Luca Zappa Web Corner

I am a basketball addicted, an amateur photographer and an information technology worker.

Who am I?
Talking about yourself is really difficult, I don’t know where to begin, so I try with “100 things about me” method:

[work in progress 55/100]

1. My name is Luca
2. My surname is Zappa
3. I was born in Erba, Italy, on November 25th, 1975 at 6:30 p.m.
4. I’m a Sagittarius
5. I’m currently working in Reply
6. I don’t believe in horoscopes
7. I live in Italy
8. “Luke Hoe” is the english translation of my italian name :-)
9. I studied computer engineering at Politecnico di Milano
10. I am a software engineer
11. I love internet
12. I love basketball
13. My favorite Italian basketball team is Cantù
14. My favorite NBA team is Utah Jazz
15. My favorite NCAA basketball team is Utah Utes
16. My favorite basketball player is Michael Jordan
17. I love dogs
18. I play (bad) basketball, I am a guard
19. My favorite soft drink is coke
20. My favorite alcoholic drink is Mojito
21. My car is a Volkswagen Polo
22. Sydney is the best city in the world
23. I like travel books
24. My preferred travel writer is Bill Bryson
25. I love Lonely Planet travel guidebooks
26. I’ve been on the internet since 1994
27. I wrote my first email in September 1994 (to myself)
28. My first browser was Netscape Navigator
29. Now I’m using Mozilla Firefox and sometimes Internet Explorer Safari
30. My first email address was lzappa@varano.ing.unico.it
31. My greatest basketball moment is during the 1992 Korac Cup Final in Cantù when Pace Mannion scored four 3-points shots in a row
32. My first flight was on July 1993, when I was 17. Four flights in a day (two Iberia and two Delta flights): Milan – Madrid – New York – Dallas – Las Vegas
33. The cheapest flight I have ever bought is from Milan Bergamo to London Luton with Ryanair (two-way for only 2 €)
34. My first computer was Commodore 64
35. I wrote my first program in Basic
36. I am an IT consultant
37. I work in Milan
38. My favorite programming language is Java
39. My favorite Java editor is Eclipse
40. Google is the best search engine
41. My favorite tennis player is Andre Agassi
42. I’m not related to Frank Zappa
43. My first motorcycle was Honda Camino (terrible)
44. I think that Grand Canyon (Arizona), Bryce Canyon (Utah) and Uluru (Australia) are fucking amazing
45. The countries I have visited are Italy, Switzerland, French, Croatia, Spain, United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, Holland, USA, Germany, Egypt, Greece, Hong Kong, Australia, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino, Russia
46. My nicknames are Luke, Frank, Onippaz, Tons, Sindaco, Zap2.0
47. My favorite food is polenta with cheese
48. I think open source was, is and will be the wealth of the information technology
49. I think I’ll never finish this list
50. My first blog was powered by Blogger, now I’m using WordPress
51. My digital camera is a Nikon Coolpix 4300 Casio EXILIM EX-Z1000 Canon EOS 500D
52. My photo taken in Kakadu National Park (Australia) is been published in a book: “The Legend of the Dragon”
53. I switched to a Mac in January 2008 and I fell in love with it
54. My mobile phone is an Apple iPhone
55. I also own an iPad

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