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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Deathly Hallows

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    I’ve finished reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows last night (there are spoilers in this post; select the text to see them). I dare say that it’s the best of the seven books in…