Julio’s Musings Around Columbia County, New York

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 though given the number of people I see durng my treks, I would not be surprised to see it on the “close” list in the near future.

Work is a distant memory now 5 days out of the last day in the office. The first few days it’s as though I had never left but now, who cares at least until the first day back.
The chaos I left behind will be there when I get back so nothing lost.

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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.

If you zoom in from the satellite view , you may be able to just make out the crops that are growing and being eaten rom the Miyares Farm. Pictures will follow as I get around to it. Over the last two nights, have eaten seasoned corn rice with chives and a healthy dose of salad. All but the rice grown organically at the Miyares Farm. Blueberry pancakes and of course the Blueberries from the Farm. That took some doing as at the beginning, just as soon as the berries were ripe for the pickings, the next morning we would discover them eaten. We had to put netting around the bushes to prevent our friends from picking them dry.

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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.

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

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 hen house for fresh eggs.
The photo was taken early in the day , June 14th 2008 to be exact to the day. The land looked parched and it was but had a deluge late in the afternoon which brought much needed relief for what has been a dry late spring.
Rasputin, the guard dog at the Miyares Farm poses defiantly for the camera in the photo to the left next to a row of Tomato plantings.

Tags: Miyares Farm, Julio Hernandez-Miyares, Columbia County

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 were still working on it though the ironworkers had long since departed.

In the second photo you can spot the “ladder” like skin to the building which made climbing it a cinch to anyone crazy enough to try. The building is covered in its entirety.
Now if someone can get me to the top of the new World Trade Center Tower 1 (aka Freedom Tower)!

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New Yorkers enjoying a beautiful Spring day in late May 2008 on the Great Lawn in Central Park. Dropped a pretty penny at Tavern on the Green. Took the extended family for brunch and since I guess I look like the rich one in the group, was handed the check no questions asked.

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Everywhere you go in New York City including the caverns known as the New York City Subway System, there is someone assailing your ears or in ths case, a group of percussionists doing their thing will “straphangers” wait for the F train at 14th Street and Union Square in Manhattan.

Empty Plastic carpentry compound pails form the instruments in this case. They were so good I actually dropped money in the tin cup as my train was arriving.

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