I used to run a blog for my professional (Java) interests. Then, I wanted to write about other things such as language learning and dancing. As the old blog was being syndicated for its professional content, I created a new blog on a different server. Both blogs were on free servers: Blogger and WordPress correspondingly. Eventually, I have outgrown both services as I wanted to control the layout more and also bring the professional and non-professional aspects of my life together.

Most of the comments to this blog are - unfortunately - spam. WordPress’s Akismet filters them out and I periodically review and delete them all. I don’t know why I bother, but once I had a real comment black-listed, so I keep making the effort. It is also semi-interesting to see how the spam attacks changed over time from automatic to semi-manual looking efforts. Today’s collection had a comment that gave me a double take.

Check who they are training with. Yakov Fain’s notes from an offshoring training presentation are scary, and not in a good way. BlogicBlogger Over and Out

Is Podcasting revolution over before it began? BusinessWeek seems to think so and quotes Pew Internet & American Life Project’s statistics. The topic is also generating some buzz in the blogosphere, with BusinessWeek’s interpretation being gleefully accepted by some and thoughtfully rejected by others. I believe into podcasting’s future because it is here already for me. I have a 40 minute walk to work each day, so I have over six hours of content a week I can consume.

(Update for June 2007: The website got reorganised and the link is gone. Fortunately, it was archived by WaybackMachine) It is quite frustrating how often a good material hides so deep in a random website that it can only be found by total accident. Such seems to be the case with Suspense, no suspenso. From what I can tell, it is a complete detective story book written in Spanish for an intermediate language learner and even includes some exercises for the teacher’s use.