A new blog is born
Let me start by saying that this is not the first blog post of my english blog, it is the 4th one, the three initial posts were made “offline” in a google docs document I was writing while I was coding my own blog publishing tool earlier this year, the first one, from Friday, January 4th 11:04PM titled:”Starting a blog in english part 1: motivation and naming process”, the second one from 12:20AM of the same day “Starting a blog in english part 2: blogging platform and host” and the third one: “Building my next blog part 1: the basics” without timestamp. My idea at the time was that I would have finished the basic bare-bones version of the tool quickly and then transfer the initial posts from google docs to the definitive home when finished, and it would have been a cool “live blogging” thing for that particular experience… anyways, for a series of combined reasons, I didnt finished that tool, and I didnt started my blog in English back then. I will not publish the initial posts here for now, but I may do it in the future…
Dont get me wrong, I still want to finish my little blog publishing tool, and use it as the main-golden-standard-ultimate choice for my English blog, as I believe currently there is no blogging tool on the market that fits my unique(bizarre) set of requirements/needs, but since I’ve been too busy with other stuff to catchup with the code for that project and so many important topics I want to rant about in English are passing through my eyes and my only output stream for that kind of opinions is the limited 140 twitter space, I decided to go with tumblr for now, since it is a pretty good simple and almost-there solution in terms of blogging tools, I really like it, it almost does the job :)
Oh, since this is my first blog post, maybe it is a good idea to introduce myself and explain a little the motivation for this blog… ok, let me try:
Well, my name is Fabricio Zuardi, (and you probably know that already by the description on the sidebar), I happen to have born in São Paulo, Brazil, country in which I also happened to have lived and spent most of my lifetime so far… but that’s not important I guess, anyways, I like machines and dogs, I also like and care about a handfull of humans such as my family and my friends, this blog is basically borning because of then (the humans) and to myself obviously, having a blog is a great way to have memory.
A little excerpt from my first unpublished blog post that describes more or less the same thing as above:
Since 5 years ago I maintain a personal blog in Portuguese (I have been born in São Paulo - Brazil), it is called I do my own stunts, I like the name and fits my personality, I could use the same name for the “English version”, specially because it is not a version of my Portuguese blog, it is an extension, it is not a different theme or anything, it is also a personal blog about nothing, but with rants in English, either to be read by friends that cannot speak my first language or just to make me feel like I am part of the relevant bit of the web (even though I am not).
I lived the past 18 months in the US, wonderfull country that I plan to return soon, the company that gave me that chance was Marc Andreessen’s Ning, a great platform to build and host web applications, I am back already and currently in the proccess of setting up my new home in the city of São Carlos, SP - Brazil and also a shared workspace with a friend who had his time in the sillicon valley as well, the idea is to bring some of that culture to this part of the globe, but this is another topic for future posts too…
I have a computer science degree, and my main ocupation is coding, besides that I don’t consider myself a programmer, I use the knowledge to help me test my ideas, produce stuff, and overall get along with the machines, but I am not clever enough for the hardcore stuff. What else?… Expect the regular stuff everybody enjoys arguing here like video-games, music, movies, politics, life and etc.
Oh and BTW, I hate Forest Whitaker.