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I am awarded Executive of the Year (Healthcare) 23 Aug 2013 | 03:59 pm
I was named the winner of a Bronze Award in the Executive of the Year – Health Products & Services category in the 10th Annual International Business Awards today. More than 3,300 nominations from or...
Three days in Lima 22 Aug 2013 | 10:06 pm
On Tuesday August 13th (in case you did not notice, I am obviously not superstitious at all), I took a “red-eye” (so called because you arrive with red eyes) flight to Lima, Peru. Note to self number ...
Playing with the robot (Roomba) 13 Aug 2013 | 12:40 am
We got great gifts for our wedding, but hands down, the best (ever!) is A ROBOT. My mother-in-law got us a robot. Got that? How cool is that!? And it is not to make her daughter’s life easier, becau...
Our beautiful Niagara Falls wedding 12 Aug 2013 | 11:48 pm
We were originally planning on getting married in Valencia (Spain). Bureaucracy made it too hard. So we decided to change our plans, and get married were we got engaged: Niagara Falls! [Nevertheless,...
Police state: TXT with police alert in TX 31 Jul 2013 | 11:30 pm
While in Fort Worth, TX, I received the following TXT: It’s a police TXT asking for collaboration to locate a vehicle. Right after that, I entered a grocery store and there was a large screen that s...
Three days in Fort Worth, Texas 31 Jul 2013 | 11:07 pm
Work has brought me and my friend Alvaro to Texas again. We spent three days in Dallas-Forth Worth and a day in Houston. Fort Worth (AKA “Cow Town”) is the 16th most populated city in the USA (and th...
How to abide to the law while rejecting threats 29 Jul 2013 | 11:13 pm
According to Spanish law web (emphasis mine): Information intermediary suppliers: Do not have an obligation to supervise the contents they host, transmit, or classify in a link directory, but must ...
I am being sued by a troll 29 Jul 2013 | 07:28 pm
A few hours after the first email, I received this second one with a threat (again, translated by me; here is the original): Mr. Cortell: I can prove my identity and the defamatory content of the in...
I am requested to take a link down and… Streisand effect! 29 Jul 2013 | 10:31 am
Today I received this email (it was in Spanish, I have translated it into English because that is the main language of this blog, and in order to give this issue the international coverage that it des...
Admitted in a Medical Genetics postgraduate program 23 Jul 2013 | 02:19 am
Lately I have been very interested in genetics. I have some ideas about bioinformatics applied to genetics, but I need to learn a bit more. And what do you do when you need to learn more? Study! Toda...
