Random Nerd Rants

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  • Writer’s “Block”

    Writer’s “Block”

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    For a few years now I’ve been having a certain difficulty writing stuff for this blog. It’s not like “back in the day”: I just didn’t went through the trouble of sitting down to write anything. It wasn’t lack of things to talk about: I just didn’t care. With everything going on with me during…

  • Mnemonic

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    This post is not a post. It is more a reminder to myself of stuff I want to write about, and to which I’ve been giving some thought. All I need to do now is to sit my butt in the chair, somehow manage not to get distracted, put my thoughts in order and write.…

  • More a test than a post

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    Although this is more of a test than a real post, I wanted to put something here anyway. It’s not easy coming up with stuff to write in a blog. Anyone who has ever had one knows it. Especially if it’s not a theme-oriented enterprise, but just some place where one would like to register…

  • Where is the web going?

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    Some time ago I began using Google Reader to stay up-to-date with stuff. By stuff I mean blogs from friends, news from several sites, updates from scientific publications, lolcats/loldogs, and so on. Basically, everything. That brings to mind something very odd that’s been happening to the internet. People don’t have to go to websites to…

  • More useless statistics

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    Today I received my shinystat weekly report. It’s amazing how every now and then it gets to surprise me. Today, I noticed a pretty cool feature: it shows me, regarding hits on the blog coming from search engines, the search keywords that caused Stairway to Geekiness to show up in the results. What took me…

  • 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.

  • 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…