December 2006 Archives
Little by little, this former humble little weblog is getting bigger and bigger. I hardly have the time to answer all the fanmail I receive, and have difficulties going out on the street. Bit some fans really go far in their adoration:
[Thanks ImageChef]
I just found out that I had completely forgotten the 9th birthday of this weblog. On November 9, 1997 I announces --in Dutch-- the launch of my news page, as the word weblog had not been invented yet.
Wow, nine years! Time flies when you're having fun. Let's see if I can do something special for next year's anniversary. Of course I put the date in my agenda, so I won't forget it!
I just wanted to look up some information, and I remembered having read about it in a webfeed in Google Reader. Without thinking I opened up Google Reader, ready to type in my query, but there was no search box!
How is it possible that the world's biggest search company releases a product suited for search without adding a search function??? Google, you are missing a huge opportunity here.
Today I published the first entry on a new weblog: El Canasto. El Canasto is my first blog in Spanish and has been created for two reasons. The first reason is that I have found very little material in Spanish about lifehacks and Getting Things Done -- one of the topics I like to read about. There is clearly something missing in the Spanish weblog spectrum. The second reason is that I really want to improve my Spanish language skills, but don't have the discipline to sit down and study. However, writing about stuff I like might give me the drive to learn more.
To set up El Canasto I used WordPress and the minimalistic Cutline theme. I spent some days making sure every word in the template has been translated correctly into Spanish, and have many plans more for optimizing the look & feel of this new site. But for the moment, it is more important to get rolling, so I published a first little entry. My plan is to maintain a higher posting frequency than on this blog or the Wizard of POS as I have much material and a lot of ideas for this blog.
For now I would like all my readers to have a look at El Canasto.
