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Canada 2007

jjgb — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:41:37 +0000

I have finally finished selecting photos for my Canada albums. With the release of iWeb ‘08, I decided to reorganize my whole gallery.
Here are four brand new albums:

Toronto

Niagara

Kingston & Thousand Islands

MontrÃ©al

The photos are now grouped by year, and there’s an index page for each year. Comments can be added on a per photo basis. Finally, an RSS feed is available for each album and for each year.

Since this was a huge update, all the links have changed, so I have updated them in their respective posts. Here’s a complete list of all my albums available today:

2007 :
Toronto, Niagara, Kingston & Thousand Islands, MontrÃ©al, Santiago, San Francisco, Puerto Rico, Anaheim, Monterrey

2006 :
New York, MontrÃ©al, QuÃ©bec, Ottawa, Miami, CuliacÃ¡n, Dallas, Las Vegas

2005 :
Chicago

Real Google Phone

jjgb — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:32:56 +0000

I've been a bit busy working on the redesign of this site, the pressure is growing, since I intend to have it done during 2007. I am also preparing some photos and panoramas that should be available sometime soon. To compensate for the lack of updates I decided to share this exclusive photo of the much rumored "mythical" Google phone. Enjoy!

P.S. People who scrutinize this photo may notice that it has been Photoshopped. I assure you that it is real, and it was slightly blurred, cropped and resized to protect my sources.

WebSphere Adapters PoT, Santiago, Chile

jjgb — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:17:29 +0000

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

San Francisco

jjgb — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:00:37 +0000

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 ).

Enjoy the gallery:

San Francisco 2007 Gallery

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

Hundred Percent Club 2006 @ Puerto Rico

jjgb — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:05:45 +0000

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 .

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 CristÃ³bal.

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

Puerto Rico 2007 Gallery

Technical Leadership Exchange 2007 @ Anaheim

jjgb — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:00:39 +0000

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

Ultimate Web Development war

jjgb — Sun, 13 May 2007 23:34:45 +0000

I saw these products placed side by side at my local supermarket and couldn't resist to post it. I guess it's just another chapter in the Flash vs AJAX war.

Monterrey 2007

jjgb — Wed, 02 May 2007 06:26:05 +0000

I’ve been travelling a lot lately and it’s about time I start posting some of my famous picture galleries. I will do this in chronological order, so I’ll start with a few pictures from my trip to Monterrey, Nuevo LeÃ³n, MÃ©xico. I was there for a week working on a Proof of Concept using WebSphere Process Server. Karla, a colleague who works in the Monterrey office was kind enough to show me around a bit, during the short periods of time when we weren’t working. I liked this city and was grateful to go there when the heat was not so intense. Below is the link to the gallery, with a picture from the famous “Cerro de la silla”.

Pictures

Enjoy!

New York Photos

jjgb — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 03:54:47 +0000

I’ve been real busy lately working on a Proof of Concept (Business Process Management related) and at last got a chance to post some photos from my trip to New York. I went with my brother and had a great time there. Some highlights of our trip:

Visited four museums, American Museum of Natural History, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art (my personal favorite) and the Guggenheim.
Made a quick visit to Central Park, on the day of Cory Lidle’s plane crash.
Attended three Broadway plays, Spamalot, The Lion King and The Producers. Spamalot is simply hilarious and I highly recommend it if you like to laugh. The Lion King has a great production but was a bit dramatic for my taste. The Producers was OK, with a peculiar kind of humor.
Rode the ferry to Liberty Island to saw the Statue of Liberty (not really that impressive)
Visited the Empire State 86th and 102nd floors (Tip: Don’t go on Saturday, unless you like crowded places)
Did some shoppin; my favorite store was (quite obviously) the Fifth Avenue Apple Store which is just great but a bit crowded even at night. Times Square is also a must stop for shopping, particularly Swatch and Toys ‘R Us.
I used the subway and walked a lot. Had a couple of “fun” incidents with the subway, by boarding an express train when I shouldn’t have… and by entering the wrong station (who knew some stations for trains of the same line going north and south are not communicated underground…).

Click for photos

P.S. For those of you that haven’t heard, I’m selling my bike, click for details.

Update: Sold bike .

Red logo @ NY Apple Store 5th Av

jjgb — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 03:31:59 +0000

There seems to be a lot of fuzz today about a red iPod that will apparently be released tomorrow. I went today to the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in New York and can confirm that the Apple has turned red. Just take a look at the following pictures:

Fifth Avenue Apple Store, now featuring a red Apple

Fifth Avenue Apple Store at night

iPod nano (RED)

Red Apple Logo

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Update (2006-11-05): Added two pictures. A bit later than expected.

Update (2007-02-05): Added one picture.