Entries from December 2008 ↓

Five kilograms. 🙂

Feliz Natal a todos que lêem este blog! 🙂

Apesar da grande comercialização desta data (o que me incomoda bastante), ela é especial para mim pois, apesar de não ser a data precisa, é quando comemoro o nascimento do Cristo, Jesus, enviado por Deus para a salvação da humanidade.

Que todos tenham um dia abençoado!

“Porque um menino nos nasceu, um filho se nos deu, e o principado está sobre os seus ombros, e se chamará o seu nome: Maravilhoso, Conselheiro, Deus Forte, Pai da Eternidade, Príncipe da Paz.” — Isaías 9:6

“Pois, na cidade de Davi, vos nasceu hoje o Salvador, que é Cristo, o Senhor.” — Lucas 2:11

Na caixa em que veio uma entrega da Livraria Cultura:

Acabei de instalar o Twitme no blog, para enviar notificações via Twitter sempre que um novo post for publicado. Espero que funcione melhor que o outro plugin que eu havia tentado usar (que eu nem lembro o nome).

I have just migrated this blog to my new web hosting at Dreamhost. I hope everything is working fine.

Yesterday, the whole process of getting a dental implant in my mouth was finally finished. I now have a new artificial tooth, and I am amazed at how realistic it looks. It’s really not possible to tell it is an implant by just looking at it. I didn’t really think it was going to be that perfect.

The worst part of the process was the initial surgery for drilling my jaw and installing the titanium receptacle for the implant. That was back in August, and was a terrible experience. The shaking sensation you get from the drill going into your bone is absolutely unpleasant. Besides, anesthesia kept losing its effect and my dentist had to inject some more a few times during the procedure.

Anyways, it’s all done now, and all I have to do is to keep taking care of my implant for the rest of my life. Fortunately, my dentist told me maintenance is not needed so frequently, and there is only a small chance of something going wrong with it.

I really think that’s what we should have in mind when writing code:

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do. — Donald Knuth