A little more then a month ago we came back from our latest trip, Peru. We only had 14 days so we had to leave out the northern part of the country, the Amazon forest and few other interesting places. We were also planning to go hiking the Inka Trail but since it takes 2 days (or 4 the longer version) to complete it, we had to skip this also.

At the end, we decided for a popular circle among tourists which starts in Lima and continues to Cusco, Machu Picchu, Puno, Arequipa, Nasca and back to Lima. Everything went pretty much according to the plan. We had a great weather and the whole trip was awesome. We didn’t experience any major altitude problems (most of the trip was on 3000m-4300m), only light headache on first two days. Oh, and we felt  tired just from climbing few stairs. But that’s what 40% less oxygen in the air does to you. :)

Anyway, it took me a while to sort all pics but I finally put them online. Hope you enjoy.

The highest part, 4300m.

Lama overlooking Machu Picchu

Sauce made from mud.

Since the times of Bulleting Board Systems (BBS) the internet was something mystical to me. I started experimenting with a small, pocket sized modem but then my father brought home my first real modem, a 14.4Kbps Zyxel, the size of today’s external hard drives. That’s around 1.6KB per second. Most of the time, due to bad lines and connections, this number was even lower. But hey, everything was text based back then and the biggest apps around were few 100KB anyway. ;)

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Finally, I could say. I’ve been planning to launch my new site for quite some time now. The first date was in November last year cos I put my old site online then, 3 years ago. The next date was on first day of the new year because…well, it’s a new year. :) I was away most of the December so I had to postpone it again. I had the new design ready but didn’t find the time to choose the back-end and make the implementation.

Design…

I actually got the idea for this design when working on some other project. When playing with the layout and different options I kinda deviate from the original plan and somewhere in the middle realized, that this is something really close to what I’ve been looking for. I must say here that I was already thinking back then about redesigning my site but didn’t know yet which style to choose. There’s been, or still is, a trend of going from graphical to more minimalistic, blog-type, style but I’m not a big fan of it. If you’re a designer, let it show. :)

Platform…

After I was more or less satisfied with the looks it was time to choose the engine for the whole site. For a short time I was playing with the idea of using some framework such as CakePHP or Codeignator to make the site from scratch. I quickly realized that doing it this way, would take even more time and the site would never be up. So I decided to try my luck with CMS.

Since my new site is meant to be pretty simple, and that I had a chance to work with it on few of my projects, I’ve chosen the Wordpress. There were few changes of the initial look as I was getting to know WP in more detail, but I also got few new ideas out of it.

The site will probably be work-in-progress for some time as I’ll change or add some content later. I put up only the basics and will work on details later, as time permits. Specially the portfolio part which will show only the latest projects for now…with a link to the old site.

Anyway, I hope you like the look and that I can put on some useful content. :)

PS: A big thanks to Elliot Jay Stocks whose advising and help with WP I really appreciates