Back blogging (and with new tools)
I am officially back blogging after a really hectic period, for the non informed, I left the US and Japan and I am back in Barcelona. Obviously, I changed my day to day job (I work for Telefonica now, look at my updated linkedin profile here, now sporting a personalize URL) but I will remain involved with Celartem, LizardTech and Extensis which is very nice as it was very difficult to leave those companies after this very intense four and half years and there is still lots to do (but they are all in very good hands). The combination of leaving one job, starting another one completely different, going from a small company to a Fortune 500, going from a software company to a telco, moving back to Spain, getting a place to live (more on this and the Spanish real state bubble in some future post) , getting an ID, social security number, a bank account, getting furniture, getting appliances, settle in with all your stuff, figuring out what else you need, getting together with family and friends, traveling a lot for what I expected, etc. etc. etc. just made it way too complicated to write.
Now Spain has gotten into the “August black hole” that Europe falls into every 12 months and I have been able to settle down, get things done, learn about my new job, the industry and the technologies used (way too far from where I want to be yet but getting there) and finally, start testing some blogging tools that came up recently:
- Typepad Mobile, the previous post with a picture was posted from (my new office) there using my brand new Nokia N70 (and a speedy 3G connection from Movistar), they have done a great job. I was trying two other tools when it came up and the one from Typepad is way better.
- Windows Live Writer, the first things from Windows Live that is actually useful for me (nothing wrong with the other services but I was already being well served in the other product categories they added before). This post is being there with it and all I can say is that finally someone has done a decent blogging desktop tool for Windows. Yes, I already had iWeb on my Mac which is also great but they only support .Mac and in spite of getting myself and account with future plans of doing a full Web and not a blog, I did not want to change my current blog. Congratulations Microsoft, not only for doing a great tool but for doing it compatible with most services and not just MSN Spaces as Apple did with iWeb and .Mac. I hope that this is a sign that innovation is finally happening in Microsoft (isn’t a product innovation only if it changes users behavior, which in my case it has done?).
CD
September 27th, 2006 at 5:23 am
Congrats for your new job (the job of the year in Barcelona!). I knew about this new position because I interviewed for the positions below yours, and I had my search engine alerts set, but finally it has been my regular checking of http://www.tid.es that gave me your name. I guess there will be a press note soon.
By the way, I was told I didn’t fit those positions because I was not international… the general manager was already catalan/spanish!
Best of luck!
Joan