It’s been quite a while since my last post. I must confess that I’ve neglected my blog a bit. I’ve been mainly occupied in two things: my new job at Microsoft and playing Playstation 3 (and some Xbox 360). As usual, I’ve also read several books, keep current on my favorite TV Series and watched a few movies, which I recently updated on my sidebar.

I was hoping to write this post under my new website design, but I haven’t made much progress with my WordPress theme. Things are looking better though, since I just upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.5 (after having a few unpleasant surprises with WordPress 2.0.x). The upgrade went pretty smoothly, and the new features should help me write a couple of posts I’ve planned faster. My theme is now “widgetized” which should make the migration to the new design easier.

Regarding my job at Microsoft, it’s actually going pretty well. I still have a lot to learn, but it’s been a very interesting experience so far. Microsoft has a comprehensive training plan for new hires, which includes several online and classroom courses, such as MS101 and NEO –not the one from the Matrix–, but the New Employee Orientation. I also attended a Biztalk class in Washington DC (pictures in a future post), and an event for technical people held in Seattle called TechReady. I’m currently preparing myself to present a Biztalk certification exam.

I’ve also been playing several games on my PS3, such as Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, Resistance: Fall of Man, Stardust HD and Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. Overall I am quite pleased with the console, although a bit disappointed after finding out that most games are not 1080p as Sony wants people to believe, but 720p, which is comparable to many Xbox 360 games. After upgrading my TV to a 40 inch Full HD LCD I’m quite pleased with my current setup.

That’s it for a brief update on my doings, I’ll start posting a bit more often from now on, and hope to finalize my new design sometime…

It’s been a while since my last post and I decided to post about what’s keeping me busy.

• New computer! I just bought a 17″ Mac Book Pro, to replace my Power Mac G5, which I’m selling now. I’ve spent the last few weeks moving data around and I’ve finally finished. The most complicated part was moving my music collection, since the MBP’s hard drive is naturally smaller and I had to manually select the songs that would survive the move. People interested in my Power Mac G5 please contact me for details and pricing.
• I was away one week in February to attend the Process Integration STEW in Costa Mesa, CA, an area better known as the Orange County. I spent most of my free time there either shopping or dining, but didn’t take enough photos to justify a new gallery. It was quite cold down there, strange weather for California.
• I just got an Xbox 360 as a suggestion from my brother. I haven’t played that much yet, but the graphics are quite nice. I’ve always been a Nintendo fan so this is a departure for me, I do enjoy several Wii games but must admit that on the visuals department, the Xbox is clearly the winner of these two. Playstation 3 is certainly an interesting system but I find it currently too expensive and with no games that really interest me… but this might change sometime in the future.
• There’s a new version of my J2EE labs coming soon, with support for Rational Application Developer 7 and WebSphere Application Server 6.1
• As usual, I’ve also been busy with some super-secret stuff, but I’ve already talked too much…