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About me

Hi, my name is Diego Canizales Bollain Goytia, and I love programming. I'm a student currently enrolled at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education. I will hopefully get my degree in a year and a half from this day that I'm writing this blog. Since there will be a lot of time to talk about programming (and so on), let me introduce myself with you.

I love music. I used to play in a band called "The Host" when I was in highscool. We considered that our genre was what we referred to as "dance rock". There were really cool times, but now I just really enojoy listening to music. I like rap the most, it's my favourite genre because  -I think- it has a lot of artistry in it.

I like reading, specially horror books. My favourite author is Stephen King and my favourite book is It. It was really cool reading it. Although I really can read pretty much anything, excepting cheesy novels about love.

I also love playing basketball and swimming. I like playing with my friends at the "Polvorín".

I expect to open up new ways of programming. Getting new angles to the same problems I think, is essential into finding better solutions.

So if you've read this far, thank you! And hope you enjoy further posts.




- Diego.

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