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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 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.…


  • 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’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…


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