Global by Design

Lately I’ve been trying to reduce some of the noise in my inbox by unsubscribing from a number of email newsletter lists.
It hasn’t been easy.
For example, I unsubscribed from the IOGEAR list and they tell me (as shown here) that it’s going to take up for four weeks to get my name off of their [...]

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This has nothing to do with Web globalization, but it is something that I hope you’ll enjoy.
It is a short story called The Tourist Trail.
As you may remember, I visited Argentina about two years ago. The trip was life changing in many ways and it inspired this story. It is a story about endangered species [...]

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Below are pictures from the world’s largest Magellanic penguin colony, located at Punta Tombo, Argentina.
They were taken during a one-week volunteer trip in 2006. And hardly a week goes by that I don’t think about it. The trip inspired this short story.

Midge and I took part in a volunteer project to assist researchers in counting [...]

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And now for the sobering aspect of my trip to the Antarctic. The naturalists on board our ship told us that the water temperature in the region has increased a few degrees over the past 50 years. This change seemed trivial at first, but I gradually learned that it was actually quite dramatic. They [...]

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I was fortunate to spend 10 days in Antarctica recently. It was an experience that I haven’t quite shaken, and probably never will. Frankly, I still can’t quite believe I was there.
The trip opened my eyes to a few sobering issues related to globalization, which I will write about shortly. For now, I simply had [...]

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