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44 downloads of the Galician translation of Mozilla in 9 days. Cool. I'm feeling important already ;-)

Still tired. Glad it's Friday. Glad it'll be a three-day weekend (woohoo!)

Ah, and pulemil, my IRC bot, has been updated to infobot 0.45.3. Source code will soon be available for download (it's a Spanish translation of infobot, basically).

21 downloads of the Mozilla Galician language pack XPI since January 16th. I made it during my Christmas holidays, and it took me quite a lot of work, so I'm quite proud of it now.

I'm quite depressed these days; my exams are nearly here, I have a lot of work to do, I've been feeling tired for the last two weeks, and in the mornings I don't want to get up when the alarm clock rings. In short, and in Spanish: Estoy hasta los cojones.

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I need some real holidays.

Or getting laid.

Or both.

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 :-)