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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 the series. J. K. Rowling was able to fit everything together in a nice way and, most importantly, adding new…