About me

Is having a personal website really an exercise in vanity? Yes and no. I try to be as informative as possible in my website; alas, as you may have noticed, it's heavily slanted toward the Spanish-language pages. I have posted most of my content there perhaps as a result that I feel more comfortable writing in Spanish (I used to be a reporter for the Spanish-language edition of The Miami Herald). I'm looking to change that during 2007, so hopefully I'll flesh out my English language content much more, and it will be a sight (and site) to see.

In the meantime, something more about me beyond the name, rank and serial number. I was born in Madrid, Spain, more than 39 years ago, but came to be that weird breed of person called Miamian back in 1979, when my mother, in a fit of independence and spite, moved here with my sister and myself in tow.

Many years later I have tried to shake off the Miami curse, and finally pulled it out in May of 2007, when I escaped from paradise (as the locals self-delusionally or snidely call my fair ex-city), I've picked up a profession, and many interests.

I'm a journalist: Deputy Online Editor for Newsday.com, the website of Newsday.

My interests are many: geography, history, traveling, politics, and sometimes HTML. I underline the sometimes because I do not consider myself too much of a techie and I am too lazy to be a coherent blogger.

Believe it or not, I wrote the original version of this intro page almost six years ago, and it had changed little, save for the necessary updates, during that time. It was at the end of January, 2003 that I rewrote everything you now see.

One of the things from the previous content I do like to preserve is the following sentence:"I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but if I start spinning my wheels about things, I will eventually come up with a solution." Since I'm thinking constantly, I many times conceive several schemes while driving (which people whose driving record is far more checkered than mine say I do horribly) or supposedly relaxing.

Anyhoo, hope you enjoy this.