A while back I posted about a fantastic online and offline mapping application called Schmap (available on Windows and Mac *shortly*), which takes planning a trip to a foreign destination to another level. Here is a description of the Schmap guides from the web site: Schmap’s series of digital travel guides integrates dynamic maps with [...]

A story that I recently wrote for Hana: American Democratic Senator John Edwards delivered the keynote at Gnomedex 6.0, an annual conference aimed at bloggers and technologists held in Seattle, USA. The Senator, who was a late edition to the programme, expressed his pleasure at having the opportunity to present to the 300 or so [...]

The new media and blogging conference I’m attending in Seattle, Gnomedex, is in full swing and it’s been a real experience. Besides the brilliant, smart, funny people in the room, there’s also been some interesting presentations. The format of this year’s conference is radically different from previous years’, and I like it. Basically a ‘discussion [...]

Yesterday I went on an awesome tour of the city with a tour-guide called Norm and some people from just outside Seattle and New Mexico. We went through all the historic districts, past the Space Needle and Science Center, but one of the highlights for me was a stop at one of the lochs where [...]

Yesterday I arrived in Seattle, after an exhausting trip from Rio to Houston and Houston to Seattle (3 time zones in under 24 hours!). My last day in Rio was simply magic and I was very happy that I managed to visit Corcovador (Jesus Christ Statue) and Sugar Loaf Mountain on the day I left [...]