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I mentioned in a previous post that I was using a private WordPress blog to keep my notes. Not anymore. I migrated to Evernote.
Thanks to Maria Joao Valente for sending me the invite to evernote.
Evernote is a note organizers, similar to Journler which I used a while back.
Check out the About Evernote and their screencast. [...]

New TV - LG50PC51.
Bought a 50″ plasma TV. It’s been 5+ yrs since I last had one. I’m happy

The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil

In no particular order:
Gladiator

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of The Sith

It’s completely unfair to put this movie on the list because it owes much of it’s greatness to all the other movies in the two trilogies but I can’t not mention Star Wars and this was the best of the six movies.
The Matrix

The Chronicles [...]

The Talks/Workshops
* Amazon WebServices Architecture by Mike Culver - I learned more about S3 and I knew nothing about EC2 which is actually very interesting.
* IronPython and Dynamic Languages on .NET by Mahesh Prakriya - I missed it but a lot of people said it was brilliant.
* Building platforms by Fred Oliveira - I got [...]

Sapo Codebits (blog, wiki) starts tomorrow. I wonder how many people will show up and how many teams will enter in the contest… doesn’t really matter as long as I win nah seriously, the more the better of course. There are quite a few people going from prt.sc so I won’t be alone [...]

After reading this BBC article about genetically modified mice running faster for longer periods of time, the concept of “viagra gene” popped into my mind.

I’m giving twitter another try. Aside from the social aspect, it could be interesting as a way for me to keep track of what I do, and when.
My twitter feed gets displayed in the sidebar on my webpage too.
I’m using twitterrific to both follow twitters and post to twitter.

I finished Xenophon’s Anabasis, returned to Hellenica and finished it.
Ignoring Anabasis, I read Herodutos Histories, Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War and Xenophon’s Hellenica. They tell tales of the rise and fall of empires: the rise and fall of the athenian empire, the spartan hegemony in the hellenic world and the very short-lived theban hegemony [...]

I’ve switched net providers from tvtel (cable) to clix (adsl). The papers are signed just need to wait for like 3-5 weeks (sux). In the meantime I have no net at home.
I bought a MacBook (black). I’ll think I’ll post something about it later.
Still waiting for most of the results from the exams.
Still tired [...]

Forced change can sometimes be good. I think that’s the case with this blog.
I’ve finally rid myself of the hassle of WP administration - the all to frequent updates due to security issues. Funny, that’s the same reason why I changed chefax.fe.up.pt from Linux to OpenBSD.
I used WordPress’s very well done Export feature to migrate [...]

I’ve moved my blog outside of FEUP. Why? Because some employees (or maybe it was just one person) of CICA decided to block neacm.fe.up.pt, the server that hosted my blog and others (blogs.fe.up.pt).
When administrator realized that the server was inaccessible from the outside, he asked the networks people to look into it to see if [...]

I was reading Xenophon’s Hellenica mainly for the ending of the Peloponnesian War which turned out to be in Book II.
Somewhere between Book II and Book III the events of Anabasis take place. I’m now reading it and will return to Hellenica afterwards.

I finished Thucydides‘ History of the Peloponnesian War yesterday and started reading Xenophon’s Hellenica.