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luca@lucazappa.com

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 54/100]

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 don’t believe in horoscopes
6. I live in Italy
7. “Luke Hoe” is the english translation of my italian name
8. I studied computer engineering at Politecnico di Milano
9. I am a software engineer
10. I love internet
11. I love basketball
12. My favorite Italian basketball team is Cantù
13. My favorite NBA team is Utah Jazz
14. My favorite NCAA basketball team is Utah Utes
15. My favorite basketball player is Michael Jordan
16. I love dogs
17. I play (bad) basketball, I am a guard
18. My favorite soft drink is coke
19. My favorite alcoholic drink is Mojito
20. My car is a Volkswagen Polo
21. Sydney is the best city in the world
22. I like travel books
23. My preferred travel writer is Bill Bryson
24. I love Lonely Planet travel guidebooks
25. I’ve been on the internet since 1994
26. I wrote my first email in September 1994 (to myself)
27. My first browser was Netscape Navigator
28. Now I’m using Mozilla Firefox and sometimes Internet Explorer Safari
29. My first email address was lzappa@varano.ing.unico.it
30. My greatest basketball moment is during the 1992 Korac Cup Final in Cantù when Pace Mannion scored four 3-points shots in a row
31. 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
32. The cheapest flight I have ever bought is from Milan Bergamo to London Luton with Ryanair (two-way for only 2 €)
33. My first computer was Commodore 64
34. I wrote my first program in Basic
35. I am an IT consultant
36. I work in Milan
37. My favorite programming language is Java
38. My favorite Java editor is Eclipse
39. Google is the best search engine
40. My favorite tennis player is Andre Agassi
41. I’m not related to Frank Zappa
42. My first motorcycle was Honda Camino (terrible)
43. I think that Grand Canyon (Arizona), Bryce Canyon (Utah) and Uluru (Australia) are fucking amazing
44. 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
45. My nicknames are Luke, Frank, Onippaz, Tons, Sindaco, Zap2.0
46. My favorite food is polenta with cheese
47. I think open source was, is and will be the wealth of the information technology
48. I think I’ll never finish this list
49. My first blog was powered by Blogger, now I’m using WordPress
50. My digital camera is a Nikon Coolpix 4300
51. My new digital camera is a Casio EXILIM EX-Z1000
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

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