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diff --git a/old/jcid/index.html b/old/jcid/index.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e461245 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/jcid/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,129 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> + <title>Personal info for Jorge Arellano Cid</title> +</head> + +<body> +<blockquote> + +<h1>Personal info for Jorge Arellano Cid</h1> +<p> Name: Jorge A. Arellano Cid</p> +<p> <b>Notes:</b> + +<p> Here I'll write a bit about myself for those interested in +getting a more informative picture of me. It's not a thing I'm +very fond of doing, as I much prefer people to judge me from what +I do. + +<p> I'll start by mentioning the things that are impossible to +guess, but if you're interested in the academic part here's my +<a href='resume1.html'>resume</a>. + +<p> I like practicing sports and especially love to play tennis! +So much that I managed to continue training and practicing while +studying at the University, up to reach the pro level! As you may +figure I had never much time to participate in the local tour but +when on vacation things changed. + +<p> It is interesting to remark that it was an extraordinarily +well suited complementary activity for my studies. Sometimes +after those brain-stressing study-devoted periods my brains were +so tired that nothing else could be done but rest. Instead of +that I picked up my racquets and went on playing hard. After a +couple of hours I was ready to start again, and with a renewed +mental clarity and forces. + +<p> I'm also interested in metaphysics and psychology, and so I +have dedicated a lot of time to studying them both. I've +definitively dedicated more time to metaphysics but I don't want to +write about it here (please excuse me). Concerning psychology, I'm +much more fond of cognitive psychology than of the clinical +branch. I started reading and learning about it when I was +fourteen or so. At the time, my mother taught cognitive +psychology at the University (PUC) so go figure, I had all the +books and a private teacher at home! + +<p> I specially like the work of J. Piaget, S. Freud and F. Perls. +Along the years, picking a bit of every one of them, plus some +doses of "Infusing thinking" I started to coordinate a tentative +theory about (in lack of a better expression): "suitable +cognitive sets". + +<p> +<i> + Nota: o "conjunto cognitivo generador" donde generador implica + adecuado. +</i> + +<p> I developed an educational computer game, in the form of a +text adventure (plus some written material), to teach how to +interact with and use computers, and tested some of the concepts +there. The results were amazing! + +<p> People learned at their pace, with unexpected enthusiasm and +dedication. The concepts were quickly or slowly assimilated +depending on the player's interest and abilities. + +<p> Everything went right until the player realized that the game +resembled their life (and they behaved as in the +"real world" in a similar way that the personality projects +itself over a chess board). + +<p> In brief, those that had no troubles with their present +existence continued, solving the problems, practicing and +learning! Quite a success, but those that were feeling uneasy +with their life started to disengage from the game. + +<p> I learned a lot of things from the experience, and applied +some of the concepts to Dillo's user interface. That's why I +rejoice when people state in their recognition emails that one of +the things they like most is the uncluttered or easy-to-use user +interface. And it can be much better because it's still not +finished nor polished! + +<hr> +<p> + Oh, I've said a lot! Let's finish with the studies part... +<hr> + +<p> +I graduated as an Informatics Civil Engineer, in Chile, at the +UTFSM (6 years study plan + thesis + practices). At that time, +late 1999, everybody expected me to continue with the PhD, and I +was offered some choices. At the same time I was considering the +idea of starting the Dillo project, and I knew it was impossible +to undertake both endeavours at the same time, so I faced a +decision. + +<p> I considered that if I went for the academic degree, in a few +years I could have it done, and certainly benefit from it, but +that would also mean that the world would have never seen Dillo. + +<p> I pondered both options and decided that the Dillo project +and its +<a href='../funding/objectives.html'>objectives</a> +were much more important, and so I started it (and that's why +you're here!). + +<p> +The hardest part of being dedicated full time to the Dillo project +has been to find a way to pay for my material existence. This is too +complex a project to undertake on a spare-time basis, so there's +no choice, it needs full-time dedication. Having made it this +far, almost four years, living out of some ocassional income, +restraining expenses to a minimum, has been an incredibly hard +path. + +<p> The intangible rewards, though, largely exceed those of a +lifetime. + + + +</blockquote> +<br> +<br> +<br> +</body> +</html> + |