Look ma! it�s me surrounded by swedish people! Yep. I am in G�teborg, a lovely city in the Nothern sea.... or the Baltic, or a sea which is damn cold. By the way, check out this curious link: They Rule (a new website on world power brought to you by FutureFarmers). (Thanks, Javier for the link)

I am in The Netherlands visiting my sister. She is doing a PhD on the Technical University of Delft. These guys have to great things: a) A great department on informational design (read this book). b) A wonderful main library (can't recall who were the architects, but it is portrayed in this wonderful Taschen book).

<senseless rant> Recently I have noted a side effect of the dot com crisis: the "I am not in the mood to do this anymore" crisis. Meaning: Some representative people of the web community have started giving up. (two examples - Dack and Assembler. The 1st one was well known for his usability stuff and the 2nd because he developed some of the best DTHML around) Even some of my web friends are starting to think on moving to other industries (sepherding, manwhoring, etc). I am not as motivated as I was... </senseless rant>

A friend of mine has a website focused on usability matters for the spanish speaking world of the net. I am commenting this basically because the ACIA lists his website in the list of Information Architecture Resources. Number 40 out of 130 considering the popularity. Ain't that cool?

<nostalgia> My very first computer. Sniff. </nostalgia>

Today is a Flash[tm] day. Recently we have had FlashForward 2001 in New York. And the winners are already out there. One of them is Titoonic, a danish company that focus on generating toon-based flash content. And boy, the are good. Or I like their work way too much. More on the matter later on (now my slavist is cracking the whip again).

I am addicted. (Remember the Ctrl and the Shift are your friends) By the way. I was thinking..... we had the dot com revolution... so... what it's the next one? which industry will be the next cool one? (as you can see I am having fun with html tags, it's been a fucking while since the last time I used them)

Woo woo! It's a website? it's a shop? it's a design firm? or it is just a big pile of shite? I like it. It's TheApartment.

Ok. I have rebooted. The photo gallery hasn't been implemented yet. As well as the random photo feature (though you don't know about that one yet because you can't see the button). And I know you hate when you see the "under construction" thingie. So hate me if you wish. This time is for free.