A Member of the Family
June 19th, 2004
My article for the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Sombrilla magazine.
My wife is from Taguasco, Cuba, the last town at the end of the Cuban Central
Expressway known as La Autopista. Built by the Russians, this underused six-
to eight-lane highway is big enough to land a bomber. This massive artery connects
the “sugar bowl” of Cuba to Havana. Huge palm trees accentuate the
tobacco and sugar cane fields all along the way. Taguasco is about 1,600 people
strong and every bit a small town.
In December 2003, for our family vacation, we went to Cuba. We met, it seemed,
everyone in Taguasco and enjoyed the company of my in-laws. Thanks to my wife’s
Uncle Titi, we feasted on fresh beef daily because one of the cows from his
farm had a “mysterious accident…”
Read a copy here on my site or visit the article at Sombrilla On-line.
I'm Still Alive
June 19th, 2004
… just been very busy.
I started Graduate school this summer at UTSA in the Management of Technology Program. Been great for in every way except for time. The reading load is like 300 times more than a typical undergrad workload.
I’ve also been working with an association called La Casa de España, a local non-profit cultural organization that works on bringing Spanish culture to San Antonio. Most of our work has been on a pretty nice Web site (see previous link), thanks mostly to our editor, Juan Carlos Moreno. He is a retired Spanish journalist whom worked with Swiss Info, a multilingual (try 9 languages) news organization as journalist, then talk radio host turned Web director (where he had great responsibility in pushing their Web site to it’s current state).
His ideas are great, and time consuming. I’m willing to follow his lead though as I learn some interesting takes from an older guy about how to deliver Web sites. This time has convinced me more and more that writers and editors make the best usability analysts/ information architects (don’t tell my designer friends!)
Writing for the Web, on the Web
June 9th, 2004
Great little article about Writing for the Web from Macloo.com