the Googleplex.

The Hundred Percent Club is an award trip for IBMers who exceeded their previous year sales quota. Since I work in Technical Sales, I was selected to attend this event which consisted of three days in Puerto Rico with a morning conference and some recreational activities. Some activities were cancelled due to bad weather, including the Golf School which I was looking forward to. However, I was able to go on the Catamaran Snorkel Cruise to Icacos Island. I’m usually not much of a beach kind of person, since my skin burns fairly easily, but it was a real nice trip, after a couple tons of sunblock :P.

I stayed for an additional day to visit some of the historic landmarks of San Juan, which apparently is one of the oldest US cities with two major fortresses: Castillo de San Felipe del Morro and Castillo de San Cristóbal.

Click on the following picture of the beach to jump into the gallery.

Puerto Rico 2007 Gallery

During May I attended IBM’s Technical Leadership Exchange 2007 in Anaheim. The event was held at the Anaheim Convention Center, just across the street from Disney.

It had been a while since my last visit to Disneyland, sometime during 1992 or 1993 with my friend Yamil. I decided it was time to return. I had a fun time with some IBM colleagues trying to get the most out of the park in just a few hours, the newest for me was Indiana Jones Adventure.
As part of the event, IBM reserved a few attractions from Disney’s California Adventure exclusively for TLE’s attendees, so I had a chance to enjoy the park with smaller lines.

As usual, I was prepared with my camera (Sony DSC-H1) and cell phone (Sony Ericsson k790a) and took a few pictures, which are available now by clicking on the following image of the Disneyland Castle:

Anaheim 2007 Gallery