GP Canada

June 12th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Canada Experience, Events, Trips

Las Friday I took my cousins Sony Alpha DSLR-A200, and after a quick training to take pictures of “fast“ moving objects, I head on to Montreal for Canada’s GP. During my trip I was wondering if the 15 minutes training trying to catch some birds will help me on the track with a 325 Km/h Ferrari.

Saturday morning we all (my in-laws, my wife and I) woke up early, to leave the CRAPPY hotel I rent :s, and head on to Place-des-Arts our nearest subway station for the practice and pole position.

Once in the track I start testing the shutter speed of the A200 against the REALLY fast F1 cars to see if I catch a few of them freeze, so since it was a sunny day I start a 1/1000, but the details in the cars looks blurry, so I head on to the max 1/4000 and try to catch a car, but became extremely difficult because I want to take a close up to the car.

After about 45 pics with only an empty race track or a tiny part of the car I change the setting to continuous shooting and just wait for my lucky shoot and after a few laps with 130 of pics taken, I finally catch completely this gorgeous Ferrari at 1/400shutter speed.

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We got the F1 tickets

April 14th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Canada Experience, Events

We just got our tickets to the 2008 GRAND PRIX DU CANADA, Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve. Here are a few photos of the ticket.

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Raptors Vs Knicks

April 2nd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Events

Game playEl viernes pasado fuimos al juego en el que los gloriosos Toronto Raptors vencieron a los New York 103 por 93.

Me pareció muy particular que una cadena de pizzerías (Pizza Pizza) regale un slice de pizza a cada asistente cuando los Raptors anotan más de 100 puntos, por lo que al día siguiente podíamos pasar por cualquier Pizza Pizza a reclamar nuestro slice, pero como era el Earth Hour y habíamos planificado comer pizza en la noche dejamos pasar esa ganga ja ja ja

Aquí pueden ver algunas fotos del juego:
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También me dio mucha risa ver a la mascota de los Raptors enfrentada contra un fanático de NY que estaba en la primera final ja ja

The raptor vs a NY fan.

Nosotros en el final juego
Together at the game

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{Heroes} Happens Here – Toronto

February 28th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Events, Software Development

VS2008Yesterday I assisted to the launch of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008. The event took place at the Direct Energy Centre with an approximated assistance of 4,000 peoples (this is for sure the biggest Microsoft launch I’ve been).

For the keynote we have a small introduction from Phil Sorgen (president of Microsoft Canada) and then Kevin Turner (COO of Microsoft) who gives really good keynote, because it was a mix between the speech and a demo.

The best new thing in this new version of Visual Studio is the ability to debug JavaScript, with the breakpoints, the watch and all you need. I think this is amazing. Windows Server 2008 it’s all about virtualized environments.

[Visual Studio 2008]

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Toronto Autoshow 2008

February 22nd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Events

Last Monday (family day here in Ontario) Laura and I went to Toronto Autoshow 2008 and because Laura is now working for KIA we both got free tickets for the show ;) . During our 4 hours walk we saw different cars from Bentley, Ferrari, Lotus, Porsche, Maserati, BMW, Mercedes, Hyundai , Ford, GM, Mazda, KIA and a few others.

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El lunes pasado (Día de la familia aquí en Ontario) Laura y yo nos fuimos al Toronto Autoshow 2008, y como Lau está trabajando en KIA, nos regalaron un par de entradas. Durante nuestras 4 horas de caminada vimos carros de Bentley, Ferrari, Lotus, Porsche, Maserati, BMW, Mercedes, Hyundai , Ford, GM, Mazda, KIA y algunos otros.

Here are some of the most amazing cars we saw on the show:

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We also saw some concept cars, like this new Prius , the hybrid option from Toyota.

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Here are some others

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We even get to see the one and only, the Mach 5

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To see the complete set of the Toronto Autoshow 2008 click here

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