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Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it)

For the Star Wars fans out there… this has got to be one of the funniest videos ever:


Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.

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New year new resolutions

First of all I hope you all had a great Christmas and an even better New Year’s Eve!

I’ve been around this holiday season going to Albufeira for Christmas and Madeira for the New Year’s Eve.

New years seem to be that time where we all look back and try and make a few changes in our lives. It’s when we see what we accomplished and where we failed and try and make a list of what to change the coming year. So if you relate to this, please read on…

So I failed in going to the Gym, in learning how to dance Salsa and a few other things. But one thing I realized this year is that I don’t really look at some of these objectives like pressing ones (except the do more sports/go to the gym more often one) but more like things I would like to do one day.

A few months ago, though some friends project, I found “Move to Portugal”. It’s a blog around organizing your life but something instantly caught my eye: they have a plan to pay the morgage until 2012 and then move to Portugal.

This particular idea has got stuck in my mind since then.

I’ve been wanting to go to Madeira for the New Year’s Eve for ages now and this year I finally did it (in the following posts I’ll talk more about it).

I did it but it wasn’t one of my objectives for the passing year. Instead it was one of many objectives I decided long ago I’d do someday. I have many of these but nevertheless it’s something I always wanted to do and now I did it.

This wasn’t one of those “this year I’ll do this” but more one of those “someday I’ll do this”.

So instead of simply having objectives for this year I’m also going to do a list of things I want to achieve in my lifetime.

So this was my first resolution: I’ll create a page where I’ll be putting my objectives and perhaps even an indicator of how far I am to achieve them.

Why don’t you try it yourself? :)

YAB (adabadoo)!

Yet Another Blog …

As this is a new blog I feel that I need to introduce myself. So here it goes, a little bit about me:

If I had to tag myself it would be “workaholic”,”friendly”, “social”, “thought provoking”, “different”

I’m a 31 single guy that decided to open a company two years ago with a few friends.

I ended up being the founder, CEO and lead Web Designer of Core Factor | IT Consulting & Design - a company with two main focuses: web design – my area of expertise … we make it our business to have an emphasis on building standards compliant and accessible solutions – and server management – mainly windows 2k3, my business partner’s area.

I’ve been working on web design for about 8 years now but it was in the past year or so I that was fortunate enough to meet some emblematic guys that shaped the way I see and want to be on the web:

Pedro Custodio (Sapo), Bruno Figueiredo (APPU, Ideias e Imagens), Andre Ribeirinho (adegga.com, avin), Fred Oliveira (WeBreakStuff), Pedro Sousa (Ruby-pt, Re-inventar), Francisco Cabrita (Ruby-pt, Freebsd), Bruno Pedro (Unfolding the web, tarpipe), Alcides Fonseca (Takeoff) and Celso (Sapo)

For me it all started in Barcamp Coimbra in 2007… you really have to be at one of these to understand it’s true power. I liked it so much that we’re sponsoring the Barcamp 2008 in Lisbon organized by João Moreno and João Rico at FCT. If you wanna know more, be there and ask me …

On a side note I’m also co-organizing Shift 2008 (set your calendars: 15 to 17 October) with Pedro Custodio, Bruno Figueiredo and Andre Ribeirinho amongst others. It’s going to be awesome. Be there!

Special thanks:

A final word to thank my business partner: Peter. A workaholic (like me), two years, zero arguments … that’s how good we get along. And to thank Andre Luis, our very first web employee, you paved the way and I learned a lot.

Hope you all enjoy this blog. I’ll write about my company, web design, technology, usability, entrepreneurship and every day issues. Any requests? Feel free to contact me…