How do I scale and position images in Markdown?
Is there some sort of plugin?
Dates & Data
Colin Brayton is a São Paulo, Brazil-based translator, editor and journalist.
Borned and raised in Lost Angles, California (1960s-198s), Colin spent formative periods in the San Francisco Bay Area (1984-1996) and Brooklyn, New York (1996-2007) as well.
Colin has a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature from Berserkeley in medieval literature and also completed a ton of doctoral coursework in Romance philology and Arabic literature while teaching lit and comp to freshmen.
This was before Colin got a life, moving to New York City and going to work as a journeyman copy editor.
Among many gigs, I – the third person is pretentious – worked as copy chief of an Internet economy publication – this was pre-9/11 – and as managing editor and interim chief at a securities industry trade weekly.
Lots of fascinating stories on the early days of enterprise Linux on a massive scale.
And so on.
Remarkably, some of my Blogger blogs from those days are still live.
The Confessions of a Blind Tangerine (inspired by Blind Lemon Jefferson).
And The Hairy Eyeball is to be found on The Wayback Machine, dating from May 2002.
I would still like to find where I blogged Nine-Eleven, if I was not too shell-shocked to record my reaction.
And then there is a YouTube channel somewhere with exercises in subtitling and living out that Talking Heads song:
«They might be better off I think / The way it seems to me / Making up their own shows / Which might be better than TV …»
Em fim: What a long strange trip it’s been.
Missus Me
Colin is married to Neuzas Paranhos, a paulistana journalist, translator, writer and novelist.
Watch this space: I intend to build The News something nice in Hugo or Pelican.
The Post-Modern Publshing Professional
Write something here about keeping up all the latest trends in publishing and how I have personal experience in everything from linotype – as a paperboy with the South Pasadena Review in the early 1970s – to dedicated WordPerfect terminals and phototypesetting with hot-wax layout to making a Quark server play nice with a ColdFusion Web server and so on and so forth.
I like to boast I was around when blogs were invented and designated as such and Dan Bricklin, I think it was – father of the spreadsheet – came out with something I think it was called HomeSite. Or was that the Macromedia product?
But time marches on.
Current Projects
I have just finished testing a ton of flat-file CMS solutions and a ton and a half of static site generators over the past few months.
I have a working tool set now, one that I am fairly adept at using – considering I majored in poetry.
I would really like to start building sites for NGOs – in Portuguese, ONGs and OSCIPs – as well as artists and academics and private-practice professionals, hosting them here on GitHub if possible.
###Poverty Sucks
I am hosting my personal wiki with Nearly Free Speech but to my shame cannot even afford their rock-bottom prices.
I really need to get back to paying translation gigs – software manuals might be a good niche. I did a little of that in my New York days, during which I did a little of everything
I could write-translate docs and also publish them.
Contact me if interested.