Back from outer space (joke!)

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It has been a while since I've posted in this blog.  I've been meaning to find a way to share with others the work that we have done for the past couple of years, and then I remembered this blog.

Sharing my interest and our work through in this venue would hopefully serve as a means to document (which I've have NOT been doing much) the projects we've done for the past couple of years, either from my work as a Researcher in the university, from class projects, and even from personal projects.

Can't wait to start sharing them!

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