For some time I was a fun of “suitable for adult” graphic novels. Adult in this context doesn’t mean porno, although some tits are allowed. Adult means they would be interested for grown-ups (up to 25-30 years, to be honest). They have complicated scripts, cynical jokes and a lot of cultural references. Normally the texts [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Long 19th Century: European History from 1789 to 1917
January 15th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Books | View Comments
These weeks I have to travel a lot between Belgium and Netherlands, and as I’m spending more time in the car, more books are listened to. Yesterday I’ve finished another lecture series from The Teaching Company, called “Long 19th Century: European History from 1789 to 1917″. I’m a huge fan of The Teaching Company, the [...]
Terry Prattchett latest books
January 14th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Books | View Comments
It was a huge tragedy, when Terry Pratchett announced his condition. I love all his books, especially the Discworld series. Somehow he still manages to write with his own style. Actually I could say his latest 2 books are not much different from the last 5 (staring let’s say with Going postal) There is almost [...]
Overview of user tracking
January 13th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in eCommerce | View Comments
Let’s look one step further in our way to track users (continuing from http://alleko.com/2010/01/07/tracking-users-or-traffic/ ) How else you can track customers of your site: web analytics (they normally use cookies and URL parameters) e-commerce engine (user must in most cases create login for buying something, but even without logins the e-shop software could use cookies [...]
sci-fi shows in 2009
January 12th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Fun | View Comments
It appears that sci-fi shows are popular again! As every ner… (sorry, person with engineering education) I love science fiction and TV-shows. Year 2009 had very interesting ones: Battlestar Galactica has finished with 4th season and a movie. You may hate it for liberal approach (if you’re not liberal of course), but the setting was [...]
chrome – browser made for content
January 10th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Information Technologies | View Comments
Normally I hate installing software on my computer, if it’s not really needed. Any software you install is one more spot on your computer (your work tool). like, for example, I know Windows Explorer is not the best File Manager, but I would hate to install Total Commander or Far. At least Misrosoft is under preassure [...]
Neil Gainman books
January 8th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Books | View Comments
Recently I’ve discovered Neil Gainman. Yes, I know, as a good geek (nerd) I must have read all of him long time ago. At least because he’s an author of cult comic book “Sandman” But there are so many books around and so few time. Anyway, I went through most of his novels last months [...]
Renovation photos
January 7th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Photos | View Comments
Two and a half years ago my wife and I bought a house in Brussels. It was not in very good shape and 2 floors from 3 were rented out. Half year we collected our money and tried to let our tenants go. And then, the renovation began! As it sometimes happens in the years [...]
Tracking users or traffic?
January 7th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in eCommerce | View Comments
There are different possibilities to track the incoming traffic. The easiest is: Counting clicks Let’s say you have a 10.000 page views per month. It means users have clicked 10.000 times on your pages. You can count also your revenue for this month, divide it by the pageviews and call it “conversion”. But at the [...]
New 2010 year
January 6th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Fun | View Comments
I was a little bit busy the last 2 month, sorry about that. Despite on number of drafts, I didn’t manage to write a single post. But now a lot of thing are fixed and I should have more time to write. First of all a very hard year 2009 is finished. Economical crisis, managing [...]
