I have finally finished selecting photos for my Canada albums. With the release of iWeb ‘08, I decided to reorganize my whole gallery.
Here are four brand new albums:

Toronto

Niagara

Kingston & Thousand Islands

Montréal

The photos are now grouped by year, and there’s an index page for each year. Comments can be added on a per photo basis. Finally, an RSS feed is available for each album and for each year.

Since this was a huge update, all the links have changed, so I have updated them in their respective posts. Here’s a complete list of all my albums available today:

2007 :
Toronto, Niagara, Kingston & Thousand Islands, Montréal, Santiago, San Francisco, Puerto Rico, Anaheim, Monterrey

2006 :
New York, Montréal, Québec, Ottawa, Miami, Culiacán, Dallas, Las Vegas

2005 :
Chicago

Being the administrator and active user of my highschool’s alumni website, masalumni.org I have noticed that the most active post in the forums is regarding book recommendations for the literature class. As anyone who has been paying attention to my sidebar knows, one of my hobbies is reading books (just finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows :)). Given this background, I decided to create a specific site to list all the books that have been mentioned in this forum (restricted registration required).

Here’s the link, for those of you who can wait to finish reading:
http://mas.gbtopia.com/books

Books site screenshot

I used the same Wordpress plugin that powers my sidebar, called Amazon Media Manager. I had to make several changes to add support for ratings, comments and dynamically retrieving book descriptions. The result is an AJAX application that displays a list of books, allows users to rate them and add their own comments. Users can also filter the list to display only the recommendations made by a particular user. I had to brush up a bit on my PHP skill. It was rather easy, and was ready in about five days during my free time.

Update (2007-08-25): Now you can sort the books by different criteria. Added screenshot.

I've been a bit busy working on the redesign of this site, the pressure is growing, since I intend to have it done during 2007. I am also preparing some photos and panoramas that should be available sometime soon. To compensate for the lack of updates I decided to share this exclusive photo of the much rumored "mythical" Google phone. Enjoy!

P.S. People who scrutinize this photo may notice that it has been Photoshopped. I assure you that it is real, and it was slightly blurred, cropped and resized to protect my sources.