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Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Almost eaten alive

I got really scared today while running in the woods during lunch time. I was attacked (twice) by a band of 6 farm dogs without any good reason other than I was passing close to their place (by 200 meters!). The dogs were really aggressive so I had to respond in the same way, kind words didn’t work with them, I swear!

After such a violent scene, which resembled a prehistoric era, the dogs finally turned around and I slowly disappeared into the forest, adrenaline rush to the top. Scary run…

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

With ex-Yahoo!’s

Had lunch today with some ex-colleagues and good friends from Yahoo! (Poli included). We had a great time, remembering funny moments and sharing new thoughts.

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

Making Perl Reusable with Modules

Perl software development can occur at several levels. When first developing the idea for an application, a Perl developer may start with a short program to flesh out the necessary algorithms. After that, the next step might be to create a package to support object-oriented development. The final work is often to create a Perl module for the package to make the logic available to all parts of the application. Andy Sylvester explores this topic with a simple mathematical function…

Perl.com: Making Perl Reusable with Modules

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

Higher running

As you can see from the picture above, today was a very beautiful day at Nevado de Toluca. It was so nice that I was able to do a 30 km run from the lower parking lot to its crater’s lip and inside of it, completing the course in 4 hours.

Running above 4000 meters high is exhausting but you get to enjoy a lot of incredible views

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

More variations

Güero and I made another variation to our regular course at Los Cipreses.

This time we did the course as a circular loop instead of a figure 8 one. The uphill climb got really interesting and we enjoyed the beautiful sunset as we climbed down the mountain through the cemetery: