Roberto Carvajal

personal blog

Category: Life

Pixies

Yes, they still rock.

four

our son turned 4 a few days ago :)

Running roboSimu, ODE and drawstuff in Mac OS X Snow Leopard

During this week my lovely wife is attending a conference at school about robotics, nano technology and neuroscience, all themes that we love and are very interested into learning as much as we can. One of the workshops was about simulating robots in the computer before attempting to build them in real life, of course [...]

The Update

So it’s been a few months since my last post, life it’s getting busy, wife is at school getting her degree, kid is at daycare, and I’m at home working and learning how to manage a remote team, trying to cooperate with some code and keeping the team and the clients happy as much as [...]

standing desk

I’m a web developer working from home, this means I get to do whatever I want with my home office! so after reading a lot about health issues caused by sitting on your ass the whole day I decided to try a standing desk. Yet I really don’t know if it will work for me, [...]

Great grandfather

A couple of days ago my father sent me an email with the scans of my great grandfather passport and some pics! he was a chinese merchant that came to Chile in the 30s. More pics in my Flickr set.

Earthquake

As some of you may know, a week ago we had a big earthquake in Chile, not just big for what we are used to, this was the 5th strongest earthquake ever recorded in history, I’m talking about an effin M8.8 earthquake, this means it is 63 times “bigger in magnitude” but 500 times “stronger [...]

2010 challenges

Life Challenge This year is going to be special in many aspects, my wife is starting college again, and she is going after a degree in Electronic Engineering at one of the top schools in our country. This time things are different, we are now married and proud parents of a very cute, smart and [...]

Happy Holidays!

I’ve been too busy to update this blog, but anyways, to those couple of users that read this, happy holidays!!

Thank You

My friend Guido made me this awesome theme, it’s pretty much a ripoff from Fabien Potencier blog ported to WordPress. I also added the cool image drop shadow from Mike Matas blog. Thanks man, you rock.