|
 My
name is Hugo and I started the
ASK
TO ALIENS
web site in 1999 while teaching English as a foreign
language in Montevideo, Uruguay. Initially it was
to be a small project to enable my students to practise
and keep in touch after their courses ended.
Of course the web isn't
like that and since then I have received over 50.000
visitors from all around the world - learners and
teachers.
Unlike many other English
language web sites,
ASK
TO ALIENS
is completely free, unaffiliated to any school or
institution and requires no membership to access the
many features.
What about making money?
Well, I have been approached by some people who wanted
me to commercialise the site, but I have always turned
them down.
Why?
- I
love English and want to share my enjoyment of this
great language.
-
I
believe in free education.
-
I
want to give something back to the wonderful world
wide web which has helped me enormously in my career
as an English teacher.
Nobody
has yet come up with a way in which I can make money
without compromising these ideals, and so I depend
entirely on adverts, donations, sponsorship and affiliate
links to help cover the ever increasing costs of hosting
and developing the network.
 In
2001 I got a bit bored just talking about English
- I taught it - I spoke it - I wrote about it - and
so I decided to start a Linux Computing Site to help
and show those people who were
thinking that I had been forget my real profession.
I´m graduated like as "Computing Security Manager"
since 1988. After that, never I work in my English
Site, because I had no time and I was so tired.
In 2003 due to the increase
in traffic I set up a new web site called
Hugo Learn English.
This now runs the free lessons, there are now over
40 lessons and I hope to add more over time to enable
everyone to improve their English in a fun, interactive
way.
 In
2002 my father was very sick. He had been ill for some
time and I had been looking after his. This meant
I spent a lot of time sitting by his bedside, and
for want of something to do COMPLETE HERBAL came about. It started
as a way of putting the book by Culpeper onto the
www, but ended as being my gif to my father who
was a wealth of information on all things to do with
the garden. As he is the one who rescued the book
from a fire it seemed only fitting. The project is
ongoing, but I'm in no hurry.
Does
the net really need yet another Site? Probably not!
But I am beginning to feel left out, so here I go.
I definitely get the feeling that I may be becoming
an Internet bore though.
 At
the end of the day 2005 I write so much that goes out once
via Newsletters or Mails to visitors to my web sites
I thought this would give me the opportunity to remember
some of the rubbish that I send into hyperspace. So
here you will find an eclectic mixture of news, personal
thoughts and fun stuff - keep reading. |
