http://www.metaluxo.com My life, my thoughts, my pictures, better than reality TV Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:13:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en No, this isn't an X-rated post, I'm not in that business (yet). It is, for you less illustrated people, the Roman numeral for 30. Yes, it was my birthday last Saturday, 30 years, how awesome is that? Yesterday walking around the city just started thinking about what I've done in ... http://www.metaluxo.com/personal/2010/xxx/488/ After an incredible long flight from Villahermosa, I landed in Singapore a couple of weeks ago. As incredible as it sounds I got a place to live and a job everything within a week! Yeah, a hit of luck. I mean luck combined with some strategy, in total I applied ... http://www.metaluxo.com/chronicles-of-singapore/2010/veni-vidi-vici/487/ Well 2010 seems like an exciting year and many big plans are going to take shape. The immediate plan is working in Singapore. I'm already getting excited about living and working in there. Still looking for a job over there although I've already got a couple of replies which is ... http://www.metaluxo.com/personal/2010/2010/486/ And the pictures of Houston are now online. Texas was quite an adventure, and the bus from Dallas to Houston was less intimidating than expected :-) http://www.metaluxo.com/trips/2009/houston/485/ If you haven't checked out my flicker, I have pictures of Dallas.  I'll post later the pictures of Houston. http://www.metaluxo.com/trips/2009/dallas/484/ All my best wishes to Heidi and Tony my ex-housemates because his little boy, Nick,  arrived to the world (and 4 hours after he was born his picture is already on Internet, that's speed)! I wish to be in there with them but that's an unfortunate side-effect of being traveling ... http://www.metaluxo.com/personal/2009/lang_ennicholas-d-demetriou-hello-worldlang_enlang_esnicholas-d-demetriou-%c2%a1hola-mundolang_es/483/ Alright, I'm on the Northern (read "normal") hemisphere again. After Australia I went to the US. First to Dallas where I met Kim after a couple of years, and that was awesome, even when it was quite cold. Then I went to Houston which is a cool city but probably ... http://www.metaluxo.com/trips/2009/lang_enunder-norther-skieslang_enlang_esbajo-cielos-del-nortelang_es/482/ Bye-bye Australia (at least for now), I'm heading to Dallas, then Houston, the Villahermosa then Singapore for work. It was such a good journey in here, I met incredible people and the future seems exciting. I'll miss everybody in Australia!! And like the dolphins said: "So long, and thanks for ... http://www.metaluxo.com/personal/2009/lang_enso-long-australia-and-thanks-for-all-the-fishlang_enlang_es%c2%a1adios-australia-y-gracias-por-el-pescadolang_es/481/ Guess what? Our application that we submitted for Mashup Australia, Suburb Matchmaker, seems to be one of the favourites. We even got an article in Open Australia and published in the Google blog! We still have work to do but at least we're getting attention from the public and hopefully ... http://www.metaluxo.com/it-channel/2009/suburb-matchmaker/480/ I just came back from the OpenAustralia Hackfest, which took place at the offices of Google in Sydney. Honestly I went there expecting very little (I'm quite busy at the moment finishing papers at Uni, looking for job in a few countries and planning a relocation of continents). Daniela, a ... http://www.metaluxo.com/it-channel/2009/hacking-government-databases/479/