A web agency weblog

I’m learning german, for the third time and by myself of course, I promise this time I’ll get it. I’ve got some projects running with Germany based clients, a good opportunity to add a new language to my small menu.

I learned english thanks to John, Paul, George and Ringo, yep, The Beatles songs are great for that, even now I can remember and sing (horribly to be honest) most of their songs.

I’m also thinking on learning some swedish because I really like Sweden’s Kent but anyway, this post is about german!

My tastes?, I like rock from bands like Kashmir, Mew, Radiohead, Pink Floyd (these fellows are gods), the already mentioned Kent, Sugarplum Fairy, Mando Diao (uh, three swedish bands in a row!) and many others but those will give you a good idea of what I’m into.

So, I’m asking you to suggest some good bands from Germany, or other countries but singing in german, bands to enjoy listening and learning the language.

Auf Wiedersehen!

A shot of the family pet, Aragorn, with my little Beatriz.

What do you think?

Hello everybody, today was a bad day, at least from a technical point of view, I was told that I needed to make some expensive repairs in my car and my MP3 player died.

Can you imagine that?!, I say, I can live without a car but … no MP3 player?, wow!, that hurts, it’s really a big problem for every music addict, believe me.

I had an Audible Otis that came with my subscription to Audible, not a great gizmo but it worked, it only had 64Mb of memory and was just enough for listening to audiobooks (Audible uses a format that doesn’t take much space in the player) and kinda small for MP3 music but anyway, it could hold at least 10 or 12 songs for listening while being sit in a waiting room.

Now I really need a new MP3 player and have decided to continue my efforts with the FreeiPods site, no cash in the box right now (at least not for gizmos, the entity known as wife will kill me if I get another one so soon, last one was a Wacom tablet, “hey hon!, this will allow me to create wonders for the job!", “yeah right!, I’m still waiting for my wedding ring!") so I have to give this thing another try.

I signed up some months ago and without trying too hard I got some people in my list, four persons to be exact, but one of them was not approved, I’m not sure why, now I need a couple of guys, or gals, or one of each, in order to get my iPod.

I know these links are all over the net but anyway, it’s worth trying and I’m so close.

Enough talk: here my link to get a free iPod, if you feel like helping just sign up and complete an offer, I will really appreciate it.

Gosh, it’s quiet around here …

p.s: The free iPods offer is only valid for residents of United States, a U.S. Territory, Canada, England, Scottland, Wales or Germany

Well, after three months publishing “A web agency weblog", I would like to officially introduce myself.

My name is Alexis Bellido, I am peruvian and live at Lima. I work developing Internet projects since 1998, in 2000 I founded Ventanazul, a web agency focused in worldwide customers. I used to be a networking consultant before that.

This weblog was born as part of our agency’s web site redesign. I needed a more personal space, a place to share my comments about work, family, ideas and projects.

I love reading and hope writing a book someday. Having a weblog is a very interesting exercise for a novel writer. Some of my favorite authors: Gabriel García Marquez, Asimov, Neal Stephenson, Bryce Echenique, José Saramago, Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, J.R. Tolkien, Bertrand Russell, Orson Scott Card, Dan Simmons, Neruda, Borges … well! It is a very long list.

I hear many genres of music. Currently I enjoy nordic rock, bands like: Sigur Ros, Mew, Kashmir, Under Byen and Kent, and post rock such as: Mogwai, Giardini di Miro and Explosions in the Sky, are in my playlists. Of course I have a very special place for classics like: Bach, Mozart, Vivaldi, Chopin, Sui Generis, Beatles, CCR and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

I play some guitar, but just for relaxing myself, I’m not quite good at it, I should have chosen piano, which I will learn later with my daughter.

I participate in many online communities, discussion forums and administer Forums Ventanazul, where we are gathering a nice group of people from many different countries, talking about: Religion, Internet businesses, movies, books, music, online marketing and web design, to name a few topics.

I’ve offered lectures about Internet related issues at many cities in my country. I really enjoy talking in public and traveling.

I was one of the founders of the Asociación Nacional de Webmasters Perú (ANWMP), a non profit local webmasters organization and moderate Red Científica Peruana’s Teleworking mailing list.

I like to study and talk about many issues: Society, human behaviors, customs, theology and others.

I live with my wife, Yesenia, and my daughter Beatriz. They are the force behind each of my days.

Currently there are not dogs or cats in this family, but we will solve that soon.

I hope to offer my best, or at least my most honest, writing to all of you who choose to include this weblog in your regular readings.

If you want to comment on any of the articles just use the comment function of the weblog. Enjoy reading.

Yep, we are working here! A shot made some minutes ago in our main headquearters, my little “boss” is asking for Barbie family so I got to work harder.

Since she discovered that Barbie has a husband/boyfriend/slave called Ken, she is always telling me to keep working and saving money.

Really hate those TV commercials in Fox kids …

Yesterday, my daughter took her first photograph, she had made some earlier attempts with me, but this time she took care of the whole process.

She asked for the camera, opened the lens and … click! well, here it is the result, I only hope next time she will include my face … I guess this is how Capa started.

Today my beautiful Beatriz was visiting Barbie’s web site, she is already having better control over the mouse, I mean Beatriz, not Barbie.

It’s great to have such a lovely person working side by side with dad, she has a ten years advantage over me, I started playing with my first computer at 12, we did not have Internet then (at least not as we know it today), I did not even had a modem!, when I got my first modem (I remember, it was an Everex 920, 1200 bauds) I got into BBS’s and …. , but that is a whole different story that I will tell you at another time.

The fact is, my 2 years and 9 months old daughter is going to be the most valuable partner at Ventanazul and I am happy about that.

I will keep writing about her discoveries and soon will help her get her own blog online, WordPress based of course.