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…And We’re Back.

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I stopped writing my thoughts down. I shouldn’t have stopped, the longer I waited to get back into writing, the more I neglected to want to touch my blog. I don’t know what happened exactly, things got really busy in my life, and I didn’t even have the time to write them down. That sucks. I need to let my life slow down a bit so I can take a moment to reflect now and then, don’t you agree? I’ve decided to burn down my old blog, and start a fresh one. I had some posts in the old blog I plan to backdate and re-post here, but the old blog had crappy URLs so I am not worried about them being “lost in the fire”. My old blog was also completely overrun with spam (seriously, Akismet, you suck, get better at life), hopefully that won’t happen again.

I’ve moved away from Silicon Valley, now I am living in Albany, CA, right next to Berkeley. My place is a lot smaller than the ones I’ve lived in before, but to be honest, the quaintness makes me feel a bit more comfortable, and its easier to maintain from week to week. I have a pretty killer view two, the cats love it.

I’ve also quit my old job, and started a company with my brother, Jason. That is probably the biggest reason why I drifted out of rhythm of writing. Our company is Panoctagon, we have an office in Berkeley, CA and we are doing interesting things these days. I don’t want to really get into what it is just yet, I will save that for other posts.

I’ve fallen in love with Ruby. Ruby is a fantastic language, I started toying with it about a year ago, and began reading more and more about it. The language provides you with levels of expression that you don’t see in many of the popular, mainstream languages. Dynamic programming languages have a lot of interesting paradigms, and I am sure I’ll be writing about that more often.

We’re building a studio. My brother and I are really into music and music creation, so we’ve crossed our streams (of musical technologies) and are building our own little studio into our office (for after hours). My most recent purchase was my Moog Voyager, it make awesome sounds, monophonic and bright.

My brother and I both got scooters this spring. I have a Vespa GTV (250cc) and Jason got a Aprillia Sportcity (250cc). They are rad, a fun way to get to the office and buzz around the city, not to mention their are super gas friendly! 70 MPG works for me, and only about $8 to fill up a tank. This is my first two-wheeled vehicle, and probably not my last.

So, those are the biggest things that have happened since I’ve been away, I like this blog layout, makes me feel less clostrophobic, hopefully the new environment will be more condusive to writing more.


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4 Comments so far

  1. sal on June 15, 2008 10:03 am

    cheers!

    welcome back, and yes Ruby is lovely. Been playing with Ruby more these days as well…

    Am I missing your feed link? Where’d it go?

  2. Derek P. on June 15, 2008 11:07 am

    @sal,

    Thanks :). I believe the feed link is http://www.derekperez.com/feed/rss2

  3. sal on June 15, 2008 11:39 am

    thanks yo!

    played much with rspec derek? that’s what I’m wrapping my head around these days…

    pretty slick!

  4. Derek P. on June 15, 2008 11:46 am

    @sal,

    No, unfortunately. Test::Unit seems to fulfill all of my testing needs these days. Trying to solidify my knowledge-base around that currently.