Technical

Technically speaking I have experience with too many things so I will name only those that interest me most: UML, .NET, Electronics, Embedded systems. I am a former Linux fanatic seduced to Windows by the dark forces of the Microsoft overlord. Linux has tried so hard to become Windows-like that I lost all interest in locking myself in it as my primary platform.

I developed MANY freeware open-source utilities. I was one of the original developers of the most successful Microsoft Messenger clone on the Linux platform where I implemented many of the core features and a few features not available in the Microsoft version. I developed the 1st Linux package update utility before RedHat and other clones copied the concept and made it an integral part of their platforms. Published several technical articles and was a co-author of the Apache Server Unleashed book.

Hobbies

I love flight simulation to the point that I have a simple home cockpit, I learned to read aeronautical charts and to navigate using them.

In addition to traveling (and travel writing) I also enjoy writing fiction.

Justice and Political

I am not politically biased but for years I have been fighting an act of corruption in Panama where a member of the Asamblea Nacional conspired with other of his party-members (helped by the now ex-president) to steal a land plot that has been part of the family since the 1880's without paying for the damages or the property itself. This crime has gone unpunished.