Alex around the World

If you want the whole world to know what you’re currently up to or who you are but don’t want to spend hours building your WordPress or Blogger account, try Tumblr. Read a nice article on Tumblr on LifeHacker. This is the result after I spent 10 minutes creating my own tumblelog.икони

At last, I will be attending a major web development event. I’m going to spend a week at the User Experience 2006 Conference organized by the Nielsen Norman Group (5 – 11 November, London, UK). Out of the 29 full-day tutorials available, I took 4 of them: Getting from User Data to Design. Speakers: Tamara [...]

By the way, I just finished another book, in French this time: “Au bord du monde: les mémoires du juge de Pinochet“. A must-read for all those who want to know more about what happened during the Pinochet era in Chile. The author is the judge who arrested and prosecuted Augusto Pinochet, who was head [...]

Over the last months, I’ve discovered and started to use new tools available from Google. As for many Google users, it all started with the basic search engine, available through local domain names (I use google.ch). Some of the free Google tools Google that I currently use are: Picasa Gmail Google Calendar (related post) Blogger [...]

I’ve recently discovered Google Calendar, another free online tool from Google (Google Search, Picasa, Google Earth, Gmail, Google Analytics, etc.). I started to use it as a personal calendar but soon realised that my colleagues and I could share information about meetings, appointments and leaves using this the “Share this calendar” functionality.I was also thinking [...]