Taperouge Editorial Desings

Major decision

I've decided to start blogging in English.

Funny how the whole panorama has changed with this decision. Certain subjects are no longer relevant, the depth of certain discussions must be revised, and I'm being forced to re-think what I considered suitable material due to a a completely different public. Certainly some of the old visitors will continue to read, but I just opened up a whole new "customer base". If I want to be authentic, original, and interesting things have to change.

And don't get me started on language. For about a month now, English has been an ever more present requirement at work. Our old manager retired and we now have a Swedish manager who is still in the process of learning Portuguese. He is doing so because he seems to be a very cool person and wants to fit in, but actually we are the ones who always have been required to know English, at least at some level, since it's the company's official language. It just wasn't an urgent need until now and everyone kept postponing the inevitable.

English is my first language, but since high school I haven't had the need to go beyond what I already knew. Now I am back using my mother tongue and am noticing that my vocabulary stopped in high-school. I'm polishing it and removing the rust, but once in a while I have to fish for words.

Definitively this is a wonderful challenge, and I'm certainly up to it. Guess this is what I needed to renew my enthusiasm with Taperouge.

Not only this! My portfolio is online, even though its only my freelance work due to confidentiality, but anyway, you can see some of the things I1ve been up to. My Flickr photos, my Last.fm song list and stuff I share in Google reader are a couple of other things I've added here.