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7 Sep 2005

Wed, 7 Sep 2005 22:19:53 GMT

Today is Brazilian Independence Day! Nice holliday to all Brazilians!

2 Jun 2005

Thu, 2 Jun 2005 15:38:20 GMT

Just to say I am alive! :)

22 Feb 2004

Sun, 22 Feb 2004 18:45:48 GMT

University: I am finally free of the Final Programming Project subject. Time to work on my Master Thesis now.
PopAsm, the Popular Assembler: I now have some time to touch PopAsm sources again. Tons of dust to remove but... better than nothing.

7 Nov 2003

Fri, 7 Nov 2003 12:46:25 GMT

Yes, I am alive; rather busy, though. I am looking forward to seeing Dec 18th arriving soon. I will be free of many University subjects then.

25 Oct 2003

Sat, 25 Oct 2003 18:32:26 GMT

I have just upgraded from Caldera 2.4 (kernel v2.2) to Red Hat 7.2 (kernel 2.4 and glibc 2.4.x). I neither did that earlier nor I installed Red Hat 9.0 because I feared the GUI would run too slowly, even in my Athlon XP 1.7 w/ 512 MB RAM. I guess I will have less headaches when trying to compile/install packages from now on (gcc 2.96).

My first achievements were to compile and install MICO and LuaORB.

9 Oct 2003

Thu, 9 Oct 2003 15:03:56 GMT

I have been ill during this last week. I got a 40 degree fever, coughing all the time... Now I must study harder than ever to compensate all that time lost. At least I could have some rest after all...

7 Sep 2003

Sun, 7 Sep 2003 16:03:38 GMT

Brazilian independence day: Today we Brazilians celebrate our independence day. I do not feel like watching the event by TV, however. I am kind of sad due to reasons explained below.
PopAsm, the Popular Assembler: Today is PopAsm's 2nd birthday! Little to commemorate, though, because I did not get to the alpha stage as I planned some months ago. The university tasks are making it difficult and I must priorize my Master degree...

25 Aug 2003

Mon, 25 Aug 2003 16:02:15 GMT

PopAsm, the Popular Assembler: I have managed to implement the command line parsing up to an acceptable state. Now I am focusing on the implementation of the (hopefully) final version of the assembly algorithm itself. The former algorithm was intentionally naive, for prototyping purposes.
University: I am at the lab right now. This season is surely going to be the toughest ever: 6 subjects besides my Master Thesis! I hope PopAsm development just slows down instead of stopping as several times before... Not now that I am so close to the alpha version... :(
Street market: That's how I call the lab where I study. My university fellows are not as polite as I would like them to be; they talk too much, and loud. It is difficult to concentrate on my tasks, unless I listen to some music using a headphone. I am listening to a Mozart CD right now. The problem is that the music is so good that it is difficult not to stop working to appreciate it.

21 Aug 2003

Thu, 21 Aug 2003 13:44:48 GMT

I have watched Terminator 3 yesterday. Nice movie.

20 Aug 2003

Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:20:42 GMT

I am very pleased to announce that the 19th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming will be hosted in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on july 2006.

Rio de Janeiro has recently been elected by the Mathematical Programming Society Cometee at Copenhagen to host the event. Besides presenting a good proposal, Rio candidature has been aided by President Bush's exclusion policy (which contributed to Chicago's defeat in the election). Hooray!