User:Alessandro Ghignola
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My name corresponds exactly with the nickname I've used to sign up here and through which you're accessing this page, although I'm not the only one with that exact full name in the world, and especially, I know for sure there is at least another person with that exact name and who's also from my same city, ie. Pisa, Italy. To hopefully facilitate disambiguation, I shall point out that I was born on December 30th, 1975. I don't know when the other Alessandro Ghignola was born, but I assume he wasn't born that exact same day as well.
The precise reason why I had signed up here, was the intent of occasionally contributing to articles concerning my own projects; I might as well ensure that none of those articles was ever created, or even remotely touched by me in person. Ideally, I would contribute by dropping relevant notes on their talk pages, as happened in the case of L.in.oleum. Although my English presumably appears to be rather fluent, when trying to explain something I typically end up with a resulting style which is quite far from encyclopedic, and that's the reason why I'm happy to leave the task of writing/editing articles to better qualified volunteers. About my French, it's a merely scholastic knowledge, of which very little survived the passing of years; I'm usually still able to understand some Français, but for the rest I've mentioned it just for the record.
My primary occupation is taking requests for computer applications involving data processing in the context of office work, to then process the request and output a correspondingly functional application, ie. freeing employees from the need of typing redundant stuff with their keyboards; I incidentally get paid to do that. While often supposed (by me) to be a temporary occupation, it unintenionally became the main one, and I'm actually still unable to solve this inconvenience. When I'll be an adult (I'm 31, but still mentally a child) I suppose I'll either find a permanent job or live on my own projects, the latter being — from an objective and pragmatic point of view — unlikely to happen, but which has a non-zero probability to happen anyway.
All of the above means, in brief, that I'm a programmer. More specifically, I've moved my first steps in writing sequences of instructions for a computer to follow, in the early 80's, using Commodore's BASIC. I soon became fond with this kind of activity, for reasons yet to be determined, and thus attempted to choose appropriate schools, finding out that my own interest in information technology was often slightly ahead of my own country's interests of those years. Patience. The high school course was mostly focused on applied algorithmics in Cobol (don't laugh): there was a lot of practice, very little theory, and the primary goal seemed to be that of creating relational databases. Later on, after having been forced to cope mostly with theory, I reacted in the only way my personality's model could only react: by getting demotivated [1], and so I quit university. Judging at current level of IT penetration in this perhaps selectively technophobic country, I suspect it wasn't as bad as one could thing, as a move. By a selectively technophobic country I mean that its citizens may overtrust and widely enjoy certain aspects of technology (ie. using cell phones) while tendentially aversing and eventually fearing others (ie. using computers as means to produce something). Further later on, I finally managed to deprecate the poorly planned organization of my former source code, in favor of a more formal approach, which placed me in a quite time-consuming loop to restyle and refactor my former products and which, in turn, temporarily halted my productivity.
Having met the Internet in 1998, the next year I decided I needed to create a personal site somewhere. It's still alive as http://anywherebb.com and mainly hosts my no-profit projects, although a little community has then grown around them, with members adding their own projects to the whole. At the time I'm writing this, Wikipedia hosts entries for at least a couple of these projects: Noctis and L.in.oleum. The first is an old MS-DOS game I'm endlessly trying to build a long-awaited sequel for; the second is the programming language I'm writing the sequel in, and is also currently a work in progress, albeit rather near to completion.
Leaving this account here for future use, I foresee I could possibly contribute with a gallery of general-purpose images; through several years I've built a rather large stock of photographs and CG pictures, either designed for a specific purpose or as a way to pass some time. They will be all my own production, and never based on any kind of copyrighted work, and so I can safely make a selection of them available under the GFDL.
