Author: Paolo Belcastro
Paolo is a modern nomad: after Italy, France, and Switzerland, he now lives in Vienna, Austria from where he works on Automattic's Jetpack and .blog products.
Passionate photographer, he also dedicates his free time to his family, cats, and hobbies.
Working remotely since 1994, managing distributed teams since 1998, he firmly believes that remote work is the key to peaceful coexistence for 10 billion humans.
I am on the road this week, and that’s what’s in my bag. And you, what do you carry in yours?
Only in a theater…
… can you see lamps like that on such a wall.
23 mai 1996 – 5 janvier 2012
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Learning Dvorak at 10
My oldest daughter will be 10 this year, so it’s time for her to learn how to touch type*.
I recently started learning the Dvorak layout, and I couldn’t possibly introduce her to QWERTY, QWERTZ or any of their variations, so here she is, training to Dvorak on “das Keyboard” in Mavis Beacon, which I found out is better than Master Key. ( Because it puts the emphasis on accuracy before speed and introduces all keys quicker, which then allows you to practice in the real world, instead of asking you to type fast while still limited to 8 or 10 letters, which delays the introduction of the next ones ).
* I totally made up that rule, but hey, how do you know when it’s time to learn?
Happiness Station
Happiness is an ice cream
2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 7,100 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people.
Bad Design
Sometime languages play funny tricks ( bad = bathroom in German )
All-in-one armchair
A very interesting idea, it could use a cushion though…
Stairway in Vienna
Tarte aux Poireaux
That was good!
WordPress-ino
Man at work
Christmas in Vienna
First trip to Vienna ( our future home starting next summer ) for our daughters. We decided to take the Euronight train, a way more romantic way to travel across Europe than planes.
Funny Swiss plane
Apparently it was overbooked…