19 Monday Nov 2007
I found this over on planetdan whilst stumbling about this morning. The author had come across this rather poignant image on an online forum, which then inspired him to create the following rather brilliant ‘missing puzzle piece’ pics. Enjoy!
12 Monday Nov 2007
I saw this yesterday over on The Generator Blog when I went to look for the Bob Dylan thing (I’d also seen it over at alji’s a few months ago) and decided to make a slide show to put on the front page of my viajando travelblog. It sure helped with my dilemma about what should go on the front page, but I wish there was an option not to have the various buttons on it, especially the ‘More’ one.
07 Wednesday Nov 2007
Yeah yeah, I know . . . another blog!!!
But I was looking at my sadly abandoned and neglected trips page this afternoon and thought it might be more interesting to have everything together in one place, kind of like I did with the sevilla tapas page, moving it all over here.
The main ‘problemita’ is that the travelblog is going to have way more photos than the tapa blog – and there is no way of doing bulk uploading of photos on WordPress. Which turns uploading a photo album into a most tedious and arduous task (especially like earlier today when I uploaded and posted 58 photos !!! and then found out they were all the wrong size and had to do it all over again!) 
Anyhow, there is only one category even somewhat set up so far – the Barcelona one. I’ve transferred the Barcelona blog post over from here, which talks about the trip – though it still needs to be edited. And there will also be different ‘albums’ (much like how I set them up on Fotki) on separate posts. The only Barcelona album up at the moment is my favourite one, with photos of Casa Batlló. But Nog says 58 photos on a blog post is maybe too much and I should think about editing them down. What do you think?
05 Monday Nov 2007
Posted in books & writing, computers, life stuff, nablopomo, photos
This is very cool – check out Blurb Book Publishing
Blurb is a publishing company that allows you to publish your own books using their free BookSmart software. You can then print your book to sell, or just for yourself, and you only pay when you actually print the book.
I first saw this over on Ashish’s blog and he had this to say after trying out the software…
Blurb is essentially a book publisher, a marketplace, a community of author’s like you and a company providing tools for said author’s to create books all rolled into one. The highlight of Blurb is of course the free BookSmart software, which is available for free download. You just need to register, which is also free. The software is easy to learn and use, but make sure you do have the resources [which many modern computer’s will fulfill in a jiffy] needed to run the application. I might say that I barely meet the minimum requirements when it comes to memory but I had no problem. As for the creation process, a very helpful wizard will get you making your book before long.
Maybe I’ll dust off that old unfinished novel of mine (once again) and give this a go . . .
19 Friday Oct 2007
Posted in food & drink, photos, sevilla, tapas
Mmmm . . . just back from lunch.
My friend/student Paco has recommended a couple of ‘new’ tapa bars to me recently. Well, they are not new at all but they are new to me. It’s that thing, you know? You can walk past a place a thousand times and never wander inside … and then someone tells you they make the most amazing fried aubergine with salmorejo.
We tried the first place last week, just for a quick couple of tapas on our way home. Then we went back this past Wednesday (our usual tapa evening out) and sampled quite a few tapas. I commented to Nog that it seemed odd that there wasn’t much meat or fish on the menu and then I saw a couple of women next to us at the bar eating something quite gorgeous looking and asked the waiter what it was. Ha! Turned out we totally missed the back page of the menu … but we’ll be back. Anyhow, here are photos of the two visits, including all of what we ate and some photos of what other people were eating.
And today we finally got to try out La Taberna. A place that Paco insists on calling El Costal, except that’s not what the sign outside it says and it isn’t what the barmen said it was called when I asked them. But never mind. We had a totally fabulous lunch and won’t have to eat again until tomorrow. Check it out…
casa azahar 