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Unmotivated? Yeah, that might be the word.

Long time no diary entry, Your Honor.

I've been doing a lot of impressive and exciting things these days. Not.

Well, actually I did, a couple of them.

First, I translated Mozilla into Galician. The langgles.xpi file is temporarily stored here, go get it if you speak or read Galician. Who knows, if you can read Portuguese, you might understand it. I expected flames, but did not receive them; that's not fair.

At the same time I found a bug somewhere in Mozilla's parsers. Fixed two days earlier. Oops. Showstopper, anyway (Composer just kept crashing because instead of Ucraniana I wrote Ucraína, which is the obviously correct form). Impressed by Mozilla's bugzilla.

Heh, I never thought I would find Quake so addictive. I found it addictive during the second and third day. And part of the fourth one. Second place as "the game that kept me tied to the screen". The first place is still for Sopwith (since 1989).

Woohoo, I'm really tired these days, and got quite depressed. I need to take some days^Wweeks^Wmonths off without anything to do in front of me. Tomorrow I'll have to make a presentation. Hum. Perhaps I should start acting mad, or something. That would really impress them.

Received a gift from my brother: Monty Python's Holy Grail and Life of Brian. Watched them (of course) :-) Also, R (my ISP) bumped my downstream speed to 300 kbps, for free. And left upstream speed untouched. Anyway, I'm enjoying my 37 kBps quite much :-)

SteveMallet said: I'm the only person in the first world to not have seen 'Titanic'

My answer: no, you aren't :-) Anyway, I'm afraid you'll be indeed the only one not to see LotR :-P

I have my bagful of euro coins. They're... mmmm... funny :-)

Today I had an exam, and I don't know how well I did. I don't want to know it for now, indeed.

To relieve boredom, yesterday I made a karaoke player in Perl. It can currently play only one song: "Aquarius" as sung by Raphael. Or "Acuerio" as he pronounces it :-)

rtbapi-- version 0.9 was released 5 days ago, so I guess that this means that this is my first diary entry since December the 1st. [After checking...] No, since December the 4th actually. Anyway, I will make a good robot for testing the library and improve the makefiles and documentation in the top level source directory, and release 1.0 ASAP (there's a sample robot, and some tutorial robots, but they don't use all features).

Não melhorei muito o meu português nestes dias, mais vou tentar de traduzir a minha página web, para praticar :-)

I want to go somewhere this summer for a Linux event. It might be the LSM in Bordeaux (pour parler français) or somewhere in Portugal (para falar português), or something; I just want to get out of this country for a couple of days. Heh, it might be fun to give Spanish euro coins to salesmen and have them notice the funny-looking pictures in the coins' heads side, and then come back with funny-looking foreign euro coins ;-)

[ For inhabitants of countries not using Euros: there will be a number of Euro coins, whose tails sides all look the same in all countries, but their heads sides are dependent on the country in which they were minted ]

Today I will lay out some class diagrams for the web-based mailreader I want to make. I only want not to start implementing before having released rtbapi-- 1.0, or I might end up never releasing it.

Woohoo again; Thursday the 6th is the Spanish Constitution's Day so I'll have the 7th off as well ;-)

I'm expecting big flamage for this comment in Barrapunto [in Spanish]. An English translation has been uploaded for you to use your flamethrowers too. Context: Ximian developing and selling proprietary software.

I finally released version 0.8 of rtbapi--. It has still pending a revision of the documentation until 1.0. If you give it a try, please tell me (my address is in my homepage) :-) [It is stuff for programming Real Time Battle robots]

It is nice to be at home.

Got PBS working. Woohoo! Woohoo!

Japanese-style strike in our college: it will be open during all weekend, and there will be lessons given by teachers and students. I will give a course on Real Time Battle robot programming (using rtbapi--, of course). Funny: there will be a Karnaugh map contest :-)

(So I have to finish my first draft of rtbapi--'s manual and publish a package somewhere ;-))

Ah, for you Spanish readers, I have written something, some days ago. You might find it funny. Or not; there's NO WARRANTY ;-))))))

Tomorrow I'll go to the cinema to see Harry Potter. And next 19th, The Lord of the Rings :-))))))))

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I had not noticed that 13 days had passed since my last diary entry.

I have installed PBS here at work. I made a recipe that allows you to install a node in 42 seconds. I could have automated it, but that's not a good idea since we want to learn how to do it :-)

A Croatian Arts student came to GPUL's room and showed me some paintings by him. He noticed I wasn't a teacher but he was too polite to stop showing me the stuff and just walk away to seek somebody who could buy something.

Sleep deprivation sucks. Some day I'll kill myself with the car, or something :-(

Received a proposal to teach something in this weekend's Japanese-style strike. Perhaps I'll take a couple of hours Saturday morning, if I figure out anything to do. I don't want to give a lesson on "Installing Debian" or something like that. Perhaps an intro on Real Time Battle? Hmmmm...

Noticias de Bree is going fine. ~500 daily hits. That's ~35 visits. Yummy :-)

I'm making a C++ clone of Rubén López's rtbapi (API for programming robots for Real Time Battle). Yesterday I documented it a bit; it gave me a warm, fuzzy sensation inside. Perhaps I'll go on documenting during this weekend :-) (I even wrote four tutorial robots :-)).

I really had a great time at the Arroutada Party: I'm still tired from it! :-)) In fact, I had such a good time, I will make a robot for the XuventudeGaliciaNet's RealTimeBattle. I will call it 'Vader' and will say things like 'I find your lack of faith disturbing' or 'The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force'. It will be painted pink, not black, however ;-) (And, should it lose, it will say 'I am your father').

I want to improve my English. I want to learn German. I want more free time.

For lack of time I cannot go to the Congreso Hispalinux. davidfv is there, I think. I suspect that jordi is there as well, but I don't know for sure. There's a surprise scheduled for Saturday at 20:30. I don't know what it can be. My teleportation, perhaps? ;-)

I think that I'm not having all the spare time I had back when I didn't have a job, anymore. I have neglected the spamfilter for the last days^Wweeks, so I'll have to e-mail Rik to have my CVS account removed, as soon as my brother leaves Windows and reboots into Linux so that I can access my home machine from here at Uni; argh.

Had trouble with Globus for the last weeks; solved automagically by installing a "new" Linux kernel version: 2.4.2 -> 2.4.12. I don't know if it was a compile-time option lacking or whatever, since I didn't compile the original kernels (I'd never subject any of my machines to 2.4.2 ;)). But, apparently, it was an issue with NFS3.

I'm updating my C++ knowledge. Just to be able to understand new C++ code, you know. Actually, I like functional languages most, but...

One of those years I'll have spare time to do what I please. And I'll be able to sleep as long as I feel like it, from 02:00 to 12:00 -- or even more. During this semester I have to sleep from 00:00 to 07:15; isn't that crazy?

The best time of the day for me is from 17:00 to 01:00 or something like that (more active, more focused, etc), so I prefer to go to bed late and get up late as well. Why do I have to sacrifice the best part of the day? Why do I have to get up when it is still 05:45, solar time?.

I was going to go join a demonstration tomorrow, but I need so desperately to sleep...

My diary entries are becoming too monotonous... :-(