Notwithstanding that I was firmly intent in keeping this blog fully bilingual, after trying so many plug-ins, add-ons and so on for WordPress (and after trying to take time to write one myself), I came to the conclusion that the effort was, well, fruitless.

Amongst many a reason for deciding to drop the idea, and a few more I could come up with, only two stand to be enough for my decision:

1. It’s easier to write in one language and keep consistency; one of the excuses I find myself uttering for not posting is that “oh, then I’ll have to translate, it’s too much work… to have it good enough, I must spend double the time, or more, in each post”. A known procrastinator of all things personal, the less excuses I give myself to push schedules, the better. And I like blogging, so let’s make an effort this time…

2. I already have a Blog in Portuguese. My Insonia also suffers from lack of attention because of my guilt feelings about not writing here. So, there it is my opportunity to also keep that blog consistently updated and keep up with the quality of my writings in my mother language.

Note that I am truly bilingual. Though I am Portuguese, and that is the language of my parents, I did learn English since I was little. As such, I do have a justification, right?

I am not going into making a case for the fact that English is some kind of lingua franca, or anything of that sort. Neither do I feel that one can debate that nowadays that is in fact the language most people use to communicate internationally, because of one reason or another. It just makes more sense to me to keep a blog or site where the language used is English, because:

- I am a computer professional, and that is the most widely used language in the profession;

- English is my second language; I write in it well enough to “sound” at least understandable

- More than half of the people I relate to do NOT speak or read Portuguese, but they are fluent in English;

- Most, if not all, of my friends who speak Portuguese ALSO speak, read and write English as well;

- Last but not the least, I need to keep my English language skill “alive”, so I must practice writing content that is not just technical documentation (or code…) !!!

Now I am faced with a challenge regarding this here blog: the solution I used to have it in the two languages, the xLanguage plug-in, requires that I keep the language versions of the text (and titles) within <span> tags. As soon as I take off the plug-in support, part of my blog will end up with a bunch of garbage, including titles and tags!… Now, that is a lot of work to clean too… I am not happy about it

So, this site will show some inconsistencies for some time, I am affraid. But for once, I will get it done and get rid of the translation here. I will keep track of articles in Portuguese, separately and duly noted as such, but I hereby declare that this Site’s language is ENglish, as spoken in Canada. The first consequence of this action is that the “language” links in the header will come off.

Seems radical? You don’t agree? You agree? Well, feel free to comment and voice your rants or opinions at the comments area of this post.

Thank you for your patience!

Yours truly,

-Sergio