Fernando Valente's weblog

Currently I’m busy as hell. I’m working on a new Mac app and I hope to finish it soon. Working 10˜12 hours a day is painful!

Well, I’m not broke like I have no money to eat and my stuff is being sold by a court, but I’m not rich yet. In fact, I was born broke. For years my goal was to be rich. Right now for example, I wanna save a million dollars. It might sound weird, but that’s enough for me to set up a company in the US and support it for some time until it becomes profitable.

So, I found a possible answer for the question about why I’m not rich yet. I had nothing to do and for some dumb reason, I Google for “How to make a million dollars”. I came across an article at HowStuffWorks. Well, usually this kind of article are totally useless. To me, it might have been useful.

So, it basically states there are 2 ways to become a millionaire.  The easy one is to born to a rich family. Well, that almost happened to me. My great grandfather was a millionaire in a time a million was worth a lot more than it’s today. Imagine a million dollars in the 60s. He was able to make this amount of money in some months. Sadly, he had alzheimer’s disease and everyone let my uncle take care of everything. Well, my uncle was not only a leftist(not a leftist leader, but someone who believes in a part of the Marxist ideology, a clear sign he needed a brain transplant), but he also was a very lazy guy. He kept saying “My dad made all this money, so he has the right to lose it”. What an idiot, asshole, son of a bitch(I hope none of my relatives will read this)… My grandmother, great grandmother and aunt weren’t innocent too. My poor great grandfather died in misery. I feel sorry for him. The irony of this is that my great grandmother and my aunt died very poor too, with a debt that’s greater than the United States’ national debt. To complete that, no one admits they are broke. They keep acting like they were rich and try to convince everyone about that. Well, if I was rich I’d try not to let people know about it(excepting for the girls I want to fuck). I don’t like bloodsuckers.

The harder way the article cited was to start a business. Well, I already have a business. I even pay my bills from it. The article also stated that working for other people is a waste of time for those who want to become a millionaire. Simply because by doing this, you’re making OTHER PEOPLE rich, not yourself. Currently, my income comes from developing custom solutions to other companies. Mainly for advertising agencies. It made me see that I’m making other people rich, not me. My goal was never to do this. I’m doing this now because that’s what pays my bills. My goal was always to create products for the final consumer and sell those products directly(or by using a middle man, AKA retailers) to them.

Unfortunately, my projects that are focused on the end user that are under development are a little stuck. I hate suffering of depression. This makes me very tired and doesn’t let me work the way I’m supposed to. Considering I’m tired of working, it gets a lot worse. Also, it makes me addicted to sugar, which might make me develop type 2 diabetes. While anti-depressants help a LOT, they ain’t magical drugs. I’m even considering trying low doses of testosterone to make me feel better.

Getting back to what I was talking about, I got 2 projects which are under development. One is a web based service which shouldn’t give me much profit. It’s almost finished. The second project is a Mac app which isn’t that close to be finished yet. Weirdly, I started this project in December last year. The Mac app will have some integration with the web project, that’s why I’m prioritizing the web one. The Mac app has a great chance of becoming profitable.

Well, these are my thoughts on this subject. I will try to focus more on end user projects. I won’t abandon the custom solutions stuff yet simply because I still need the money from it to survive. If you want to read the article from HowStuffWorks, just click here.

I quitted the french course. I did it because I’m so anxious. I got a big problem with anxiety since I was born and no doctor could ever solve this. Anxiety makes me do foolish things and also causes me an obsessive compulsive disorder. But this is not the why I quitted. It’s not realated to my obsessive compulsive disorder, but to the fact I wasn’t being able to pay attention and even study for the course. I still have plans to get back to the course and I will probably do it in two or three months.

One of the reasons why my anxiety is getting worst it Chiaro. It seems doors are finally getting open. I just can’t stop thinking about my plans to the future.

Today I renewed the Chiaro web hosting. This blog is hosted on the same server I host Chiaro website. It’s renewed until 2011. Also, I registered the domains chiarosoftware.com and chiarosw.com. They now redirect to Chiaro website. I found a discount cupom which allowed me to pay $1.17 for a domain registration on GoDaddy. If you would like to get a domain for just $1.99, use the banner bellow:

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Two days ago I decided to develop an specific version of Radio Tool X for the Apple iPad. I told myself  ”I can take no longer than 1 day to develop it”. In fact I toke one day and a half, but that doesn’t matter. People are saying that the iPad is the new iPhone, that it’s an inovation and bla bla bla. Anyway, I just submitted it and I hope Apple will aprove it soon. I also have to finish my new website and one application for the Mac OS X. Both are almost finished. I hope I will finish them in 1~4 days. I called this version “Radio Tool X Deluxe”. I  hope to have more success with this iPad app than I had with iPhone apps. Apple usually takes 1 week to approve iPad apps, so I think my new website will be online at the date of the Radio Tool X for iPad launch. Well, that’s it.