Julio’s Musings Around Columbia County, New York

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 do real work.
I guess they are all related especially in Corporate America 2007. Perhaps its always been that way but it is certainly true today and will be as long as people need “management”. I don’t mean leadership , that is a different in my opinion but management in the form of “you will do this, and you will do it this way”

You would expect Technology Development groups to operate against the grain but then again, they don’t as being part of an organization they can’t help but being negatively influenced by the inertia, politicing and pettiness that afflicts the non Tech parts.

There is NO process known to mankind that can fully redress human nature especially the most aberrant manifestations normally found in large organizations. Mind you, many large organizations are successful in spite of themselves. Size itself can be a benefit in many ways including but not limited to being able to outlast a smaller competitor, political connections that drive business to them, the perception (and reality) that they will be around in the long ter.

There is a process or series of processes under the Agile umbrella that at least can make the technical part of the organization more resembling the better parts of small organizations.
I will write more about that in the near future.

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 truly for posterity.
Julio Hernandez-Miyares Music Profile on music.aol.com

Actually it is part of the “Work” as I lead a great team of Technologists that make the Web at least from the 3rd or 4th biggest Web property on Earth.

Staying Number #1 as we are in many domains including Music is a tough never ending struggle though admittedly fun and interesting.

Anyone looking for full time positions on the Technology team , use the contact form Julio Hernandez-Miyares Contact.

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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.

The Twitter Phenomenon. Keep track of what your’s truly is doing all day long.
From jumping on the subway to a staff meeting after staff meeting.
You think your life is boring? Fear not!

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Will have to add a photo when I have it but need to get this post in before my memory recedes. This week visited Club 21 on West 52nd Street between 5th and 6th Avenues in New York City. As our business office is adjacent to this well known establishment and we are moving downtown this week, a friend and business colleague decided what a better way for a send off then to splurge for lunch at one of the true power centers in New York City. Our quest for the Club 21 Hamburger fueled our anticipation. So after dressing up (you need at least a jacket for lunch) we made the 50 foot trek into the rarified space of a New York institution. Immediately we (or at least) I felt elevated well beyond my relatively paltry position in the world of New York business. Though the football helmets and toy trucks hanging from the ceiling provide the sense of a “boys’” club, the treatment from the staff is classy to say the least. We were swarmed over by sommelier and other wait staff who’s role I didn’t even know. We quickly got to the point and told them we were here for the burger. Now mind you, its a $30 burger. That is not a typo.
Throw in the “creamery cheesecake” we had for dessert and you have over $100 for lunch for 2.
Notwithstanding the high price, it was well worth it and I suggest all you business , high-roller types make the pilgrimage at least once to see how the other 1/10 of 1/10th of 1% lives.

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Photograph that most captures for me Goa, India. Goa is a former Portuguese colony on the western coast of India.
Of course I went to India for long hours of work but the weekends are still mine and decided to explore points outside of Bangalore and where the shackles of the internet as we know it are not readily available. A few meters from this serene setting, the normal chaos exists. Busy thoroughfares, pedestrians, cows, elephants, zooming scooters , bazars and everything imaginable. That is the beauty of India at least for me.
Additional Goa,India by Julio Hernandez-Miyares

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Having just arrived in Bangalore, India after a grueling 20 hour trek , what better way to recharge in anticipation of more then a week of equaling grueling work? Well go to the Indigo & Blues Jazz and Blues festival at the Jayamahal Palace Hotel. An evening full of local and some international talent under the stars and pleasant spring like weather (in December). I was surprised at the interest for this type of music in India (shows you I don’t know much).

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Just having returned from China, its a perfect time to talk about India. I will be off to India the week after Thanksgiving. Two huge countries modernizing in their own way. At the rate they are growing and we are squandering our potential in wars, threats of wars , SUVs well it will still be a long time before they even come close to surpassing the wealth generation of the USA as described in this Business Week article excerpted

China and India. Rarely has the economic ascent of two still relatively poor nations been watched with such a mixture of awe, opportunism, and trepidation. The postwar era witnessed economic miracles in Japan and South Korea. But neither was populous enough to power worldwide growth or change the game in a complete spectrum of industries. China and India, by contrast, possess the weight and dynamism to transform the 21st-century global economy. The closest parallel to their emergence is the saga of 19th-century America, a huge continental economy with a young, driven workforce that grabbed the lead in agriculture, apparel, and the high technologies of the era, such as steam engines, the telegraph, and electric lights….The New World Economy

Bangalore, India Photos

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Here I am at the world famous or at least Beijing famous Peking Duck restaurant. This duck gave its all to the assembled team. We ate the Duck’s feet (tasted like rubber even with the spicy mustard), the bones used to blend a delicious soup and of course the meat that you see the chef carving next to me.

Word of advise, Chinese food in China is nothing like the bland variety we get back home in the states. I knew that already of course but it was even more obvious during my recent business stint in Beijing. It is not for the faint of heart who think wonton soup ,egg-rolls and fried rice represent the best Chinese cuisine has to offer.

You probably can’t guess what the image below is?
Guess the Dish

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