I have been off the site for a while. I have detached from the usual things, because of vacation and work. Today I took the time to develop very small adjustments that will bring about new developments for the site, as a matter of content and catalogue. The brand new Videos section for example, which now contains a couple of illustrative videos. They will eventually be expanded with the very next projects I have in mind. Time is always the worst when dealing with and I also need to do my proper job to make a living, who would have guessed that?
To my (and hopefully yours) delight, the website will progressively seem more consistent. I am introducing pages, this new sensational thing that nobody knows about, that will help me store very old sh@!t making space for the new. Writing is coming up slowly, though. I've restarted reading again, because I need to absorb more inspiration from other stories before introducing my own. They will be both in ITA and ENG, episodic, and will talk about curious things.
Still, this period of my life is one that brings me to search both for something and somebody, this I know for sure. What I don't know is the Wide World outside the Internet, and I don't know it well enough. I am sure there is a revolutionary element somewhere, that will reunite me with... them? Whomever they might be, hoping to tell their stories and how theirs interwined with mine.
This website really makes me wonder about how much I haven't said in the past and how much this opportunity is precious to me. It's been a gift of myself to myself. So selfish of me, possibly, but I think that sometimes you need to take a moment and build something for you, to feel better with yourself, to accomplish something. I'm very glad I made this.
The very fact that I've organized such a potentially great thing for me has sprung myself forward in writing, a thing I really like doing and that I had obscured for a very long time. I came to the point in which I had to try and write on an old 2006 Toshiba laptop stationed on my lap, that is, while being in my car parked right outside my place of work, waiting to get inside and inventing something new in the meantime. It has worked for a little more than a week, then I gave up; the sacrifice of being stuck in a small space with an heavy laptop left its ominous mark and brought me back to basics.
"Basics", at the beginning, was a word processor (Microsoft® Word, LibreOffice Writer). Then, it became a Google Doc, much more comfortable, but treacherous if you have an unstable (or absent) internet connection. You cannot be sure of how much of your work is going to get saved and/or lost. Plus, that was no showcase, it was more of a storage room, where ideas were left to decay. It was time for me to find a catalyst that met my needs, my likes, and possibly my ideals.
This website is going to contain many pieces of writing, an episodic story, audio, videos of some sort, quiet and angry thoughts, relax and criticisms, of all sorts. See? All these things are coming along the way, I can see them now much more clearly. Calling them "data" wouldn't be fair, because they are the product of my dedication, but they end up being codified to be stored and transmitted, so that's a destiny I cannot avoid. At least, I finally have a place to stack them! A place that is mine, that I made with my hands and, at the same time, is also publicly and openly available. Nothing but the best of the efforts, I hope.
Just a single day has passed and how many invisible things have changed! That is because they are server-side and you cannot view anything but their final product. I don't normally like to boast myself for so little, but I'm really loving how it is coming up.
It all started when me and my friends were in High School (as Americans call it, I never remember how the UK is like with this). We were studying IT and during the final year the professors introduced us to the magical World Wide Web languages and technologies used to build and automate the most modern websites you could find around. HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript were just the tip of the iceberg, and they were also the most important to know about. We've experimented here and there and brought up a few examples, which will be published in the coming days on a dedicated section.
From that moment on, our trial and error with the WEB never ceased. I drifted away looking for more interesting grounds, such as networking and low-level approaches to programming, scripting and connectivity; others stayed at an higher level of abstraction, handling these technologies through more potent means. I went away and came back a few times with this, but finally I made a return to the public substance. I've understood that all of this it's always been "under construction", drafting a piece after another, trying to find the most truthful expression, finally reaching a happy state of things.
This constant evolution will, from now on, be made public to be enjoyed by ME and possibly others, if they will be so kind to pass by and take a look. That is why I'll always be under construction; the sidebar has changed a little, for example. Speaking of which, I have not decided whether this site should be fully in English or even with some bits of Italian. Yes, the latter would be my mother tongue, you know. English has become a wonderful addition to my linguistic repertoire. I'll make a list of the objectives for the near future, but for now let's stick to the upcoming.
After months of inspiring thoughts and exhausting predicaments, I'm finally ready to go live.
There isn't much here, yet. I know that, but the humble beginnings are always the most precious to start from. Everything will come up with time and patience and FIRM decisions, like everything happens in the world and to the people. My friends will probably not understand it at first, they're pretentious people, they want to see things done (by others). Well, I would really love to say that I DO NOT CARE, but the reality is, in fact, that I do.
I have acquired this web-space, like a real, professional selfish would do, using my own money, which is the usual thing you use to pay when you pay for things. I have finally felt in my life the need, or better, the urge to publish my own ideas on my own space at my own terms, not those of Facebook, Twitter and their aficionados. I respect other people's decision, but I had some basic needs to fulfill that simply weren't compatible with them:
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