Random Nerd Rants

Author: fmneto

  • Update.

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    This is not really an update, but a manifestation of my acknowledgement of the fact that it’s been 43 days since my last post. So many things have happened during this time that is seems a lot longer. Hopefully later this weekend I’ll manage to write something about it.

  • Spooky

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    My advisor has just scared the shit out of me. She sent me an email asking me to write an abstract for a meeting I didn’t remember about. The good thing is, I did know about it and I did make my registration. And I did send my abstract – exactly the one my advisor…

  • Where are you from?

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    So I was checking traffic statistics for this blog and a few curious facts came to my attention. The first of them is that the major source of traffic is not Brazil, but the United States. Brazil is second and the UK comes third. The second curious thing I found out that the major referrer…

  • Sound Juicer Sucks

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    Sound Juicer looks like a pretty good application for encoding audio tracks. To bad it doesn’t work the way it should. I have never had problems with it before, because I always used its default profiles. When I friend came by and saw a CD he liked and asked for a copy, I said ok.…

  • I hate banks. Apparently, the feeling in mutual.

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    So banks hate me. Or, at least, Santander does. For some obscure reason I’m not aware of, every single time I need something out of the ordinary from them, it’s excruciatingly painful to get it. Somehow they find a way to keep annoying me with endless, random problems. For the last whole month I’ve been…

  • The bright side

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    Now, for some good news. At least, there are some. I’m finally free from M$ Windows. The last bastion has fallen – Microcal Origin now runs on my Debian GNU/Linux. Last night I removed the NTFS partition from my computer and relocated my root partition there, creating a huge home directory. I don’t even have…

  • I don’t have bad luck, bad luck has me.

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    I’ll write it down in  one sentence: I haven’t done almost any productive work in the last two weeks, because I wasn’t motivated or because I was sick – sometimes both. That said, I came to the conclusion (once again!) that I’m the elemental of bad luck. I just can’t believe how things can go…