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Monday, September 1st, 2008
Labor Day 2008 Veritable Turkey Shoot
On Sunday August 31th, I took off solo from New York City on what I expected to be a 4 hour trek via I-95 to Reston, Viriginia 250+ miles south of the Big Apple.
With my Venti Starbucks coffee I was on the road if you can call the Brooklyn Queens Expressway a road at a […]
No Comments » - Posted in Pet Peeves by Julio Hernandez-Miyares
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Thanksgiving 2007 Lull
I found the following draft in my Wordpress drafts folder but I never ended up publishing it. Still rings true today as much as then which wasn’t that long ago anyway.
Ah, the week of Thanksgiving! A 3 day week with many folks out of the office (Thankfully), many meetings cancelled and ironically, a chance to […]
No Comments » - Posted in All About Work by Julio Hernandez-Miyares
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Back to the grindstone
Well, Key Biscayne Florida came and went, the suspense around Obama’s Vice Presidential selection is over and the last of the big 3 Summer long weekends is just around the corner and the first year of crop harvest at the Miyares Farm is coming to an end as we now move headlong into the […]
No Comments » - Posted in Julio Miyares Family by Julio Hernandez-Miyares
Friday, August 15th, 2008
Greetings from Key Biscayne , Florida
Chance to write a post categorized as Key Biscayne. It’s a yearly ritual during some part of August to come down to “Little Havana” and partake of the sun and beach. This year, surrounded by lots of “little folks” all making due in our condo near the warm Atlantic Ocean.
The long promised Starbucks finally opened […]
No Comments » - Posted in Key Biscayne by Julio Hernandez-Miyares
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Miyares Farm meets Web 2.0
Fooling around with GeoPress which is a mapping utility that works with WordPress. Writing this from Columbia County and am testing the ability to easily insert maps and geocoding including ability to syndicate via GeoRSS.
addEvent(window,”load”, function() { geopress_makemap(1771,”",42.093901,-73.746162,”google”,Mapstraction.HYBRID, {
pan: true,
zoom: ’small’,
overview: false,
scale: true,
map_type: true
},11) });
If you zoom in from the satellite view , you […]
No Comments » - Posted in Columbia County, New York by Julio Hernandez-Miyares
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
All Work and No Play
Been a while since I have bothered to post anything. “All work and no Play”, have not even bothered to twitter for days.
The following link is my Music Profile page on AOL Music. Why would anyone care? Well, at least the Search engine spiders do and therefore increase the body of data indexed about Your’s […]
No Comments » - Posted in All About Work by Julio Hernandez-Miyares
Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Julio Miyares’s Playlists
Playlist.com widget that surfaces my playlist. Now this is the way to make your site really viral. Took all of 2 minutes to get the code and make it work on a blog post.
No Comments » - Posted in All About Work by Julio Hernandez-Miyares
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Fuerza Bruta
Took the kids and the old wife to see this show on Saturday night. Quite a head trip for all concerned. The video doesn’t do it justice, you need to be there but gives you an idea.
Tags: Fuerza Bruta
No Comments » - Posted in Nothing in General by Julio Hernandez-Miyares
Sunday, June 15th, 2008
Miyares Farm on its way
How to deal with the high and rising cost of food? Well here at the Miyares Farm already starting to eat what we sow! Arugula, Spinach, Tomatoes , Corn, Blueberries and more.
This year only planted a small patch but expect to increase to an acre or more by 2009. The plans also call for a […]
No Comments » - Posted in Columbia County, New York, Julio Miyares Family by Julio Hernandez-Miyares
Saturday, June 14th, 2008
The New York Times Climbers
Here I am at the Top of the same building climbed by Alain Roberts and the other dude from Brooklyn this past week.
I made it up in the conventional style.
I watched them build this skyscraper from the foundation all the way to the pinnacle. It was a thrill to get to the top while they […]
