It has been a month since I wrote in this piece of blog. Let’s see the highlights of this month:

  •  I got a promotion in my Job, which is cool, but I still feel I am in the wrong place.
  • In the previous post, I uploaded some vids of me training Brazilian JiuJitsu with my friend Fernando. Well, a Colombo-American guy,  named Will,  contacted me. He is now  living in Medellin, and was desperately looking for a place to train. He’s a blue belt and was training in U.S.A before moving to Colombia. I have been training with him for two weeks and it has been amazing. I   really excited about training Brazilian JiuJitsu for real.  I have learned some nice moves. We are planning to create a community of BJJ practitioners here in Medellin. First, we will be under the Umbrella of Sol Naciente Judo Club, but with the time, we plan to create our own Club. If you are an orphan BJJ practitioner here in Medellin, contact me about the time and place we are training.
  • I’ve been struggling to close my thesis (I mean finishing it for real, the result submitted in the document are just the initial ones). It has been a pain in the ass getting the algorithm right. I chose to write it in Matlab, but now I repent, although, in that case I would have had to build my own version SMO Algorithm (or similar) for solving  QP problems, which  I think I  would’ve taken more time to do it.  I want to publish in an international conference, but without serious results I won’t be able to do it :(. help?
  • I’ve been toying with Google Application Engine, I have a couple of Ideas that I want to try. It has been good so far, learning Python is easy when you have a little Ruby background. I like Python, but still my favorite one is Ruby.  I have been doing a lot of Java lately at work, with help of Eclipse, which makes my life so easy (but I still use Emacs at home though). I have been learning more Emacs these days. Setting it up is not that easy but the results are cool. Another software I’ve been trying is Git, which look very promising, I want to open an account on Github, and upload some real shitty code I have in my Hard-disk.
  • Talking about hard-disks, one my disks  (the main one)  just failed along with my USB Flash Drive and cellphone. All in the same day. I really did not have the “backup”, but I had a copy of the important parts either in the other disk or in remote servers. I lost a lot of data, but not really essential one. I bought a new disk of 250 GB for only $120.000 COP (about 68 bucks). Very cheap thanks to the revaluation.
  • I went to watch Ironman. Superb movie, very entertaining. I am looking forward for the Avengers saga to be released.

Well that is pretty much everything. One more month, the year is flying, and I mean it. In the college the time passed very, very slow.

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