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• Who are you?
• What’s your name?
• What is chette.com all about?
• What do you do?
• Can you add tips about so-and-so in your website?
• Do you answer your emails?
  

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Who are you?

Chette.

And by the way, that’s pronounced as "chet."

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What’s your name?

Chette. Seriously.

I’m officially Franchette in my birth certificate. Among other things. I am the unwilling recipient of a very long name (39 characters, to be exact); which I’ve always believed was caused by a creative clash between my parents on that fateful day in September.

I am also known as Che-chette, Chetteskie, Chettee Girl, Franchetteee, Chettelog, Maldita, and Darna — the reasons of which will not be covered in this FAQ.

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What is chette.com all about?

The good thing about having your own personal website: You can write (almost) anything you want.

The bad thing: People keep on asking what your website is all about.

As with your typical homepage, this website contains knowledge, opinions, and basically any information that the author would like to impart.

It originally started as an online diary, which quickly evolved to a site on web development. After a few years, I erased it from cyberspace, started from scratch, and just uploaded things at random.

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What do you do?

I was a horrible programmer in my past life. IT Marketing and Journalism welcomed me with open arms a few years later.

I discovered Project Management in my volunteer work. After a few years, I decided to apply these self-taught concepts to various software and web development projects, until it officially became my profession.

Ergo, for around 8 hours a day, I am a Software Project Manager.

For the remaining 16 hours, I sleep, write articles for various publications, do volunteer work for a bunch of non-profits, and try to make some sense out of my personal websites.

I have also been known to eat, sleep, watch TV, doodle, and go wild in hardware shops.

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Can you add tips about so-and-so in your website?

Sure. Just send me an email. And if it’s anything that triggers me, you’ll definitely see it on this website.

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Do you answer your emails?

I read most non-newsletter non-spam emails. Answering them is another matter.

Forgive me — I’m a mailing list freak, and thus receive hundreds of emails every day. I do try my best, but contrary to some beliefs, hindi ako si Darna.

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Even after years of developing websites for money, fun, sheer boredom, or blackmail, I had no interest whatsover in putting up anything about me.

And for many reasons:

• I’m naturally paranoid. Nothing scares me more than the words: “So you’re Chette.“
• I was (un)lucky enough to have friends who happen to be strong privacy advocates. Google revealed more than enough, thank you.
• I’m obesessive compulsive (wonders of wonders, I finally admitted it). It took me weeks just to decide on the font face, color combination, and table width.

  I am still having nightmares that someone changed all my fonts and replaced them with Comic Sans.

• I didn’t know where to start.

Coward no more:

• Maybe it’s because of Friendster, where old friends have been leaving persistent messages, asking why “my website is down.”
• Maybe I just want to jump in the bandwagon — after all, every Pepe, Pilar, and Procopio have his own blog or personal website nowadays.
• Or maybe I just realized I have to get over this. (Sigh. I hate growing up.)

Without further ado, allow me to present to you chette.com.

Ito na po. Gawa na po. And with all sincerity, I hope you enjoy your stay.

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