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April, 2006 Archives

Carta a Mis Amigos »

Ayer estuve un poco baja de animo. Resulta que hace desde un mes empece este blog sin saber muy bien por que. Solo sabia que queria escribir, en parte para mi, y en parte como el principio de una estrategia para convertirme en una mas de las web celebrities que leo todos los dias, para […]

Site Logs Voyeurism »

Although there are several fine and elegant applications that provide webmasters with consolidated access statistics for their web sites, I find it impossible to live without my own site logs analysis routine. I have become a shameless voyeur of my sites’ access logs, and I find that this practice is good for business and also […]

Existential Designer Thoughts »

This is one of those days in which I just don’t feel on top of my mountain. Paradoxically, the day started with the happy discovery that Digital Web Magazine published an article that uses one of my designs to illustrate good use of color. Back in November I knew my design would be used, but […]

Protecting My Precious »

One summer day in the early 90s, while my sister and I were vacationing at my parents’ place in Caracas, I was returning home from a morning at the pool. I was preparing to take a shower, and as soon as I had pulled my shirt off, a horrible emergency siren went off. Apparently there […]

Sticking my patita in the blogosphere »

After much time spent as a lurker reading and enjoying other people’s blogs, this is the year in which I’ve finally decided to stick my patita in the pool and begin writing publicly. This is that embarrassing first (well, ok: 11th) post documenting the genesis of this web site, and my first attempt to join […]

Ricardo Arjona »

Hoy tengo que salir del closet, y finalmente admitir que me encanta la musica de Ricardo Arjona.
Desde hace algunos años empezaron a gustarme varias de sus canciones, y no se por qué la sensacion de “guilty pleasure” cada vez que compraba alguno de sus discos. Tal vez mi impresion era que Arjona era conocido como […]

Geography Project »

This week I received a well-traveled green booklet, titled “Geography Project”. The book belongs to “David”, a 6th grade student in Florissant, MO, who sent it out around October, last year. David asks the recipients of the book to write a little bit about themselves and the place where they live, and then to send […]