15 years ago today I was working from home when I got a call from my ex. "Are you watching TV? Because it seems there was an explosion in NYC in the WTC". I turned on the small TV set I had in my room and I saw on CNN the footage showing one of the twin towers in flames. Many of the fatalities in that attack were foreigners as you can see in the map above.

This morning I was reading in the news that North Korea conducted a fifth nuclear test. It's pretty scary to think this nation could launch a nuclear attack. There is an organization called ican that leads an international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons. They track the arsenals maintained by the different nuclear powers.

As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I have been working on this project to migrate my breaksian travel blog to the node platform where I'm running my applications. I already finished the main blog, but there are a couple of pieces more pending. Today I finished one of them. It was a small map showing the itinerary I followed while I was travelling in Asia and Oceania. I also took the opportunity to update it with the missing data points.

I haven't checked the global search engines market share in a while because clearly Google dominates in almost every country, but yesterday I heard an interesting podcast on BBC about the power of Google, and I was curious about the position of the 2nd and 3rd players. The chart above is generated with data from startcounter.

My old LAMP hosting is about to expire and I’m using that account only to host a travel blog of my career break two years ago called breaksian. This weekend I migrated the contents to a node platform and I took the opportunity to review and publish a post about a week I spent in Ko Lanta, Thailand. Quite a special place.

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